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Notes from Underground

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ... hadn’t I better end my “Notes” here? I believe I made a mistake in beginning to write them, anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I’ve been writing this story; so it’s hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.  Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are expressly gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are...
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Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm


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The Biology of Sleep & Your Unique Sleep Needs | And more from Huberman Lab

 


Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman

In this episode 1 of a 6-part special series on sleep with Dr. Matthew Walker, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and psychology and founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of the book “Why We Sleep” discusses the essential role that sleep plays in our health. We cover how sleep affects our hormones, immune system, learning and memory, mood, appetite, and weight regulation. We also discuss what causes the urge to sleep, how sleep is structured throughout the night, and the biology of the different phases of sleep. We also teach you how to determine your individualized sleep needs, including your chronotype (best waking and to-bed time), tips for combat snoring and insomnia, and your QQRT (Quality, Quantity, Regularity, and Timing)—a key framework for optimizing your sleep and therefore daytime energy and focus, and overall health. The next episode in this special series explores how to improve one’s sleep.





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Andrew Huberman is a tenured Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. While he has made significant academic contributions to the study of vision and brain plasticity, he is best known globally as the host of the Huberman Lab Podcast, which translates complex neuroscience into "actionable tools" for health and performance.

Academic Background & Career

Born in 1975, Huberman's journey into neuroscience began after a period of academic struggle in his youth. He credits his discovery of fitness and science with "saving" his life.

  • Education:

    • B.A. in Psychology: UC Santa Barbara (1998)

    • M.A. in Psychology: UC Berkeley (2000)

    • Ph.D. in Neuroscience: UC Davis (2004)

    • Postdoctoral Training: Stanford University (under Ben Barres)

  • Current Positions: * Tenured Associate Professor at Stanford School of Medicine.

    • Director of the Huberman Lab, which researches brain development, plasticity, and neural regeneration.

  • Awards: Recipient of the Cogan Award (2017) for vision science, as well as Pew and McKnight Scholar awards.


Major Scientific Contributions

Before becoming a podcasting sensation, Huberman built a reputation for high-impact research in several key areas:

  • Visual System & Regeneration: His lab has published groundbreaking work on how to stimulate the regrowth of retinal ganglion cells, aiming to reverse blindness from conditions like glaucoma.

  • Neural Plasticity: He explores how the adult brain can be "rewired" through specific behaviors, focus, and environmental triggers.

  • Stress & Fear: Huberman has utilized Virtual Reality (VR) to study how the human brain processes fear and how specific breathing techniques can mitigate the "fight or flight" response in real-time.

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  • Podcast: Huberman Lab launched in 2021 and quickly became one of the top health and science podcasts globally.

  • Books: Author of the upcoming book Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body (expected late 2026).

  • Goal: His stated mission is to provide "zero-cost-to-consumer" information about science and science-related tools to the general public.

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