The Pandemic Time Warp

Short Wave

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic has upended every aspect of our lives, including the disorienting way many of us have been perceiving time. It might feel like a day drags on, while a week (or month!) just flies by. We talk with Dean Buonomano, a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA, about his research into how the brain tells time. We'll also ask him what's behind this pandemic time warp.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:07.0	Let's start with a fun game.
0:09.2	A game I've been playing every day, it feels like, and I'm not the only one.
0:14.8	Time now for the most important question of the morning.
0:18.3	Take this local news station, box 8 news in Cleveland, Ohio.
0:23.2	What day is it with Todd Meeney?
0:31.0	It's Monday.
0:35.0	That settles it. It's Monday.
0:38.0	Another day in the pandemic time warp.
0:42.0	Keeping track of time is something a lot of us are struggling with right now.
0:47.0	There was a me running around with the calendars nowadays instead of having Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday.
0:53.0	They just have day day day day day day.
0:56.0	This is Dean Bono.
0:58.0	Bono Mano.
1:00.0	Bono Mano.
1:02.0	It means good hands because I come from a long line of pick pockets.
1:08.0	My family's Italian, that would mean you can need bread.
1:11.0	That would be the news.
1:13.0	I wish that was true.
1:15.0	I'll tell you what, Dean, I've been trying to bake.
1:18.0	As a person who was a microbiologist, you would be startled in my inability to make yeast grow.
1:25.0	Dean is a neurobiology and psychology professor at UCLA.
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