About Time
A 5-episode probe of our complex relationship with time – from how we think and talk about it, to how we experience it. Separating scientific truth from social construction to understand what it truly means to live with time.
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Part 1 of the About Time series, this episode explores how different cultures talk about time, and whether language can shape how we think about it.
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Part 3 of the About Time series, this episode takes a closer look at the subjective time — the time we ‘feel’ — to see how our brains create our sense of time.
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Part 2 of the About Time series, this episode explores the theories and thinkers that have shaped our scientific understanding of time.
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Part 5 of the About Time series, this episode explores the Western social construction of countable time – from the creation of days through to atomic clocks.
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Part 4 of the About Time series, this episode explores our biological experience of time – seeing how circadian rhythms, illness, and age impact it.