Heather Pringle
My work as a writer takes me to strange places and often leads to strange encounters with both the living and the dead–subjects I like to write about in books and magazine articles. I’m a contributing editor at Archaeology magazine, and I freelance for the likes of Science, National Geographic, New Scientist, and Canadian Geographic. Website.
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Heather Pringle Elsewhere:
The Curse of the Mummies’ Arteries
Google Earth Shows Clandestine Worlds
The Lost City: A discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt
Photo by Geoff Lakeman
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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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