When you’re on the clock, you’re always running out of time. The relentless countdown is making us and the planet sick. But clock time isn’t the only kind. There are older, deeper rhythms of natural time. We just forgot how to listen.
May 30 23May 30, 2023
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Lately it’s been feeling like time is speeding up. Whether it’s the news cycle, social media, the information economy or global warming, the pace of life is accelerating beyond what many of us can handle. Jenny Odell blames the clock.
Jul 19 25July 19, 2025
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Clocks control us – but who controls clocks? David Rooney gives us a brief political history of clocks. And a look at their future.
Jul 18 25July 18, 2025
Are you ready to think in centuries instead of seconds? Eons instead of hours? It’s time to throw away your watch and make thousand-year plans. And appreciate how Earth keeps time.
Aug 17 23August 17, 2023
Geologist Marcia Bjornerud has a profound understanding of Earth's deep history. The author of "Timefulness," she says geologic literacy would give us a much healthier sense of time.
Apr 19 24April 19, 2024
What is this thing, that’s all around us, invisible, inescapable, always running out? What is time?
Nov 18 23November 18, 2023
Time may be a fundamental quality of the universe, but physicists still can't explain what time is. That hasn't stopped theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser from devoting much of his life to studying the origins of time and the formation of the
Mar 23 25March 23, 2025
Physicist Carlo Rovelli travels to the core of a black hole, where the arrow of time reverses and a white hole is born.
Mar 21 25March 21, 2025
Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time.
Feb 11 25February 11, 2025
Artist Katie Paterson works with melting glaciers, fossilized insects and the dust from meteorites to help us expand our time horizons. Her art bridges cosmic and human timescales, revealing the beauty in vast temporal expanses.
Feb 15 25February 15, 2025
Philosopher and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats engineers monumental-scale clocks that run on “river time” or “arboreal time” to un-standardize our atomic time. He says we need to make time more pluralistic, to envision a kind of chrono-diversity.
Feb 14 25February 14, 2025
When light pollution is making it harder to experience natural darkness, learning how to reconnect with the planet’s ancient nocturnal rhythms can be profoundly restorative.
Dec 19 24December 19, 2024
Contemplating the infinite is a time-tested way to shrink the present down to size. But if you think about it for very long, infinity can really mess with your mind. There’s something fundamentally paradoxical about it, and beautiful.
Jun 06 25June 06, 2025
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