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The length of a day has critical impacts on our technologies, navigation, and more.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that the days are going by faster and faster, it may not just be your perception of time.

Abdul Hamid Mir In the heart of winter, when all attempts failed to settle the post-polls dust in the state, Governor’s Rule was imposed followed by the intra-state crisis over West Pak refugees. However, with the onset of spring, the political climate stabilised when Mufti began his 2nd Litmus Test as CM of the Common Minimum Govt. Weeks before Obama landed in New Delhi along with his sniffer dogs, John Kerry felt overtones of ‘vibrations’ in a minor car accident on Indian soil after attending ‘Vibrant’ Gujarat Summit. On one hand, Kiran Bedi joined BJP though she lost polls/fans...

2 months ago M. Caye Castagnetto Leap Second LP Peruvian artist Caye Castagnetto (they/them) has released the official music video for “Slippery Snakes.” Influenced by a life split between Lima, London, and Twentynine Palms, Peru-born Caye Castagnetto’s Leap Second is an intriguingly personal and hard to classify debut album. Castagnetto’s debut LP Leap Second is out January 22nd on Castle Face Records. The album is a thick collage of samples Caye recorded with different artists and musicians, including Beatrice Dillon and the late Aileen Bryant, that spans 5 years in the making. Th...

Earth’s 28 Fastest Days Happened in 2020 milliseconds quicker than average. Don’t worry -- this doesn’t mean that we’re all going to fly off the planet like when you spin your kids around on a merry-go-round. But it could mess with the Keepers of Time. The shortest day of all came on July 19, when the Earth completed its rotation in 1.4602 milliseconds quicker than the normal 86,400 seconds in a day.  The last time that an average day was less than 86,400 seconds across a full year was in 1937. Astronomical time is set by how long it takes the Earth to make one full rotation, and wh...