file under: we already knew this

As every living, breathing college student knows, life's better when you only work four days a week.

Regular three-day weekends, without a decrease in the actual hours worked per week, could not only save money, but also ease pressures on the environment and public health, advocates say. In fact, several states, cities and companies across the country are considering, or have already implemented on a trial basis, the condensed schedule for their employees.

Skipping time and place and everything, this seems like compelling scientific endorsement of the bons temps that Isla Vista engages in every Thursday night, and provides empirical proof that we, in fact, should be scheduling most of our classes on the TTh block. This could jibe nicely with what has been proposed by some: the demonetization of creative professions. People are much more likely to take on personal creative projects when given an extra 24 hours to do them. Let's be honest: who wants to sit down and paint a picture after a 9 hour workday and hour commute when the option of turning the television on and the brain off is immediate and appealing?

Alternatively, given a free day to do whatever, people will probably volunteer more, paint more, spend more time with the kids, you name it. It's hard to see how this ISN'T beneficial, especially given the procilivity of human beings to get into a kind of "work zone" where they bang out one task after another after another, and the day seems to fly away. Combined with the reduced emissions of greenhouse gasses and you have an all-win proposal, and perhaps a move by the US to recapture status as a true progressive nation. Leave it to Utah to lead the charge into the 21st century.