Tag: Chronobiology

Adventurer in time

Aug 9, 2018

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by

lauraspinney

in History of science or medicine, Journalism, Medicine, Neuroscience, People, Psychology

IN JULY 1962, Michel Siffre took off his watch and descended into the abyss of Scarasson in the French Alps. There, in a cave 130 metres below the surface, he set up camp next to a glacier. With a torch as his only light source, and deprived of all reminders of the passage of time,…