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Benedict Carey is an award-winning science reporter for The New York Times, and one of the newspaper’s most-emailed reporters. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in math and from Northwestern University with a master’s degree in journalism, and has written about health and science for twenty-five years.
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To Master Test Material, Give Your Brain a Break
Salvador Dali and Thomas Edison took very brief naps when they were stuck on artistic and scientific problems.