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:youtube: **The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**

"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"

#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2HjdkHVZ

#History #Science #HistSci #Time #Clock @science

The Persistence of Memory - La Persistance de la Memoire - Esse relógio é uma das obras mais conhecidas de Salvador Dali. "O tempo daliano não é linear, ele é como o espaço, elástico. A plasticidade inesperada do relógio propõe uma visão do tempo que, como a ciência acabou provando, não é percebida da mesma maneira pelo indivíduo dependendo da hora do dia ou da sua ocupação. Na extremidade desce uma lágrima de tristeza diante do tempo que se esvai e nos aproxima da morte, simbolizada pela árvore seca e o mármore negro da base". "Espace Dali", um museu dedicado ao Salvador Dali em Paris
#surrealism #surrealismo #paris #france #frança #frankreich #museum #museu #musee #dali #salvadordali#art #arte #culture #cultura #obrasdearte #time #temps #tempo #relogio #clock #montre #morte #death

Can nothing on this wretched ball of dirt just act normal!?

> Earth is expected to spin more quickly in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On July 9, July 22 and Aug. 5, the position of the moon is expected to affect Earth's rotation so that each day is between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than normal.

livescience.com/planet-earth/e

Live Science · Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorterBy Amy Arthur
#science#earth#time

Anyone working in #agriculture knows how important #timing is, but did you know that plants have internal #rhythmic biological mechanisms that can influence the effectiveness of #agrochemical applications depending on the time of day?

Understanding these mechanisms and how to apply this knowledge in the field is still a challenge. Together with Carlos Hotta and Antony Dodd, we decided to present some ideas in this new article published in The New Phytologist Foundation—my first as first author. ✨

I’m very excited to share these ideas because they’re part of the topic of my doctoral thesis, which focuses on #plant sensitivity to #herbicides at different times of the day.

#Chronobiology is a relatively recent science, but its discoveries have already earned a Nobel Prize in 2017. Personally, I believe that studies in chronobiology applied to agriculture could lead to the emergence of a new scientific field: #chronoagronomy.

Chronoagronomy could focus on studying the effects of time in agriculture—understanding all temporal factors and how they affect production systems, from soil preparation and crop rotations to the final product price in the market—with the goal of optimizing outcomes through process synchronization and the application of #chronoculture or circadian agriculture.

#Agronomy has always relied on knowledge of temporal factors, but has never studied them systematically in all their dimensions. Understanding the role of #time might be the breakthrough we need to produce more, produce better, and avoid environmental disaster.

Check out the article here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do

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It’s amazing how #appreciation for experience expands with #time and #memory. I’ll be forever grateful to Sra. Cruz-Romo for allowing a truly unseasoned #soprano to gain knowledge through her foresight and #grace.

Here is a playlist of an album of arias from Verdi operas she recorded for the label Urtext » youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK

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