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Most of us have been told that we need to get eight hours of sleep a night. But Grandner says this advice can actually make insomnia worse. When you're worried about getting enough sleep, you start trying harder and harder to sleep — and that effort to sleep is actually what prevents you from sleeping.

— Hidden Brain
2w ago

Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth, who has studied more than 100 years of revolutions and insurrections, says the answer is counterintuitive.

6mo ago

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