https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=6413 2025-05-28T11:00:10Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=6413 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art > slow and time Another popular idea is Slow Zones, which are areas where car traffic is limited and streets reclaimed by pedestrians. Although some are skeptical of their usefulness, Salazar-Miranda’s study revealed some data-driven benefits: “We used... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663238 https://blog.medium.com/how-better-sidewalks-make-better-communities-b94ca12f3e53 2025-05-28T11:00:10Z According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1654956 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221005-eucatastrophe-tolkiens-word-for-the-anti-doomsday 2022-10-23T06:52:30Z The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1591585 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives 2017-01-15T10:10:30Z Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or ski... screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to ou... more we stand to lose https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587056 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/03/jonathan-safran-foer-technology-diminishing-us 2016-12-04T12:42:50Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1577161 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/fashion/internet-technology-phones-introspection.html?_r=1 2016-06-12T19:49:06Z Many experts believe our brains aren't prepared for the ... bundle of digital distractions that we are bombarded wit... feeling sluggish and ultimately less productive. 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National Maritime Museum yesterday. After a 100-day tria... known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear pl... prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinne... It was an i https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470464 http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/national/clockmaker-john-harrison-vindicated-250-years-after-%E2%80%98absurd%E2%80%99-claims/ar-AAbhtA2?ocid=mailsignoutmd 2015-04-20T12:12:01Z Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We... by Maria Popova “Time perception matters because it is the experience ... Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ... 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Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1406028 http://mic.com/articles/99408/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books 2014-10-02T05:20:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1346290 http://www.localdaylighttime.org/about-ldt/ 2014-03-10T16:13:28Z A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined... Solar time vs. standard time Solar time vs. standard time At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1342830 http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-17043 2014-02-22T07:53:00Z Reality television and rolling 24-hour news give us inst... entertainment, but now a new television format is slowin... Pioneered in Norway, so-called Slow TV has featured an e ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1275544 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25524704 2013-12-28T12:06:02Z Van den Hoven believes we need to delete more. “A lot ... think forgetting is a bad thing, that it’s a bug of hu... not. Forgetting is a side-product of a successful memory.” And that, she says, is one of the project’s aims. “W ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1127578 http://www.newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2013/10/remembering-to-forget 2013-10-08T09:46:58Z Mynd is a competeley new kind of Calendar App developed ... seed-funded team who had previously worked together at M... article, they shared a few of the design lessons that we... I must admit that with some of my co-authors we develope ... IFeelLuckyD https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1126417 http://alessiomalizia.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/its-time-to-design-the-next-calendar-app-design-lessons-on-building-mynd/ 2013-10-07T10:26:28Z I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1031416 http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/lovebird-is-ready-for-beta-testing/ 2013-03-28T18:56:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=926166 http://emailcharter.org/ 2012-12-07T08:24:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=841123 https://twitter.com/DriverRoss 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829858 http://cargocollective.com/tomloois/Blank-Ways 2012-08-16T06:58:36Z Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is. This excellen https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=824399 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-information-overload-does-to-your-brain-2012-8 2012-08-04T12:15:07Z A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te... A 16-year-o https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=763029 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all 2012-04-23T06:48:59Z Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=761243 http://www.forbes.com/sites/dell/2012/04/19/managing-distraction-how-and-why-to-ignore-your-inbox/ 2012-04-20T11:56:01Z A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown. The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ... We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=745327 http://www.timemaps.com/tour 2012-04-04T10:32:33Z STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=712206 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBTLbw1_2Q 2012-02-26T06:20:49Z Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=692954 http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/ 2012-01-29T19:05:31Z This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=687475 http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/timelines.php 2012-01-20T13:47:26Z Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon. Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ... The study will examine the psychological impact of being ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=666148 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/scientists-study-psychological-effects-birdsong?CMP=twt_fd 2011-12-21T13:09:30Z However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb... Multimedia Graphic Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :) ... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=548357 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/science/30twitter.html?_r=2&hp 2011-09-29T23:09:07Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=535884 http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/like-to-hit-snooze-this-app-will-make-you-think-twice_b13626?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2011-09-14T09:29:21Z “Time” is the most used noun in the English language... 1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ... 2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ... 3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ... ... #9 and https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=529636 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/01/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time/ 2011-09-05T11:03:38Z So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say… You want a Dancer not a Scientist. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=453509 http://revdancatt.com/2011/06/02/of-data-scientists-big-data-the-city-and-dancers/ 2011-06-03T07:45:37Z On display, I spotted a book written by one of the Briti... It was entitled Kansha - The Land of Maybe - which it se ... Back at the airport I told Magni Arge, the chief executi ... "Kansha means more than maybe," he explained. ... and respecting their a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=453504 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9498953.stm 2011-06-03T07:43:06Z An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ... The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ... The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ... The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=442512 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711 2011-05-21T09:02:19Z My attention span was never great, but modern technology... halved it again, and again and again, down to an atomic ... there's nothing discernible left. Back in that room, bom... and emails, repeatedly tapping search terms into Google ... good reason https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=432500 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/13/charlie-brooker-google-instant 2011-05-05T09:42:43Z Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=205311 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/13/charlie-brooker-google-instant 2010-09-17T13:41:49Z Calculate the Stardate of the Star Trek Future! https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=183159 http://www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm 2010-08-04T07:15:28Z Stillness, meditation, reflection, silence. Radio docume... Hall goes in search of refuge from the noise and bustle ... world, looking for moments of peace amid the hurly-burly... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=164465 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8714177.stm 2010-06-01T17:56:34Z Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a... I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ... Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ... I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ... ... tion, b https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=160148 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8603346.stm 2010-05-14T14:09:38Z Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of... Enlarge This Image Horacio Salinas for The New York Times Readers' Comments ... That is, some of us do. Others use data. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=157830 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02self-measurement-t.html 2010-05-02T16:45:23Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=150691 http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/ 2010-04-02T10:33:36Z Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne... Freedom enf https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=140742 http://macfreedom.com/ 2010-02-13T13:39:12Z "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=135623 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m 2010-01-15T11:45:23Z Opera 'is music for the heart' Pavarotti Listening to Pavarotti sing the Nessun Dorma could help ... Listening to the right kind of music can slow the heart ... ... lood pressure, while slower-pace music does the reverse. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=103556 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8112247.stm 2009-06-23T13:04:32Z Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker's slowMail is an ema... deliberately slows down the pace of electronic correspon... experiences of reflection and mindful interaction that a... 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What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ... 0slowbaini.jpg 0snail9.jpg ... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=103385 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/life_online/index.php?page=10 2009-06-22T14:25:31Z Tele-gardening By Regine on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM Categories: ... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=103384 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/life_online/index.php?page=10 2009-06-22T14:24:50Z How balanced is the UK grid at the moment? This meter is monitoring the power balance of the UK ele ... The meter actually shows the grid's "frequency", which i ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=21656 http://www.dynamicdemand.co.uk/grid.htm# 2007-12-04T18:33:52Z We're walking faster ITV News - 'World is walking 10% faster' The pace at which city dwellers walk has increased by 10 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=6412 http://craft-versus-spectacle.blogspot.com/2007/05/we-walking-faster.html 2007-05-28T19:41:27Z