Tag: CAMBRIDGE

We've seen our fair share of slow news days here at Switched, but, according to a computer programmer named William Tunstall-Pedoe, none in living memory has ever been quite as dull as April 11th, 1954. On that Sunday, Belgium held a general election, a Turkish academic named Abdullah Atalar was born, and a soccer player named Jack Shufflebotham died. And, apparently, that was about it. As the ...

The passage of time is inevitable and, to Dr John Taylor, not all too friendly. He has immortalized this idea in his Corpus Clock, a functional timepiece as terrifying as it is mesmerizing. Publicly unveiled by physicist Steven Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England and conceived of as a work of art, the clock's most immediate feature is the vicious Chronophage (Greek for 'Eater ...