the ‘minutes to midnight’ quarter clock face that shows the current perceived threat level of how close we are to destroying the world with the technologies we’ve created. That clock is kind ...

There are 12 numbers around a clock face, and each interval between the ... in order to work out durations. In a quarter of an hour there are 15 minutes. In half an hour there are 30 minutes.

As things got really grim during the worst years of the Cold War, the clock design went from showing only the second half hour of a face to showing just the quarter, Noguera says. It never went ...

There are 12 numbers around the clock face, and each interval is 5 minutes ... When the minute hand is on 3, we say quarter past, and when it is on 9 we say quarter to. Practise reading the ...