Posts tagged time
Kind of a cool idea - “Designed by Audun Ask Blaker, the Lineær clock initially looks like any other clock, but upon closer inspection you find out that the time is written on a continually rotating scroll, emphasising that time is in perpetuity.”
Matthew Graham let us know that Chris Wallace included us in his three laws at Lift - we’re honored!
Giving someone 4 hours of interrupted time is the best gift you can give anybody at work
Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals and co-author of Rework, has an interesting comparison of work to sleep when thinking about why stretches of uninterrupted time are important.
“[S]leep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events. So sleep is about sleep phases, or stages … There’s five of them, and in order to get to the really deep ones, the really meaningful ones, you have to go through the early ones. And if you’re interrupted while you’re going through the early ones … you don’t just pick up where you left off… .
You’ve got to go through these phases and stuff, and if you’re interrupted, you don’t sleep well… . Why do we expect people to work well if they’re being interrupted all day at the office? … .
Giving someone four hours of interrupted time is the best gift you can give anybody at work.”
Thank you Elite Web Labs, we’re so happy to hear it: 25 Months, 987.74 Hours Billed, 0 Complaints!
Thinking Time: In 2008, 300 engineers and managers at semiconductor giant Intel participated in a pilot program where, for four hours every Tuesday morning, they set their e-mail and IM clients to “offline,” directed phone calls to voice mail, avoided scheduling meetings, and isolated themselves from visitors by putting “do not disturb” signs at the entrances to their workspaces. This “thinking time” program was run by engineer Nathan Zeldes, who reported it enhanced “effectiveness, efficiency and quality of life for numerous employees”; 71% of participants recommended that it be extended to other groups.
32,000 years is a long time!
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.
This would be the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue. The present record is held by a date palm grown from a seed some 2,000 years old that was recovered from the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel.
Famous logos and how they’ve changed over time - and where they could go in the future (as envisioned by the Huffington Post).
Graphic designer Ruth Tsang illustrates how she spent her idle time, from 2010.
Augustinian Friar’s Astrological Clock, 1679 – one of the hands takes 20,000 years to revolve. At the Clock Museum in Vienna. – image credit: Curious Expeditions)
TIME IS MONEY: On average, a CEO spends 18 hours in meetings.
This watch stops time. Well, sort of. Designed by Chinese industrial designer Tao Ma, the “Play & Stop” watch utilizes a play/pause button in its center that, when pressed, stops the movement of the hands, or allows it to resume at the current time. Remove the distraction of racing against the clock!
Thank you “Executive Jewelers” - why sure, it DOES seem important to know the time on both Earth and Mars!
via superpunch2: Watch keeps track of time on Earth and Mars. Via.
Apple through time - woah.
via curiositycounts: Every Apple design ever, in 39 seconds. (via)
So now that you know how a Flux Capacitor works, how about time travel by wormhole?
“Extreme conditions at the Large Hadron Collider may produce wormholes in space-time.
An advanced civilisation might be able to manipulate one of these to create a tunnel back to the point in time when the wormhole was first created. Colliding gravitational wavea from accelerated proton rip a wormhole in space-time ( 14 TeV concentrated into the space of 10 ^ -15 m ) The wormhole helps form a closed timelike curve, which allows particles to flow into the past, or from the future to the present. Dark energy might keep wormhole open, and could even make it wide enough for a person.”Source: Milky way scientists
This book, Cartographies of Time: A History of the Time Line, looks amazing. Among the many images, it includes the above timeline, which we’ve always loved:
Published in 1869, this endures as Charles Joseph Minard’s most famous graphic, featuring two diagrams that depict the size and attrition of the armies of Hannibal in his expedition across the Alps during the Punic wars and of Napoleon during his assault on Russia. The faded-red color band indicates the army’s strength of numbers, with one millimeter in thickness representing ten thousand men. The chart of Napoleon’s march also includes a measure of temperature.
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