And she knows that she knows better (4 billion years of experience can make one very cocksure), so you needn’t bother answering back.

Foster and Kreitzman argue that modern society “is in conflict with our basic biology”. Electric lights turn night into day and central heating transforms our homes into oases of summer warmth in bleak midwinter. When we feel sleepy we don’t listen to our bodies. Instead we drink another cup of coffee, roll down the car window and “kid ourselves that we can beat a few billion years of evolution.”

Guilty as charged, I should be asleep but technology has encouraged a rebellion against dear Mother Nature. The above is from PD Smith’s review of Rhythms of Life at the independent.

Smith’s personal blog is incidentally very attractive. Nice design by Jean-Michel Dentand.