a few items of interest

[solarbird]

Daylight Savings time costs energy, not saves it, study says. Energy used for lighting is reduced, but it's overtaken by greater morning heating costs early on, and - new since World War II - air-conditioning costs during afternoons and such in summer. Might be time to re-evaluate this whole thing.

Octopus fossils are rarer than hens teeth, but a few really good ones were found recently.

Films from the End of an Empire - home movies from South Asia in the last years of the British Raj and the first years of independence.