Alan Burdick is a senior staff editor at The New York Times and a former senior editor and staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation." He has written for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Natural History, and Outside. Alan's first book, "Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion," was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting.
“[Why Time Flies] captures us. Because it opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures.” —Science
“Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we’re bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?
In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that “now” actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist’s lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.
本书是关于时间的哲学、心理、生物、 数学 、物理的常识科普,谈的都不深不难懂,但恰好都是我感兴趣。 实际上,我们现在日常对于时间的认知,是以一种观察为基础的事实,通常被称为经验事实。这个经验事实很大一部分原因,又是来自于我们唾手可得的时间指示工具。手表,手机,...
评分很多喜欢外出旅游的朋友都有这样的尴尬经历,兴奋的到达期盼的旅游景点,却不得不面对肠胃不适的问题,以至于不敢吃不敢喝。面对这一问题有的人要么提前备好药物,要么不敢品尝当地的美食,更有甚者自带干粮。很多人把这一问题归结食品不卫生,或者归结为自己水土不服,可从来...
评分阳光与生物钟 0.08秒的滞后? 视觉、听觉、触觉~速度差 红绿蓝~依次呈现 这本书是在得到听的,体验很差。 1.题目里面有科学,但是一点也看不到科学性在哪里?不能做个实验就叫科学了吧? 2.那个跳楼机的实验也太不科学了吧!跳楼的时候还盯着表盘???疯了吧??? 3.读书的...
评分 评分看到1/3就看不下去了。条理性以及跟主题感觉够不上。好吧,不能完全看书名就能够解惑心中的疑问。也有收获,至少明白时间可以跟人的心理学挂上联系。
评分lost me in the latter half part of the book. The Second and the Hour are great.
评分我们感知的当下,相对于现实已经有了细微的滞后。而因为大脑需要对信息进行处理,也就可能会对现实产生错觉。当我们欢乐的时候,时间并没有飞逝。只是当快乐结束之后,我们才发现时间没有了。当我们说时光飞逝的时候,正确的表达方式应该是:我们根本没在意时间的流淌。
评分以为是新知,结果是散文....事隔这么多年我还是读不进散文....
评分每天听本书听过,最重要的概念就是那0.08秒,时间时间是大脑拼凑的现实。
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