Mon. 12/28 - What If 2020 Was Just One Big MMORPG?

How your brain takes out the trash while you sleep. The English man who crossed the Alps on a space hopper. And a subreddit where over half a million people pretend our world is just one big MMORPG. Sponsors: BitTrust IRA, Waive your signup fee BitTrustIRA.com/kottke Skillshare, get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Links: Deep sleep drives brain fluid oscillations (Science)  During deep sleep, the brain does housekeeping (Reuters) Brain pumps comment (Christopher Mims, Twitter) Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper (The Guardian) The Extraordinary Steven Payne  Documentary Official Trailer (Regijus Simkevicius, YouTube) What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (Washington Post) Outside: The free-to-play MMO, on reddit (r/Outside, Reddit) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices