Sleep

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Birds do it, bees do it...yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep? We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does--from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in bed with a pair of sleep-deprived new parents, and eavesdrop on the uneasy dreams of rats. We have some exciting news! In the “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon Sign up for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Latif Nasser, this is Radio Lab.
0:02.2	This week I'm re-upping an episode from 2007,
0:04.9	you know, which is like very early days of our show,
0:07.6	about a fundamental mystery that now, like, almost 20 years later is still just as fundamental and just as
0:18.7	mysterious as it was then it is a fundamental mystery that takes up about a third of your life and actually probably
0:27.3	more considering how much you crave it when you can't get it but then paradoxically put it off when you can.
0:37.2	Anyway, I'm not going to say anymore because I don't want to step on the original episode intro which is just adorable. So here you are. Drift off with our
0:47.9	emeritus hosts, Jadden Robert.
0:50.4	Yeah, you're, wait, you're let's say.
0:52.0	Okay.
0:53.0	All right.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:58.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
1:01.0	Radio.
1:02.0	From WNYy S-C.
1:03.0	See?
1:05.0	Rewind.
1:07.0	Rewind.
1:08.0	I just thought I'd see if I can get the sound of baby sleeping.
1:15.0	This is Radio Lab.
1:21.0	Today's program is about sleep.
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