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Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

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The Geologist's Talk on Timefulness

Geologist marcia bionerod gave a talk focusing on the concept of timefulness. We've selected these segments from her talk, as she has a way of grounding our human experience in deep time. As a freshman in college, i signed up for geology almost on a whim. My expectations were low. Everybody called it rocks for jogs. I found that it was a different kind of science that required a type of whole brained thinking i hadn't encountered before. It demanded a humanity like close reading of the texts of the natural world. And above all, it required a vivid but disciplined imagination,. The capacity for visualization across great expanses of time and space.

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