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The science of sleep

The Big Idea by BBC

Nov 21, 202014:38Education

We spend around a third of our lives asleep, but the reason we sleep is still something of a mystery. Could it be the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made? What does sleep actually do for us? David Edmo...

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