Till Roenneberg

Internal Time was an interesting read and I learned quite a bit about the internal "clocks" that regulate our lives. Like everyone, I was familiar with the concepts of early birds and night owls, but our internal clocks regulate much more, including how organs such as our livers work.

Each chapter starts with a "short story" of a few paragraphs or a page which is used to illustrate the biological/scientific theories or facts that follow. Sometimes the stories were a bit too simplistic or show more far-fetched; sometimes the explanations were too complex for me to follow completely. But, overall worth reading. show less

A fascinating exploration of a little understood yet fundamental aspect of each of us as human beings in the world. The innovative technique of starting each chapter with a mini story is a bit awkward at times but for a scientist Roenneberg is not a bad author of fiction. And it is an example (like Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow") of how science writing by actual scientists who have researched and thought long and hard about a subject is light years ahead of the lazy science show more writing that predominates the book lists today, whereby journalists try to scrape a few bucks together by reading a bunch of scientific journal articles on a subject and summarizing experimental procedures to pad out their treatment of the subject. show less

I wish this had been more interesting. It wavered between a pop science book and a real science book but never quite came down on either side and I didn't learn as much as I hoped. I think I got pretty much everything I fund useful within te first 10-20 pages. The stories that started each chapter began to grate on me.

I really enjoyed this book, but was hoping it would help me better understand my own internal clock. Bummer.