The Paradox of Sleep with Matthew Walker

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What happens when we go to sleep? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the mystery of why we sleep, time dilation in dreams, circadian rhythms, and sleeping in space with neuroscientist Matt Walker.

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0:00.0	Coming up on StarTalk's special edition, it's all about sleep, and we learned what it is,
0:06.4	why we need it, how it impacts our perception of time, and how it is that we actually go crazy
0:14.7	when our head hits the pillow as we drift off in slumber. Coming up on StarTalk.
0:21.9	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:30.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:35.0	This is StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:40.3	I got Jack Nice, my co-host, Jack.
0:42.2	Hey, what's up, Neil?
0:43.5	All right, Gary O'Reilly.
0:45.2	I, Neil.
0:46.4	All right, and this is a StarTalk special edition.
0:49.7	All about sleep. Gary, what did you put together today?
0:54.4	Well, sleep, Neil. We all do it.
0:57.2	Some better than others, but why?
1:00.2	And why have humans not evolved to do without it?
1:03.9	I've been asking out my whole life.
1:05.3	Here we go. We've got a waste of time with this.
1:07.0	What a waste of time.
1:08.6	Now we're going to get somewhere, right?
1:10.5	What are circadian rhythms and what are chronotypes?
1:14.1	What actually defines a good night's sleep?
1:18.0	What are you going to be like sleeping in space?
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