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Thanks for the program I heard on OPB. It was beyond interesting. Great job. Would like to learn more,......but I am going to sleep now!

We have a house without air conditioning. However, we have a 'whole house' fan plus we circulate the house air with a very well filtered furnace system. Our community air quality is good & we don't live on a street, but have a long driveway. My wife tells me that fresh air sucked in by the whole house fan is bad for her plus the filtered circulating air also makes things worse. I tell her that it is not the air, but some other problem which causes a problem for her. Is moving air "bad" for you when you sleep? Is outside air "bad" for you when you sleep? Thanks. V. Philbrick

I really enjoyed this program and it really got me thinking about the meaning, mechanics and purpose of sleep. You can find my reflections on this episode of Radio Lab here:

http://dixieyid.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-do-we-sleep.html

-Dixie Yid

not sure if this is the right forum, but can you tell me how to get in touch with the writer(s)/producer(s) of this episode.

It was excellent and I have an idea to share - not just fawning praise, but I'll do that too if necessary

David

Hi David,

You can contact us by sending an e-mail to radiolab@wnyc.org.

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The day before I heard this episode (thanks to the suggestion on This American Life) my 11-year old son asked me if fish sleep. I thought I might find the answer during the show. But, fish were never mentioned even though every other category of creature was mentioned. So, do fish sleep?

Hi Andrea, your son asks a very very good question. The short answer is: we have no idea! Fish don't have eyelids, so IF they sleep, they don't close their eyes when they do. So scientists have tried to monitor fish brain activity. But they've had to take the fish out of the water to do that, which makes the measuring kind of meaningless (because if you were a fish out of water, would YOU sleep?). so as far as we know, your son's question remains very much answered.

Your program on sleep was so devoted to mediocre revelations that you skipped over some facts I consider imperative, especially since you say your program investigates. I was floored when you mention so casually that "Dr. Whoever looked into the brains of cats and guess what he discovered?"Wow! now we know this and this about cat sleep.

How do you think he got into the brains of cats? Where do you think he got the cats? Do you think they volunteered?

All of you seemed so joyful that discoveries were made from more cruel animals experiments. But you didn't go there. You were focused on outcome. If you ever see a photo of a cat with this equipment put INTO his skull, you wull never forget it.

Are we all smarter now from your program? Did a researcher get big bucks for these enlightening tidbits? Didn't you just do a program on morality?

Your 'Radio lab' is on par with People Magazine.Terry Gross come back please!

Outstanding program. I learn more on RadioLab then in school. Please keep up the good work. Joe

who was the electronic music by? on the one eye open episode.