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Sleeping Like Our Ancestors May Not Cure Insomnia

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 28, 2022

Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of the "Work in Progress" newsletter and host of the podcast "Plain English," digs into the pre-industrial two-act slumber—an approach to sleep some writers and sleep hackers (presumptively) claim to be a remedy for restlessness.

→"Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?" (The Atlantic, Jan. 27, 2022)

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