What Is Time?

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      Likewise, river time - and other systems I'm developing that will pace clocks to match the growth of trees or the circulation of oceans - may encourage environmental awareness in a world increasingly alienated from nature. According to historian Michael O'Malley, over several months, a new clock installed atop Town Hall ran slow and then fast in comparison with the clock that had set the local standard time for decades, at nearby Yale College. We're now building a clock at the Anchorage Museum that's calibrated by the aggregate flow of several major Alaskan rivers, including the glacially sourced Matanuska and Knik, which are sensitive to local and global environmental changes. [Extracted from the article]
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