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Jessa Gamble (born April 25, 1979), née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing.〔(The Last Word on Nothing )〕 Her book, ''The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time''〔(The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time ) (Penguin)〕 (Penguin Group), documents the rituals surrounding daily rhythms. Along with local languages and beliefs, these schedules are losing their global diversity〔(BoingBoing: Science Book Club: The Siesta and the Midnight Sun )〕 and succumbing to what Gamble calls “circadian imperialism.”〔(Treehouse Group Talks - Jessa Gamble on Daily Rhythms Around the World )〕 The foreword was written by Canadian broadcaster Jay Ingram. In recent years, Gamble has turned her attention to research on reducing the need for sleep 〔(Aeon magazine - The End of Sleep? )〕 by making it more efficient and concentrated.〔(Jessa Gamble on CBC's The Current )〕 One of her articles on the subject won the 2014 Best Feature award at the Science Writers' Awards for Britain and Ireland.〔(2014 Association of British Science Writers -- Best Feature award )〕 She is a regular commentator on issues around sleep, such as the morality of sleep,〔(New York Times website -- Blogging Heads: The Morality of Sleep )〕 Seasonal Affective Disorder,〔(University of Toronto Magazine feature, Autumn 2011 - "Timing is Everything" )〕 and cultural differences in daily rhythms.〔(BoingBoing: Sleep Culture in the West and Elsewhere )〕 Gamble's work has appeared in ''The Guardian'',〔(The Guardian -- Jessa Gamble profile )〕 as well as ''Scientific American'',〔(Stories by Jessa Gamble -- Scientific American )〕 ''New Scientist'',〔(New Scientist - Jessa Gamble author page )〕'' The Walrus''〔(The Walrus - Author Archive: Jessa Gamble )〕 , ''Canadian Geographic''〔(Canadian Geographic -- "Salt of the Earth )〕 and ''Nature'' 〔(Nature -- "When Hodgkin met Thatcher" )〕 magazines. The Canadian Science Writers Association bestowed a 2007 Science in Society journalism award for Gamble's first-person account of daily life at the Eureka High Arctic Weather Station.〔(The Globe and Mail: "The Time Cues of Our Lives" by Alison Motluk )〕 Her travelogue of a canoe trip through the Thelon Game Sanctuary on a quest for muskox was selected for inclusion in the Best Canadian Essays 2009 anthology〔(Best Canadian Essays 2009 anthology )〕 and nominated for a National Magazine Award for Best Short Feature.〔(National Magazine Awards Archive: Where the Muskox Roam )〕 At TED Global 2011 in Oxford, England, Gamble spoke about the natural sleep cycle of humans, which includes a two-hour waking period in the middle of the night. , the talk had more than one million views. Living in Yellowknife, capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, she worked as an editor at ''Up Here'',〔(National Post: "Listening to the Tick Tock of Your Body Clock" by Sarah Boesveld )〕 the magazine about Canada's North,〔(Up Here magazine )〕 and served as writer in residence at the Yellowknife Public Library, mentoring local aspiring writers.〔(Yellowknife Public Library: Writer in Residence )〕 In September 2014, Palgrave Macmillan published her book collaboration with fund manager Guy Spier, "The Education of a Value Investor". ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jessa Gamble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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