Ann Finkbeiner
I᾽ve written articles about anything anyone pays me to write about, but I᾽m most interested in astronomy and its subset, cosmology. I also run the small, jewel-like graduate program in science writing in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. For several years now, I᾽ve been mostly writing books: After the Death of a Child, The Guide to Living with HIV Infection, The Jasons. I finished my last book, A Grand and Bold Thing; I have no idea for another one, and haven’᾽t a clue what to do next. Website.
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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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