There might have been a secret reason Albert Einstein could make a decision as scary as the one he made in 1939, when he went against his personal pacifist convictions and encouraged President Franklin Roosevelt to pursue the research necessary to make an atomic bomb. “I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these experiments would succeed,” Einstein later wrote.
A strange life hack might have contributed to his coolheaded attitude toward the bomb: Einstein is said to have slept for 10 hours a night.
The authors of a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience say this is one of the first to show that sound sleep might protect against fear and distress, while a person’s tendency to sleep fitfully can make them more likely to be traumatized later on.
[For more on this story by OLGA KHAZAN, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/he...m-and-trauma/543573/]
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