What Light Does to Sleep: The Half of the Story We Skip audio documentary cover
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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