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# How To Fix Daylight Saving Time

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## The Aspen Institute


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## The Aspen Institute


Mar 12, 2018 4:00 PM UTC

**1\.** [**Daylight Saving Time making you mad? Here are some plans to fix it.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/when-does-daylight-savings-time-start-march-2018-3)

By Dave Mosher at _Business Insider_

**2\.** [**The emotions you don’t feel help control your life.**](http://nautil.us/blog/-you-can-have-emotions-you-dont-feel)

By Jim Davies in _Nautilus_

**3\.** [**Stress-eating can start in early childhood — and cause lifelong problems.**](http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25463-stress-eating-can-start-in-early-childhood-may-lead-to-extra-weight-later)

By the _University of Michigan_

**4\.** [**As costs continue to fall, what would truly free energy mean for the future?**](https://singularityhub.com/2018/03/11/if-energy-becomes-free-in-the-future-how-will-that-affect-our-lives/#sm.0000es10o4yepe5mst51fxe0wxa9c)

By Vanessa Bates Ramirez in _Singularity Hub_

**5\.** [**To bring music back to social networking, Facebook just made a deal for rights to virtually every song.**](https://qz.com/1225652/facebook-has-music-deals-with-every-major-record-label-now-why/)

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