September 24, 2025 — The Washington Examiner tells us we can prevent millions of cases of obesity and thousands of strokes simply by dropping twice-a-year time changes. “Study says.” Discover magazine says so, too. The Washington Post is a little more restrained. “We’d all be a little less prone to obesity and strokes if we ditched the switch.” Ditch […]
March 19, 2022 — An amazing thing happened this week. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent. The amazement comes from two things. First and perhaps most obviously, it’s amazing that the Senate can do anything by unanimous consent in these contentious times. But more startling is that they could do it without a peep […]
November 2, 2014 — Who’s going to complain about Daylight Saving Time when we fall back and get an extra hour of sleep? We won’t. But that doesn’t stop researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from suggesting that the extra hour of sleep might be a missed opportunity for better public health. How’s that? Well, […]
