Monthly Archives: July 2017

The twice-tolling clock, the Count explained, had been commissioned by his father from the venerable firm of Breguet. Establishing their shop in Paris in 1775, the Breguets were quickly known the world over not only for the precision of their chronometers (that is, the accuracy of their clocks), but for the elaborate means by which their clocks could signal the passage of time. They had clocks that played a few measures of Mozart at the end of the hour. They had clocks that chimed not only at the hour but at the half and the quarter. They had clocks that...Read more …

Here’s a radio-minute that aired nationally this week on Q Place’s Walk the Way: This Walk the Way. Brought to you by Q Place. I’m Jeff Klein When I was younger, I learned this little poem with hand motions to match – maybe you did, too: this is the church, this is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people! But I never taught it to my own kids. How did we come to believe that the measuring stick for the fruitfulness of the church was based on see my steeple? See all the people sitting inside? We need new yardsticks!...Read more …