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Overthrow the Tyranny of Morning People

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I’m a night person, and I say: The rest of the world needs to sleep later.

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:


Creatures of the Night

This is the time of year when opponents of changing the clocks go on about why it’s unhealthy to fall out of sync with the sun, about why a practice first instituted more than a century ago is outdated, about how much human productivity is lost while we all run around changing the hands and digits

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