Body & mind
30 min
Why You Can't Sleep — The Epidemic Nobody Is Solving
Edison declared war on sleep, then napped through it
The man who told the world sleep was weakness was a prolific napper. The science of what happens when you skip sleep is stranger — and more contested — than anyone let on. And the people who suffer most aren't the CEOs bragging about four hours. They're shift workers, Black professionals, and teenagers forced onto a schedule designed for bus logistics.
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About Mythio
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.