Jessa Gamble
Jessa Gamble | |
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Born | Oxford, UK |
April 25, 1979
Residence | Yellowknife |
Nationality | Canadian, English |
Alma mater | Lisgar Collegiate Institute University of Toronto |
Occupation | Author, Journalist |
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.[1] Her book, The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time[2] (Penguin Group), documents the rituals surrounding daily rhythms. Along with local languages and beliefs, these schedules are losing their global diversity[3] and succumbing to what Gamble calls “circadian imperialism.”[4] 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 [5] by making it more efficient and concentrated.[6] One of her articles on the subject won the 2014 Best Feature award at the Science Writers' Awards for Britain and Ireland.[7] She is a regular commentator on issues around sleep, such as the morality of sleep,[8] Seasonal Affective Disorder,[9] and cultural differences in daily rhythms.[10]
Gamble's work has appeared in The Guardian,[11] as well as Scientific American,[12] New Scientist,[13] The Walrus[14] , Canadian Geographic[15] and Nature [16] 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.[17] 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[18] and nominated for a National Magazine Award for Best Short Feature.[19]
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. As of April 2014[update], the talk had more than one million views.[20]
Living in Yellowknife, capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, she worked as an editor at Up Here,[21] the magazine about Canada's North,[22] and served as writer in residence at the Yellowknife Public Library, mentoring local aspiring writers.[23]
In September 2014, Palgrave Macmillan published her book collaboration with fund manager Guy Spier, "The Education of a Value Investor".[24]
References
- ↑ The Last Word on Nothing
- ↑ The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time (Penguin)
- ↑ BoingBoing: Science Book Club: The Siesta and the Midnight Sun
- ↑ Treehouse Group Talks - Jessa Gamble on Daily Rhythms Around the World
- ↑ Aeon magazine - The End of Sleep?
- ↑ Jessa Gamble on CBC's The Current
- ↑ 2014 Association of British Science Writers -- Best Feature award
- ↑ New York Times website -- Blogging Heads: The Morality of Sleep
- ↑ University of Toronto Magazine feature, Autumn 2011 - "Timing is Everything"
- ↑ BoingBoing: Sleep Culture in the West and Elsewhere
- ↑ The Guardian -- Jessa Gamble profile
- ↑ Stories by Jessa Gamble -- Scientific American
- ↑ New Scientist - Jessa Gamble author page
- ↑ The Walrus - Author Archive: Jessa Gamble
- ↑ Canadian Geographic -- "Salt of the Earth
- ↑ Nature -- "When Hodgkin met Thatcher"
- ↑ The Globe and Mail: "The Time Cues of Our Lives" by Alison Motluk
- ↑ Best Canadian Essays 2009 anthology
- ↑ National Magazine Awards Archive: Where the Muskox Roam
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- ↑ National Post: "Listening to the Tick Tock of Your Body Clock" by Sarah Boesveld
- ↑ Up Here magazine
- ↑ Yellowknife Public Library: Writer in Residence
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External links
- Jessa Gamble at TED
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from April 2014
- Canadian science writers
- Canadian bloggers
- Canadian women journalists
- Canadian women writers
- English emigrants to Canada
- University of Toronto alumni
- Science journalists
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Women bloggers
- Women science writers
- Writers from the Northwest Territories