237: Lynne Peeples, Science Journalist & Author of The Inner Clock: Reprogram Your Circadian Rhythm: The Secret Code of Sleep & Health

237: Lynne Peeples, Science Journalist & Author of The Inner Clock: Reprogram Your Circadian Rhythm: The Secret Code of Sleep & Health

Author: Mollie McGlocklin, Mollie Eastman October 27, 2025 Duration: 36:16
Lynne Peeples is an author and journalist covering science, health, and the environment. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Scientific American, Nature, HuffPost, NBC News, The Atlantic, and other publications. Before becoming a journalist, she crunched numbers as a biostatistician for HIV clinical trials and environmental health studies. Peeples is a recipient of an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation book grant. She also holds master’s degrees in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and in science journalism from New York University. She lives in Seattle.

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