Kalyani Tupkary

For all time’s inherent malleability, people want it to be consistent, and more importantly, they want it to be theirs.

There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.

But while nature may mete out time’s passage in these horological devices, it takes human observation of the heavens to set them. Even the most precise atomic clock must be periodically tweaked to account for variations in the earth’s rotation. Some clocks, however, are tuned more directly to nature.