Time

A timer makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So let's start small-- with minutes, hours, and days. You probably spent the last 24 hours mostly sleeping, and working, and you probably wasted a good chunk of yesterday on the internet. Days become weeks, weeks become months, and then we have a year. Let's look at 2020. T he nastiest coronavirus had appeared. Paycheque nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to pick their new intern, and people on the internet made a challenge out of eating bleach. You know, the usual stuff. Let's go back further… A kid born in the first year of the 21st century is 21 years old now. But the century is still young, even if you're not. It was largely shaped by the attacks on 9/11, which led to the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq. In March 2011, the Syrian civil war began and is still ongoing after ten years. Most of us were born in t...