Virginia Hughes
I’m a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, land of quirky coffee shops and rich dog walkers. I’ll write about anything, but most of my stories involve brains, genes or biotechnology, sometimes all at once. I used to be the community manager, a.k.a. cat herder, of ScienceBlogs.
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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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