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Walking in nature for just 10 minutes this lunchtime, rounding up everything we’ve learned about sleep so far. Looking agead to next week’s episodes and inviting you to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime Walk Club: http://www.patreon.com/rachelwheeley

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Walking my local streets amongst the lavender, discussing sleep deprivation and shift work. Whilst shifting your day around can enable an early or a late start, it is seriously incompatible with a young family. Your thoughts on sleep? Go to walkthepod.com.

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Walking in the woods this lunchtime, thinking about Matthew Walker’s book Why we Sleep, particulary the section on Sleep and Learning.

Sleep, it seems, helps us prepare to learn, acts as a ‘save’ button for what we’ve learned, and can even help with recall within the day of learning if we take a quick nap in between study sessions.

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Walking in my loval woods at lunchtime today discussing our new theme: Sleep. Today, Robin’s voicenote prompts a discussion of circadian rhythms, sleep breathing and noradrenalin.

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Welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod. This series our theme is Sleep! Invoting you to contribute your thoughts about sleep, and I’ll be introducing ideas from Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’.

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A final episode on Ego, closing our series. Walk the Pod will return on Monday 20th April. If you’d like to vote for our next theme, you can do so by joining the walk the Pod lunchtime walk club on Patreon.

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A summary of some of what we’ve discussed this series plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club.

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In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’.

On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’.

Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension.

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Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat.

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Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’.

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