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This is a glass of water sitting on scale doing nothing. Or is it nothing?
Select archived time-lapse sequences that reveal human and natural processes at work.
Watch a time-horizon study of the power and beauty of ocean waves.
Cast your shadow and know the time.
Movement is reduced to stillness, given an astronomical gear ratio.
Make your partner's face disappear, leaving only a smile.
Nine clocks show the current time on other planets and our moon.
Guess which photos are the human embryo, egg, and sperm.
Flashing lights create the illusion of motion.
Check out a clock full of tinkerers that chimes the time.
Two performers replicate an analog clock by sweeping two piles of garbage.
The colors you see here are all in your head.
