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Ephemeral Vs. Perpetual Messaging: Thinking Outside The Timeline
If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twitter and Facebook – and the so-called disappearing messengers – like Snapchat – where messages vanish after being read.
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Reinventing Humanity by Reinventing Time
Humans think about the underlying systems we use for keeping time in much the same way that fish think about water. We simply don’t.
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Built for Eternity
When humanity plans on a geologic time scale. By Elmo Keep.
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Putting Time In Perspective
Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault - the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second.
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Marketing the Monster: Coffee and Commodified Time
I’m not a vacation kind of guy. Oh, sure I’m a consummate relaxer, but a comfy couch, good book, and some video games with my seven year old son beats a long plane flight, rental car, hotel room, and tourist traps on any day. Don’t get me wrong, I tend to enjoy travelling once I’ve arrived...
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In Hyperspace
Fredric Jameson reviews “Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative” by David Wittenberg.
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Daylight Saving Time in the US: when do the clocks fall back in 2015?
The clocks fall back by an hour this weekend as America returns to Standard Time. This signals lighter mornings and an extra hour in bed. But what time do we reset our watches?
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Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It
Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour. It’s a controversial practice that became popular in the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy. The fall time change feels particularly hard because we lose another hour of evening daylight...
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The Brain's GPS May Also Help Us Map Our Memories
Brain cells that track our location also can track time and distance, a study finds. This could explain how the brain uses place and time to organize memories throughout our lives.
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The Aging Face
On viewing my wrinkles through Proust, Rembrandt, and plastic surgery textbooks. By Alyssa Pelish.
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Physicists put the arrow of time under a quantum microscope
Entropy caused by quantum fluctuations measured at the molecular level. By Jon Cartwright.
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The Simple Technique To Fit A 40-Hour Workweek Into 16.7 Hours
This incredibly simple time management system changed my workday. By Chris Winfield.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Winter Solstice
From astronomy to religion, the year's shortest day brings enduring mysteries. By Brian Handwerk.
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Seeking the Gears of Our Inner Clock
Neuroscientists have struggled to understand exactly how the mind’s cycles affect us. Studies of donated brains provide some answers. By Carl Zimmer.
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Why time seems to speed up as we get older
There's very little scientific evidence to suggest our perception of time changes as we age. And yet, we consistently report that the past felt longer — that time is flying by faster as we age. What's going on? By Brian Resnick.
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The Last Rotation
Illness brings stillness to the final days of a young neurosurgeon. By Anna Reisman.
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Time’s (Almost) Reversible Arrow
The irreversibility of time may be a clue as to what makes up the universe’s dark matter. By Frank Wilczek.
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You Don’t Need More Free Time
Well, you might. But that’s not the real key to finding work-life balance. By Cristobal Young.
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Our chemical Eden
To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy. By Tim Requarth.
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A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory
A cadre of physicists working on the theory of shape dynamics could change our understanding of reality. By Dan Falk.
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