Get ready for it! It's the biannual inconvenience known as Daylight Saving Time! This Sunday, March 14 at 2 a.m. we "spring forward" and lose an hour. Daylight Saving Time is that constant irritation that causes jet lag without ever leaving the comfort of your bed. It's that nebulous time change that politicians say saves energy. What about our own personal stress and energy? Why do we do it? Should we put an end to this insanity? Share your thoughts below...

Researchers have discovered that the city of Concepcion, Chile moved ten feet to the west following last month's magnitude 8.8. earthquake. Chile's capital city Santiago also moved about 11 inches and Buenos Aires moved one inch. Researchers used GPS to determine the new locations of places following the earthquake.

How well do you know your world cities? Test your knowledge of the cities of the world with this latest fifteen-question multiple-choice geography quiz. I'm sorry to have to admit that it's pretty easy.

The answer to the question, "What are continents?" is a challenging one because there is no clear-cut definition. Two great recent posts (one - Nonsense About Continents and two - How Many Continents Are There?) in the GeoCurrents blog attempt to address the silly situation that is the attempt to define the continents of the world. My favorite line from the posts about the continents is, "The main problem with the continental scheme of world division is its mixture of physical geographical criteria (continents are defined as landmasses more or less separated from each other by waterways) with human geographical criteria (Europe is separated from Asia not by the physical landscape but by historical and cultural features). Intellectual coherence calls for one basis of division or the other." Nonetheless, people seem to refuse to abide by only one division. The posts ultimately declare that we ought to simply refer to, like we often do for The World Ocean, to "The World Continent." Read the posts linked above and share your thoughts below as to what you think about the nature of continents...

Related resources:

• Definition of a Continent
  
• Number of Continents
  
• On Which Continent...
  
• Official List of Countries by Region (Not Continent)