Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

According to our unscientific office poll, the annual changing of the clocks has all the popularity of a root canal. With few exceptions, people described the shift to and from Daylight Saving Time as disorienting, arbitrary, and unwelcome. On a more existential level, winding the clocks back and forth reminds us that no matter how concrete minutes and hours may feel, the way we perceive time is fluid. Time flies when you’re having fun. A watched pot never boils. So to celebrate (or perhaps protest) another year setting back the clocks, the Outside/In team has uncovered four mini-stories that will poke at, stretch, or even obliterate your perception of time. From “time expansion experiences,” to time-space synesthesia, to the slow-motion life of a fly, prepare for a totally different type of time warp. Featuring Steve Taylor, Rhitu Chatterjee, Kevin Healy, Katherine Akey, and Patricia Lynne Duffy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think this will work now. Justine, give me one, two, one, two, one, two.
0:04.6	Amazing. This microphone smells like coffee.
0:07.3	Ooh. That's gross, because I don't think anybody's used it for a very long time.
0:11.4	Is that side in? I'm Nate Hegey, and I'm going to do a roll call because we got a whole
0:18.4	bunch of us right now. So roll call, Felix Poon, present.
0:22.1	Present. Taylor Quimbee, present.
0:23.7	Here. Justine Paradise, present.
0:27.0	This is bringing me back to middle school, and I'm not liking it.
0:30.5	You'd have to mispronounce our names to really bring us back down.
0:34.0	I feel like so I'm going to give you the raids.
0:37.2	Yeah. So do you all remember what's going to happen on November 5th?
0:42.9	Guy Fox stay?
0:43.9	Yeah. We burn effigies.
0:45.8	Guy Fox stay. Who's Guy Fox?
0:48.2	Oh, I don't think you want to open that can of worms there. I feel like more guesses.
0:55.9	Is it something to do with our clocks?
0:57.9	Yes. So that is the day we have to set our clocks back by one hour because it's the
1:03.9	end of daylight saving time.
1:06.6	And I recently asked our colleagues about their thoughts on this annual ritual, and what
1:11.6	I found was that people detest changing the clocks.
1:15.7	I hate daylight tidings. I cannot wait till it's gone forever.
1:18.7	I find it so irritating.
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