New publication: #Circadianclock period length is not consistently linked to #chronotype in a wild #songbird. #parusmajor #dielrhythm #activityrhythm #telemetry #tau
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16535

> “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote #JamesGleick in.. #Faster. . Given what we know about the variability of our time sense, it seems clear that information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. Society’s “activity rhythm” has never been so harried. Impatience is a contagion spread from gadget to gadget.
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicholasCarr #Rapidification #ActivityRhythm #Impatience

The #Cochin #chicks are growing well, #backyardchickens might provide a chance for a better #activityrhythm for #life , something other then the #machine ...

#Cochin hatchlings (from #backyardchickens eggs) with #DoraRussel and #BertrandRussel help me read about #IndustrialCivilization and find a new #activityrhythm .
"A person afflicted with nationalism believes that his own country is the most civilized and humane country in the world, while its enemies are guilty of every imaginable atrocity and vileness. Since they are so vile and atrocious, while we are so civilized and humane, there is no degree of vileness and atrocity which we may not legitimately practise towards them."
- https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284/2015.59284.The-Prospects-Of-Industrial-Civilization_djvu.txt
#nationalism
"...socialism, if it could be achieved vdthout prolonged war and industrial
dislocation, could bring a very considerable degree of material well-being to the whole population, by exacting only four or five hours of daily labour from
every adult citizen. And it would not need to be a centralized bureaucratic system"
"... the extreme similarity between the Bolshevik commissary and the American Trust magnate; both appeared as persons imbued with the importance of mechanism for its own sake, and of their own position as holders of the key to the clockwork."
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284/2015.59284.The-Prospects-Of-Industrial-Civilization_djvu.txt
#commissar #mandarin #American #USA #mechanist #bolshevik

So #miracle #red #cochin , what do you think of #BertrandRussel , #DoraRussel and the The Prospects for Industrial Civilization. Will you and your fellow #backyardchickens help me adhere to a more livable #activityrhythm ?

"It is commonplace that the years between 1300 and 1650 saw within the intellectual culture of Western Europe important changes in the apprehension of time...Lewis Mumford makes suggestive claims in Technics and Civilization (1934), esp. pp. 12-18, "
The #ActivityRhythm of #NicolasCarr #BullshitJobs of #DavidGraeber and #WorkDiscipline of #EPThompson all take one to Lewis Mumford and the #clock I first read of in a #NeilPostman book.
https://libcom.org/library/time-work-discipline-industrial-capitalism-e-p-thompson