Daylight Saving Time Is Rife With Human Suffering

Stop the Clock Resetting—Before It Kills Again

Even cows don’t like Daylight Saving Time. Come Sunday morning, when the milking machines get attached to their udders a whole hour too early, the otherwise placid bovines on dairy farms around the United States will snort in surprise and dismay. They may give less milk than usual. They may even take days or weeks to get used to the new milking schedules.

We are no different. While most of us won’t be hooking ourselves up to udder pumps, our bodies next week will experience a disturbance very much like the …

Biologist and Nature Writer Bill Streever

The Author of Heat Prefers the Winter Olympics

Biologist and nature writer Bill Streever is the author most recently of Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places; his previous book was Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places. …

These Days, Darwin Would Need To Know More About Jupiter

What Can Astronomers Teach Biologists?

The more we learn about the universe, the more it looks like the building blocks of life—organic molecules, amino acids, planets near a sun—are present throughout. Much of what we …

L.A.’s Metropolitan Dolphins

Working Off Malibu With Creatures Who Are a Lot Like Us

I turn the research boat offshore toward the outer reaches of Santa Monica Bay and deeper water. Flocks of western grebes float on the ocean surface, clustered as if they …