Night Janitors of the Brain

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Night Janitors of the Brain: Do you think other species ever look at humans and raise an eyebrow at the amount of sleep we need? Do cockroaches and eyelash mites leave messages on our foreheads in microscopic Sharpies? Perhaps "I just popped on an ape

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0:00.0	I'm Will Daly. For years I've been on the road playing shows and seeing America through live music.
0:05.0	This summer I'll hit the stage with Season 2 of Sound of Artown.
0:09.0	Ten cities, 12 episodes, every other Thursday.
0:12.0	We explore the live music venues and culture of a new American city with each new episode.
0:17.0	Our tour continues into the kind of venues you want to get to when you land in Detroit.
0:21.0	Providence, Denver, or Seattle.
0:24.0	Listen to Sound of Artown on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.0	I'm Dylan Marin and I have 30 seconds to convince you to listen to my new podcast about Jar Jar Binks.
1:07.0	Yep, Jar Jar Binks.
1:09.0	So Jar Jar was actually played by an actor named Ahmed Best and he became the subject of one of the internet's very first hate campaigns.
1:16.0	We made a podcast all about the early internet Star Wars cultural backlash Jar Jar and what happens when internet hate gets too real.
1:23.0	Okay, listen to the redemption of Jar Jar Binks on the I Heart Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:32.0	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:39.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
1:48.0	And I'm Julie Douglas.
1:49.0	Julie, when's the last time you managed to score a full night's leave?
1:53.0	Last night.
1:54.0	For the first time in nights, glorious.
1:57.0	Yeah.
1:58.0	You wake up feeling like a new person.
1:59.0	You do. You really wake up feeling refreshed.
2:02.0	I was able to give a pretty good night's sleep myself last night because I slept alone on the couch.
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