1: What are our assumptions about time?

“The ancient Greeks had not one but two words to speak of time,”  Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes in Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.

The Greek word Chronos refers to quantity.

“This is largely how most of us in the modern world relate to time,” Anne-Laure writes. “It is the time of clocks and calendars, of productivity tools … continue reading

1: In Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll’s dark and menacing sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice runs hand in hand with the Red Queen, struggling to keep up because the Queen is running so fast.

“Faster! Faster!” the Queen calls out.

“The most curious part of the thing,” Alice observes, “was that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast … continue reading