The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars. Scientists call this ...

Much like the recent spherical Eris watch, here's another way to tell the time that is a little "out of this world". Japanese not-for-profit organization Think The Earth has released the wn-2 watch, ...

Q. Every year about this time ther question comes up as to which direction ceiling fans should rotate. For the winter season some say clockwise, others counterclockwise, and then in the summer you ...

Before you enter the globe you have the option of turning/rotating the globe. Doing this will affect the world inside: if you need to talk to the Dryads or Dwarves and they are hostile to you, simply ...

We're suckers for a good time-wasting Twitter mashup; throw in some 3-D graphics and we're sold. Which is exactly what TwittEarth does, using Flash to display tweets on a 3-D globe that rotates and ...