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Trending today: a new study on whether light & sound pulses can be used to stimulate the same brain-flushing process that sleep usually provides. (It’s an important process, however we accomplish it: when the brain’s not able to flush itself out, that can lead to the buildup of plaques like the ones that are increasingly believed to be the cause of Alzheimer’s.) Also, Aaron draws a counterintuitive but not necessarily incorrect conclusion.

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