The convenience of fast food is just so overwhelming that the temptation is very difficult to avoid.  Sometimes you just want to rush out and grab a quick snack or a meal that is ready to eat.  Maybe you have too little time to make a healthy meal from scratch.  The processed food is just [...]

Tags: depression, diet, fast food, food, happiness, health, mood, processed food, sad, time

The time of year yearned for by those braving the cold, relentless winter is finally upon us.  Days are finally getting longer.  This is a positive reality since we just lost an hour of day recently when we must “spring forward” for daylight savings time.  Everyone could use a little extra daytime to soak up [...]

Tags: daytime, Earth, season, spring, sun, sunlight, time, vernal equinox

There really are 24 hours in every day to make the most of that day.  You have 60 minutes in every hour and 60 seconds for each minute.  Do with it what you will.  The time ticks by and you lose another second doing whatever it is you are doing.  Be sure to spend that [...]

Tags: 2012, clocks, Daylight Savings Time, energy, sun, sunlight, time

Not a second to lose.  Do you ever feel like there just isn’t enough time in the day?  Do you wish that there was just more time?  I must have more time.  I’m not sure if you were aware of this, but apparently, every few years or so, scientists and official timekeepers across the globe [...]

Tags: clock, clocks, Hugo, leap second, leap year, time

This Friday, December 30, 2011, there will be no Friday, December 30, 2011.  At least, this date will not occur in one part of the globe.  The tiny nation of Samoa has chosen not to observe the standard seven days of a week tradition in order to accommodate a tidy, new, one-time only event of [...]

Tags: International Dateline, New Year's Eve, Samoa, time, time zone, video