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The Mattress

Nice Try!

Vox Media Podcast Network

History, Arts, Leisure, Home & Garden, Design

4.44.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actual, biological needs for sleep. Enter the mattress: a lightning rod for sleep performance, and a tool for modern self-improvement that's as mysterious and necessary as sleep itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

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0:27.9

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0:29.8

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0:34.2

Like a lot of great titans of industry and military commanders and general

0:38.9

machismo egomaniacs denying their own basic human needs, Thomas Edison was very

0:45.0

public in his belief that you didn't need to sleep.

0:48.6

Or at least he didn't need to sleep.

0:50.6

He any admitted this.

0:51.9

He slept from about four or five hours a night.

0:54.7

Leonard DeGraf is an archivist at Edison National State Park in West Orange, New Jersey,

0:59.1

which was Thomas Edison's later career laboratory in office.

1:03.0

And it turns out I was carrying on a long tradition of media people who pilgrimage here

1:07.5

to see how Edison lived and worked.

1:10.6

There are legends or stories that he would stay up for 40 days and 40 nights, but that was

1:15.8

kind of rare.

1:16.8

That didn't happen a lot.

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