(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) The only text by Anaximander (c. 610 – c. 546 BCE) that has been privy to us reads: “All things originate from one another and vanish into one another/According to necessity/They give each other justice and recompense for injustice/In conformity with the order of time.” Even though constrained by an absolute dearth … Continue reading Anaximander and The Nature of Science – Carlo Rovelli

(Image Credit: Penguin Books) Lewis Mumford, in his seminal book on the invention of clocks – Technics and Civilization- concluded that the clock had the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus ‘nourishing the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.’ Social critic, media theorist, and author Neil Postman goes one … Continue reading Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman