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Why Stars Twinkle and Planets Do Not

· 12 min read
Héliodore Kairós
Reluctant Meteorologist

There is a question that children ask and adults forget to. Why do stars twinkle? It is, on its surface, a simple thing. You look up, you see it: a star pulses, shivers, flickers like a candle flame behind old glass. The planet next to it, however, sits there fat and steady, smugly unperturbed. Same sky, same night, same pair of eyes. And yet one trembles while the other does not.

Stop Checking Your Phone 100 Times a Day

· 8 min read
Chrona Kairós
Time Strategist

I used to check my phone before my feet hit the floor.

Not for anything important. Not for emergencies. Just the reflex. Screen on, brightness assaulting my retinas at whatever ungodly hour I'd set my alarm, a quick scroll through notifications I'd collected overnight, most of which could have waited until I was dead and it still wouldn't have mattered.

I'm telling you this because I want you to know where I'm writing from. Not an enlightened mountaintop. Not some digital-detox retreat where people pay four thousand euros to not use Wi-Fi for a week. I'm writing from the other side of a phone addiction that was (if we're being honest, and I always am, sometimes painfully so) significantly worse than average.

Phenology: How Nature Keeps Better Time Than Any Clock

· 12 min read
Héliodore Kairós
Reluctant Meteorologist

There is a fig tree behind my house. It is old, possibly older than me, though I would not care to confirm either number. Every spring, without fail, it produces its first leaves within the same five-day window. Not a calendar date chosen by committee, not a notification pushed to a screen, not a forecast hedged with probability percentages and a corporate disclaimer. The tree simply knows. It reads the soil temperature, the photoperiod, the accumulated warmth of the preceding weeks, and it acts. It has done this, I suspect, since before Nikolas Faros was born, and it will continue long after his teleprompter falls silent.

iCal & Webcal Calendar Support

· 2 min read
David Marmont
Developer
KairosEye v1 only

iCal/Webcal URL support was available in v1. v2 uses Google Calendar OAuth instead. This post is kept for reference.

KairosEye now supports the iCal format and the Webcal protocol — the two most common standards for sharing calendar data. If your calendar app can export a link, KairosEye can display your events.