Body & mind
25 min
What Light Does to Sleep: The Half of the Story We Skip
Your office is dimmer than a cloudy day by a factor of ten.
The science of light and sleep is usually told as a warning about screens. The other half, that humans need a large daytime dose of light to sleep at night, has barely entered the conversation. This episode follows the data the popular advice skipped.
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One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.