http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7254555.stm

Six-minute nap ‘may boost memory’

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Even the shortest of catnaps may be enough to improve performance in memory tests, say German scientists.

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Maybe this reinforces the American student cramming in an “all nighter” for the test, which requires the recall of lots of irrelevant factoids. That’s what passes for eddykation in the gooferment skoolz.

So maybe the students “discovered” this independently and passed the meme along in folk lore?

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