Winter-over syndrome is what they call the psychological condition that creeps up during the six sunless months of Antarctic winter — insomnia, depression, irritability, reduced physical and cognitive acuity and fugue states | They train for life in space on the white continent, an analogue for off-planet existence, as close to Mars as we can get |
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Nostalgia is a funny thing | Nostalgic for running down a New England hill with your six-year-old niece |
And I know what is worth what | And I get to study him |
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Did my unemployment card arrive yet? Driving through the Midwest to meet the newest member of your family |
Antarctica, home to researchers and future astronauts | transcript How to Be Alone I was struggling with quarantine — until I found the polar explorers |
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The sun fixes everything, simplifies things | But he stays and stays and stays |
Perfectly perched on them is a hummingbird, his heart beating 1,260 times per minute.
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