The scientists are coming for your afternoon nap

Winston Churchill helped lead Britain through the Second World War, wrote millions of words, and won the Nobel Prize in literature. He also took a nap every afternoon.

And he didn’t simply doze off in an armchair. He got undressed and climbed into bed, equipped with custom-fitted beeswax earplugs to shut out the bustle of wartime London. His naps were sacrosanct, even as the demands of running a country at war frequently kept him working well past midnight.

There’s even a technique called the ‘nappuccino’: Drink a cup of coffee immediately before a short nap, so the caffeine starts working around the time you wake up.

“Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion,” he wrote