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...monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling. But the real reason to take this measure is neither to generate less prosaic conversation topics nor to smoke pot amidst the splendor of natural sunlight. Our yearly hiatus from Daylight Saving Time has consequences far—ahem—darker than these...
...even more compelling reason to keep sunlight on the post meridiem end of the day, though, is physical safety. The Department of Transportation found that in March and April of 1974 and 1975, when observance of Daylight Saving Time was lengthened as a response to the oil crisis, 50 lives were saved, 2000 injuries prevented, and $28 million saved in avoided traffic accidents. While the early part of the morning commute might have been a shade darker, travel home from work and became much safer for taking place earlier with respect to sunset—including at Harvard where sexual...
...decreased amount of daylight during the winter. However, unlike jet lag, SAD doesn’t fix itself over time. SAD can last all winter, with the dark mornings leaving the body physically “asleep” all day without the natural pick-me-up of sunlight...
...student was so enthusiastic after Summers showed his fifth-grade class how to plot the relationship between two variables—grades and number of days absent, growth of a plant and amount of sunlight and height and weight—that the student pulled Summers by the arm over to the blackboard and showed him a “tree graph...
...living in Cambridge gives us even more incentive to enjoy the precious days of autumn. From apple picking to country-style pumpkin pie contests, FM has rounded up a list of fabulously fun festivities for fall. So before the bitter cold eclipses any and all hint of warmth and sunlight, take an afternoon to explore New England in all its autumnal glory...