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Body Stuff: Do you really need 8 hours of sleep?

How to Be a Better Human

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How Sleep Changed the World

For most of human history, sleep was a religious matter, not a medical one. In the 18 hundreds, sleep started going through a big shift. It wasn't about sins and witches and visions any more. It became a medical doctor. How did we get here? Doctor ben reese is an english professor at emery university,. how taming sleep created ou less world. We've been fascinated by sleep for millennia, but the way we manage it has changed a lot over time.

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