I read something earlier this evening about how many things in science are backwards. The example given was that the flow of blood actually causes the heart to beat. The blood is pushed out from small capilaries, etc and the heart merely starts beating because of the flow. Think of a water turbine that generates electricity. The turbine doesn't move the water - it t'other way around. I think it's a pretty common thing and there are many examples of what people once thought to be true but was proven otherwise later on. Now it's almost the opposite - things are proven wrong that were always thought to be true. The point of perception is the key to this, but anyway I can't think enough right now to give more examples.
That got me thinking and now I can seem to sleep. Which is ok I guess, I got a nice nap in today and in about 2 hours one of the best things of the whole year happens - Daylight savings time. Why there ever was such a silly thing invented is really beyond me and if it weren't for the other day that happens in the spring to suddenly have it be an hour earlier - what an invention.
Tomorrow I have to continue picking popcorn, it's supposed to turn nasty later in the week and I don't like spending time out in the rain. It's been such a beautiful fall - I just have a feeling that winter is going to come with a vengance soon.
The Riddle of Race
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Interesting. My thoughts....1) Daylight saving was invented for farmers like you! 2) Benjamin Franklin (also a farmer) conceived the idea in 1784 (Early to bed, early to rise.....) 3) William Willet proposed the modern equivalent in the early 1900s. Apparently it bugged him that people would sleep in when the sun was up and stay up when the moon was out. Unnatural! 4) I remember reading once how early Romans had different water clocks for different months, so that a summer daytime hour would be 70+ minutes longs and a winter daytime hour would be 50 minutes long, in an attempt to get the most use out of their daylight. 5) I think that as fewer and fewer people get up with the sun, daylight savings time becomes less important to us. 6) Do human beings require more sleep in the winter than they do in the summer? Hiberation should be left for the bears!
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