Alexis Madrigal – David Rooney
Alexis Madrigal is a journalist, an interview host, and an entrepreneur. David Rooney is an author, a historian, and a physicist. We found 1 podcast interview connecting Alexis Madrigal and David Rooney.
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Episodes with Alexis Madrigal & David Rooney
Alexis Madrigal
+ Mina Kim
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David Rooney
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19 Aug 2021
• EN
David Rooney on Why It’s ‘About Time’ to Understand How Clocks Shaped Civilization
"For thousands of years, time has been harnessed, politicized and weaponized," writes technology historian and horologist David Rooney in his new book, "About Time." Rooney examines a dozen timekeepers from sundials and hourglasses to the atomic clocks on satellites that create GPS. In doing so, he traces time's role i