"How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Days on Earth"
http://www.space.com/11115-japan-earthquake-shortened-earth-days.html
"A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth's spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"Gross refined his estimates of the Japan quake's impact – which previously suggested a 1.6-microsecond shortening of the day – based on new data on how much the fault that triggered the earthquake slipped to redistribute the planet's mass."
"'By changing the distribution of the Earth's mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused the Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds,' Gross told SPACE.com in an e-mail. More refinements are possible as new information on the earthquake comes to light, he added."
Great. No wonder why I don't have time to post to this blog as frequently as I did before the earthquake. I didn't realize it until now but it turns out that those extra 1.8 microseconds were very important to me! Or maybe there is some other explanation why I seem to have less time lately, like all the travel I've been doing for work.
Incidentally, speaking of days being too short, what about life? With this awkward segue, take a look at this brilliant ad campaign, from the the German job site, Jobsintown.de, as described in this post on the Little Chief Honeybee blog:
"Life's Too Short for the Wrong Job"
http://honeybeeinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/02/lifes-too-short-for-wrong-job.html
Aren't those ads simply brilliant! Guaranteed to catch your eye, with a very simple and direct message. Here is one of them:
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