February 2012
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January 2012
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“Modern life is plagued by what’s been called “time famine”—the sense that we...”
– http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/were-only-human/making-time-stand-still-awesome.html
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“Everyone experiences time differently. This is true at the level of both physics...”
– http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/01/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time/
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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.
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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...
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“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by...”
– Steve Wozniack, Brain Pickings (via nevver)
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Telling time via circadian rhythm of flowers: Carl...
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...
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“A team of physicists at Cornell University has created a wrinkle in time....”
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/time-cloak-hid-event-in-experiment-physicists-say/2012/01/04/gIQA5rtwaP_story.html
“Our ability to reconstruct the past, to interpret the present, and to construct...”
– Legendary Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo in one of 7 essential books on time (via curiositycounts)
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December 2011
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WatchInteresting TedTalk: time and compassion are intertwined.
“What turned out to determine whether someone would stop to help a stranger in need was how much of a hurry they thought they were in.”
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“Scientists say that the ideal duration of a shower is 4 minutes. Researchers say...”
– http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/bbc-world-service/report-four-minute-showers-ideal-environment-wallet
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“It’s not the hours you put into your work that counts, it’s the work you put in...”
– Sam Ewing (via blotanog)
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Thanks Obie, for recommending this band, Time...
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November 2011
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A Zero Email Policy from Europe's Largest IT... →
Can getting rid of email save time? This brings up questions (Doesn’t using chat as your primary communication tool interrupt focus? What if you need to say something in longer than 2 sentences?), but is interesting to consider.
10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful, and that staff spend between 5-20 hours handling emails...
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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via dailymurakami)
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