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I'm Marlene Harris-Taylor sitting in for Amy Eddings today, and I was thinking that we are about to go through an annual fall ritual this weekend.
 
No, I’m not talking about Halloween parties and celebrations. I’m referring to turning our clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday for daylight saving time.
 
Doctors say it interrupts our circadian rhythms, also known as your internal body clock. The annual “spring forward and fall back” can create a feeling of jet lag, with most of the effects only temporary and people tending to adjust in a few days. But losing an hour of evening light in the fall is not only annoying, it has been associated with an increase in depression diagnoses. And there might be even more serious health effects, such as an increase in the risk of stroke, according to one study in Finland.
 
Daylight saving time has a long history all over the world, but it was formalized in the United States in 1918 to give more sunlight hours in the evening in the summer. Some advocates say this saves on electricity costs but others say the cost savings are negligible.
 
There is a national movement to ditch the time switch and keep one standard time all year long. A bill called the Sunshine Protection Act has been introduced in Congress and President Donald Trump tweeted "Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!"
 

  I’ll be back next Friday
(I hope we’ve all adjusted our circadian rhythms by then!),
Marlene Harris-Taylor

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Even though video games have been around for decades and more than 150 million Americans play them, they’re still kind of niche and young in the art world. The Akron Art Museum is challenging that notion with a new exhibit on gaming. Do video games get enough recognition as works of art? Call us at  (216) 916-6476 or post on  our Facebook page. We'll feature some of your thoughts and comments here in Noon(ish) and on Morning Edition.