An article came through my RSS feeds yesterday that looked for all the world like the New York Times was copying our Basic Concepts idea. Labelled as “Basics,” it promised to provide a general discussion of the concept of time. “You bastards!” I thought.
The actual article by Natalie Angier isn’t all that similar to what you’ll get from Basic Concepts posts on ScienceBlogs, taking much more of a humanities-major kind of approach, and giving a wide and fluffy survey of different concepts of time. It’s still an interesting read, though.