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Life Without Sleep

We all know the importance of sleep, but what happens if we literally can’t?

How many of us even use a pen these days and what if we never picked one up ever again?

Gen Z are famously having less of it. Do we even need it all?

No more buzzing, no more honey, no more bees – so then what?

A low salt diet is one thing, but a no salt life?

They wriggle and writhe in the earth beneath us, surely, we’d be fine if they vanished?

Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?

Full moon, half-moon, total eclipse. What happens when we look up and the moon is missing?

Alan Davies hosts a thought experiment: will removing one thing from our world destroy it?