Napping Declutters Your Mind

If your boss catches you napping under your desk Costanza-style today, direct them to this article from NY Mag’s Science of Us. Basically, sleep is like housekeeping for your mind, and a nap “is like letting Marie Kondo loose in your brain”—meaning a bunch of your non-essential and irrelevant information is decluttered. The process is called “synaptic pruning” and it’s the reason we feel refreshed …

Snakehips feat. ZAYN: Cruel

British electronic-meets-R&B music duo Snakehips (aka Oliver Lee and James Carter) have just released their collaboration with Zayn Malik (aka the Geri of One Direction) and the result is dance-pop at its best. “Cruel” refers to Malik’s object of affection as a “Venus in Converse”—a beacon in a messed up world full of noise, death and tears. It’s a sweet, uptempo tune that ebbs and …

Artists Respond to Attack in Nice

As always, a picture tells a thousand words and artists from all over the world are illustrating their grief (and anger) in the wake of the heartbreaking attack in Nice, France. Instead of joyful Bastille Day images, these are of sorrow, confusion and violence. Be warned: some are a little graphic, but you can see them all on Huffington Post.