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– Steph Harmon, Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman
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How to nap like a genius
Sleep  
How to nap like a genius
From caf-naps to the steel ball method, experts share their kip tips.
Brain mush  
Can't nap? Try these methods for handling sleep deprivation instead.
Sound hush  
Earplugs and noise cancelling headphones seem like a good solution, but what do they do to your brain?
Babe shush  
Let's hear it for the most sleep-deprived of us all: new parents. And maybe stop shaming them for their wakeful infants.
Cook this
Pasta primavera
Pasta primavera
So seasonal it's in the name.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Rest in pain to The Idol, TV’s least sexy show which has been cancelled after one season. Sorry to The Weeknd and congratulations to everyone else. Also cancelled: book blurbs, frenemies, and Justin Bieber. 

In other celebrity news, Dua Lipa pretended to grill prawns and Karlie Kloss might be a media mogul now. Bottoms is single-handedly topping Hollywood and Harmony Korine is behind the worst start-up of all time. 

Good reads: Anne Helen Petersen on tradwifes; The New Yorker on dreams. Bad reads: we’re all gonna die. May we all stop checking our screen time and be free. 
The funniest things on the internet
Garry Starr shows us his tabs
Garry Starr shows us his tabs
He sent us this headshot before the brainworm thing. Here's a list of links that make him laugh.
Top of the list
A show – gory japes  
In Then You Run, four uproarious teen girls go on a party-tour from London to the Netherlands, where they run afoul of ruthless Irish gangsters. It's like Derry Girls but with lots of guns, a massive amount of heroin, and a very high body count. Our critic calls it "gruesome and gory ... and very moreish.” On SBS On Demand.
In Then You Run, four uproarious teen girls go on a party-tour from London to the Netherlands, where they run afoul of ruthless Irish gangsters. It's like Derry Girls but with lots of guns, a massive amount of heroin, and a very high body count. Our critic calls it
A book – mother shapes  
God Forgets the Poor by Peter Polites begins with a monologue delivered by a migrant mother to her son. She is unforgiving and bitterly funny, urging him to write her story: “Try and write something good this time.” And so he fleshes out her life across this novel, which takes us from her birthplace of Lefkada to her young life in Athens, and then to Sydney. Out now.
God Forgets the Poor by Peter Polites begins with a monologue delivered by a migrant mother to her son. She is unforgiving and bitterly funny, urging him to write her story: “Try and write something good this time.” And so he fleshes out her life across this novel, which takes us from her birthplace of Lefkada to her young life in Athens, and then to Sydney. Out now.
A playlist – local tapes  
Each month our critics pick 20 new songs for our ever-growing Spotify playlist – and then write about ten of their favourites. This week we've got Jaguar Jonze, Tex Crick and Rainbow Chan.
Each month our critics pick 20 new songs for our ever-growing Spotify playlist – and then write about ten of their favourites. This week we've got Jaguar Jonze, Tex Crick and Rainbow Chan.
This week's weirdest story
Foragers forge on
'Life is full of risks'  
Foragers forge on
Not even brainworms and deadly mushrooms can stop these wild harvesters.
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