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Scientists still are hotly debating just how much sleep we need
Scientists still are hotly debating just how much sleep we need

Scientists still are hotly debating just how much sleep we need

Date10/31/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Scientists still are hotly debating just how much sleep we need
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Until the invention of the light bulb, people probably slept better because when it got dark there was nothing else to do, a sleep disorders expert says
Until the invention of the light bulb, people probably slept better because when it got dark there was nothing else to do, a sleep disorders expert says
2/7/1991
Bernice Finley suffered disrupted sleep for two years before narcolepsy was diagnosed
Bernice Finley suffered disrupted sleep for two years before narcolepsy was diagnosed
2/8/1979
Just pooped: A worn out 10-month- old Shiona Middlemiss snoozes while her mother, Donna, shops in an Eaton Centre book store
Just pooped: A worn out 10-month- old Shiona Middlemiss snoozes while her mother, Donna, shops in an Eaton Centre book store
12/19/1989
Seeking answers
Seeking answers
4/29/1983
Sleeping under the stars, Giant stars floating overhead on a mural set the right mood for Brian Renaud of Toronto yesterday. He decided to take a snoo(...)
Sleeping under the stars, Giant stars floating overhead on a mural set the right mood for Brian Renaud of Toronto yesterday. He decided to take a snoo(...)
4/22/1994
Black and white photograph depicting electrical treatment is used in a Toronto hospital to figh ...
Electrical treatment is used in a Toronto hospital to fight insomnia
7/27/1972
How scientists unravel the mystery of life.
How scientists unravel the mystery of life.
12/14/1981
There was a cloak and dagger mood at a meeting Toronto physics professor Eric Fawcett had in Moscow with group of refusniks, Jewish scientists banned from laboratories because they have applied to emigrate to Isralel. Fawcett and other scientists talked t
There was a cloak and dagger mood at a meeting Toronto physics professor Eric Fawcett had in Moscow with group of refusniks, Jewish scientists banned from laboratories because they have applied to emigrate to Isralel. Fawcett and other scientists talked t
4/27/1977
Telling signs, John Polanyi, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, stays in Toronto, but says ambitious scientists would be well advised to leave Cananda. Ch(...)
Telling signs, John Polanyi, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, stays in Toronto, but says ambitious scientists would be well advised to leave Cananda. Ch(...)
12/23/1976
Scientist's mother dies. Mrs. William Thompson Banting, Sr., who died yesterday at Alliston, at the age of 87. Her son, Sir Frederick Banting, gave in(...)
Scientist's mother dies. Mrs. William Thompson Banting, Sr., who died yesterday at Alliston, at the age of 87. Her son, Sir Frederick Banting, gave in(...)
12/3/1940
Scientists at work: Dr. Shaun Gray researches the hard way in a motion sickness machine while Bob Sheung makes necessary adjustments to get things goi(...)
Scientists at work: Dr. Shaun Gray researches the hard way in a motion sickness machine while Bob Sheung makes necessary adjustments to get things goi(...)
1/1/1982
Government critic: If future generations of young scientists are to be attaracted to the profession, says David Pulley blank, they must be given assurance that there is a future in Canadian science
Government critic: If future generations of young scientists are to be attaracted to the profession, says David Pulley blank, they must be given assurance that there is a future in Canadian science
3/11/1981