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Engineering Sleep


Background Sleep claims a third of human life. Like water, it’s not a desire but a necessity.

Perhaps this represents what J Storss Halls called a “civilizational failure of nerve”, where institutions become pathologically risk-averse, more focusing on preventing downside risks than enabling upside potential []. De Luca R, Nardone S, Grace KP, Venner A, Cristofolini M, Bandaru SS, Sohn LT, Kong D, Mochizuki T, Viberti B, Zhu L, Zito A, Scammell TE, Saper CB, Lowell BB, Fuller PM, Arrigoni E. Orexin neurons inhibit sleep to promote arousal. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aax2014 Pandey P, Wall PK, Lopez SR, Dubuisson OS, Zunica ERM, Dantas WS, Kirwan JP, Axelrod CL, Johnson AE.

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