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Regina Barber

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Dr. Cora Collette Bruner.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

She didn't work on this study, but she thought this study was fascinating.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

She told me she'd seen the effects of insufficient sleep firsthand in her practice.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

She says that if teens don't get enough sleep, they're more depressed.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

For example, they point out that later school start times are linked to longer sleep and improve mental health.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

So interventions like that might help students across the board get better sleep.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Yeah, this is that big one I would always hear about growing up.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

And that fault, the plates are pushing towards each other and moving closer at a rate of about an inch or more a year.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Think of it like a slowly compressing spring that could eventually snap in a massive earthquake.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

That data was gathered over a decade, and it gives us one of the most nuanced pictures yet of the Cascadia Fault.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

They found that the northern part of the fault may be more tightly locked and it's storing more stress, while the central section seems to allow more fluid movement along the fault, which means an earthquake along the fault might unfold differently than they originally thought.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Yeah, I'm excited about this one because scientists know a lot about agricultural societies and like the way they used to eat back then, but not much about what hunter-gatherers used to eat.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

And a new study in the journal PLOS One takes a look at that.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

A group of scientists analyzed ancient pots from roughly 4,000 to 8,000 years ago.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

But it's good for science.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Right.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

Because the researchers found food crusts left over from a whole bunch of ancient meals.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

But one of the ones they found the most interesting was a stew of fish mixed with Gelder roseberries.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

These bright red berries are normally bitter, but they taste totally different.

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Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

They have a totally different flavor once they're cooked.