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Why Time Flies By As You Get Older

Posted by kdawson on from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

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  1. Re:Kind of logarithmic scale by biryokumaru · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, I don't see anything like that at all, and the only ad-blocking I have is Privoxy. Maybe you should switch to better software.

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  2. deep linking by adolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gosh. It seems like just yesterday[1] that NPR was causing a big fuss over deep linking of content, and here it is again on the main page.

    [1]: I must be getting old.

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