Throughout 2025, I've noticed a trend in articles by The Times, Noema, and The New York Times of attempting to define the era we live in to better understand its contours, meaning, and consequences. You are reading this on the...
Most of modern life is organized around circadian time—the day—while ignoring an equally real biological scale: the circannual rhythm—the year. Circannular wasn't even in my spellcheck dictionary! It's probably not in yours either...
Full Moon Summer Night by Edvard Munch (1902-1903) Hello, and welcome back to The Present. This is the monthly update to an ongoing story into the nature of time. I'm your host, Scott Thrift, and this five-minute issue features:...
1. The 1000' roll of JetView printing film arrived yesterday at Duggal. 2. After four attempts the back up printer has failed to reproduce the quality of their own prints. Take Four: One of these is not like the other. 3....