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<p>According to our unscientific office poll, the annual changing of the clocks has all the popularity of a root canal. With few exceptions, people described the shift to and from Daylight Saving Time as disorienting, arbitrary, and unwelcome.</p><p>On a more existential level, winding the clocks back and forth reminds us that no matter how concrete minutes and hours may <i>feel, </i>the way we perceive time is <i>fluid</i>. Time <i>flies </i>when you’re having fun. A watched pot never boils. </p><p>So to celebrate (or perhaps protest) another year setting back the clocks, the <i>Outside/In</i> team has uncovered four mini-stories that will poke at, stretch, or even obliterate your perception of time. From “time expansion experiences”, to time-space synaesthesia, to the slow-motion life of a fly, prepare for a totally different type of time warp.</p><p><i>Featuring Steve Taylor, Rhitu Chatterjee, Kevin Healy, Katherine Akey, and Patricia Lynne Duffy.</i></p><p>This episode was produced...