{"id":43656,"date":"2014-03-10T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43656"},"modified":"2014-11-02T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:34:46","slug":"a-history-and-account-of-daylight-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/03\/10\/a-history-and-account-of-daylight-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"A History and Account of Daylight Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/123.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61978\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/123-500x116.jpg\" alt=\"12\" width=\"500\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/123-500x116.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/03\/123.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>In just 6 1\/2 minutes,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cgpgrey.com\/\">CGP Gray<\/a>\u00a0offers a humorous and info-packed account of Daylight Savings. \u00a0He tackles the historical rationale, the role of the equator, the contemporary debate, and the wildly wacky situations it causes today,\u00a0including health problems and loss of productivity. \u00a0It&#8217;s all even wackier than you probably already imagine. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/84aWtseb2-4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also from CGP Gray:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/08\/what-the-bleep-is-the-united-kingdom\/\">What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/29\/the-economics-of-royalty\/\">The Economics of Royalty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/03\/the-social-construction-of-the-continents\/\">The Social Construction of the Continents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just 6 1\/2 minutes,\u00a0CGP Gray\u00a0offers a humorous and info-packed account of Daylight Savings. \u00a0He tackles the historical rationale, the role of the equator, the contemporary debate, and the wildly wacky situations it causes today,\u00a0including health problems and loss of productivity. \u00a0It&#8217;s all even wackier than you probably already imagine. 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