Andrew Iwanicki writing from negative six degrees to the horizontal:

I have been in this bed for three weeks now, and I will be here for seven weeks more. Forty-four days ago, I had my last beer, last cup of coffee, last burrito, last walk around the block, and last bit of sunlight on my skin. It’s been 66 days since I’ve seen my girlfriend. In 64, whatever is left of me can go home.”

To cap off all things time and history this evening, Geoff Brumfield writing for NPR:

Right now, on the top of Mount Everest, time is passing just a little bit faster than it is in Death Valley. That’s because speed at which time passes depends on the strength of gravity. Einstein himself discovered this dependence as part of his theory of relativity, and it is a very real effect.

The relative nature of time isn’t just something seen in the extreme. If you take a clock off the floor, and hang it on the wall, Ye says, “the time will speed up by about one part in 10 [to the power of] 16.”

Chalk this one up in the “neat” column.