These Penguins Take 10,000 Little Naps A Day — Seconds At A Time

Sleep. It's an essential biological function that has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have studied everything from mice to fruit flies in the lab to get a better understanding of what happens when animals sleep — and why so many do it. This week, scientists finally added one piece to the elusive sleep puzzle: How wild chinstrap penguins sleep amid their noisy colony. Turns out, they do it over 10,000 times in seconds-long bursts throughout the day — totaling 11 hours when all is said and done.

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Explains jerky movement of penguins yet takes NOT zero but 12 great minutes

Data needs to sync to time program, which lists zero (0) length but is in fact 12:45" long.
NPR is excellent quality as usual. Yet bias towards pure evolution is tiring as if,
"Look, more evidence we're really just godless animals! Yay!"
in its description of the anthrorobots, with its cilia that whip around and move it, is perhaps the caveat best stated by NPR.
"In a way we don't really understand..."
That's right, and yet we were told that of we got the vaccine, we could not get covid, but the facts keep getting removed because, "in a way we don't really understand," we are the guinea pigs of science.
Will these anthro robots be used in humans before being understood?
What might happen?
The preceding episode addresses experiments with STEM cells and the FDA and certainly addresses these concerns.
With the Japanese and human embryo experiments...