Several top athletes from racing drivers to sprinters have reported experiences of time slowing down. Can neurological science explain this phenomenon?
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Need a break from the hustle and bustle or the doom and gloom? From zebras in their natural habitat to remotely blowing bubbles in a Florida garden, there’s bound to be something for you in the thousands of livestreams available on Earth — and even in orbit.
At the Paris Olympic Games, Omega, the official timekeeper of the competition, promises unprecedented precision timekeeping. The science of sports timekeeping is undergoing an unprecedented acceleration. Victory must be fair.
Something is awry with daylight savings time. Can research and policy changes help us reset the clocks?
We’re renouncing books to gorge ourselves on digital imagery and short texts. If we continue like this, ditching the written word of the past, we may soon become fitting descendants of the cringing, timorous masses of the dark ages.
Why has Russia invaded Ukraine? Internet readers want to know. What will Ukraine be like after the war? That’s a question to start answering, even if the battle is far from over.
It’s about multiplying choices, not vanishing time…
The lockdowns have arrived as technology accentuates the passage from ritually organized time to time without clear limits.
Somewhere in between confusion and wonder is not a bad place to be at all.
The Getty Center launches a festival of Latin American art that also considers its influence on American culture and identity. In the age of Donald J. Trump, this has become doubly significant.
It’s a looming question for any reader of the news and follower of current events:Time magazine’s “Is Truth Dead?” cover this week does well to capture the zeitgeist of public discourse in the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The central article travels through the place of truth in American public life, all the way […]
TIME, Aug. 22 Cuban illustrator Edel Rodriguez turned up the heat on Donald Trump in TIME magazine“s latest issue. In a cover story entitled “Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown,” the New York-based magazine explores the Republican candidate’s disastrous summer, marred by public blunders and controversial remarks.
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Eurovision 2015 Contestants: Belarus
The representatives of Belarus at this year’s Eurovision are Uzari and Maimuna, a duo made up of what seems to be an elf and a violinist trapped inside an hourglass. Uzari already ran for Belarus in 2012 and in 2013, but came respectively in 5th and 8th place. Third time lucky? Maimuna, also known as […]
The more time technology saves us, the less we feel we have. Three researchers explore this modern ‘double paradox.’
Illnesses in children rise along with the stress levels of their parents, according to a new survey in Germany. Are households with two working parents sending more kids to the doctor?
IT SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP (Germany), HONEYNET PROJET Worldcrunch A red dot is an attack on a computer, a yellow dot is a “honeypot,” a system set to record incoming cyber attacks. On the bottom of the screen, a box tells you where the attacks are coming from (Friday was mostly Eastern Europe). You are not […]
BERLIN – In grandpa’s time, somebody would call out “End of the work day!” – as a signal in many companies for workers to pack it up and go home. It’s not so easy today, says Wolfgang Panter, the president of the Association of German Business and Company Doctors (VDBW): “Boundaries between work and free […]