Sleeping & Dreaming exhibit hosted by Wellcome Trust will be open until 9 March 2008:
Why are scientists still perplexed by sleep? What do the insights that our dreams bring us mean? And is a life without sleep conceivable? Sleeping and dreaming is a nightly (or daily) occurrence for us all, yet we still know relatively little about this elusive phenomenon.
If you are in London between now and early March, try to go and see it (and let me know how it was - perhaps blog about it and send me the link).
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