From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

Answering those questions that make you go,

Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Anna Weggle.

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It's raining. You've got your rain boots on and you're headed down the street to your favorite donut shop.

Or comic shop. Or your best friend's house house something catches your eye wiggling around to the

sidewalk stop okay i feel like there's two kinds of people in this life those that look down and say

oh hi little worm you're amazing how are you today and maybe even pick them up and let them crawl around

their hand and then there are those that are freaked out by the slimy, limbless, eyeless, living tube.

Whether you're a worm lover or a grubbugger, have you ever asked yourself how these creepy crawlies get their rest?

My name is Louisa. I live in Chicago, and I want to know, do worms sleep.

Sleep for worms happens really quickly, so they fall asleep for a minute or two minutes or so,

and they wake back up and they start moving around again.

So it's a really different type of sleep.

My name is Daniel Gonzalez, and I'm a physicist, and I did not expect to be studying

worm's sleep, but once I started studying worm's sleep, I really loved it, and I'm a physicist, and I did not expect to be studying worm's sleep, but once I started studying

worm sleep, I really loved it, and I've been a fan of worms ever since. So we studied sea elegans,

which is a tiny microscopic roundworm that you just find out in nature in the soil. If you cut off

a millimeter of your hair, that's about the size of a big worm.

I was really interested in just making new technologies to study these worms so that biologists

could use these tools that I make. And then as I was doing all these engineering projects,

these animals would all of a sudden stop and sit there for a minute or two minutes and then start moving around again.

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