TTBOOK Presents: Deep Time
Episodes
Deep Time: Infinity is Forever
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contemplating the infinite is a time-tested way to shrink the present down to size. But if you think about it for very long, infinity can really mess ...
Deep Time: The Art of Time
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time. Meet some contemporary artists who are finding new ways...
Deep Time: Reclaim the Night
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The longest nights of the year are here, but how many of us will see them? The global spread of light pollution is making it harder to experience dark...
Deep Time: The Cosmos and Us
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our lives are so rushed, so busy. Always on the clock. Counting the hours, minutes, seconds. Have you ever stopped to wonder: what are you counting? ...
Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time
19 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to think in centuries instead of seconds? Eons instead of hours? It’s time to make thousand-year plans and appreciate how Earth keeps...
Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re on the clock, you’re always running out of time – because in our culture, time is money. The relentless countdown is making us and t...
Deep Time: What would you do if you had all the time in the world?
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Time rules our lives. We wake, eat, work, and sleep on the clock. Our days unfold in a standardized symphony of alarm clocks, school buzzers, and meet...
Kinship: Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan on embracing the 'wisdom of the desert'
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan has been called the “father of the local food movement.” For decades he’s campaigned for seed diversity and susta...
Kinship: Biologist Merlin Sheldrake on the mind-bending world of mushrooms
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fungal world is mind-bending. Mushrooms may look like plants, but taxonomically, fungi are more closely related to animals. They go inside their f...
Kinship: Ecologist Suzanne Simard on the internet of trees
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard was a lone voice in the wilderness, arguing that commercial logging practices were destroying the sy...
Kinship: Anthropologist Enrique Salmon on 'kincentricity'
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist Enrique Salmon formulated the concept of “kincentricity,” a worldview that sees everything around us — plants, animals, rocks, wi...
Kinship: Shapeshifting
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those ...
Kinship: When Mountains Are Gods
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But ...
Kinship: Plants As Persons
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate ...
Kinship: Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a certain a kind of visual encounter that can be life changing: A cross-species gaze. The experience of looking directly into the eyes of an a...
Kinship With The More Than Human World
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think about your neighbors, your friends and family, do you consider the nonhuman relationships in your life? With the birds and trees, the r...