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A really simple way to understand how time zones work
by Marshall Brain | January 3, 2011
Around New Year’s eve, people have a special interest in time zones. That’s because the celebration of Happy New Year happens at midnight in your local time zone. Meanwhile, other time zones either have already celebrated the new year, or are sitting around waiting to do it. So cities in New Zealand celebrate New Year’s [...]
This is a fascinating video that looks at the different ways that human beings perceive time and the effects that these perceptions have on our behavior: The video starts by identifying six ways to perceive time: 1) Looking at the past as “the good old times” (past positive) 2) Looking at the past as a [...]
Kellee Santiago makes the point that video games are art in this TED talk: Roger Ebert makes the counterpoint: Video games can never be art She begins by saying video games “already ARE art.” Yet she concedes that I was correct when I wrote, “No one in or out of the field has ever been [...]
One of the most read and most commented posts on the HSW blogs is this one: How Omegle Doesn’t Work -or- Signs that it may be time to examine your life… The basic message of that post is to point out that there are better things to do with your life than to chat on [...]
Why does time fly as you get older?
by Robert Lamb | February 5, 2010
Remember what summer was like when you were a kid? The season seemed to span an eternity and Christmas might as well have been a million years in the future. But then you grew older. Summers passed in quick succession, Christmases and birthdays swept by like pages in a flip book. Everything seems to be speeding towards an unavoidable conclusion.
Unlike more conventional timepieces, atomic clocks use the resonant frequency of atoms to measure the passage of time. Learn more about atomic clocks in this Brainstuff podcast.
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