We spend approximately a third of our lives asleep: that’s roughly 25 years we could spend awake and running around being productive, and yet evolution has guided us to spend hours every night in our most vulnerable state – unconscious and unaware. It’s an easy question to ask: what’s the point? CREDIT Hosted, produced and edited by Carolyn Barry

We spend approximately a third of our lives asleep: that’s roughly 25 years we could spend awake and running around being productive, and yet evolution has guided us to spend hours every night in our most vulnerable state – unconscious and unaware. It’s an easy question to ask: what’s the point? CREDIT Hosted, produced and edited by Carolyn Barry

We spend approximately a third of our lives asleep: that’s roughly 25 years we could spend awake and running around being productive, and yet evolution has guided us to spend hours every night in our most vulnerable state – unconscious and unaware. It’s an easy question to ask: what’s the point? CREDIT Hosted, produced and edited by Carolyn Barry

Flies sleep like babies

A Grey Matter is for anyone who has ever wondered how we think, feel, reason and move. The Queensland Brain Institute's neuroscience podcast unlocks the wonders of the brain – the complex and mysterious core of who we are and what makes us human. QBI researchers, at The University of Queensland, strive to understand the development, organisation and function of the brain in health and disease. www.qbi.uq.edu.au

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A Grey Matter is for anyone who has ever wondered how we think, feel, reason and move. The Queensland Brain Institute's neuroscience podcast unlocks the wonders of the brain – the complex and mysterious core of who we are and what makes us human. QBI researchers, at The University of Queensland, strive to understand the development, organisation and function of the brain in health and disease. www.qbi.uq.edu.au

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