Ending daylight saving time would reduce roadkill  

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There is yet another reason to quit the twice-yearly tradition of changing our clocks back and forth an hour. A new study found that sticking to daylight saving time would mean fewer deer being hit by cars.

Some people might say there are far too many deer, and there are certainly millions more of them now than there were when Europeans first arrived on the continent. But culling them with car crashes probably isn’t the way to go.

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