Author: Rachel Widome

Rachel Widome is an epidemiologist who studies how sleep influences health risk, which, believe it or not, has some funny moments.

Let me be clear: sleep had hobbled this great nation for too long. We know that when individuals are asleep they are neither consumers nor customers. An immobile person ensconced in their bed with eyes shut tight cannot purchase, click, nor scroll. These are lost minutes. When sleeping, one is unreachable; functionally they are economic dead weight. Still, even in this modern era, there are radical elements who would disagree. Despite my quibbles with their cause, up until now I had been mostly entertained by the antics of the Naptivists. Seeing a stumping candidate or bigwig corporate executive suddenly get whammed…

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