Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, future, hope, Motivation, perspective, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“To cultivate hope, people need three things, [Jamil Zaki, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab] said: They first need to be able to envision a better future, either personally or collectively. Second, they need the willpower or motivation to move toward that future. And third, they must be able to chart “a path from where they are to where they want to be.” — Jamil Zaki, quoted in The Morning
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, perspective, Writers, writing on May 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »
“I think it’s important to remember that something that’s happening to you is not the only thing happening in the world. There’s always another story.” — Arundhati Roy
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Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, New Year, perspective, Thoughts, time on January 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
On the first day of this new year, a short poem on the relative nature of time. And nature.
Do we seem as slow
To hummingbirds on the wing
As trees do to us?
Wishing you a happy new year.
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Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, geology, Pangea, perspective, plate tectonics, science on February 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Some days, time just seems to fly by. Those are usually days with new and interesting experiences, where every moment fires off new synapses. Other days not so much, particularly on days that call for the predictable.
If you, like me, are feeling the drag of Pandemic Mondays, you might find a little comfort in this new model of Earth’s tectonic activity over the last billion years. Because there’s time that feels like it’s crawling by, and then there’s sloooooow time.
“It’s mesmerising: like ill-fitting jigsaw pieces, bits of continents slam together and morph into supercontinents, break apart, and then crash back together in new formations – with each second of the video leaping forward 25 million years.”
— Tectonic timelapse – Cosmos Magazine
See the linked scientific paper for details, caveats, additional maps etc., or just sit back and watch the world morph like Play-Doh.
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While you’re at it, have fun locating modern day sites across millions of years, and by milestones like first flowers (120 million years ago!).
Ancient Earth (interactive; kind of like Jurassic Park, but with fewer teeth)
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