Sleep

In an episode we first ran back in 2019, we explore how a sunken nuclear submarine, a crazy billionaire, and a mechanical claw gave birth to a phrase that has hounded journalists and lawyers for 40 years and embodies the tension between the public’s desire for transparency and th ...  Show more

Lauren Brown gets goosebumps. A lot. Sometimes several times a day. When her partner, writer Carmen Maria Machado, noticed it...she couldn't stop thinking about it. Why does she get them in so many different situations? What’s happening in her body and what does it mean? We take ...  Show more

On today's episode of Macrodosing, the crew gets cozy on sleep talk and the studies that have been done on it. Not only were there many interesting stories and conspiracies behind sleep, we also had a HEATED fact-off for the ages between Billy and Big T. You don't want to miss ...

Guest presented by Liz Bonnin.We all instinctively know that sleep is incredibly important but science doesn’t actually have a satisfying answer for why we need to sleep. There are multiple theories, but now, new research from Imperial College London has suggested that the leadin ...  Show more

We have some questions about sleep: It’s ok to stay up late, right? Is it possible to control your dreams? Do all animals sleep? Why do we need to sleep anyway? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Sleep—that mystical journey into the quiet mysteries of the night. For centuries, sleep was a puzzle wrapped in dreams and superstition. But through curiosity and discovery, scientists began to uncover its vital role in healing, memory, and the mind. How did we come to understand ...  Show more