The Uncertain Science of Sleep


	The Uncertain Science of Sleep

titicy

8-27-2008 8:40 PM

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8-28-2008 11:04 AM

tanyamm

I think we need sleep to refresh ourselves. I know I can think a lot clearer and just generally function better when I've even just had a little cat-nap.

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Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Cockroaches are immune to sleep deprivation. Bullfrogs can sleep through an electric shock without opening an eye. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/the-uncertain-s.html"><P>Apart from the fact that all animals sleep, scientists really don't know much about it. Does it work the same in every species? Update memories? Refresh unused synapses? All of the above?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/the-uncertain-s.html"><P>As paper author Giulio Tononi writes, "Everybody knows that sleep is important, yet the function of sleep seems like the mythological phoenix ... that there is one they all say, where it may be no one knows." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BCBC3A73-8F2E-41A8-93F7-892E7541F063/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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