Maria Konnikova’s article, The Walking Dead, demonstrates how important sleep truly is. Maria says “Fifty to seventy million Americans have chronic sleep disorders.”(Pg. 1) Many sleep scientists, from the Harvard Medical School Media Fellowship, have come to the conclusion that the lack of sleep can affect a person greatly. If you do not get enough sleep, your sleep inertia can stay for as long as the whole day. Judith Owens, the director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital, studied the effects of later and earlier school times. She has found that little kids need at least 13 hours of sleep, including a nap during the day, teens need nine and half hours of sleep, and adults only need about eight hours
