In the 1980s, the U.S. candy industry quietly lobbied Congress to extend Daylight Saving Time—not for energy savings or any public good, but to keep Halloween evening brightly lit so children would trick-or-treat longer. And they won. The story reveals how a seemingly trivial industry concern can reshape the daily lives of 330 million people.
Mar 13, 2026
Violet Jessop was a ship stewardess who survived a collision aboard the Olympic, the sinking of the Titanic, and the explosion of the Britannic — three of the most dramatic maritime disasters involving the same class of ships — and then went right back to work at sea. At some point, the question stops being about luck and starts being about something harder to explain.
Mar 13, 2026