My friend Miriam recently sent me this Inquiring Minds episode on sleep. Did you know that, just 100 years ago, adults regularly got 9.25 hours of sleep per night on average? https://soundcloud.com/inquiringminds/68-matt-walker-why-did-we-evolve-to-sleep “Lack of sleep” and “being tired” are more serious than they sound. 8 hours a night seems to be the sweet spot (most […]
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a life without sleep
“Life must be lived forwards, however, it can only be understood backwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard Sleep is one of those basic things that seems simple at first, but as we progress through life, it seems to take on complexity without any additional effort from an individual. If one were to say, simply go to bed, the […]