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How quickly does it take the caffeine in
your morning cup of coffee to get to your barin?
Why do so many heart attacks and strokes
occur around 9 AM and in winter?
Why don't people live to be two hundred
years? And will people someday live forever?
How long does it take for a wound to clot,
the stomach to digest, the brain to think? Every event in
the body, from a simple sneeze to the traumatic episode
of birth, takes place at a particular time and lasts for
measurable duration. Why?
In The Body in Time, biologist and
award-winning science author Kenneth Jon Rose takes us on
a fascinating trip through the human body to explore the
intriguing, complex interplay between the functions of our
bodies and time, from the beating of the ultimate time machine
-- the heart -- in a developing fetus to the decay of the
body after death. He delves into music and rhythm, sports,
strange cases from history, and more. Illustrated with photographs
and line drawings, The Body in Time is a striking
journey through the human clock.
Kenneth Jon Rose is a former researcher
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts
and a member of the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences.
He is also a four-time award winning science writer whose
many articles have appeared in such well-known science publications
as Omni, Natural History, Science Digest,
and Analog, as well as general magazines such as
Travel and Leisure and Boys' Life. The author
of Classification of the Animal Kingdom (1980), he
is currently a PhD candidate at New York University where
he teaches physiology.
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