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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:Or its all in our head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think I'm getting older because I've already posted all the nigger jokes I know of on Slashdot, one at a time. And I know a lot of nigger jokes.

  2. Re:Or its all in our head by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's okay, because nigger jokes never get old.

  3. Re:Or its all in our head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    excuse me?

  4. Re:Or its all in our head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    excuse yo-self, nigger