Below, we’ve listed the sources we’ve referenced in this episode of Insufficient Facts! If you’d like to dig deeper into any of the topics discussed, here’s where you can do so.

Time Sources

Recent headlines segment

  1. We Just ‘Fell Back’ An Hour. Here Are Tips To Stay Healthy During Dark Days Ahead by Allison Aubrey from NPR  
    1. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/03/663155917/ready-for-the-time-change-here-are-tips-to-stay-healthy-during-dark-days-ahead
  2. Increased Atrial Fibrillation Admissions Following Daylight Saving Time Spring Transition by Chudow, JJ et al. presented at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2018
    1. https://www.npr.org/documents/2018/nov/afib-admissions.pdf
  3. Daylight Saving Impacts the Timing of Heart Attacks by Beth Casteel from the American College of Cardiology
    1. https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2014/03/29/09/16/sandhu-daylight-saving

Science Fiction/Science fact segment

  1. Interstellar (2014 film)
    1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/
  2. Arrival (2016 film) and the short story it’s based on Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
    1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/

Bizarre Science segment

  1. Place cells
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell
  4. The Map in the Brain: Grid Cells May Help Us Navigate by Karen Heyman from Science
    1. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5774/680 (open access)
  5. Synchronization of the mammalian circadian timing system: Light can control peripheral clocks independently of the SCN clock by Husse, J et al. from Bioessays
    1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054915/ (open access)
  6. How the brain creates the subjective experience of time by Ana Sandoiu from Medical New Today
    1. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322953.php
  7. Integrating time from experience in the lateral entorhinal cortex by Tsao, A et al. from Nature
    1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0459-6 *
  8. Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner by Liu, R et al. from eLife
    1. https://elifesciences.org/articles/32100 (open access)

The Classics segment

  1. History of Timekeeping
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices#Timekeeping_devices_of_early_civilizations
  2. The Leap Second
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
  3. Hafele-Keating experiment
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experiment

* indicates a research study that was published in a scientific journal so it may be limited access