Ep. 294: Even Jellyfish Snooze, And It’s Helping Us Understand The Origins Of Sleep
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Ep. 294: Even Jellyfish Snooze, And It’s Helping Us Understand The Origins Of Sleep

C1AdvancedOctober 1, 202628 min
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Hey, welcome back to Well That's Interesting, the Do They Dream of Aquatic Sheep? edition. That was a play on a niche literary reference, and today is episode 294. Even Jellyfish Snooze.

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And it's helping us understand the origins of sleep. My friends, just two weeks ago, you and I had the time of our lives diving into a sleep study involving humans and a lot of tape. During episode 293, we met researchers at the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH

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Zurich who came up with a radical question. What if we could watch the pupils of someone getting their 40 winks? What could that tell us about brain activity during this time? For folks who haven't had a listen, you may be shocked to hear that up until that

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