The mystery of the eight hour sleep
Dr Mumbo read a fascinating feature on BBC News Online on February 22. Entitled “The myth of the eight hour sleep”, a piece bylined to Stephanie Hegarty of the BBC World Service tells how humans used to sleep in two blocks.
Today comes a similarly fascinating piece on the Sydney Morning Herald bylined to Luke Malone. Coincidentally, it is headlined “The myth of the eight hour sleep“.
Hegarty informs us: “A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.”
Malone tells us: “According to mounting research, the concept of a solid eight hours sleep is a fairly recent phenomenon.”
Tim get off my patch.
And to avoid any further confusion or accusations of plagiarism, the title of the piece has now been changed (“Eight-hour sleep unnatural, say experts”)
If you enjoy the similarities between those two articles then you may enjoy this blog article that was published a week before the BBC article.
http://www.lifeslittlemysterie.....-myth.html
Blimey O’Reilly I am going to bed.