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Why the holidays warp our perception of time

Why the holidays warp our perception of time

Once a year there's about a week-long stretch when our measurement of time switches from minutes and hours into gingerbread cookies and binged TV episodes. Or maybe it's servings of leftover ham and the number of repeat listens to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas," or hot cocoa and the amount of cries had at your fifth viewing of Little Women. 

Whatever your personal unit for quantifying the progression of days into nights is over the holidays, what feels universal is how we're all collectively confronted by the idea that time — this seemingly objective fact that governs our reality — is actually just a social construct.  Read more...

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