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KERA's Think

Don’t worry if you can’t sleep

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8861 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

 Sleep tracking technology can tell you how long you slumbered, but it can’t get you there. Jennifer Senior, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss sleep anxiety, why we find it so hard to get a good night’s rest, and why hunting for the best how-to articles on the topic might be making things worse. Her article is “Why Can’t Americans Sleep?” 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In our new podcast, Everybody's Business, we talk about the business news that concerns everybody.

0:06.9

From Bloomberg Business Week, I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith.

0:09.5

And I'm Max Chaffkin.

0:10.9

Each week, we unpack what is happening on Main Street and Wall Street, all the streets.

0:16.5

WrestleMania has taken over the U.S. economy.

0:19.3

A poetry that executives write on LinkedIn.

0:22.1

A little actual magic in our underrated story of the week.

0:25.5

The single grades marketing campaign, the music business has ever seen.

0:28.1

I decided to ask people how they felt about the penny going away.

0:32.1

Listen to everybody's business wherever you get your podcasts.

0:48.7

When you find yourself awake well past the hour when you hope to be dreaming,

0:52.1

you know that doom scrolling the headlines will not relax you.

0:57.0

If you search instead for articles about sleep, those might be even worse. From KERA in Dallas, this is think.

0:59.6

I'm Chris Boyd.

1:01.0

Regularly missing out on slumber is associated with a wide-ranging spectrum of health consequences,

1:06.4

from memory problems to diabetes to cancer.

1:09.4

But no matter how thoroughly we believe in the importance of sleep,

1:12.2

we cannot just will ourselves to do it.

1:15.0

Sleep tracker technology that promises to help us rest better

1:18.0

turns every night into a kind of test situation.

1:20.9

And as my guest can tell us from her years

1:23.0

of wrestling with chronic insomnia,

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