Our Writers
They live in New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and greater Paonia, Colorado. In their day jobs, they teach science writing and journalism, write books, and meet deadlines for Science, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American and many other magazines. By night, they write for you.
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| Sally Adee | Christie Aschwanden | Erika Check Hayden |
| Ann Finkbeiner | Jessa Gamble | Thomas Hayden |
| Virginia Hughes | Michelle Nijhuis | Richard Panek |
| Heather Pringle | Cassandra Willyard |
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Siesta and the Midnight Sun
Now that humanity has spread right to the Earth's poles and adopted a 24-hour business day, our internal clocks struggle against our urban schedules. And the cost of ignoring these circadian clocks is high. The Exxon Valdez oil spill, Three Mile Island, the Bhopal chemical plant explosion, and the Chernobyl disasters were all attributed to human error and all happened on the night shift.
Jessa Gamble travels the planet to answer an essential question: Do we want to construct our own artificial timetables or find a new connection with the body's internal one?
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