Rethinking Relativity: Is Time Out of Joint?
Rachel Courtland asks a deep question in New Scientist: Ever since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse,...
View ArticleDoes The Past Exist Yet?
The future has yet to be determined, but what about the past? This recent Huffington Post piece discusses the possibility that what you do in the present shapes both future and past — “historical...
View ArticleJoscelyn Godwin’s ‘Atlantis and the Cycles of Time’
David Metcalfe provides a thorough look at Joscelyn Godwin’s Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations: Existing in the liminal spaces of the cultural narrative...
View ArticleAmazonian Tribe Understands ‘Time’ Unlike The Rest of the World
I thought Pink Floyd had a good idea but these Amondawa folks are on the Money. Jason Palmer reports for BBC News: The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space — as in our...
View ArticleYour Internal Clock Is At War With Society
An interesting read for night owls and early birds alike. As Robert T. Gonzalez writes on io9.com: Just because you sleep later than your early rising friends doesn’t mean you sleep longer than they...
View ArticleJim Henson’s “Time Piece” (Video)
Via the Henson Company: From Jim Henson’s 1966 Academy Award nominated short film. Henson, as the writer/producer/director/star, created the experimental short about the effect of time keeping on us all:
View ArticleEventually, Time Itself Will Come To A Halt
Wondering about the end of everything? At some point, the world may freeze into a single giant photograph-like state, for eternity. Via Unexplained Mysteries: In a startling new theory, scientists...
View ArticleTime Wars
Picture: Alan Cleaver (CC) Science fiction is tackling the issue of economic inequality using the metaphor of rationed time and mortality. Radical blogger and professor of ‘cultural analysis’ Mark...
View ArticleStrange Cases Of Slippage Through Time
Mysterious Universe ponders times slips — cases in which people temporarily experience the future or past, or briefly interact with people or objects from a different era: Physicists like Albert...
View ArticleAre We About to Experience a Shift in Collective Consciousness?
Many believe that a shift in human consciousness was the true message of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. Graham Hancock discusses the meaning of the end of the current World Age in this clip from “2012:...
View ArticleFalse Past And The Phantom Time Hypothesis
Wikipedia lays out the phantom time hypothesis, the odd belief that certain eras of history did not occur: The Phantom Time Hypothesis is a conspiracy theory developed by Heribert Illig in 1991. It...
View ArticleTime Zones Of Antarctica
Want to visit somewhere on Earth where reality as defined by civilization starts to break down? Via Wikipedia, the surreality of time in Antarctica, where it is possible to slip back and forth between...
View ArticleA History Of Speculation
Can the future truly be changed, or are we on a predetermined path? Chris Woebken and Sascha Pohflepp on grasping at the fabric of reality: Hermann Minkowski’s light cones gave us a visual idea of how...
View ArticlePhysicists To Attempt To Build Temporality-Bending “Time Crystal”
Wired relays top scientists’ plan to build a microscopic “time crystal,” a structure within which time would not be continuous: In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek...
View ArticleAlan Moore and Psychogeography
Picture: Karen Karnak (CC) Alan Moore interviews are always worth reading. Here he discusses psychogeography as it applies to various of his works. via Reasons I Do Not Dance: What exactly, in your not...
View ArticleThe Paradigm Shift Clock
Scared that you are falling behind the times? Via Zapato Productions intradimensional: The front panel button switches the display to show paradigm confidence levels in real time — caution when it...
View ArticleSnowden & Zakaria: Shaming The Whistleblower
CNN reporter and writer for many major publications, Fareed Zakaria recently spoke about Ed Snowden in TIME stating that Snowden is “No hero”. He says, “But while Snowden is no hero, his revelations...
View ArticleHow Our Ancestors Used to Sleep Twice a Night and Highlighting the Problem of...
8 hour sleeping is a modern invention. Imagine you are a denizen of the 18th century. It’s just past 8:30 P.M., you’ve got your night-cap on. You blow out your candles and fall asleep to the smell of...
View ArticleManifesto for Living in the Now
Counterculture stalwart Douglas Rushkoff tells Discover that the future is bright for those of us willing to live in the present: Discover: Are some people confusing the idea of “presentism,” of living...
View ArticlePeople Are More Honest In The Morning
PIC: ENCMSTR (CC) The next time you go shopping for a car you might want to start at the crack of dawn. According to results published in the journal of Psychological Science, people appear to be...
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