Harvest Watercooler: Archive

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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/

Jan 27th

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Jan 26th

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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.

Jan 25th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 24th

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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...

Jan 23rd

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Jan 20th

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“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by...”

– Steve Wozniack, Brain Pickings (via nevver)

Jan 19th

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Jan 18th

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Jan 17th

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Jan 13th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 11th

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Jan 10th

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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...

Jan 9th

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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

Jan 6th

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“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)

Jan 5th

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Jan 4th

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Jan 3rd

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Dec 21st

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Interesting 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.”

Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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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

Dec 16th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 14th

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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)

Dec 13th

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Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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Thanks Obie, for recommending this band, Time...

Dec 7th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 5th

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How to lose $2400 in 24 seconds. Wow.

Dec 2nd

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Dec 1st

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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...

Nov 30th

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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)

Nov 29th

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