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  • Jul. 20th, 2008 at 5:30 PM
A Book of Endings
In today's reading, a story about the dude who created the addictiveicanhascheezburger site.

His newest site is totallylookslike -- which currently features only ONE example of George W. Bush totally looking like a chimpanzee. But I know there's more. We've all seen the emails.

Also the relatively unsurprising news (well, in hindsight, at least) that sleep deprivation has been found to increase the formation of 'false memory'. Sleep, the theory goes, is useful for the consolidation of "certain types of memory". I guess they mean 'the honest kind'.

The implication of the study got my attention, though:

As is pointed out in the comments at the bottom of the article, these findings have obvious implications for the use of sleep deprivation in interrogation, at least when accurate information - as opposed to a false confession - is sought from the suspect being interrogated.

And good news for sleep-deprived caffeine-addicts: coffee produces 10% less false memory for those short on sleep.

But not, I assume, for those of us who slept fine last night, thanks.

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