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Coffee Receipt Stories
Years ago, a storyteller doodled on the back of a receipt. Hundreds of doodles later, Odding Wang has created a digital diary with a tactile feel. Click through the project's website to peruse the portals into Wang's life and mind. Hovering over a comic will reveal the receipt on the other side.
When the body falls into a deep enough phase of sleep, it paralyzes certain parts of itself so the brain can't force it to physically act out dreams. More than 20% of people will experience a short circuit of this system, resulting in sleep paralysis. This well-known but little-understood phenomenon happens when the brain awakens early and typically results in haunting hallucinations and reports of supernatural terrors.
In recent years, North Korea has tested a variety of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as both submarine-launched missiles and hypersonic missiles, which can fly at low altitude (to escape radar detection) and at several times the speed of sound. Dive into this visualization by the BBC to break down what missiles North Korea currently has.