Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
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Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
“Time” is the most frequently used noun in the English language. But what are we actually talking about when we talk about time? This episode looks at time representations and referencing systems used by different cultures, to explore how far language can shape how we think about time. This episode in brief: 1.The spatial language of time | 03:45 Many cultures use the graphical model of space to understand time, but there are some pretty interesting differences in how the world’s languages...
About Time
Although time may not materially exist, most of us still measure it out using clocks and calendars. From the creation of days to the atomic clock, this episode explores how the abstract concept of time became a countable “reality” — and why metric time worked its way to the heart of Western society. This episode in brief: 1. Mapping calendrical time | 03:15 The countable time we use in our everyday life is a social construction. This section takes a look at how different cultures divided the...
