In a nation that’s already sleep deprived, an hour of lost sleep can take its toll.

“There are more chances of errors the next day, more chances of drowsy driving,” Walia said. “It has been shown that more accidents occur the next day when the daylight changing time occurs so it can definitely have a significant impact on functioning as well.

When Apple stores opened their doors nearly 15 years ago, they looked like nothing else in U.S. malls. The sleek, hardwood floors and spare design gave them an aspirational sheen, while shared tables for testing the gadgets made the experience feel communal and accessible. If you needed a reminder that Apple was foremost an innovator, you got it from the absence of traditional cash registers and checkout lines.

But with the arrival of the Apple Watch on Monday, the company is poised to revamp this successful formula. Given that some versions of the smartwatch are expected to carry four- or possibly five-figure price tags, Apple is reimagining its stores to make them attractive to the wealthiest shoppers.

Until the 1960s boys spent longer and went further in school than girls, and were more likely to graduate from university. Now, across the rich world and in a growing number of poor countries, the balance has tilted the other way. Policymakers who once fretted about girls’ lack of confidence in science now spend their time dangling copies of “Harry Potter” before surly boys. Sweden has commissioned research into its “boy crisis”. Australia has devised a reading programme called “Boys, Blokes, Books & Bytes”. In just a couple of generations, one gender gap has closed, only for another to open up.

NBC may get things wrong from time to time, but its executives see reporting the truth and educating the public as their goal. Fox News’ standard isn’t so much truth as it is conservative ideology. Anything that doesn't line up with what O'Reilly says can simply be dismissed as an attack from the far left, and as long as it doesn't hurt his standing among viewers, it matters little whether or not he is a liar.

Several days ago, many were second-guessing the CIA’s brutal post-9/11 torture program. In both cases the second-guessing gets it right. Sony was wrong. So is torture. But the second-guessing overlooks what both instances teach us about a basic truth of human nature; fear trumps morality and wisdom every time. It always has. It always will. Facile hindsight will not keep these things from happening again.

critics say not only that we shouldn’t have acted that way in the past, but that we shouldn’t do these things again. Honorable as that is, it is intellectually naïve. Fear readily trumps morality. Fear easily supersedes rationality. And for good reason. It keeps us alive.

That’s not a justification for torture. Fear is no justification for the myriad horrible things humans do to others, not just in the name of tribe or nation but as individuals