Kenneth Miller
@kenmillerwrites.bsky.social
Author, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette, Oct. 2023). Contributing editor, Discover magazine. Harmonica and keyboards.
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My latest, for all you restless sleepers. medshadow.org/best-treatme...
A Safer Way to Tame Insomnia - MedShadow Foundation | Independent Health & Wellness Journalism
CBT-I, the most effective treatment for insomnia, causes none of the side effects that sleep medications do
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October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My latest, for all you restless sleepers. medshadow.org/best-treatme...
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This review is wonderful, but it is a reminder that the history of 20th century #sleep research is difficult to fit into a paragraph; it's much more unruly once you dive into it @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This review is wonderful, but it is a reminder that the history of 20th century #sleep research is difficult to fit into a paragraph; it's much more unruly once you dive into it @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social
Book rec! "Winter's End," by Lewis Cohen—essential reading on the end-of-life issues raised by a dementia diagnosis, focusing on one man's choice to exit on his own terms. Whatever you think of its ending, Dan Winter's life makes for a compelling tale.👍
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Book rec! "Winter's End," by Lewis Cohen—essential reading on the end-of-life issues raised by a dementia diagnosis, focusing on one man's choice to exit on his own terms. Whatever you think of its ending, Dan Winter's life makes for a compelling tale.👍
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Dear God…DO NOT US AI FOR NUTRITION, HEALTH, OR HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS.
A 60-year-old man spent three weeks being treated at a hospital after replacing table salt with sodium bromide following consultation with a popular artificial intelligence chatbot.
Man who asked ChatGPT about cutting out salt from his diet was hospitalized with hallucinations
A case report published in a medical journal reported that the 60-year-old man replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide after consulting the AI bot.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Dear God…DO NOT US AI FOR NUTRITION, HEALTH, OR HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS.
ICYMI: check out this long-form essay on #insomnia by the great (and massively sleep-challenged) @jennifersenior.bsky.social. Chock-full of insights, actionable
info, and terrific writing.
info, and terrific writing.
The tips one commonly reads to get better sleep—eight hours a night, avoiding naps, cool rooms—are abundant. They’re also as insipid as they sound, @jennifersenior.bsky.social writes.
From The Atlantic’s August issue, what Americans get so wrong about sleep:
From The Atlantic’s August issue, what Americans get so wrong about sleep:
American Insomnia
Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis
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July 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ICYMI: check out this long-form essay on #insomnia by the great (and massively sleep-challenged) @jennifersenior.bsky.social. Chock-full of insights, actionable
info, and terrific writing.
info, and terrific writing.
Just finished "90 Seconds to Midnight," by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs—inspiring new bio of Nobel Peace Prize winner Setsuko Thurlow (née Nakamura), who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a girl and became one of the world's leading advocates for nuclear disarmament. Highly recommended!
July 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just finished "90 Seconds to Midnight," by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs—inspiring new bio of Nobel Peace Prize winner Setsuko Thurlow (née Nakamura), who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a girl and became one of the world's leading advocates for nuclear disarmament. Highly recommended!
Hudson Valley folks—I'm giving a talk on Mapping the Darkness this Wednesday at the Starr Library in Rhinebeck. Hope to see you there! engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtend...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep with Kenneth Miller at Starr Library
The definitive story of the scientists who set out to answer two questions: “Why do we sleep?” and “How can we sleep better?”Award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller joins us at the library to tell the...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hudson Valley folks—I'm giving a talk on Mapping the Darkness this Wednesday at the Starr Library in Rhinebeck. Hope to see you there! engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtend...
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Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
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May 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
Third and final interview on Mapping the Darkness with great host Mark Lynch—probing the links between sleep deprivation and catastrophes (from Chernobyl to the Challenger explosion), plus Mary Carskadon's campaign to liberate teens from early school start times! wicn.org/podcast/kenn...
Kenneth Miller Pt 3 - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
Inquiry welcomes back award-winning journalist KENNETH MILLER for a third conversation about his new book MAPPING THE DARKNESS: THE VISIONARY SCIENTISTS WHO UNLOCKED THE MYSTERIES OF SLEEP. Tonight we...
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May 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Third and final interview on Mapping the Darkness with great host Mark Lynch—probing the links between sleep deprivation and catastrophes (from Chernobyl to the Challenger explosion), plus Mary Carskadon's campaign to liberate teens from early school start times! wicn.org/podcast/kenn...
Just read @patchenbarss.bsky.social 's bio of Roger Penrose, "The Impossible Man"—and wowza! Besides the science stuff (probing the nature of reality at the quantum level), what's riveting is the portrait of Penrose, whose mix of strengths and flaws is worthy of a Greek tragic hero. bit.ly/3S6zENr
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
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May 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just read @patchenbarss.bsky.social 's bio of Roger Penrose, "The Impossible Man"—and wowza! Besides the science stuff (probing the nature of reality at the quantum level), what's riveting is the portrait of Penrose, whose mix of strengths and flaws is worthy of a Greek tragic hero. bit.ly/3S6zENr
As if you needed anything else to keep you up at night... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastics in everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine, study finds
Findings show for first time how plastic chemicals throw off the body’s internal clock by up to 17 minutes
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May 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
As if you needed anything else to keep you up at night... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🤯🤯🤯https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
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May 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🤯🤯🤯https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/
My latest. If you've got a kid who's sleep-challenged, here's the skinny on those somnogenic gummies. medshadow.org/are-melatoni...
Are Melatonin Supplements Safe for Kids? - MedShadow Foundation | Independent Health & Wellness Journalism
The answer to the melatonin and kids question depends on how they’re used—and many parents may be doing it wrong
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May 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My latest. If you've got a kid who's sleep-challenged, here's the skinny on those somnogenic gummies. medshadow.org/are-melatoni...
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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
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How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Report: As one dataset after another falls by the wayside, the nation’s policymakers are losing their ability to make evidence-based decisions, and the public is losing the ability to hold them accountable for their results. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Report: As one dataset after another falls by the wayside, the nation’s policymakers are losing their ability to make evidence-based decisions, and the public is losing the ability to hold them accountable for their results. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Because disinformation wants to be free? www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...
National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation
Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer "aligned with NSF priorities."
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April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Because disinformation wants to be free? www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...
Another ultra-fun conversation about Mapping the Darkness—this time, focusing on the discovery of REM sleep and the birth of sleep medicine—with host Mark Lynch. Have a listen! wicn.org/podcast/kenn...
Kenneth Miller Pt 2 - 90.5 WICN Public Radio
Tonight on Inquiry, we welcome back award-winning journalist KENNETH MILLER to continue our conversation about his new book: MAPPING THE DARKNESS: THE VISIONARY SCIENTISTS WHO UNLOCKED THE MYSTERIES O...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Another ultra-fun conversation about Mapping the Darkness—this time, focusing on the discovery of REM sleep and the birth of sleep medicine—with host Mark Lynch. Have a listen! wicn.org/podcast/kenn...
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobodye good doth evir attack the fundinge of libraryes
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Nobodye good doth evir attack the fundinge of libraryes
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Beautiful
I'd like to tell you a story about a scientist you may not have heard of, but who shaped a lot of modern health research... 🧵
March 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?
Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky
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Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky
scienceimpacts.org
SCiMaP
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March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?
Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky
scienceimpacts.org
Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky
scienceimpacts.org
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They didn't even pick a controversial person WITH a medical license, but one who previously got in trouble for practicing medicine without one www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
They didn't even pick a controversial person WITH a medical license, but one who previously got in trouble for practicing medicine without one www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...