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With the recent announcement from Pokemon Day, Pokemon Sleep is adding its very first Legendary Pokemon with Raikou. Raikou's event will allow players to befriend the thunder Pokemon, tackle exclusive weekly missions, and earn new items.Raikou will be the first Legendary Pokemon added to Pokemon Sleep. Raikou will be appearing in Greengrass Isle and players will have to collect Raikou Mane that can be exchanged for Raikou Incense alongside Raikou Biscuits. The Raikou Incense, but especially the Raikou…

Studies show that most of us don’t get enough sleep. I can certainly attest to that, but Dakota Johnson recently made headlines for, allegedly, claiming that she likes to sleep 14 hours a night. Most of us could only dream of that, and the 50 Shades actress is now speaking out on the headline, which she says is at least a bit inaccurate. Why Stories Are Claiming Dakota Johnson Sleeps 14 Hours A DayThe initial headline came from The Wall Street Journal, which interviewed the actress and opened with the claim that she…

In humans, nodding off for a few seconds is a clear sign of insufficient sleep – and can be dangerous in some situations, such as when driving a car.​But a new study published on Thursday finds chinstrap penguins snooze thousands of times per day, accumulating their daily sleep requirement of more than 11 hours in short bursts averaging just four seconds.​The flightless birds might have evolved this trait because of their need to remain constantly vigilant, according to the authors of the paper in Science.​The…

November 2023 is coming to an end this week, and as per usual, there is plenty going on in the world of Stephen King. In the last couple days, I interviewed Henry Thomas about his extensive history making King adaptations, learning some great stuff about those various projects – but there is also a fresh 4K UHD release to review, and there is news about one long in-the-works King movie potentially finding new life.This week’s edition of The King Beat is a fun one, with some behind the scenes trivia about -- one of the…

A new research study reveals that slow brain waves, typical during sleep, also occur in awake individuals with epilepsy, offering protection against brain excitability. While these waves reduce epileptic activity, they negatively impact memory tasks, suggesting a potential new treatment approach for epilepsy. UCL researchers find that slow brain waves, common in sleep, also occur in awake epilepsy patients, protecting against seizures but affecting memory, hinting at new epilepsy treatments. Slow waves that usually only…

Four days a week, Leticia Ortega de Ceballos sleeps in her car so she can pay for a house more than 100 miles away.Her workweek begins with the Sunday night shift at Loews Hollywood Hotel, where she cleans the hallways and lobby. When she finishes, exhausted, there’s just an hour until she starts her second job cleaning hotel rooms at the Hilton in Glendale.Then she has six hours to shower, eat and sleep before she starts all over again. Loews, Hilton, shower, eat, sleep. The 56-year-old sees the house in California City…

South African music is a confluence of paths; a plethora of hands, feet and voices crossing and moving ever forward, yet still interconnected. For that reason, attempting to unravel those strands and arrive at some singular core is a dizzying prospect, but the word “mbube” was at the heart of that inextricable weave during the earliest days of the country’s popular recorded music.Today, mbube describes a specific variety of South African choral music composed of multipart a cappella harmonies, usually sung by men, and…

Mahindra XUV700 is one of the most popular SUVs in its segment. It is the most technologically advanced Mahindra SUV ever built. It was the first SUV in its segment to offers level 2 ADAS features like adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking and so on. All these features are offered with the higher variants of the XUV700. There are several videos that demonstrate how useful, these features can actually be while driving on Indian roads. Lately, however we have been…

Tesla investors are starting to get increasingly concerned that Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter is taking him away from the automaker as its stock is falling. The CEO tried to reassure shareholders saying that he has ‘Tesla covered’, but he also said that he is sleeping at Twitter’s headquarters “until the social media is fixed”. It is not hypothetical that Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is negatively affecting Tesla. The CEO had to sell billions of dollars worth of Tesla stocks to secure the…

via Warner Bros. There arguably isn’t an easier shortcut with which to spice up a mundane thriller than with some titillation, a crutch heavily leaned on by 2004’s Taking Lives to disguise the fact that it wasn’t very good. Even with the promise of salacious sex scenes featuring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke getting steamy as the hunt for a mass murderer intensifies, director D.J. Caruso’s movie could only rustle up $65 million at the box office, hardly a stellar return for a project featuring a pair of big…