Sense of self through memories
“Your sense of self is the understanding that yourself will remain the same through time.”
Fun with time
Capturing time
How in the world did this slow-motion video capture two moments at once? The cork just coming out of the bottle—AND—the moment when the cork hits the guy’s face? (look at the shadow on his shirt, you’ll see the cork hitting his face) How slow-motion video works When you imagine video being recorded at 30 …
Eiffel Tower time lapse and Twitter account
This is one of my favorite things on the internet. The past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower in a one-minute time lapse animation. This one-minute video file is constantly updated throughout the day to reflect the past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower. The source of these images comes from a live webcam. See …
Einstein on time being a stubbornly persistent illusion
What is time? Shortly before his death, Albert Einstein wrote: “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” What is the context of this quote? I accidentally came across a discussion about this quote in a podcast that appeared at the top of my Soundcloud stream: Carlo Rovelli — …
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Two flipboard flips, separated by time, united by image
My brother uses Flipboard to share links, so I’m going back onto this platform again. (My username on Flipboard is mattmaldre) A user’s “flips” page is sorted chronologically. One of my most recent flips is from five days ago, and then the next one is from over a year ago ago. A little gap in …
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The incredibly accurate time machine that jumps into the future
Let’s say you have an event one week from today that you really want to be at. Now you can jump to the future and be at that event! The only catch. This time machine is kinda slow. To attend an event one week from today, it takes exactly seven days to arrive at the …
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Time shouts for joy
After making the last blog post, “A humidifier with water fills my heart with joy,” I was thinking that maybe it was too cheesey. But then the next day I across these verses in Psalms 65. It’s cool how even the hills have joy. The meadows and valleys shout and sing together with joy. Even …
292 more days until the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy
The Olympic countdown is on! A shirt that says “292 more days” would be cool. Whenever you wear it, you could look up what would happen 292 days from now. Update April 9, 2022 — 6,193 days later: I like this idea of a t-shirt saying “292 more days”. Although, 292 is a bit random. …
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What would you bring back in time?
Hmmm, if you could travel back in time, but could only bring one thing, what would it be? I’m looking out my window at a row of buses, and it would be fun to have a bus back in time. But then you’d need gas for the bus. That’s part of the irony of it. …