Last night (Friday) I was reading Slashdot to see what's new in the world. I've never really read a traditional news site as a matter of habit. I'll look at CNN while on break at work for example but only because it's something else to read and while I can go many places online at work I don't feel comfortable roaming freely about the internet ( Read more... )

This article was pretty interesting. I didn't care about the whether the cleaning functionality of the brain (in mice) was the core function of the article (which is the point of the article) but more about if this turns out to be true it's interesting to consider that's one of the functions of sleep (I don't really care if it's the primary/core ( Read more... )