People visiting the Cache Creek Nature Preserve will now be able to tell the time of day without looking at their cell phones. Well, the time may not be exact, but it should be close enough. Oh, and ...

At his Livermore laboratory, he reported, they were working on two new weapon designs, dubbed Gnomon and Sundial. Gnomon would be 1,000 megatons and would be used like a “primary” to set off Sundial, ...

The wooden discs contained elements characteristic of sundial-compasses, such as a hole for a gnomon and perimeter notches. The Kyiv and Listven discs feature a central hole that could hold the ...

One reason for this is the disks’ design, with the Kyiv and Listven disks featuring a central hole that could hold the gnomon — the pointy component of a sundial that casts a shadow when hit with ...

“We are officially open after 28 months of being closed after Hurricane Ian, we have welcomed our first guests,” said Becky Miller, the general manager of the Sundial Resort. The reopening has ...

The southeast side of the 10-story tower is marked with a great protruding gnomon sundial and the Champa Street side is carved with a black granite wall drawing by New York minimalist artist Sol ...

Waaaaaay before the existence of Airbnb and VRBO, Sanibel's Sundial Beach Resort & Spa was one of the early destinations to offer rental condos as a place to escape instead of the traditional ...

The gnomon, which is the centerpiece of a sundial, casts a shadow that points to different directions on the flat plate. The markings around the plate then show an indication of what time it is.

Back in 2016, I wrote about The Most Relaxing Song in the World, an ambient track by Marconi Union called Weightless. Today I learned the band’s record label hosts ...

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