"Sometimes you have to point your camera at nothing."
"Powers of Ten"
"A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them."
"The Earth is rotating slower and slower over time, while the atomic clocks are not slowing down. On one average day the difference is around 0.002 seconds, which means around 1 second in 500 days. In order to synchronize the atomic clocks with the Earth's observed rotation, the atomic clocks are occasionally instructed to add an extra second – the leap second. Leap seconds are inserted so that the difference between the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and UT1 (mean solar time - observed Earth rotation) is kept below 0.9 seconds."
"Happiness is catching, rippling through social networks to up to three degrees of separation, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego, found after assessing more than 4,700 people over 20 years. The smaller the distance between friends, the bigger the effect, which lasted up to a year, the scientists said."
"The risk of heart attacks changes when clocks spring ahead or fall back at the start or end of daylight saving time, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine."
"A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope."
"The Time Paradox is not a single paradox but a series of paradoxes that shape our lives and our destinies. For example:
Paradox 1
Time is one of the most powerful influences on our thoughts, feelings, and actions, yet we are usually totally unaware of the affect of time in our lives.
Paradox 2
Each specific attitude toward time—or time perspective—is associated with numerous benefits, yet in excess each is associated with even greater costs.
Paradox 3
Individual attitudes toward time are learned through personal experience, yet collectively attitudes toward time influence national destinies."
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