Time is at once intimately familiar and yet deeply mysterious. In this illustrated talk – adapted from his second book, In Search of Time – Dan Falk looks at the quest to make sense of time, from the earliest calendars and clocks to the question of time travel, and beyond. 

Why do we need atomic clocks, that can measure time to within the tiniest fraction of a second? Could time travel ever be more than science fiction? 

Dan Falk is an award-winning science journalist based in Toronto. His writing credits include Scientific American, New Scientist, Smithsonian, The Walrus, and many other publications. He’s written three popular science books, most recently The Science of Shakespeare.Falk has appeared regularly on CBC Radio’s Ideasand Quirks & Quarks, and also co-hosts BookLab, a podcast that reviews popular science books. In 2011 he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2019 he was awarded the Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication.

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