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Tim Urban

Writer and illustrator behind the long-form blog Wait But Why and author of What's Our Problem?

1 book on the record · 6 May 2016 – 6 May 2016 · @waitbutwhy

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

loved it

The Martian by Andy Weir

Book for sure. The movie was solid and enjoyable, but kind of just another pretty good movie. The book was special.

on waitbutwhy.com · 6 May 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.