It makes me wonder about the sanity of those that claim this once in six months change by one hour is upsetting their natural rhythm, few people would throughout the week wake up and go to bed at exactly the same time anyway.
Except for all of those of us who do, of course -- because it is healthier than binge-sleeping.
The fact that your metabolism is more flexible than many peoples' does not make the rest of us insane.
Once this passes into law, come the next Thanksgiving, Americans are going to start loudly complaining about having to get out of bed hours before the sun comes up, about how many children are getting nearly run over while waiting on school buses in the dark, about how awful it is to commute to work starring into the rising sun on icy roads, and so on.
We tried year-round DST back during the Carter Administration, it was an unqualified failure then, and it will be again, because if there is one thing Americans cling to more dearly than their guns and their racism, it is their absolute refusal to learn from history.
"Facebook is a corporation; acts like it."
I'm shocked. Shocked!
"The Ascent of Man," a 13-part series from way back in 1973 by Jacob Bronowski, remains a classic.
In the same vein, all the various "Connections" series (running in 1978, 1994, 1997) by James Burke are quite worthwhile.
Other, non-heat perpetual-motion/over-unity mechanical models have not only been proposed, they have become -- without direct evidence, I should add -- widely-accepted by physicists and journalists worldwide.
Google the term "Dark Energy" for any number of examples.
"Inevitable" how, exactly?
people don't need to "think digitally", what they need is to think for themselves.
Have you *been* to rural Mississippi?
Pigs will not only fly but go on to establish their own Mars colony before rural Mississippians will learn to think for themselves.
Shouldn't we as scientists be more careful with our words, and say that dark matter is BELIEVED to make up more of the universe than does visible matter, based on our current leading theories? I think being careful with what we know and how well we know it is important to maintaining trust with the public and with each-other.
Even better, non-lazy journalists could use the specific technical term "hypothesized" instead of the more-familiar "believed" and we can eventually increase scientific literacy in the general public a wee bit.
Good points.
However, as to rule-of-thumb aphorisms suitable for habitualizing, I would simply add a couple of things I tell my students regularly:
1. Always keep an open mind, but not so open that all the common sense falls out.
and
2. Remember that since human nature is basically hard-wired in, for better or worse, human culture only changes as a result of new technologies being introduced.
Well, you will need to get a grand jury to indict such misbehaving officers first, and that crucial step in the process has not been going so well recently.
...and he is qualified to do so because why, exactly?
To my knowledge, Bill Gates has earned graduate degrees in neither History nor Education; he has no accredited academic credentials as an educator.
Should we let him revise the way surgeons are taught, simply because he has a gigantic pile of money and an inclination to do so? Or lawyers? Or pilots? Or plumbers?
Bill Gates is an expert at monopolistic capitalism, and back in the day, was a competent coder. He has no demonstrable other professional skills or expertise; I am not particularly impressed by his ham-fisted ability to spend money and influence public policy without soliciting properly-qualified advice. "Philanthropist" is not a job title, it is merely an attempt to reconcile ego with guilt.
If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a conclusion. -- William Baumol
