Sleep. It’s something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it’s all about? Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we’re...
Ok, maybe your grandparents probably slept like you. And your great, great-grandparents. But once you go back before the 1800s, sleep starts to look a lot different. Your ancestors slept in a way that modern sleepers would find bizarre – they slept twice. And so can...