For some time now my favorite ‘after-dinner game’ has been to ask my respondents the following questions: If you had a time-machine, where and when in the past would you go? And when you arrived, would you rather be a fly on the wall that merely observes the action or would you want to jumpContinue reading “The Revealing Game of Time Machine Travel”
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The Extravagant, Space-Time Distorting Business of Time Cleaning
This morning Jason Read of the University of Southern Maine posted the following photograph on his Facebook page (due to Tom McGlynn, to whom I owe thanks for letting me reproduce it here). Jason added: Just looking at it makes me want to write a bad science fiction novel about the unglamorous, dangerous, and low-payingContinue reading “The Extravagant, Space-Time Distorting Business of Time Cleaning”
Time-Travel and Psychotherapy
For some time now, my favorite, bordering-on-juvenile–after-dinner or sometimes-online–parlor game has been to ask the following question(s): If you could use a time-machine, where and when would you want to visit? And would you rather be a fly on the wall, or a participant? (Incidentally, that should really be where-when; we’re in the 21st centuryContinue reading “Time-Travel and Psychotherapy”
Samir Chopra 