Category: Education

Daily Update 4.8 Week 8: Module 4: Date 3/22/13 What is your largest organ? It’s extremely flexible and comes in many different colors. That’s right, it’s your skin. The average adult has over eight pounds (3.6 kilos) of skin and it covers 2 square meters (22 square ft). Our skin has three layers. The epidermis, […]

Daily Update 4.7 Week 8: Module 4: Date 3/21/13 Now that we have learned a bit about sleep let’s look at how the crew is dividing their time. The following excerpt is from Adam.  In it he is describing the sleep schedule used on the training row around Vancouver Island: The sleep protocol we used […]

Daily Update 4.6 Week 8: Module 4: Date 3/20/13 Yesterday we learned about the stages of sleep. Today we are going to look at what drives our sleep schedule. Why do we feel sleepy at night? Our schedules, as is the case with many other organisms, are driven by circadian rhythms. These are defined as […]

Daily Update 4.5 Week 8: Module 4: Date 3/19/13 What is more important than food to the body?  Well, at least AS important? SLEEP!!! As you probably already know the crew is rowing 24 hours a day, in shifts of one, two and four hours. This leaves a schedule of sleep that leaves just one […]