Everyone experiences time differently. This is true at the level of both physics and biology. Within physics, we used to have Sir Isaac Newton’s view of time, which was universal and shared by everyone. But then Einstein came along and explained that how much time elapses for a person depends on how they travel through space (especially near the speed of light) as well as the gravitational field (especially if its near a black hole). From a biological or psychological perspective, the time measured by atomic clocks isn’t as important as the time measured by our internal rhythms and the accumulation of memories. That happens differently depending on who we are and what we are experiencing; there’s a real sense in which time moves more quickly when we’re older.
“Waste Not a Moment” watch by Tibor Kalman/M&Co (via Kim Ku)
Great Data Visualization of Time
YouTube visualizes hours and seconds uploaded to their site by subject. You too can learn how many times Nyan Cat says “nyan” in a typical uploaded clip. Seriously.
A hoody literally called the HARVEST hoody. I think we need it in our private collections.
These are some good looking 8-bit inspired watches.
What is a leap second, anyways?
A decision on whether to abolish the leap second - the occasional, extra second added to the world’s time - has been deferred until 2015. What is it, anyways?
The leap second was introduced in 1972. It was added to keep our modern timekeepers - atomic clocks, which rely on the vibrations in atoms to provide a very accurate measurement of time - in line with our slightly less reliable timekeeper, the Earth.
Because our planet wobbles a little on its axis as it spins, it means some days end up being a few milliseconds longer or shorter than others.This means that over time, the time based on atomic clocks, and the time based on the Earth’s rotation drift further and further apart.
When this difference is deemed by the International Earth Rotation Service, which monitors the Earth’s activity, to be approximately 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to pull the two back into sync.
Harvest New Founders Cadence are running a cool project about time. Here’s their challenge: Over the next two weeks, carve out two hours of your routine. The first hour: Do something for yourself that matters (spend extra time with your kids, take a class or spend an extra hour exercising) The second hour: Do something that matters for someone else (help your neighbor with chores, volunteer at the humane society or share your time with those in need). Enter their contest to win Blake Mycoskie’s Start Something That Matters.
I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone…
a jumble of numbers.
white on white - stylin’!
We’re on a street art kick :) Here’s a great stencil piece that eddylicious spotted in Zurich — a country that knows a thing or two about time and precision.
Cool street art by @ChrisRWK — if only he was using Harvest he might enjoy work more.
via artpeoplemake
Amazingly confusing clock that tests the phrase “Time is money.”
“For a clock that costs $2,388 and is made of not much more than some copper numbers an an old bike chain, you’d expect the Catena (Latin for “chain”) clock to at least work properly.
Unfortunately, it looks like the designer, Andreas Dober, cheaped out and just picked up a standard, clockwise-running movement. Take a look. While the numbers seem to run in the correct direction, when it comes to reckoning minutes you have to read backwards. The time shown in the picture is around ten past eleven, but at first glance appears to be ten to eleven.
Still, the piece itself is certainly a beauty, and if you have almost two and a half grand lying around for a clock you can probably just pay someone to read it for you. They could also warm up by counting the time it’ll take to arrive on your doorstep: the delivery time is 12-16 weeks.”
This is excellent: a vision of the “perfect office”! No distractions for the automated executive.
curiositycounts: Tomorrow’s office, imagined in 1969 – one of 5 vintage visions for the future of technology
Telling time via circadian rhythm of flowers: Carl Linnaeus’ 1751 clock concept.
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) observed over a number of years that the flowers of many plants opened and closed periodically and that these times varied from species to species. Arranged in sequence of flowering over the day, they constituted a kind of floral clock or Horologium Florae as Linnaeus called it in his Philisophia Botanica (Vienna, 1751).
During the first half of the 19th century Botanic Gardens tried to construct floral clocks, but with no great success since many of the plants listed by Linnaeus do not flower at the same season.
via @bobulate
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