The Mind-Bending Reality of Time Travel
Science writer James Gleick discusses his latest book, Time Travel: A History. He weaves together the long fascination that science fiction has had with time travel - from H.G. Wells to “Doctor Who” to...
View ArticleWhat is Time?
Time is a specter, time is a train, time is a river, time is an arrow. Time flies when you’re having fun and you waste it when you dillydally. Metaphors rule our conception of time. Perhaps, because a...
View ArticleWhy Is There So Little Time in the Day?
Alan Burdick, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins us to discuss his book Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation. Burdick looks at how time affects our bodies, brains and the ways we...
View ArticleLife in Turkey, Gaming for the Greater Good, Translating Trump
Kaya Genç, a novelist and essayist from Istanbul, joins us to discuss his book Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey. Asi Burak joins us to discuss his book, Power Play: How Video...
View ArticleTime for a New Time?
North Korea invented its own time zone. Arizona and Hawaii refuse to participate in daylight savings. Steve Hanke thinks it’s time to overhaul, well, time.
View ArticleWhy Scheduling Your Free Time Might Ruin It
Americans are becoming increasingly dependant on our calendars. But what happens when you start to schedule free time? Bad things, says Selin Malkoc.
View ArticleWhy Scheduling Your Free Time Might Ruin It
Americans are becoming increasingly dependant on our calendars. But what happens when you start to schedule free time? Bad things, says Selin Malkoc.
View ArticleTime for a New Time?
North Korea invented its own time zone. Arizona and Hawaii refuse to participate in daylight savings. Steve Hanke thinks it’s time to overhaul, well, time.
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Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction
Carlo Rovelli offers vast, complex ideas beyond most of our imagining — "quanta," "grains of space," time and the heat of black holes" — and condenses them into spare, beautiful words that render them...
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Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us
The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection "What the Living Do," about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she...
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Why Are Some Classical Pieces So Long?
“Why is classical music so long?” is a valid question — just look at these Google search predictions:Clearly someone is asking. Also, who thinks this is boring?(Google Images) But it’s also an awkward...
View ArticleAn Apocalyptic Tick-Tock
On January 25, in light of the increasingly dangerous back-and-forth rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists made an announcement....
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Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction
“We don't understand the world as made by stones — by things. We understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses: happenings.” Carlo Rovelli offers vast, complex ideas beyond most of our...
View ArticleDoes Time Exist, Elephant Seismology, Produce Safety. May 11, 2018, Part 2
How do you think about time? Most people experience it as Newton described it—as something that passes independent of other events, that’s the same for everyone, and moves in a straight line. Still,...
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[Unedited] Marie Howe with Krista Tippett
The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection “What the Living Do,” about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she...
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[Unedited] Carlo Rovelli with Krista Tippett
“We don’t understand the world as made by stones — by things. We understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses: happenings. Carlo Rovelli offers vast, complex ideas beyond most of our...
View ArticleSciFri Extra: About Time
The official U.S. time is kept on a cesium fountain clock named NIST-F1, located in Boulder, Colorado. On a recent trip to Boulder, Ira took a trip to see the clock. He spoke with Elizabeth Donley,...
View ArticleSpace Junk, Chronobiology, Mistletoe. Dec 20, 2019, Part 2
As more commercial companies are getting into the satellite launching game, space is becoming a crowded place and all of these objects are creating space debris. Right now, there are approximately...
View Article[Unedited] Carlo Rovelli with Krista Tippett
Physicist Carlo Rovelli says humans don’t understand the world as made by things, “we understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses — happenings.” This everyday truth is as scientific as...
View ArticleCarlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction
Physicist Carlo Rovelli says humans don’t understand the world as made by things, “we understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses — happenings.” This everyday truth is as scientific as...
View ArticleWe're On Pandemic Time Now
As the pandemic continues to disrupt our communities and our daily routines, the very passage of time feels distorted: chronology seems to stretch, compress, and flip, sometimes all at once. In this...
View ArticleOn Matters of Time and Space
Over the past two months, packed cities have been repeatedly blamed for the rapid spread of coronavirus. Meanwhile, in jails and prisons, incarcerated people have been contracting the virus at alarming...
View ArticleA Brief History of Timekeeping
We spend our lives bound to a clock and calendar that tell us what to do and what to expect. But now, 26 million Americans are newly jobless, untethered from structure and predictability. Hundreds of...
View ArticleHow The Pandemic is Warping How You Feel Time
The quarantine feels like it's going on forever, but the days are flying by. Dr. Adrian Bardon, a professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University and the author of the book A Brief History of the...
View ArticleDispatch 6: Strange Times
Covid has disrupted the most basic routines of our days and nights. But in the middle of a conversation about how to fight the virus, we find a place impervious to the stalled plans and frenetic...
View ArticleHas COVID-19 Disrupted Our Sense of Time?
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of our lives, and that includes our sense of time. Depending on the month, week, day, or even hour, time either drags on forever, or is gone...
View ArticleA Brief History of Timekeeping
We spend our lives bound to a clock and calendar that tell us what to do and what to expect. But now, millions of Americans are newly jobless, untethered from structure and predictability. Hundreds of...
View ArticleA Watch Named Arnold
It might be hard to believe, but there was a time when time wasn’t as exact as it is now. When people would come over on “Tuesday” rather than “Tuesday at exactly 2:30.” Ainissa Ramirez is a scientist...
View Article443- Matters of Time
For the most part, we take time for granted; maybe we don’t have enough of it, but we at least know how it works --- well, most of the time. A lot of what we think about time is relatively recent, and...
View ArticleThe Watch Named Arnold
It might be hard to believe, but there was a time when time wasn’t as exact as it is now. When people would come over on “Tuesday” rather than “Tuesday at exactly 2:30.” Ainissa Ramirez is a scientist...
View ArticleWho Owns Time?
This Saturday, Black communities around the country will be celebrating Juneteenth. But for many, it’s a complicated holiday to celebrate. Why? Because Juneteenth commemorates freedom delayed.While it...
View Article443- Matters of Time
For the most part, we take time for granted; maybe we don’t have enough of it, but we at least know how it works --- well, most of the time. A lot of what we think about time is relatively recent, and...
View ArticleKate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope
An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and death that...
View ArticleFall Back: Will We Never Be Free of the Tyranny of Time Change?
Get ready for a grand tour of all of the little time-keeping devices in your life: the wristwatch, the time display in your car, your microwave. Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend.That's upsetting...
View Article[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett
Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.” At...
View ArticleOliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals
Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.” At...
View ArticleIntroducing On Being Foundations
A new season of big On Being conversations is coming in the new year. But for the next few weeks, we are pulling back the veil on how we’re getting grounded for that. On Being Foundations are words and...
View ArticleFoundations 2: Living the Questions
It is a deep truth in life, as in science, that we are shaped as much by the quality of our questions as by our answers. Those moments in our lives when a new question rises up in us, stops us in our...
View ArticleFoundations 3: Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast”
There is no subject more intriguing than time, and time is so much stranger and more dynamic than the clocks, deadlines, goals, and schedules we live by. In this third offering of ways of seeing and...
View ArticleFoundations 4: Calling and Wholeness
The language of vocation comes from the Latin “vocari”: “calling.” It is a word we use often at On Being as a pointer for the way forward. In Western culture, vocation has long been equated with work...
View ArticleOn Repeat
Meg Wolitzer presents three provocative works about rituals that reshape and define their characters. In “oh she gotta head fulla hair,” by Ntozake Shange, a woman’s attention to her hair consumes her...
View Article'The Pandemic Skip' and Our Warped Perception of Time
Katy Schneider, features editor at New York Magazine, reflects on "the pandemic skip," which she describes in a recent essay in The Cut as "the strange sensation that our bodies might be a step out of...
View ArticleAge & Politics; Climate Week Kicks Off; The Pandemic 'Time Warp'; Is It Ever...
On today's show:Sen. Mitt Romney announced he won't run for reelection, citing his age, and urged other older politicians to do the same. Christina Greer, Moynihan Public Scholars Fellow at City...
View ArticleThe Secret to a Long Life
Producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan wants to know how she can live the longest feeling life possible. The answer leads her on a journey to make one week feel like two. And the journey leads her to a whole...
View ArticleIt's About Time
On this SELECTED SHORTS, host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the nature of time and how it shapes our lives. In Helen Phillips’ “The Knowers,” a woman chooses to learn a vital fact about her...
View ArticleSara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World
Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. This is a...
View Article564- Mini-Stories: Volume 17
It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's mini-stories season! Gather the kids around the fire because We have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred...
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