Time

We have all wished for one extra hour in the day. Now, this may become a reality, thanks to new measurements on the second from the BETA experiment at ...

This measurement comes at a time when many countries are investigating the feasibility of a four-day working week. The caesium atomic clock works by an oscillator sending a wave with a frequency of exactly 9 192 631 770 Hz (using the old second definition), which is the frequency needed to excite the caesium atoms. However, the resonant frequency of quartz, which sends the electric signals to drive the clock, can change due to environmental factors. This means the day would last 24 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds. “This way, several uncertainties cancel out, making the measurement much more precise.” The experiment used the [caesium fountain clock](https://www.npl.co.uk/instruments/caesium-fountain) [ – one of the most precise clocks in the world, used to define SI units and help set coordinated universal time (UTC) – to precisely measure the second using caesium.

What a trove of diaries from Amsterdam during World War Two taught Nina Siegal about history and how we remember the Holocaust.

It was neither the story of the Jews of the Netherlands, nor the history of their persecutors, nor exclusively the resistance story. They tend to be more faithful to a Calvinist tradition of stoicism and spare design, and the NIOD building flies in the face of those principles. How it felt to live through it, through the eyes of individuals from every walk of life. He said the range of the collection was vast. “We all know the who, what, when, and where of the Holocaust, but the why is a mystery still,” she had told me. The thought played through my head again and again as I spoke to Kok and Somers. Of course that was right; even in January 1943, most Jews in the Netherlands didn’t know that the edict that they must sew the yellow Star of David into all their outerwear was a sign of far worst to come. A week later, I visited the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam for the first time to interview two researchers, René Kok and Erik Somers, who had curated the photography exhibition. They were living history forwards, day by day, moment by moment, attempting to enjoy and go on with their lives, in spite of the mounting persecution, increasingly stringent regulations, and deportations to an foreseeable future. Some suspected as much, and refused to wear the symbol, and some non-Jews wore it in solidarity with the Jews to show their overlords that they didn’t approve of this method of branding. They looked gloriously happy, maybe even in love, but on the lapel of each of their winter coats was a Star of David. I remarked as much to Judith Cohen, the director of the photography archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., during an interview a few days later.

A safety order following the near-beaching of Cook Strait ferry the Kaitaki is unlikely to cause many headaches for passengers, Wellington harbour master ...

In 2018, the Greater Wellington Regional Council commissioned a report on harbour risk. Other years had between 64 and 81 days with 25 knot gusts. But they would head further south to give a smoother ride during big southerly swells. [Kaitaki incident](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/131155425/kaitaki-ferry-lift-hero-and-dad-who-was-trapped-tell-tale-of-rescue), it emerged that the two Wellington harbour tugs that came to the rescue would have been unlikely to be able to attach and haul the Kaitaki if needed. [ticking time bomb](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/131107706/ticking-time-bomb-maritime-lawyers-warning-before-kaitaki-ferry-mayday)”. [was the only ferry able to take passengers](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/131290583/bluebridge-cancels-ferries-aratere-only-cook-strait-passenger-ferry). Metservice data shows there were 89 days in 2022 when southerly winds had reached 25 knots or above at Wellington Airport. [with 864 people on board](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/131151298/free-beer-for-life-call-for-ferry-hero-who-helped-free-group-stuck-in-lift) lost all power and was blown to within 0.9 nautical miles of the shore, having already drifted about that far, before anchors held and onboard engineers restarted the engines. [Wellington harbourmaster's order to keep Cook Strait ferries away from shore](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131667662/wellington-harbourmasters-order-to-keep-cook-strait-ferries-away-from-shore?rm=a) [order to Interislander and Bluebridge ferry operators](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/131667662/wellington-harbourmasters-order-to-keep-cook-strait-ferries-away-from-shore) means that ferries will have to stay at least between 3 nautical miles (5.5 kilometres) and 5.5 nautical miles (10.1km) off the North Island’s south coast in strong southerly winds. [Interislander ferry forced into U-turn due to medical emergency](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington-top-stories/300811630/interislander-ferry-forced-into-uturn-due-to-medical-emergency?rm=a) [loss of propulsion or loss of control in this area](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/131092724/broken-cook-strait-ferry-drifted-a-nautical-mile-towards-rocks), the time available to remedy the fault is restricted by the rate of drift and distance from shore.” The directive essentially buys more time in an emergency to fix an issue or for help to be deployed.

Shoeing previously barefoot horses improved their lameness scores and improved hock angles, researchers in Connecticut @ Horsetalk.co.nz. Shoeing previously ...

“What we measured in this study was really important for lameness outcomes and quality of movement outcomes,” Reed says. “The more movement a horse has in the hock, the more it can pick up that hock and minimize that angle, and the more it can stretch that out,” she says. “That allows for more push off from the ground which can mean more power, a longer stride, and more range of motion in the stride itself. This allows the horse to push off the ground more easily and have a better quality of movement. Shoeing horses changes how their foot interacts with the ground. “So anything we can do to support the hindlegs could be really beneficial.”

IRVINE, Calif. – The Pepperdine men's and women's track teams continued to climb the all-time list after competing at the Vince O'Boyle Track and Field ...

(Mill Valley, Calif./Marin Catholic HS) competed in the men's 200m finishing in a time of 22.28. Champion HS) ran the women's 5,000m in a time of 19:48.27. The Waves will have a couple weeks off, before competing at the Mt. Ortman, Parsio, Rocco and Peterson represented the Waves in the women's 4x400m relay with a time of 4:16.44. In the women's 200m, sophomore Whitaker had a first-place showing in his heat in a time of 2:03.00. [Ryan Fabian](/sports/track-and-field/roster/ryan-fabian/4168) Hemphill notches his name higher on the all-time list from 10th to second. In the men's 400m, junior [Ryan Hemphill](/sports/track-and-field/roster/ryan-hemphill/4149) Miller's time was 1.38 seconds away from the school record, which is currently held by head coach Miller also moved her name from sixth on the all-time list to third.

Both offer lessons on how organizations can pivot and take on new relevance. Both are a window into the kind of leadership that encourages innovation. Consider ...

But when a salesman visiting a client knocked over a cup of coffee onto a blueprint, he quickly grabbed the sample to wipe up the spill and found it erased the blueprint! He relayed his discovery to leadership, which led directly to a partnership with P&G and the creation of a massive new product category. Both Play-Doh and Viagra never would have happened if the CEOs of each company hadn’t become fierce advocates. Both the Play-Doh sister-in-law and the chemists deep in the bowels of Pfizer played the role of “expert companion,” sensing opportunities that leadership did not. Play-Doh and Viagra would have died had leadership not responded to the ideas offered by others. “Yet I was able to push back against a strong and publicly stated opinion from the top leadership to rally.” It used the same factory, the same extruders, even the same can, just with a different label—and voila! It thrived for decades, but by the 1950s, when people shifted to electric and gas stoves, the family-run company was on the verge of bankruptcy. It’s particularly relevant now, at a time when the average lifespan of a company is only about 10 years, and businesses are still struggling to figure out what will be the “new normal.” Both are a window into the kind of leadership that encourages innovation. The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work, I took a deep dive into great corporate comebacks, to understand what lessons they may offer for the rest of us. The stories behind both Play-Doh and Viagra provide insight into why some businesses and brands disappear, while others are reimagined in ways that propel them to even greater success.

Allison Baum Gates is a general partner at early-stage venture capital fund SemperVirens, and the author of Breaking into Venture. One night, a policeman is ...

In Einstein's general theory of relativity, time changes in relation to dense objects. Continuing with the viscous fluid analogy, this means that the viscosity ...

A presentist says that the only aspect of time one can experience is the present, as the past is no longer present, and the future is indeterminate, and so also can be said not to exist. A more compelling answer to the uncertainties of the future is inertia or heat. Time is a kind of modelling, and a model is distinct from the thing represented. Rather, we use the idea of time to order a succession of states and to compare durations. The past and the future are not physical places where we can go, and if they’re just arbitrary constructs to make sense of time, what can be inferred is that time is the present, and hence, we are time. We tend to make sense of time in terms of the past, present and future, which are constructs of our consciousness to make sense of our experiences and memories. We can never tell in what ways reality as it exists in itself independent of experience is spatial and temporal, but only that the sensed world of appearance must be so for us. Entropy is part of the life-cycle of the creation and death of the universe. Yet we can, in the present, imaginatively appreciate the nature and immensity of time outside our experience. We define the second as the basic unit of time, but what is a second? We can recall or come to know of our past, or that of human history, while living in the present and anticipating the future. It is this observed sequence of events that generates, and indeed defines, the passage of time.