On September 19, 2008 Professor Stephen Hawking unveiled the Corpus Clock, featuring the Chronophage, a grasshopper that eats time.
Watch a fascinating introduction of this clock by Dr. John C. Taylor of Cambridge University’s Office of External Affairs and Communications.
If you’re like me, you would like to see this clock in real-time, [...]
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Writer, editor, photojournalist, cartoonist, Beverly Spicer is the E-Bits columnst at The Digital Journalist, a video and photojournalism webzine at http://digitaljournalist. org. She is a diarist and author of two books. Her undergraduate degree is in physiological psychology and biological sciences, and she has a interdisciplinary Master of Science in architectural studies combining architecture, neuroscience, and Middle Eastern studies. .
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