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Calendar Wonders...
We take calendars for granted. We learn to use them, get to depend on them, and just roll on with life and all we are busy about. But what is a calendar? How did we get to have the calendar we use? Do you know that not everybody uses the same calendar? How do Caledars tell time? And how accurately do they do it? Get a glimpse at these and related issues.
Time in Language: Verb Tenses Made Visual
-See- the main time-relationships underlying the uses of verb tenses in English (past, present & future). This simple graphic interpretation of the general temporal & aspectual relationships in English allows a clearer understanding of its Verb System. As a result, you gain confidence in using the English tenses, if you are not a native speaker of English, or greater insight regarding your own language.
The Future: Fiction & Fact...where are we heading?
The Future: how bright? how bleak? Thought-provoking (sci-)fiction reaches beyond what's daily taken for granted. Fantasy or premonition, these writers address the Human race, intra- /inter- personal, social & political levels, developement & growth, the roles of Science, Philosophy & Religion, past & future voyages of discovery, the give'n-takes of power & control, & more.
The experience of Time on the fast lane
The experience of Time for those to whom every split second counts is seen in contrast with that of others functioning under diverse perspectives. It can be roughly illustrated in the anecdote attributed to Einstein: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
What Time is it...at stake?
We exist in Time, Time being such a close reality to us that we tend to take it for granted. Time, however, has more facets than we could tell a priori. On this page you find an introductory discussion on Time and reference to a few of its many facets. Have you wondered about what Time really is? Come over for a visit and ... have a good time, anyway!
Quotes on Time
When the Calendar year shifts, how should we put it: are we starting a New Year? or is the Old Year leaving us? Here's a collection of quotations on and related to Time, the present, the past, the future, relativity, eternity...
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