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You Snooze You Lose: The trouble with modern sleep habits
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Dec 12, 2013
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You Snooze You Lose: The trouble with modern sleep habits
Every morning, many of us hear our alarm clock blaring and hit the snooze button for that extra five minutes of rest. It never seems like enough, and there's a reason for that.
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Every morning, many of us hear our alarm clock blaring and hit the snooze button for that extra five minutes of rest. It never seems like enough, and there's a reason for that.

Every morning, many of us hear our alarm clock blaring and hit the snooze button for that extra five minutes of rest. It never seems like enough, and there's a reason for that.

The New Yorker's Maria Konnikova wrote about how some of our habits surrounding sleep affect us during the day, and she joins the show to discuss.