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Cape Point, South Africa
Where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean meet.
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One of my professors told me that the most intelligent people are often the saddest and most depressed because they actually understand how shitty the world is.
Thank you for this post…
this is awesome.
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24 Facts On Napping
- Abandon all-nighters - Foregoing sleep by cramming all night reduces your ability to retain information by up to 40%. If you can, mix in a nap somewhere to refresh your hippocampus.
- It doesn’t mean what you think - If you know you have to pull an all-nighter, try a “prophylactic nap.” It’s a short nap in advance of expected sleep deprivation that will help you stay alert for up to 10 hours afterwards.
- You can’t avoid that down period after lunch by not eating - Human bodies naturally go through two phases of deep tiredness, one between 2-4 a.m. and between 1-3 p.m. Skipping lunch won’t help this period of diminished alertness and coordination.
- Pick the right time - After lunch in the early afternoon your body naturally gets tired. This is the best time to take a brief nap, as it’s early enough to not mess with your nighttime sleep.
- Hour naps are great - A 60-minute nap improves alertness for 10 hours, although with naps over 45 minutes you risk what’s known as “sleep inertia,” that groggy feeling that may last for half an hour or more.
- But short naps are best - For healthy young adults, naps as short as 20, 10, or even 2 minutes can be all you need to get the mental benefits of sleep, without risking grogginess.
- Drink coffee first - The way this works is you drink a cup of coffee right before taking your 20-minute or half-hour nap, which is precisely how long caffeine takes to kick in. That way when you wake up, you’re not only refreshed, but ready to go.
- The NASA nap - A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34% and alertness by 54%. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot.
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People who thought really hard about the concept that a tattoo is body art.
These are all so beautiful!
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Kids stand smoking by the cinema doors, too young to drink, too old to stay indoors, complaining about their mum and dads giving them chores; it’s a hard old fucking life. The man on the telly leads a comical pause, telling some joke about mother-in-laws, everybody laughs everybody applauds; everybody apart from his wife. ‘Cause nothing ever changes but everything will. We’re just a little older with a little less time to kill. You run your whole life, to be standing still. Girls taking pictures of themselves all night and they’ll stick them up on every social media site to prove to themselves they’ve had the time of their lives; it’s a sad old fucking world. Alpha males chase tails around beauty queens like Japanese around karaoke machines, we’ve all got tattoos but we don’t know what they mean; it’s a sad old fucking life. ‘Cause nothing ever changes but everything will. We spend our lives running but we’re standing still. We’re just a little older with a little less time to kill. We fly kites out in electrical storms. We burn all our fingers just to keep our hands warm. Yeah we’ve been dying since the day we were born.
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