
Matthew Walker
Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, Sleep Scientist at Google and Author of Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley, the Director of its Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard University. He has published over 100 scientific studies and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nova, BBC News, and NPR’s Science Friday. Why We Sleep is his first book.
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To Read on an iPad at Night
Or To Read a Printed Book? ← That Is the Question
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Sleep Q: How Little Light Is Too Much?
A: Not a Lot!
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Think You Can Get By on Little Sleep?
Science Says: Think Again (Struck by Lightning Lately?)
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Optimizing Z’s: 12 Tips
Your #1? (Tonight the Night?)
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Sleep: Even Worms Do It
Plus: One-Eyed-/Half-Brained-Bird Sleep
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Sleep: The Miracle Drug!
Let’s Pop The Metaphorical Pills to Reduce the Real Ones
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Baselines: Best vs. Meh
Resetting vs Optimizing
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Sleep: Crazy Stats
To Make Your Heart Skip a Beat
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Sleep, Work, and Boiling Water
Medium vs. High Heat (You?)
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Foundation vs. Pillars
Our #1 Fundie? Sleep!
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Why We DON’T Sleep
The Top 10 Sleep Kryptonites
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Sleep Efficiency
Want 8 Hours? Be in Bed for 9!
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Reasons to GET UP
vs. Reasons to STAY Up
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A Brief History of (Blue) Light
Save It for the Daytime
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Training Tranquility
Today for TONIGHT for Tomorrow
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Sleep Curfews
Caffeine + Exercise + Eating + Screens + Work
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Stress Curfews
When's Yours?
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Despair --> Hope
The Best Bridge?
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PM Counts Twice
PM → AM + DAY + PM = #carpediem
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Building an Epic Bridge
#1033
I Hereby Challenge You to Have a Series of Really Bad Days
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The Snow Globe
In Your Brain (Quit Shaking It!)
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“Shut-Down COMPLETE!”
Not “Shut-Down ALMOST Complete!”
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