Author : Jessa Gamble
Release : 2011
Genre : Biological rhythms
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 110/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Siesta and the Midnight Sun by : Jessa Gamble
Download or read book The Siesta and the Midnight Sun written by Jessa Gamble. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Siesta and the Midnight Sun, award-winning science writer Jessa Gamble explores the continuing significance of the biological clocks that governed our lives before modern technology annihilated the night. She describes experiments that show both rats and people adhere to a 24-hour schedule even when deprived of daylight. When our days are disrupted by shift work, jet lag or space travel, things go wrong. The disastrous chemical leak at Bhopal, India and the calamitous launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger both were caused partly by sleepless workers. Insomnia is rampant in the Western world.
