Jared Oliphint, PhD
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@JaredOliphint
Thinking about Big Questions with people. Philosophy prof. Podcaster. Married, 5 kids. My free paper-writing template https://t.co/4PkrcgtXho
Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.
@BradWilcoxIFS Our Young Men's Survey found that around four in ten men ages 18-29 feel like failures.
Can a “rational” approach to morality be fully divorced from religious ethics? @SAPinker says the answer doesn’t require God. “Why should you care for the needy? Why should you refrain from murder? You can’t possibly say that the only reason to do it is because God will punish you in an afterlife.” @DouthatNYT says that Pinker’s reason-based ethics rely on the Judeo-Christian culture in which he lives: “What happens in Dr. Pinker’s argument is that as an heir of Jewish and Christian civilization, he imports, as this kind of commonsensical position, metaphysical propositions about the existence of these human rights.”
Where you live inside a time zone may affect your sleep, metabolism, and long-term health. A major study looked at counties on opposite sides of U.S. time-zone borders. People on the western edge of a time zone get later sunset by the clock. That sounds nice. But there’s a catch: Later sunset tends to push bedtime later, while work and school still start at the same clock time. So people don’t fully “sleep in” to compensate. They just sleep less. The study found that people on the later-sunset side got about 19 minutes less sleep per night on average. That may not sound dramatic. But chronically, across millions of people? It’s huge. And it didn’t just affect sleep. The later-sunset side also showed worse rates of: obesity diabetes cardiovascular disease breast cancer This is what happens when social time and biological time drift apart. Your body responds to light. Your job responds to the clock. When those two are misaligned, health pays the price. The researchers also found evidence that people exposed to more evening light tended to eat later and were more likely to dine out. So later light doesn’t just affect sleep. It can shift the whole rhythm of life: later bedtime later meals more circadian disruption worse metabolic consequences And the costs were not trivial. The authors estimated at least: $2 billion in added health care costs and 4.4 million lost workdays All from the downstream effects of this kind of chronic social jetlag. This is one reason the debate over standard time vs daylight saving time matters. Light is not just illumination. Light is biology. It affects melatonin, cortisol, hunger signals, metabolism, alertness, and sleep timing. So no, clock policy is not just an inconvenience issue. It’s a health issue. The farther west you are in a time zone, the more your body may be forced to live later than your social obligations allow. That mismatch appears to mean: less sleep, worse health, and lower productivity. We should take that seriously. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
