Daylight Saving Time Is Rife With Human Suffering

Stop the Clock Resetting—Before It Kills Again

Even cows don’t like Daylight Saving Time. Come Sunday morning, when the milking machines get attached to their udders a whole hour too early, the otherwise placid bovines on dairy farms around the United States will snort in surprise and dismay. They may give less milk than usual. They may even take days or weeks to get used to the new milking schedules.

We are no different. While most of us won’t be hooking ourselves up to udder pumps, our bodies next week will experience a disturbance very much like the …

Penguins Are Right To Love Daylight Saving Time

Don’t Abolish Summer Hours. Abolish Winter Hours.

In 2005, President George W. Bush signed a major change into law: Daylight Saving Time would start on the second Sunday in March instead of the first Sunday in April. …

Start By Building a Beach House in Greenland

We Must Combat Climate Change. We Must Also Learn To Live With It.

Should we just adapt to climate change?

The question raises the hackles of environmentalists and global warming deniers alike—yet it’s one we should be asking sooner rather than later. That was …

Paleontologist Neil Shubin

What’s Better Than Butting Heads?

University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin is the author of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People. Before talking about what the origins of the …

Come On, Baby, Light My (Hand On) Fire

Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places

Scientists have been trying to understand heat since the 17th century. They might know a lot more now than they did 300 years ago, but the rest of us are …

Human Life Was Partly Inevitable

What Fossils On Earth and the Rest of Universe Have To Say About One Another

“My goal in life is to provide evidence for the great transitions in evolution,” announced University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, author of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History …