Of course you should read some Herodotus — who, around 450 bce, essentially invented the practices of history and journalism — but it doesn’t seem appetizing, does it. To get you excited about this fellow, you should first read Ryszard Kapuscinsky’s Travels With Herodotus. Says Kapuscinsky:
And so a person consumed, obsessively tormented by allusion reaches [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Great Book: Travels with Herodotus
March 17, 2009 – 8:09 pm
Timeline Legends / Keys
March 15, 2009 – 11:00 pm
We’ve quietly been offering our “Plus” tools to anyone who inquires and to people who have provided serious feedback. One of the features that’s long been on our to-do list is a legend. Since the beginning, one has been able to assign small icons to events: Now you can label entire sets of icons with [...]
What is Time?
March 9, 2009 – 7:05 pm
A hackneyed philosophical question, but it’s worth asking now and then: What is time? Many immediately say, “You can’t separate time from space!” So: What is timespace? Well… let’s say time and space are two aspects of a larger, less graspable package. We’re able to perceive many points in space at the same time and [...]