Dar al-Magana or the House of Maimonides in Fez, Morocco, with the 12 windows of the clock. Credit: Yair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons In the bustling medina of Fez in Morocco, passersby who walk daily ...
Short piece on the manufacture of accurate time and how the world became a more structured place, a worser one, overnight. In no characteristic is existing society in the West so sharply distinguished ...