tomscott.com — twitter.com/tomscott — In Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse in London — and a few other science museums around the world — sits Longplayer, a musical composition designed to last a millennium. How do you keep something running for that long?
Thanks to Rob Blake for holding the camera through the many takes. This one took a while…
And thanks to Martin Deutsch for reminding me about Longplayer!
On a bench in Tartu, Estonia, we welcome Paul (@cr3) along with art from Simon (@mushybees) to talk about the Other Incident: the one that involved us getting pulled over by the Estonian Defense Force.
On a bench in Tartu, Estonia, we welcome Paul (@cr3) along with art from Simon (@mushybees) to talk about our road trip, an abandoned submarine base, and, yes, the incident where Tom fell through ice into a frozen lake. Also, rainbow Comic Sans.
Gravity Industries make jetpacks. Theyre not practical. Theyre not meant for mass use. But they are a lot of fun. They asked if I wanted to try flying one. Thanks to gravity.co/ — this is not sponsored but, obviously, they did give me a flight in a jetpack.
tomscott.com — @tomscott — Remember the «dumbest dot-com», AllAdvantage? They paid you to surf the web, at least for a while. And one day, they announced that they were incredibly popular in rich Beverly Hills, California. The reason connects them to the US Postal Service… and Jason Priestley.
#Timekeeping #History #ExploreMode
A lot goes on in just 24 hours. But why is a day divided in 24 hours in the first place? Who decided how we would calculate it?
Today, time is tucked away in our pockets, just an unlock button away. It drives our technology, with atomic clocks being responsible for precise GPS location services and speedy internet search results.
Our ancestors, on the other hand, didn’t have it that easy. Time for them was written in the stars, in the sunrise and sunset, in the moon’s waning and waxing.
So how did we go from looking up to celestial bodies to looking down at our phones for time? What other timekeeping methods did ancient humans use before watches and clocks became ubiquitous? And what the heck is an atomic clock?
You’re watching Explore Mode and today, we are diving into time, and how humans developed technologies to measure it.
01:20 Telling time through stars, celestial bodies, and sundials
02:03 Candle clocks and incense clocks / How did candle clocks work?
03:32 Sexagesimal system explained / Why is time divided in the 60s?
04:45 How do waterclocks work? The clepsydra.
06:13 Origin of mechanical clocks
07:06 How do quartz clocks work?
08:17 How do atomic clocks work?
A Brief History of Timekeeping | How Humans Began Telling Time | EXPLORE MODE
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