Episode #974

Item #1 Science
A study of over 200 thousand malpractice claims finds that daylight saving time is associated with worse severity of incidents and higher average payments than standard time. https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.11038
Item #2 Science
Credit for the first serious proposal of daylight saving time goes to entomologist, George Vernon Hudson, who presented the idea in 1895 because he wanted more time in the evening for bug collection. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daylight-savings-time-history-george-vernon-hudson_n_1333378
Item #3 Fiction
Among its many detrimental effects, daylight saving time is associated with an increase in overall crime compared to standard time. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fighting-crime-with-daylight-saving-time/

‘Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.’ Frank Herbert, From Children of Dune