I’ve always found the jet lag I get from flying east to be much worse than what I suffer from going west. I have joked that this is because going east means going back to the UK, and theorized that it might be because I’m an evening person with a circadian rhythm longer than 24 hours, whereas morning people, those who like getting up early, might fare better going eastwards. Now this week’s Economist weighs in with news of an experiment that seems to suggest that, at least for rodents, traveling east is much worse for your health than traveling west.

I just know Kevin is going to use this as an excuse for not getting up in the morning. 🙂

Update: Link fixed as per Kendall’s comment below.