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Si has notado que tu despertador retrasa últimamente no son imaginaciones tuyas, ni un efecto debido a la teoría de la relatividad, ni a un fallo en el aparato. Realmente está retrasado, unos 6 minutos. {Música de X-Files aquí}

La razón es bastante peregrina pero al parecer un fallo continuo en el sistema eléctrico europeo ha hecho que la corriente circulara con una frecuencia media de 49,996 Hz en vez de con 50 Hz, que es lo normal. De modo que muchos relojes que están conectados a la red eléctrica –como los despertadores, microondas, hornos– que utilizan esa frecuencia para marcar los segundos se han ido retrasando poco a poco, unos 6 minutos en total.

Las autoridades de SwissGrid («los vigilantes del tiempo») se han dado cuenta y achacan el problema a una desviación continua originada entre Serbia y Kosovo que afecta a 25 países de nuestro entorno. Dicen que hay algo así como «113 GWh perdidos» y que eso es lo que ha hecho que se desviara la frecuencia – que en cierto modo funciona como el «nivel del agua» entre vasos comunicantes según las aportaciones de todos los países de la red.

Lo más WTF del asunto es que el problema se debe a un desacuerdo político entre los dos países, y no se sabe quién restaurará esos 113 GWh ni si se solucionará pronto. Así que de momento se ha ajustado todo de nuevo a 50 Hz exactos para que los relojes marquen bien la hora, pero está por ver si se planifica un reajuste (acelerando un poco la frecuencia) para acelerar durante unas semanas la frecuencia y compensar así el tiempo perdido en los relojes que no sean tan fáciles de «ajustar a mano».

Mientras tanto toca revisar y poner los relojes de nuevo en hora utilizando el teléfono móvil, el reloj del ordenador, el teletexto u otra fuente oficial, fiable y exacta cual reloj suizo.

(Vía MeFi.)

{Foto: Alarm Clock (CC) Douglas Heriot @ Flickr}

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Ancient art dating back to around 1100 BCE

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Artist Juana Gómez turns her gaze inward in order to understand the larger systems that compose the outside world. She embroiders the bones, muscles, veins, and synapsis that lie below her skin onto self-portraits, tracing her biological structures as a way to translate the similar patterns found in nature and modern civilization.

“There is fundamental law that can be seen in the veins of a leaf, the course of rivers and their tributaries, the circuits of the central nervous system, the currents of the sea, and the routes of traffic on the Internet,” says Gómez in an artist statement. “Deciphering this common language, which connects the micro cosmos with the macro cosmos, the external and the interior world, allows us to distinguish a pattern that influences inert, biological, social and cultural systems.”

Gómez first photographs sections of her body—face, torso, hands, legs, feet—which she then prints onto loose linen or another similar fabric. Next, she embroiders onto her duplicated skin, stitching brightly colored thread over her tattooed body (an element which adds another layer of texture to her personal works). In addition to these embroidered self-portraits, Gómez has also created an in situ thread-based work titled Cultivo. You can see both methods of her practice on her website.

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With the push of a button or the crank of a handle, these whimsical wooden automata by Japanese woodworker Kazuaki Harada spring to life, with figures that bounce and dance across a miniature stage like puppets. Harada is a prolific designer of mechanical designs fashioned from wood both large and small, from tiny single-crank pieces to giant labyrinthine playscapes in galleries and museums. The delight in many of his automata is derived from their simplicity, but lately he’s explored increasingly elaborate devices like a dot matrix printer and longer sequences akin to a Rube Goldberg machine.

Harada shares his latest work on Instagram and you can watch nearly a decade of his completed pieces on his YouTube channel. (via Spoon & Tamago)

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First published in the pre-photographic age, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours was the preeminent guide to color and its classification for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists in the 19th-century. Without an image for reference, the book provided immense handwritten detail describing where each specific shade could be found on an animal, plant, or mineral. Prussian Blue for instance could be located in the beauty spot of a mallard’s wing, on the stamina of a bluish-purple anemone, or in a piece of blue copper ore.

The system of classification was first devised by German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner in the late 18th-century. Shortly after Scottish painter Patrick Syme updated Werner’s guide, matching color swatches and his own list of examples to the provided nomenclature.

The book’s poetic names, such as Arterial Blood Red, Berlin Blue, and Verdigris Green, added flourish to the writings of many researchers, allowing vivid descriptions for prose which had previously been limited to a more elementary color palette. Charles Darwin even used the guide during his voyage to the Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde islands on the H.M.S. Beagle.

The 1814 book has now been republished by Smithsonian Books as a pocket-sized guide, providing a historic connection to vivid colors found in the field for a future generation of artists, scientists, and curious naturalists. You can preorder the 2018 hardcover for its release date on February 6, 2018.  (via Co.Design)