4.8 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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CrowdScience listener Sid is running late, and he’s turning to science to find an excuse. He and his partner Steffi in Singapore have very different attitudes to timekeeping. They wonder if this is down to their different cultural upbringings, or if they just had very different brains to start with.
Presenter Chhavi Sachdev puts her own time perception skills to the test to try to understand how subjective our sense of time can be. And we discover how the language we grow up speaking can influence the way we think about punctuality.
Presenter: Chhavi Sachdev Producer: Emily Bird Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum
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0:42.6 | Oh gosh, oh dear. How many of these has there been? |
0:50.6 | Surprisingly, I've only missed two flights ever, and that, to be honest with you, I'm going to say it wasn't my fault, obviously. |
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1:01.5 | But I am admittedly that guy that's the last person to get on the plane. |
1:08.5 | I'm Chavi Sajdav, and this week's question comes from Sid in Singapore, who is more often than not running late. |
1:10.9 | I wish I could say it was a scramble, |
1:13.5 | but it's more that I just move with my pace. |
1:18.8 | It's never usually a procrastination as such. |
1:22.2 | It's always because I am actually doing something |
1:24.9 | or I am with someone and then losing track or a sense of time. |
1:30.0 | Aha. |
1:31.4 | So this is personal. |
1:32.9 | It is very personal. |
1:34.1 | I mean, I want a campaign to prove that there's a reason why I am exceptionally bad at |
1:38.9 | time. |
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