Random musings of a child progeny
Google just posted their annual review in terms of what people are looking for online. The Google Zeitgeist goes back to 2001 and I always find it a fascinating snapshot of the year. Plus I usually learn some extra stuff too as there does tend to be something of a United States bias.
This year, Google have placed little introductory snippets of information about their various tools that you maybe didn’t know about at the bottom of each page.
Scientists have found the key to controlling the human body clock. Suffering from transient insomnia (sporadic bouts of sleeplessness) myself I am hopeful that this will soon develop into new viable treatments.
From the linked BBC article:
“The gene CLOCK and its partner BMAL1 control the body’s internal clock.”
Now, I’m no expert in genetics but I would have thought that a gene called CLOCK would have been one of the first places to look for clues about defective circadian rhythms.
