Today we discuss how the lost temple of Poseidon may have been discovered, how our circadian rhythms show what time of day is best to exercise, and how researchers decoded a stack of letters written by Mary Queen of Scots during her imprisonment. 

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Poseidon Temple 

• “A lost temple for Poseidon may have finally been rediscovered” by Sara Kiley Watson
  • https://www.popsci.com/science/poseidon-temple-tsunami-greece/
• “Strabo” by Duane W. Roller
  • 9780195389661-0230.xml">https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0230.xml
• “Poseidon” by Greek Gods and Goddesses Encyclopedia
  • https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/poseidon/#:~:text=Poseidon%20was%20god%20of%20the,%2C%20Demeter%2C%20Hestia%20and%20Hera.
• “Scientists May Have Discovered the Long Lost Temple of Poseidon” by Amanda Kooser
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/scientists-may-have-discovered-long-lost-temple-of-poseidon/
• “Tsunamis buried the cult site on the Peloponnese” by Johannes Gutenberg
  • 07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html">https://phys.org/news/2011-07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html

Time to Exercise  

• “Time of day may determine the amount of fat burned by exercise” by Felicia Lindberg
  • https://news.ki.se/time-of-day-may-determine-the-amount-of-fat-burned-by-exercise
• “Time of day determines postexercise metabolism in mouse adipose tissue” by Logan A. Pendergrast et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218510120
• “What to know about circadian rhythm” by Janet Johnson
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/circadian-rhythms
• “Work out at this time of day to burn the most fat: scientists” by Adriana Diaz
  • https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/work-out-at-this-time-of-day-to-burn-the-most-fat-scientists/

Queen of Scots Letters

• “Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading” by Stephanie Pappas
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decipher-50-letters-from-mary-queen-of-scotts-before-her-beheading1/
• “Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584” by George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, & Satoshi Tomokiyo
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677

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