Steven Spierer, 12/23/17

Some people have problems getting enough quality sleep, while others could but just don’t. Today we define a good night’s sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Steve talks with Benjamin Reiss, author of Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created our Restless World.

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