‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ Includes Time Travel, Ancient Greek Mathematician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g Trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." "Set in 1969, the film follows Jones and his estranged goddaughter, Helena, who are trying to locate a powerful artifact before Jürgen Voller, a Nazi-turned-NASA scientist who plans to use it to alter the outcome of World War II...Plot: (The movie begins) In 1944, Nazis capture Indiana Jones and Oxford archeologist Basil Shaw as they …

Traveling Back in Time to the 1100s

"What are you reading this summer? Do you have any books to recommend? I wanted something to expand my vision and transport me beyond the concerns of contemporary American life. I found the vehicle in Ken Follett’s bestselling historical novel, “Pillars of the Earth,” a book that has sold 26 million copies. Many members of Goodreads.com designate …

Time Traveler’s Guides to England in 1300s, 1500s, 1700s, 1800s

British historian Ian Mortimer (website; Wikipedia; Youtube.com) specializes in medieval history. Basing his books on the premise that "the past is a foreign country," he has created a series of books as if humans could travel back in time, and how to prepare for life in another century. He is best known for A Time …

Albert Einstein’s Philosophy of Life

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsUrtyRwfu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjoYbsvUoO4 More videos on Einstein. Here are some inspiring …

How Far Back in Time Could An English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?

If you traveled back in time more than 500 years, certainly if you went back to the 1500s, you probably could not understand other English speakers and they could not understand you. Today I Found Out: "Contrary to what many a Grammar Nazi the world over would have you believe, language is constantly evolving, occasionally …

Is Society About to Fall Apart?

"How do we know when society is about to fall apart?" asked Ben Ehrenreich in the NYT Magazine. "Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse." Ehrenreich is the author of "Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time." Bringing together climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, he "presents a stunning reckoning …

Time Traveling Back to the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s Now Possible

Time travel is now possible. Or at least watching home movies, news coverage, and television shows from the past is at your fingertips. I recently realized this while visiting my five-year-old grandson. His father has purchased a 70" TV. Theo easily navigates between video-conferencing with his teachers to tutorials on Youtube to home movies on …

If You Could Go Back in Time and Warn One Leader, Who Would It Be and Why?

That's a provocative question on Quora.com, which has elicted interesting responses, not simply and predictably to Abraham Lincoln, 1865, "don't go to the theater." 1. Czar Nicholas II of Russia, in July 1914. Persuade him not to go to war with Germany, for there will be terrible, terrible consequences for Russia if he does. 2. …

‘Time Travel: A History’ By James Gleick

James Gleick, an American author and historian of science, who has been described as "one of the great science writers of all time," tackled "Time Travel: A History" in a 2016 book. Literal time travel, of course, as imagined by writers over more than a century, “does not exist. It cannot,” Gleick wrote. "There is no …

‘Outlander’ Greatly Over-Simplifies Religious History of Scotland & North Carolina

Fans of the historical "Outlander" novels and television series may find the oblique references to the religious history of Scotland, England and North Carolina fascinating, but also confusing. Jamie Fraser in the early 1700s is a Catholic from the "isolated and backward" Scottish Highlands who has never recognized the Protestant Reformation that began 200 years …