Interesting Links for 05-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. When will the EU end seasonal clock changes?

(tags:time Europe light )

2. Covid messes up your mitochondria

(tags:mitochondria Pandemic Doom )

3. Photographer Captures the Mystical Beauty of Icelandic Horses

(tags:horses photos Iceland )

Comments

1. DST

[fanf]

I get the impression that both Europe and North America have almost but not quite decided to abolish DST, but no one is eager to deal with the immense amount of bikeshedding over which time offsets to use in which places. (In practice it matters very little, but there will be much squabbling, possibly a brouhaha, maybe even a fracas, between the early birds and the night owls.) Neither Europe nor North America wants to go first, but as soon as one abolishes DST the other will very soon after, and the rest of the world will follow.

Re: 1. DST

[snippy]

My state passed a law picking DST over standard time, which annoys me a bit. But I'm happy to be annoyed if we could just stop switching back and forth. I'm always exhausted and more likely to get sick during the month after the spring change.

[teaotter]

Your second link goes to a 404 page.

[andrewducker]

That's Fascinating.

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/10/researchers-show-sars-cov-2-infection-affects-energy-stores-in-the-body-causing-organ-failure/ works just fine for me.

[teaotter]

And that one works for me. Huh. I wonder what was up.

[andrewducker]

Computers are weird! Glad it works now!

2.

[channelpenguin]

this is truly the Occam's Razor for COVID. thanks loads for the link.

it also explains why creatine supplements help long covid.

Re: 2.

[channelpenguin]

What creatine does (enables optimal "re-loading" of ADP back to ATP within muscle cells. THis does not need the ATP pathway that it seems COVID disrupts)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine#:~:text=Creatine%20is%20transported%20through%20the,of%20only%20a%20few%20seconds.

ADP / ATP cycle
https://www.biologyonline.com/tutorials/biological-energy-adp-atp

I like DST and would prefer to keep it

[fub]

I like DST. Our society is geared towards spending more time awake after noon than before noon. So it makes sense to me to optimise the amount of daylight we get after noon -- and DST does that. It does me no good that it is light out at 4 AM in the summer (I'll be trying to sleep, and light messes up my sleep pattern, so it would actually affect me adversely!) but it does me good when it's still light out at 10 PM in the summer.
Yes, it's a chore to set all (non-synced) clocks, I'm groggy for a few days, and the pets need some time to adjust to the new schedule -- but it's worth it to me.

All that talk about health effects and circadian rythms -- if it is so important that the sun is highest in the sky in the middle of our day, why are our workdays 9 - 5 and not 8 - 4?

Re: I like DST and would prefer to keep it

[channelpenguin]

I am a morning person!!! But I also hate dark evenings.

I prefer 54 degree north late spring / early autumn => light for 16 hours starting about 5am.

Re: I like DST and would prefer to keep it

[channelpenguin]

Also, clasically it is early morning daykight expoure that is most beneficial to human health, mental and physical. We "should" get up BEFORE first light and get light as early as possible in the day (also exercise, or any other cortisol-raising stress, IIRC)