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We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Researchers in Paris recently proved that the brain can continue to classify words into categories even after it has gone to sleep, causing Jeff and Anthony to wonder what scientists do to make their test subjects fall asleep during an experiment, and how this kind of non-stop brain activity might be harnessed by corporate America. We Have Concerns is entirely listener funded and there's extra content for those that contribute. Find out more: [http://patreon.com/wehaveconcerns](http://patreon.com/wehaveconcerns) Hey! If you're enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen. Here's the iTunes link: [http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns](http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns) Jeff on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/jeffcannata](http://twitter.com/jeffcannata) Anthony on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/acarboni](http://twitter.com/acarboni) Article: [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/13/brain-sleep-classify-words-study\_n\_5812012.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/13/brain-sleep-classify-words-study_n_5812012.html)

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0:00.0	This podcast is entirely listener supported to find out how you can help head to patreon.com slash we have concerns
0:20.9	Also it just looks like the 90s and tastes like the 90s in a can it's so fucking ridiculous like I just ordered 12 of them
0:26.2	Now you just now you sold me even though it sounds distasteful and awful
0:30.3	I want to go back to the 90s so bad that I'm drinking anything. It's like drinking a tomagachi
0:36.5	That's what surges. I'm ready. Please. I'm ready. I'll move to Portland
0:40.2	What else do I have to do just bring the 90s back there? You just order a surge just feed your sugar addiction
0:45.5	This is we have concerns high Jeff canada high Anthony carboni. I got an article for you. Okay. That's pretty interesting
0:51.5	evidently there is a new study road back wait until we have a very interesting article Jeff
0:55.9	Oh, we don't do pretty energy. We don't fucking waste anybody's time mildly interesting. I would go mildly
1:01.9	Okay, what's weird is I would go mildly over pretty because maybe that's even though pretty sounds like more
1:08.2	mildly must have something strange and interesting to it. This is titillating. Oh go on. Well, maybe not
1:15.9	It depends on your definition of titillating. There is a new study from a Parisian
1:22.2	Research house called a coland normales supiaire
1:26.5	They said what accent were you doing there? Um was is that not German?
1:32.6	I think the problem is it did sound a little German. Yeah, exactly. All right
1:36.7	Anyway, so they have determined that the brain can actually continue to do cognitive functions while you're asleep
1:44.6	Sure instead of just shutting down and kind of going into hibernation mode and conserving energy
1:49.4	It can actually continue to perform
1:52.5	functions
1:53.9	That you would think you'd need to be awake to do
1:57.3	So I think surprised by that. I mean there I don't think we've thought the brain
2:02.1	Totally hibernates when we're asleep in in a very very very long time
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