Ask a fungus Reprints Related items Predicting the menopause: Egg timerJun 17th 2004 Circadian rhythms: Early birds get itJul 26th 2001At its core, a biological talent for timekeeping requires some sort of regular, chemical oscillation the molecular equivalent of a pendulum's swing.
Unlike caesium clocks, whose atomic metronomes oscillate in the microwave range and which have become the standard for precision timekeeping necessary for such things as satellite navigation, Dr Wineland's optical clock ticks at the higher frequency of visible light.
Strict timekeeping is a new experience for his employees.
You can hardly hear yourself think; but given the ceaseless round of church offices, tavern-bawling, new mechanical timekeeping and life lived out in the street, that was what it was like.
The cells that are doing the timekeeping must first alter their chemistry in a predictable way, and then return in an equally predictable way to their original state.In theory, this does not require much.
But for many people in Britain for much of the 20th century, indulging the national weakness for exact timekeeping, Time spoke from the other end of a telephone line.
Linear-active culture stresses timekeeping and getting-to-the-point and dominates in North America and northern Europe.
This business pays well and is growing fast.Tony Hatch, a rail analyst, says improvements in scheduling and timekeeping mean that trains are now winning business they might not even have bothered bidding for before.
For their part, auditors gripe about clients' unrealistic expectations and poor timekeeping.
Slovakia's president, Ivan Gasparovic, has interesting contrarian views on Serbia, but not much else.Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine finds it hard to get up in the morning, so avoid any suggestion of a power breakfast, and notoriously wayward when it comes to timekeeping (your columnist once waited 11 hours).
GLANCE at any technology blog, and all the innovation in the world of timekeeping seems to be captured by two words: smart watches.
