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New study backs up 'sleeping on it,' suggesting naps promote creative problem-solving

All groups improved in the dot-sorting test after their nap, but 85.7% of those who achieved the first deeper sleep phase — called N2 sleep — had the breakthrough.

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ysabetwordsmith

It would be nice to have something like the Diogenes Club. A quiet place to hang out, with spaces for occupying without interacting and other for quiet interactions or conversations with a friend or two.

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dialecticdreamer

In California, the local library had turned into a knockoff Starbucks. People chatting, playing games on their phones or laptops (with no headphones), et cetera. For someone with ADD, it was WORSE than the local Barnes & Ignoble, even during the winter holidays when the main mall played "music" so loudly the speakers buzzed. And it conflicted heavily with the more reasonable volume of music chosen by the bookstore staff, which was also holiday-themed but wildly different in styles.

Here, the library culture took.... Hmm... Call it a step back and two steps to the left. Here, there are talk rooms, the computer users are encouraged to either use one of the talk rooms or buy a pair of headphones for five bucks, and I have to readjust my voice volume back to real "library voice". (This is particularly annoying to me now that I'm dealing with midrange hearing loss in ANY amount.) Yet, instead of feeling like it's the 1990s, the library has embraced digital literacy, non-book resources, and a surprisingly inclusive culture. I've gotten 'sir' by mistake a few times, but there's been no sense of /bias/ when I correct the mistake. I have no worries that if I let the implied pronouns stand, I'd get exactly the same customer service from the librarians.

So, in all, I'd call the local branches a good stand-in for the Diogenes Club, EVEN when there's a preschool class in the community room in danger of contaminating the hallway (and beyond) with glitter glue and scraps of pastel tissue paper.