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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Monday, January 23, 2006

I could have told them this twenty years ago

This Washington Post/SFGate story reports on a study which shows that biologically, 7 a.m. is just too early for high school students:
Carskadon, who teaches human behavior and is director of sleep research at E.P. Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island, led a team of researchers who helped prove that -- biologically speaking -- teenagers really are out of it early in the morning.

The researchers measured the presence of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin in teenagers' saliva at different times of the day. They learned that the melatonin levels rise later at night than they do in children and adults -- and remain at a higher level later in the morning.
My high school started at 8:00 AM, though there were some students who took elective classes which did start at 7:00. To this day I have trouble getting up that early--which makes it especially nice to have a job so close to home.
|| Andrew, 2:18 PM || ||

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