Jessa Gamble

Who is Jessa Gamble?

Jessa Gamble, née Sinclair, is a Canadian and English author and co-owner of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing. The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time documents the rituals surrounding daily rhythms. Along with local languages and beliefs, these schedules are losing their global diversity and succumbing to what Gamble calls “circadian imperialism.” 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 by making it more efficient and concentrated. She is a regular commentator on issues around sleep, such as the morality of sleep, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and cultural differences in daily rhythms.

Gamble's work has appeared in The Guardian, as well as Scientific American, New Scientist, The Walrus, and Canadian Geographic 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.