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...each participant in a soundproof room with dim lighting, no windows and no hint of real time. For most of the four-week study, the volunteers were kept on strict 20-hour cycles of sleep and wakefulness. The "forced desynchrony" was intended to throw the body's 24-hour clock out of whack, according to the study's lead author, James Wyatt, while mimicking the off-hour sleep-wake cycle that shift workers and jet-lagged travelers often struggle with. Every "night" of the study, the subjects were given either melatonin or a placebo 30 min. before bedtime...
...time, when melatonin is already being released by the brain, taking an extra dose of the hormone worked no better than taking a placebo. "It seems that what melatonin is doing," says Wyatt, "is knocking out the wake-promoting drive, which normally happens during the day, from your circadian clock...
...parliamentarian footnoted the constitution to say that “the two-thirds requirement for amending the Bylaws is null and void, and the majority requirement is operative.”But last month, representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 tried to turn back the clock. He proposed a constitutional amendment that would restore the two-thirds requirement for bylaws changes.The council voted 31-0-4 for Greenfield’s legislation, and Haddock ruled that it had passed.Yet the constitution—which takes precedence over the bylaws—can only be amended if two-thirds...
...headaches,” she says. “Around five o’clock, when it wears off, I get depressed...
...last semester she could only manage a three-class course load, and found that in class she could only “draw little ponies in my notebook and look at the clock.” She tried going to the Bureau of Study Council, where she learned “to click my pen under the table”, among other techniques, to improve focus...