… and it makes us say and do silly things – like claim that the universe is 14 billion years old or compare ourselves to people born at approximately the same time as us. If we can change how we see time, we can see how silly that is, and maybe add some more time to our lives in the process.
Continue reading...We’re coming up on that time of year, again, when we can’t agree on whether we should be celebrating Columbus or not. Much of the controversy has been debated to death, but I don’t think we’ve quite internalized, as a culture, quite what a remarkably reckless and ill-informed idea it was to sail west to Asia.
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Book Review: End Times by Peter Turchin. An ambitious, but not exactly optimistic, take on history, current events, and our near future.
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At most busy airports I’ve been to, traffic outside of Arrivals is pure chaos. That seems like an entirely avoidable failure of planning and architecture, and a fixable problem. I’ve travelled far less than many people, but have visited enough large, busy airports to notice a pattern. A traveler’s first meeting with a country or city is often utter traffic madness immediately outside Arrivals. New York’s JFK is the first one that comes to mind when I think of congested and dysfunctional arrival curbs, but it’s hardly the only airport with this problem … In the grand scheme of things,…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about holidays lately, and about how to make them enjoyable and sticky — and now how to apply that to Election Day.
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