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Making sense of time
3 questions to exploreWhat is a year?
Start with the journey that gives a year its meaning.
Explore this questionWhy do we have calendars?
How we turn the movement of the sky into shared time.
Explore this questionWhy do we need leap years?
A small adjustment that keeps the seasons in step.
Explore this questionQuestions on the horizon
Why did religion begin?
Multiple hypotheses, historical context, and the limits of what we can know.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
A philosophical question with competing approaches, not a settled empirical answer.