“The whirligig of time” : A note on Fr Pat Noise
Seeing that this documentary is to be broadcast next Saturday I thought it an apt time, though any time would be an apt time, to post about my own research…
Tag: time passes
Leandro Herrero: Never Sell Your Time
I have blogged quite a few posts featuring the work of Leandro Herrero on my other, more medical blog. His observation that a team is not a meeting. And that…
Mourinho at Baselworld
It is hard to parody the overheated rhetoric of the luxury watch business’ merchandising arm. In his book Timekeepers, Simon Garfield has some very funny passages on the world of…
First Known When Lost on Spring and mortality, with Herrick, Wallace Stevens, and Epictetus
Original here Spring beautifully — and gently — counsels us to be mindful of our mortality. This is sound advice. In fact, we are well-advised to consider our mortality on…
The Granddaughter Paradox published in Sci Phi Journal
My story The Granddaughter Paradox has been published in Sci Phi Journal, an online journal of science fiction with a philosophical twist (or philosophical fiction with a science fiction twist?) Reading the full…
Review of “Old Friends”, Tracy Kidder, 2000
This was written in around 2000 and originally appeared in The Magazine, a zine I self produced a few issues of. I ended up posting the review on Amazon –…
A brief thought on Borges, Nabokov and growing up
From when I was about 14, I read a massive amount of Jorge Luis Borges. I was a little older when I began to read Vladimir Nabokov, and I became…
Thor Hanson on cultural perception of time
Living in Africa, I soon came to realise that impatience may be an entirely Western phenomenon. Ugandans approach time from a fundamentally different perspective, not as a commodity to be…
