‘About Time’: Interview with NPR’s Adam Frank
Twice a year, we all get whacked out with the shift of an hour as the springing forward and falling back brings daylight saving time gives you a low-grade dose…
By Lisa Napoli • • 1 min readdaylight saving time gives you a low-grade dose of jetlag. As you adjust to this new pre-equinox springtime change (legislated by Congress), consider that it hasn’t always been this way. For a great treatise on this subject, check out NPR Cosmos and Culture blogger and astrophysicist Adam Frank‘s book, “About Time.”
Frank paid a visit to Southern California recently to talk at the Griffith Observatory. You can
see why students at the University of Rochester find him accessible; he looks like an Echo Park hipster, but with a phD instead of a screenplay. “
About Time” is great food for thought during this week while we adjust. It’s a reminder that we haven’t always had clocks and that we used to be guided by sheer nature. Sun up, rise; sun down, sleep. And for a far longer time than most of us could imagine now. (Did you know that humans had two periods of sleep a night?)