• 6 min readThe Accidental TomatoHow a cheap kitchen timer conquered modern workA frustrated student, a tomato-shaped timer and a ten-minute bet with himself. The surprisingly human story behind the Pomodoro Technique.
• 5 min readWhy 10:10?The quiet code behind almost every clock advertisementLook at any watch ad and the hands say ten past ten. It isn't a coincidence, and the popular legends about it are wrong.
• 6 min readThe Ghosts on Your ScreenThe strange science of OLED burn-inWhy phone screens can keep a faint memory of what they showed, why pure black is the healthiest colour a pixel can be, and how to run a clock all night safely.
• 6 min readThe Missing 11 DaysWhen Britain went to bed on September 2 and woke up on September 14In 1752 eleven days simply vanished from the calendar. Here's why, who it confused, and why your tax year still remembers.