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1989 isolation experiment

This is a scan from the 1980s magazine Quest which describes an experiment which took place in 1989 where a research volunteer, Stefania Follini, was put into isolation for 4 months, cut off from natural light and any ability to tell the time. According to the magazine her routine became 23 hours awake followed by 10 hours of sleep.

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