Category: Time
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February 10, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Before reading the ideas in this blog, I invite you to view a piece by artist M.C. Escher and listen to the “Endlessly Rising Canon” by Bach. In his book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter paraphrases Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness …
August 20, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I want to investigate the nature of time using three different sources: The Matrix, the recent Disney show Loki, and Jorge Luis Borges’s “Garden of Forking Paths.” Though very different, these three works embrace the concept of infinite futures. Their conceptualizations, then, allow …
June 14, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Ancient history can be a difficult subject for students because it is inherently foreign to them. Not only is there a language difference, but it is genuinely difficult to envision life removed from today’s technologies. When speaking of ancient cities, most people think …
July 27, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Food is often thought of in terms of comfort, enjoyment, family gatherings, and parties. We have barbecues in summer and stews in winter. Messy finger foods accompany sporting events and polite finger foods accompany baby showers. These things are linked by their participation …
December 29, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Music for today’s post provided by Trio Mediaeval I have heard of ringing …
October 20, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon for today’s post. Kant’s Science of Right takes time to read. In the Science of Right, Kant explains the interaction of theory with practice when defining ownership, rights, and equity. I find it difficult to pull short sections from his writing because all of his arguments build upon …
October 6, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Myth is what happens to a strong belief once the belief has changed. In other words, what was once firm belief, turns into cultural story and entertainment. They become important narratives, but not necessarily belief systems. For example, we know who Zeus is, …
July 21, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week we introduced a couple of less than mainstream calendars . This week, we want to move back into a look at the contemporary calendar, as based upon the Roman calendar. Julius Caesar, of course, attended to the discrepancies in the calendar. …
July 14, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Merriam-Webster defines calendar as “a system for fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days and longer divisions of time (such as weeks and months) in a definite order”. The reasons for developing such a system are easy …
April 7, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “It is only by becoming sensible of our natural disadvantages that we shall be roused to exertion, and prompted to seek out opportunities of discovering the operations now in progress, such as do not present themselves readily to view.” – Charles Lyell Charles …
