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10,000-Year Clock

Arts, Culture & Media

The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once every minute, chime once a year, and play music once a millennium.

DJ Screw Plays with Time

Arts, Culture & Media

Science Meets Culture. Science Loses.

Arts, Culture & Media
Military band sing and salute at the Tiananmen Square at the beginning of the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2015.

Whose century is it? Depends who’s marking time.

Global Politics
People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa.

If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you’d better double check the time

Belief
At midnight on New Year's eve, Britain turns to the sound of Big Ben

What Britain listens to at midnight on New Year’s Eve

Culture

There is a traditional sound which signals midnight on New Year’s Eve in Britain. And it is one that has been broadcast every year since the 1920s.

What year is it? If you’re in Iran, Happy 1393!

Lifestyle & Belief

If you think of yourself as a global citizen, then it is about time you got over your bias toward the Gregorian calendar. Depending on the community you are in, the year might be 1393, or 5116, or something else.

What year is it? If you’re in Iran, Happy 1393!

Lifestyle & Belief

If you think of yourself as a global citizen, then it is about time you got over your bias toward the Gregorian calendar. Depending on the community you are in, the year might be 1393, or 5116, or something else.

Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist

Environment

Ray Kurzweil takes 150 pills a day in an effort to live until technology allows him to move into a non-biological form.

Gillian Welch’s first album in eight years

Arts, Culture & Media

The singer/songwriter has produced her long awaited album, ‘The Harrow & The Harvest.’