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Remind Yourself How Small You Are With This Visualisation Of Time

Here’s the dirty depressing truth: we’re a bunch of nobodies living in a time that is so small in the entire scope of the universe that NOTHING MATTERS. Just look at this amazing interactive visualisation that shows the scope of the days, months, years, periods and so forth within the scope of the universe’s entire history. Today is not even a sliver.


How Time Crystals Could Rewrite The Rules Of Physics

If you overheard someone talking about time crystals in a bar, you’d think they were mad, or drunk. Or both. These things, theoretically, oscillate for eternity without any energy input whatsoever — and if that sounds like a perpetual motion machine, it’s because it is. Impossible, right? But what if it was a Nobel prize-winning physicists making the suggestion?


Put The History Of Time In Context With A Click Of Your Mouse

There’s nothing to spice up your Monday like getting a feel for how insignificant of a speck you are in the grand scheme of the universe. Here Is Today does just that, but in such a pretty, minimalist way that you won’t even mind.


Monster Machines: How The World’s Biggest Clock Tried To Change The Centre Of Time

For the multitudes of cultural differences that exist throughout human civilisation, we do share a single, universal goal: to build stuff bigger and better than the schmucks next door. Every single one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was created as a chest-thumping, neighbour-shaming testament to its builder’s awesomeness. That proud tradition continues even today with Saudi Arabia’s massive Mecca-clock, a timepiece so enormous it almost ended Greenwich Mean Time.


Tim Cook Is The Runner-Up In Time’s Person Of The Year

A surprising number of nerds made it on to the shortlist for this year’s Time person of the year award. More than the others, though, Tim Cook has clearly made a lasting impression outside the tech community — demonstrated by him nabbing second place.


The Tech Nerds Who Are Up For Time Person Of The Year

Time magazine just put out a list of eight finalists for its Person of the Year award, and some of our favourite tech heroes made the cut.


This Sleek Clock Let’s You Countdown To Some Terrifyingly Ambiguous Events

No matter what’s going on in your life today, there’s always something else around the bend, something to anticipate or dread. This countdown clock helps you keep your hopeful sights on the former. Or the latter if you’re a masochist.


Why Time Seems To Slow Down For Athletes

If you’ve ever felt like time slows down as a ball hurtles towards you, you’re not alone. A series of new experiments suggests that our perception of time slows to varying degrees as we prepare to make physical actions, which could explain why some pros are so damn good.


Chameleon Clock: A Timekeepter That Blends In With The World Around You

What is that there? I can’t see anything. Oh wait it’s a clock. Just like the reptile it’s named for, Chameleon Clock captures the scenery behind your screen and overlays the time on top.


Giz Explains: Why There Are 24 Hours In A Day

We live in a base-10 world. The decimal system governs everything from the binary functions of computers to the amount of change you get when you buy a Slurpee. So why isn’t the standard Earth day just 10 hours long? Credit the Egyptians for that one.


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