Working the Night Shift

Turn off your screens. Meditate. Use wearable monitors. Change the temperature. Try this drug. When it comes to the importance of getting a good night’s sleep, we are bombarded with enough advice, devices and consumables to keep us up all night. A couple of new studies are giving us a better idea of why we should sleep in the first place. It turns out, that among other things, we sleep to forget some of the things we learn each day. (No wonder I keep forgetting my sleep number.) From the NYT: The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget. In that case, good night.