Author name: Olivia Walch

Time to Win

Lately, I’ve been watching clips from the Olympics… …getting misty-eyed when the athletes hug at the end, and then stalking the winners on social media: a normal Saturday night in 2021. I have a shirt that looks like that, I think as I scroll through photos of them lifting approximately three times my body weight. …

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Living with Shift Work

It’s no secret that working night shifts does a number on your body. From increased risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, to excessive alcohol consumption and worsened nutritional intake, shift work is associated with a whole host of nightmarish health effects. The simple solution would seem to be to get rid of jobs that …

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Wearable Headaches (and how to fix them)

So you want to get somebody’s internal time from a wearable… Let’s talk about wearable data. On the one hand, wearables are an incredible innovation, allowing self-quantification and anomaly detection with unprecedented ease, at unprecedented scales.  On the other hand, they’re a data science nightmare. Or three nightmares, really.  Nightmare #1: All the devices are …

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Welcome to Arcascope

Here’s the thing about the name: I wanted to capture what I thought was most exciting about our company, Arcascope. Sure, you can sleep better by taking care of your circadian rhythms, but circadian rhythms are about a lot more than just sleep.  And yep, we’re a circadian rhythms company, but we’re one founded by …

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