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• What Sleep Debt Actually Does to Your Brain and Body
  Pulling an all-nighter feels like a neutral trade of time. The biology says otherwise: sleep loss costs attention, immune defence, metabolic regulation and memory consolidation — some of it at thresholds far lower than people believe. Here is what the research shows, at honest effect sizes.
• The Wood Wide Web: What Trees Actually Share Underground
  Forest trees are joined by a fungal internet that trades sugar for minerals, warns neighbours of drought, and lets stumps keep feeding for years. The science is real, the popular version is exaggerated — here is what mycorrhizal networks genuinely do.
• Landlocked Countries — The High Price of Living Without a Coast
  Forty-plus nations conduct all their trade through somebody else's ports, roads and customs. It is one of geography's steepest handicaps — measurable in GDP, freight bills and diplomacy — and the reasons Bolivia still wants a sea outlet explain why maps matter more than treaties.