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Daylight Saving Time on the Brain
Just as inexorably as spring follows winter, so do the complaints about daylight saving time seem to follow moving the clock ahead an hour. Does springing forward really mess up our brains as much as we might gripe about it on Monday morning? We do influence our own bodies with our habits—as anyone who’s had a Saturday night ice-cream-and-feelings bender can tell you—so it’s not totally impossible that we might be able to influence our circadian rhythms with something like shifting our schedule forward or backwards. But can we actually rewind our internal clocks?
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