Set your clocks ahead when you go to bed on Saturday and change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. So what's behind the idea of Daylight Saving Time and does it work?
Nov 13, 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Many of us when breaking a dollar end up discarding our spare change into a jar at home and forgetting about it, or generously plunking it into the many charity drop-boxes including that iconic red Salvation Army kettle. But out of all of the coins that have been circulating for centuries, is Benjamin Franklin’s penny actually ready for retirement?
Benjamin Franklin said it best, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." While the president and Congress debate raising taxes on the heals of the deadline for filing your taxes for 2010, I thought it would be a good time to examine life's other certainity...