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When is the last time you’ve walked into a restaurant and saw an entire table of friends on their phone, each content to be in their own world - nearly unaware of the reality around them? With the meteoric rise in popularity for documentaries like The Social Dilemma, it safe to say that questioning the effect that social media addiction has on our society a growing sentiment and realization within today’s culture. With many people decided to take a social media detox, or quit social media all together. But what is the path forward in the new age of social media, and the side effects of the rapid evolution of the technology and the algorithms that control how we interact with the platform? Is it as simple as turning off big tech, or perhaps to quit social media? Or is there a way we can start to take control our use to find a healthy balance for social media and mental health? #socialmedia #socialdilemma ------------------------- For the photos used to create the thumbnail – check out the artists on Unsplash Photo by Adrien Olichon on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@adrienolichon Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@matthewhenry

This daily routine that both Da Vinci and Tesla followed may surprise you. Have you ever wondered if the super geniuses of history had anything in common about their daily routines to help them boost their creativity, and help them become the genius we know them as today? It turns out there are a lot of shared creativity boosting exercises used by some of the greatest minds, however – some of them are more… sane than others. Leonardo Da Vinci and Nikola Tesla both shared the same insane polyphasic sleep schedule called the “uberman.” Where they would rarely sleep for more than 2 hours a day; they saw it as a way to increase productivity, fit more working hours into the day, and help become more creative. One of the mysterious ways they would boost their creative and inventive genius is through a state between sleeping and wakefulness called a hypnagogic state. If fact, some other prominent minds also attributed some of their creative genius to this state: Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Isaac Newton, Salvador Dali. Many of which had alternative sleep schedules. Could it have been in part what made them become a genius, on increased their creative energy levels? Or is this one life hack that could cause more harm than good? Maybe an easier first step to becoming a genius would be to check out our previous video on speed reading: https://youtu.be/Xis0A7b2A4w ----- Thanks for stopping by the Common Knowledge Channel. We're here to take the every day questions and facts that we come to realize we may have not have actually thought deeply through before, and combine new learning something new every day with my mediocre video editing skills, for your viewing entertainment. My editing skills may improve over time, but I promise, my dry jokes wont. If you have questions you want answered, drop them in the comments! Thanks for subscribing! Common Knowledge

Why is it that coffee from different parts of the world taste so differently? And how can some coffee taste delicious and sometimes taste just... bad? It’s the same plant, so coffee should just be coffee right? Turns out, the answer is no. There is a quite a lot that goes into what makes the flavor of each region's coffee taste different, as well as a lot of reasons for why coffee tastes good, and why coffee tastes bad. From growing coffee, to roasting, and making coffee - in this episode we dive into all of the things that makes coffee taste the way that it does.