Tag: entrainment

• The Unheard Problem with Noise

  Life in the city can be noisy. That’s not where I live, so I find my occasionally unavoidable forays into its bowels almost unbearable. “How can you live like this?” I asked a friend as we sat on the patio of a coffee shop on a downtown street as an ambulance screamed by. “What do…

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  July 17, 2017

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  alert fatigue, ambient noise, amygdala, Annett Schirmer, audio, BBC Future, brain, Chinese University of Hong Kong, entrainment, fear, HIV testing, Jake Harper, Luc Arnal, Malawi, music, neural circuits, Noise, Oliver Wendell Holmes, rhythm, screams, signal fatigue, sounds, speech, University of Geneva, white noise

• The Body’s Clock

  Scientists –well, all of us- have been suspicious about the health risks of shift work for a long time now. Perhaps there is a reason buried somewhere in our genes that suggests night is for sleeping and daytime for working. Originally, no doubt, it was because it was difficult to see things in the dark…

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  July 23, 2015

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  body clock, BRCA mutations, breast cancer, Chronic circadian rhythm disturbances, circadian rhythm, commercial pilots, Current Biology, darkness, entrainment, flight attendants, habits, jetlag, Kirsten Van Dycke, light, light/dark cycles, Macbeth, obesity, Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Shift work, sleep disturbance, type 2 diabetes, Zeitgeber