Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Downside of Vampiric Creativity

Interesting theory in that vitamin D deficiency would enable rapidly advancing cases of many of the other proposed causes of death.  As a bonus, written about a topic of interest to many.
Pilz and Grant explain: "Mozart did much of his composing at night, so would have slept during much of the day. At the latitude of Vienna, 48º N, it is impossible to make vitamin D from solar ultraviolet-B irradiance for about six months of the year. Mozart died on 5 December, 1791, two to three months into the vitamin D winter."

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