We've got our daily routine all wrong - and students show us why

Aug 2, 2017

Shamsa Abdi Bare, a third-year student at the Garissa University College, studies privately in a lecture hall as students return to the campus in Kenya's northeast town of Garissa, January 11, 2016. The campus reopened today nine months after an attack by Somalia-based al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab Islamist militants. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

“Time is not a “one size fits all” phenomenon” Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

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Personally optimal time of day by self-assessed chronotype. US university students. N approximately 190 varying slightly from question to question, about equally divided into morning, mixed, evening, and “definitely” evening chronotypes. Means. Image: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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