Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » clocks http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Artist Turns Old Comic Books Into Awesome Collages http://kqvt.com/artist-turns-old-comic-books-into-awesome-collages/ http://kqvt.com/artist-turns-old-comic-books-into-awesome-collages/#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:06:52 +0000 Mike Moody http://guyspeed.com/?p=82460 While we’re still hanging on to our dog-eared copy of ‘Stripperella No. 1,’ strictly for sentimental reasons, of course, Mike Alcantara is doing something much more creative with his old comic books.

]]> http://kqvt.com/artist-turns-old-comic-books-into-awesome-collages/feed/ 0 Etsy/ComicCollageArt Experiment With the Electrical Grid Could Make Your Clocks Wrong http://kqvt.com/experiment-with-the-electrical-grid-could-make-your-clocks-wrong/ http://kqvt.com/experiment-with-the-electrical-grid-could-make-your-clocks-wrong/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:30:31 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=19918 Starting in mid-July, your electric clocks and coffeemakers could be running up to 20 minutes fast, and you probably won’t know why.

For the past 80 years, clocks plugged in to an electrical source have kept time based on the rate of the electrical current that powers them. If this current doesn’t keep its usual rate, clocks run a bit fast or slow. Right now, power companies now take steps to ensure the frequency of the current – and the time – is as precise as possible.

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