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Pop quiz: What time is it? The right answer as of Sunday morning would have been the wrong answer 24 hours prior.
That’s right, yet again we’ve changed our clocks, marking the end of daylight saving time (DST) and falling back into standard time to sync up with the majority of world nations.
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So what even is time when we so regularly tinker with our collective definition of it?
As Heinrich Gompf, a sleep researcher with UC Davis Health’s Department of Neurological Surgery explained to me recently, life on Earth is naturally synced to sunlight.
“We are on a planet that has approximately 24-hour rhythms,” Gompf said. “We have not really found any species that does not have some sort of an internal clock that helps all of us anticipate the daily light-dark cycle.”
Humans’ use of the clock as the shared social construct of time is a relatively new phenomenon, which came about mainly through one key piece of 19th century...
Professional rivalry and office politics were the driving forces behind the "false" sexual harassment and conversion allegations levelled against Tata Consulting Services (TCS) employee Raza Rafiq...