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Giving Time Can Give You Time
We all know that our objective amount of time can’t be increased, but a new study suggests that volunteering our limited time—giving it away— may actually increase our sense of unhurried leisure.
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Something for the weekend
Financial Times: The lamentation that there are not enough hours in the day is a familiar one. Busy working schedules combined with family life often mean that individuals feel unable to commit to additional duties
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If We Feel Too Busy, It’s Probably Due to Having Too Much Free Time
Scientific American: Objectively time is constant. A minute is a minute. But when we have a lot to do, it usually feels like we have less time. Now a study finds an interesting wrinkle in
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Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe
New Scientist: “HERE and now”, “Back in the 1950s”, “Going forward”… Western languages are full of spatial metaphors for time, and whether you are, say, British, French or German, you no doubt think of the
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Legacy in Mind: Why Bother Saving the Planet?
It’s supposed to hit 97 degrees this week in Washington, DC, my home town. My plan is to stay indoors and crank up the AC, for as long as the heat wave lasts. I know
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Taking Time for Others
The Wall Street Journal: Tired of feeling starved for time? Try spending it on someone else, says a new paper by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Harvard Business School and Yale School
