“Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault – the span of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it.”
The Story of Information 
Reblogged this on Eclectic pleasures and commented:
With the demise of iGoogle, I’ve had my reading habits shaken up. To my great pleasure, I’ve been falling over some blogs using the WordPress engine that a) look really interesting, and b) appear on a single “reader” within WordPress, for my delectation and delight.
Here’s a post that literally made me look twice. It’s a brave – and I think, pretty successful – attempt to put the whole of time into perspective; see what you think, and whether it works for you.
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