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Journal of Material Culture, 2006
This article demonstrates the inherent relations between landscape, myth and time. Here I follow the lead of anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss and Wagner and historians like Simon Schama. In particular, I highlight that what goes on ‘inside’ of myths is systematically connected to what occurs ‘outside’: how the intimate features of landscape form a ...
Eric Hirsch
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This article demonstrates the inherent relations between landscape, myth and time. Here I follow the lead of anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss and Wagner and historians like Simon Schama. In particular, I highlight that what goes on ‘inside’ of myths is systematically connected to what occurs ‘outside’: how the intimate features of landscape form a ...
Eric Hirsch
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The Myth of the Beginning of Time
Scientific American, 2004The article focuses on whether the big bang was really the beginning of time. After string theory made its comeback as a theory of gravity in the 1980s, it was applied to black holes and cosmology. Conditions near the zero time of the big bang were so extreme that no one yet knows how to solve the equations. Nevertheless, string theorists have hazarded
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2020
Based on the Thomas More Lectures John Dunne delivered at Yale University in 1971, _Time and Myth_ analyzes man's confrontation with the inevitability of death in the cultural, personal, and religious spheres, viewing each as a particular kind of myth shaped by the impact of time. With penetrating simplicity the author poses the timeless dilemma of the
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Based on the Thomas More Lectures John Dunne delivered at Yale University in 1971, _Time and Myth_ analyzes man's confrontation with the inevitability of death in the cultural, personal, and religious spheres, viewing each as a particular kind of myth shaped by the impact of time. With penetrating simplicity the author poses the timeless dilemma of the
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The Journal of Investing, 2000
Several securities and plannig firms publish a demonstration of the dramatically reduced returms that an investor would see if the investor were out of the market for the 10, 20, 30, or 40 best days over a time period such as 5 to 10 years. They claim this is a demonstration of the pitfalls of market timing.
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Several securities and plannig firms publish a demonstration of the dramatically reduced returms that an investor would see if the investor were out of the market for the 10, 20, 30, or 40 best days over a time period such as 5 to 10 years. They claim this is a demonstration of the pitfalls of market timing.
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British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2015
Recent editorials have renewed the debate over the possible contribution of a secular decrease in habitual physical activity to the current obesity epidemic.1 ,2 In arguing against the role of physical inactivity, Malhotra et al 1 cite a widely criticised opinion piece3 ,4 suggesting there has been “little change of physical activity levels in the past
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Recent editorials have renewed the debate over the possible contribution of a secular decrease in habitual physical activity to the current obesity epidemic.1 ,2 In arguing against the role of physical inactivity, Malhotra et al 1 cite a widely criticised opinion piece3 ,4 suggesting there has been “little change of physical activity levels in the past
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The Myth of the Passage of Time
1972The main purpose of this paper is to point out that the technique, familiar to physicists, of adopting various representations of physical phenomena for various purposes is convenient (and, I believe, necessary) in order to clarify some of the aspects of time that have been regarded as mysterious.
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CoatingsPro, 2006
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Managing your hectic schedule can be as easy as one, two, three. Learn the secrets of time management.
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Studia Phaenomenologica, 2008
In a Working Note to The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty uses the fine phraseology of an "architectonic past" and a "mythical time" to describe Proust's remembrances of things past. This paper first considers how this architectonic past sheds light on Merleau-Ponty's ontology, and second how this results in a mythical time, which is an ...
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In a Working Note to The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty uses the fine phraseology of an "architectonic past" and a "mythical time" to describe Proust's remembrances of things past. This paper first considers how this architectonic past sheds light on Merleau-Ponty's ontology, and second how this results in a mythical time, which is an ...
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