[LEAPSECS] Dava Sobel article about Charlottesville meeting

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon Jul 22 18:15:06 EDT 2013


Dava Sobel, the author of exquisite books like "A More Perfect Heaven" and "Galileo's Daughter" as well as of the rousing tale of John Harrison's clocks and the discovery of the "Longitude", has written a charming piece about the recent Charlottesville UTC meeting:

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/what-if-clock-time-no-longer-tracked-the-sun/

Every article that mentions the suprachiasmatic nucleus but not POSIX is a win for humanity :-)

Rob



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