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News & Views: Short on sleep? You could be a disaster waiting to happen
Posted on May 14, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Lesson4-2, ND Unit4, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

Workers try to remove some of the 11 million gallows of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez off Alaska in 1989.Rob Stapleton/AP

Mega-disasters like Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez oil spill were set off by people who were sleep-deprived. Researchers say they’re able to pinpoint how lack of sleep derails decision-making.

Read more at NPR.org.