Why Time Flies A Mostly Scientific Investigation

Alan Burdick

ISBN 10: 1925603067 / ISBN 13: 9781925603064

Edité par Text Publishing, 2017

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• Titre: Why Time Flies A Mostly Scientific Investigation
• Éditeur: Text Publishing
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1925603067
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781925603064
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: very good

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Synopsis

Are we born into time, or is time born into us? Alan Burdick takes readers on a quest to understand the clocks that tick inside us all - what time is and how we perceive it.

We all sense that lived time is different from clock time - that our experience of time changes with our moods, with our age, and with our level of busy-ness. Burdick seeks to answer the questions that have plagued him (and which perhaps bother you, too): Why did time seem to last longer when we were children? Does the experience of time really slow down when you're in a car crash? How is it that I'm more productive when I have too much to do, whereas when I have all the time in the world, I seem to get nothing done? Is there a clock in us that counts off the seconds, hours, and days, like the clock in a computer? And if we contain such a clock, how pliable is it? Can I make time speed up, slow down, stop, reverse? How and why does time fly? Why Time Flies is the funny, surprising, often moving, and always insightful story of one man's effort to master his internal clocks. In form, it is also a mixture of science reportage, essay, and cultural critique. Make no mistake, you'll never look at a clock the same way again.

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Burdick is a staff writer and former senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to Elements, the magazine's science-and-tech blog. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Discover, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. His first book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.