# Roger Ekirch

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This one unremarkable dusk

Send us Fan Mail With apologies for sounding like an asthmatic badger, tonight we explore the special qualities of an unremarkable dusk and why we can feel so at peace with it and the darkness it can bring. Journal entry: 28th June, Tuesday. “I stop work to breathe in the storm-wind And bathe in ...

Sleep well, live well: expert tips for restful nights and productive days - with Terry Cralle, RN

Questions? Comments? Episode suggestions? Send us a text message! #162 - Terry Cralle is a Registered Nurse, clinical sleep health specialist and co-author of two sleep-related books.  She explains the effects sleep has on your body and mind, how to optimise your sleep environment to improve you ...

Sleep and Your Screens, Not Friends

This episode of the New Tech City podcast explores how technology has changed sleep through the ages, specifically through artificial light. Hear historian Roger Ekirch and psychiatrist Thomas Wehr explain how they each discovered the natural segmented sleep pattern our bodies want. And why we ...

The History of Sleep is Surprising!

Podcast Transcript: Hello and Welcome to News From The Future, spoken by the eleven labs audio clone of Dr Catherine Ball. In this new short series we will be focussing on Sleep. We all do it, and we all recognise when we have not had enough of it. Dr Cath’s new book The Future of Sleep is out ...

Yogic Sleep Meditation with an Ornate Bed

Deeply relax your entire body with a yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, meditation inspired by a luxurious 18th-century French bed. Called a lit à la polonaise, or Polish bed, because the style was reminiscent of Polish fashion at the time, this four-poster bed has a nearly ten-foot canopy elegantly d ...

Deeper Dive: A Brief History of Sleep

Sleep is a biological necessity, but our practices around sleep are cultural. Before the industrial revolution, sleep was generally biphasic, meaning that it happened in two intervals. Virginia Tech Professor Roger Ekirch is credited with founding the discipline of sleep history, and in this co ...

Humans vs Sleep with Dr. Michael Grandner

In this episode Why warmer mornings and earlier sunlight change Michael’s own sleep schedule Light as one of the fundamental environmental signals shaping circadian biology What “polyphasic sleep” actually means The difference between a normal nap or biphasic schedule and extreme internet po ...

Why Your 2AM Wakeup Isn't Insomnia: The Forgotten History of Biphasic Sleep and How Industry Rewired Our Nights

Your 2AM Insomnia Isn't a Disorder — They Just Made You the Lab Rat dives deep into the forgotten history of biphasic sleep—also known as segmented or polyphasic sleep. The conversation focused on groundbreaking research by historian A. Roger Ekirch and experiments by psychiatrist Thomas Wehr, r ...