Telling time by trees: The Nevada Museum of Art’s new expansion contains a clock that runs on ‘bristlecone time’

Telling time by trees: The Nevada Museum of Art’s new expansion contains a clock that runs on ‘bristlecone time’

One idea upon which nearly all humans agree is that the clock is in charge. Time is a thief, a cruel mistress, and we will contort ourselves madly to meet its demands. Yet time, as we know it, in the modern day, is actually an arbitrary idea conceived by ancient Egyptians, enabling the earliest industrialization to occur. Since then, humans have been fixated on containing and somehow controlling time. It’s this idea that has preoccupied Jonathon…