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The Top 32 Authors to Follow on Google+ — I find this amusing.
Hulk vs. Ewok — Hahahah. A short video well worth a minute of your time.
My Understandings About Death, Let Me Show You Them — ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best
‘Pox Parties’ and Bioterrorism — The stupid, it not only burns, it can kill. (Thanks to danjite
Blame Ben Franklin for Daylight Saving Time — I’ve never understood all the moaning about DST messing up people’s sleep. You do more disruption to your sleep cycle staying up late Friday night gaming, or going to an evening party, than DST ever will.
Light from alien cities could signal intelligent life out there — Cool idea, but oh, the embedded assumptions.
‘A Tourist in Hetero Land’ — Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on what it must mean to grow up gay. Also, some interesting comments on the dialectic of privilege. Speaking as someone who’s been beaten pretty thoroughly with the accusation-of-privilege stick, his remarks resonated for me.
Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases — Whoops. There goes reality with that liberal bias again. If Mother Nature would only listen to Rush Limbaugh, everything would be just fine.
A Dangerous Law and the New Formula of Conservatism — Yes, the victimization of conservative Christians is rampant, isn’t it?
Two contests for the GOP nomination — GOP political consultant on the primary process. Our team wants someone authentic, creative, fresh, bold and likeable. And we don’t have much tolerance for too many facts or too much information. In other words, in the GOP we like to be wilfully ignorant. Yep, in conservativeland that pesky reality gets in the way of the anger of the voting base.
?otD: Satyr or faun?
11/5/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.0 hours (interrupted)
Weight: 212.6
Currently (re)reading: Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 7:13 am Sat November 05 2011 |
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Cora
November 5th, 2011 at 6:10 pmRegarding daylight saving time, it’s not so much adult humans with messed up sleep schedules that are the problem, it’s mainly human babies and farm animals who are upset by the switchover. Try explaining to a cow why she is being milked an hour later than usual.
A friend of mine is a horse trainer and she has been on the move all week long (in Europe, the switchover to winter time was last weekend) to calm horses who were suffering from the time change.
What is more, all of the alleged benefits of daylight saving time – energy saved due to longer daylight, etc… – do not exist anymore, if they ever did. Nowadays where air-conditioning is more common, the energy consumption may even rise due to daylight saving time. And in addition to the problems experienced by farm animals, babies and sensitive adults, there are also plenty of logistical issues from leaving trains standing on the track for an hour to maintain the schedule to changing approx. a dozen timekeeping devices in the average household.
Daylight saving time is absolutely unnecessary, because it has no benefits and plenty of drawbacks for farmers, parents of young children, the logistics and transport field, sensitive humans, etc… So why maintain daylight saving time when it’s highly unpopular, has no real benefits and plenty of real drawbacks, just because some people want to sit on their terraces and have barbecue until 10 PM on a summer night?