125 Items Tagged

Time

A 2,000-Year History of Alarm Clocks

Before personal alarms, workers employed 'knocker-uppers' to bang on their doors.

Naomi Russo April 21, 2016

Spain's Prime Minister Wants to Formally Get Rid of Siestas

The afternoon nap has been on the ropes for years.

Erik Shilling April 14, 2016

For Centuries, Leap Day was the Most Feminist Day on the Calendar

The tradition of women proposing to men on leap day is still popular in Europe.

Urvija Banerji February 29, 2016

Minute-by-Minute, Donald Trump's Time Is Among the Most Expensive in America

Tao Tao Holmes February 5, 2016

Meet the People Who Live Outside of Time

Natalie Zarrelli February 4, 2016

Wrapping Armchairs in Wire, and Other Childhood Attempts to Travel in Time

Tao Tao Holmes February 3, 2016

Why England Was A Year Behind Belgium, Spain and Italy for 170 Years

Natalie Zarrelli February 2, 2016

objects of intrigue

Object of Intrigue: Ancient Persian Water Clocks

Tao Tao Holmes February 2, 2016

In 1844, the Philippines Skipped a Day, And It Took Decades for the Rest of the World to Notice

Sarah Laskow December 30, 2015

FOUND: 1958 Video In a Psychiatric Hospital's Time Capsule

Sarah Laskow October 14, 2015

A detail on Pope Gregory XIII's tomb, carved by Camillo Rusconi, shows the Pope being presented with a plan for what would become the Gregorian Calendar.

When The Pope Made 10 Days Disappear

Cara Giaimo October 6, 2015

Why Can’t We Get Rid of the 7-Day Week?

Dan Nosowitz September 17, 2015

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

London, England

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Push The Boundaries of Time-Keeping With These 11 Clocks

Jeremy Berke August 7, 2015

Riverside, Iowa

Captain James T. Kirk Future Birthplace

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Big Diomede as viewed from Little Diomede. (Wikimedia Commons)

Diomede Islands

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Boulder, Colorado

NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock

The clock that sets them all.