There are many contenders for the world’s oldest tree, but Methuselah in California is a Bristlecone Pine tree that’s almost 5,000 years old (in the image above). Whether it’s alive or dead today is uncertain, but it definitely lived over 4 millennia.

What does Metusaleh tell us about trees?

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Generally speaking, there are two types of calendars: solar and lunar calendars.

Solar calendars, like the Gregorian calendar we use, measure the days it takes Earth to orbit the sun, about 365.25 days.

The Gregorian calendar, in particular, is precise and very useful for professionals to synchronize administrative tasks worldwide. But this calendar doesn’t help us experience spacetime as the pulsing, changing cosmic experience it really is…

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Clocks on Mars tick faster than they do on Earth. Mars is farther away from the Sun, so it experiences less gravitational pull than Earth. How much quicker does time flow on Mars across spacetime?

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In our daily lives, we tend to consider space and time as separate things, but are they? Where does this idea that they are separate come from?

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The analemma is an infinity symbol or 8-shaped figure that shows the Earth’s path across the sky over the course of a year. If we take a picture of the Sun from the same spot every day of the year (dismissing daylight savings), we get a special reflection: the analemma.

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Sundials are the first known objects used to measure time. Their innovation and ingenuity are timeless, so much so that sundials are used to understand time on Mars and on the Moon (see the image below).

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A lot is happening that’s difficult to understand with so little access to greater information, including life’s majestic design.

One thing we keep coming back to here at NgenForce is that our institutions must represent our shared values: we all prefer peace over war, freedom over surveillance.

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Whoever I speak to prefers peace over war, at least superficially. But our societies, viewed at large, exist in constant conflict. Is there a way out?

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Conflict theory suggests that society is in constant conflict because groups compete for a limited amount of resources, leading to struggle and tension. So is conflict inescapable?

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When we look up images of peace it seems like peace is pure calm, a state of serenity that occurs naturally and simply. But such images of peace are often misleading. Peace isn’t only the lack of disagreement, there’s more to it…

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War is part of humanity’s history, except for in some pockets of highly sophisticated peoples and groups. There’s plenty of war now, and there’s been plenty of war before. So what does war — this seemingly unavoidable part of humanity — mean?

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Indigenous cultures have observed that our name is the essence of who we are and speaks of our roles in our communities.

Today, let’s consider what the name Donald Trump - such a relevant character now - means.

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