Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language...
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ...
2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ...
3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ...
... #9 and

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

We're walking faster
ITV News - 'World is walking 10% faster'
The pace at which city dwellers walk has increased by 10 ...

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed bef ...

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne...
Freedom enf

A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story... significantly worse at remembering the order of events t... the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does

Opera 'is music for the heart'
Pavarotti
Listening to Pavarotti sing the Nessun Dorma could help ...
Listening to the right kind of music can slow the heart ...
... lood pressure, while slower-pace music does the reverse.

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

Stillness, meditation, reflection, silence. Radio docume... Hall goes in search of refuge from the noise and bustle ... world, looking for moments of peace amid the hurly-burly...

On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti...
It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ...
Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ...
"Kansha means more than maybe," he explained.
... and respecting their a

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined...
Solar time vs. standard time
Solar time vs. standard time
At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. What we... very 21st Century problem.

Reality television and rolling 24-hour news give us inst... entertainment, but now a new television format is slowin...
Pioneered in Norway, so-called Slow TV has featured an e ...

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We...
by Maria Popova
“Time perception matters because it is the experience ...
Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ...
That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellen

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

How balanced is the UK grid at the moment?
This meter is monitoring the power balance of the UK ele ...
The meter actually shows the grid's "frequency", which i ...