{"id":12764,"date":"2006-03-17T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/shortness-of-dark\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T21:33:00","slug":"shortness-of-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/shortness-of-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortness Of Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Damn Interesting<\/i>&rsquo;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damninteresting.com\/?p=416\" target=\"_blank\">Shortness of Dark<\/a> puts forth the interesting theory that man&rsquo;s invention of the light bulb may serve to counteract some of the benefits of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circadian_rhythm\" target=\"_blank\">circadian rhythm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before the incandescent bulb began to proliferate in the early twentieth century, human sleep schedules were largely governed by the Earth&rsquo;s day and night cycle. But once humans possessed the technology to ward off an appreciable chunk of nighttime, we soon extended our usable waking hours by an average of 13%. Some researchers believe that this modern convenience, credited with bringing the human race in from the dark, may also be responsible for numerous ills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/health\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114255145606510352?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn Interesting&rsquo;s post Shortness of Dark puts forth the interesting theory that man&rsquo;s invention of the light bulb may serve to counteract some of the benefits of the circadian rhythm: Before the incandescent bulb began to proliferate in the early twentieth century, human sleep schedules were largely governed by the Earth&rsquo;s day and night cycle. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/shortness-of-dark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shortness Of Dark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}