Have you ever ditched a gym class or a workout session due to the lack of time and felt guilty about it? We all know that exercise is healthy as it lowers the risk for cardiometabolic as well as neurodegenerative diseases – yet it is hard to make time for it. Could we make the […]
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The birth of chronobiology: a botanical observation
In 1729, Jean-Jacques d’Ortus de Mairan (1678-1771) laid the foundations of modern chronobiology. A French interdisciplinary researcher, he designed an experiment that demonstrated the existence of a circadian rhythm in plants, potentially deriving from an endogenous clock. These observations and experiments led to the development of chronobiology. This research, performed by de Mairan and presented […]
CIRCADIAN ART Part 3 – The beats of circadian rhythms
Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Elvis Presley “The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don’t belong to any particular culture.” John McLaughlin Try this experiment: listen to Ravel’s Boléro from the beginning to the end. It does keep getting faster and […]
Circadian Art Part 2 – Creating rhythmic worlds on paper
Works of literature describe in the guise of fiction the dense specificity of personal experience David Lodge, Consciousness and the novel Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them. Edgar Allan Poe What hath night to do with sleep? John Milton, Paradise Lost Sleep is one of the most approached topics in fiction […]
Circadian Art – How to create cycles and imitate art
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. Piet Mondrian Rhythm […]
