With phones banned, some students realise they don’t remember how to read analog clocks ...

Some New York City schools banned phones to improve focus, but the move revealed a new issue. Many students have forgotten ...

It took a phone ban for some teachers to realize kids don’t know how to read a clock.

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...
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Reading a quantum clock takes more energy than operating it

The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks the passing of each moment. What you rarely notice is the hidden cost ...
Gothamist

NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...
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Reading a quantum clock uses more energy than operating it

Quantum timekeeping is supposed to be the ultimate in efficiency, with tiny devices that tick using the rules of quantum mechanics instead of swinging pendulums or vibrating quartz. Yet new work on a ...
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Reading a quantum clock costs more energy than running it, study finds

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of measurement itself. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists ...

NYC teachers discover teens can’t read clocks after school cellphone ban

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...
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Reading a quantum clock costs more energy than running it, study finds

Graphic illustrating the difference in energy between running a quantum clock (left: a single electron hopping between two nanoscale regions) and reading the ticks of the clock (right). The energy ...