DOWN TIME: Human beings spend a third their lives sleeping, on average. That means for a person who lives 71 years, more than 23 of those are spent abed. For all the time we spend sleeping, the function of the phenomenon remains largely unknown to science.© ISTOCK.COM/BESTDESIGNS
—Jamaal Bhai, a Delhi entrepreneur who rents quilts to homeless laborers in the sprawling metropolis, quoted in a new documentary about the practice called Cities of Sleep (The New York Times, January 4)
—Jungian analyst and psychiatrist Anthony Stevens, in his 1995 book Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming
—Lawrence Gostin, public health and law expert at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, speaking about the decision by World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan to convene an emergency meeting on the emerging epidemic of the Zika virus in the Americas (January 28)
—Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota (The New York Times Sunday Review, January 29)
—The US National ...
