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• Why You Get Jet Lag: The Body Clock Explained
  Jet lag has nothing to do with how many hours you flew and everything to do with how many time zones you crossed. Your body runs on an internal clock set to a different meridian than the one on the wall — and jet lag is the friction of re-syncing it.
• Time Zones Explained — Why the Map of Clocks Is Messier Than the Map of the Earth
  Fifteen degrees per hour sounds tidy until you look at an actual time-zone map: half-hour offsets, zones that change seasonally, and a date line that zigzags to avoid splitting fishing fleets. Here is why.