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Hey, everybody. You're listening to Life Kit from NPR. Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

You guys, I've been trying so hard to make my bedroom pitch black when I sleep.

But I am fighting an uphill battle.

I have blackout shades and curtains over them.

But the streetlight on my block shines directly into my window, and the light somehow sneaks around the edges of the barriers I've created.

Also, light gets in through my living room windows and then creeps under my bedroom door.

Yeah, okay, I'm being a little over the top here, but once my eyes adjust at night, it's not actually that dark in my room.

A lot of us are in this situation. In modern society, we are bombarded with light in the

evenings, and there's research showing this can end up having big consequences for our overall

health. I talked with NPR health correspondent Willstone last December when these findings first

came out.

We'll have that conversation after the break.

Thriving in the face of adversity, that's something the incredible species of our world do every day.

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