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Author of IN DEFENSE OF SUNLIGHT and other books. Former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Quantum curious.
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We’ve Been Thinking About Sunlight All Wrong

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By Rowan Jacobsen Verified
| The Next Big Idea
Below, Rowan Jacobsen shares five key insights from his new book, In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure. Rowan is an award-winning science writer, and for the past nine years he has been diving into research on light and how it affects the body.
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Conversations | Vermont Forester and Author Ethan Tapper

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By Rowan Jacobsen Verified
| New England Verified
One of the surprise breakout books of recent years is How to Love a Forest, published in the fall of 2024 by Ethan Tapper, then a 36-year-old Vermont forester with no previous writing experience. The nonfiction book chronicles what Tapper calls “the bittersweet work” of managing forests in a world of ecological degradation and stacked stressors—and finding beauty and purpose in them anyway.
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Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All

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By Rowan Jacobsen Verified
| Literary Hub Verified
Rowan Jacobsen on the Impact of Insomnia on Human Health If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding down the corner of Thirty-Fourth Street and Eighth Avenue, the Tick Tock serves up Manhattan on a plate. Breakfast all day. Corned beef on rye. An actual Manhattan if you’d like. The rainbow columns of Madison Square Garden glow across the street.
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