Hunger Stones and Long Time

How can a deeper view of time save us from disaster?

By Morburre — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4392456 | The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty.

What fascinates us about things that are hidden? What entices us about the edge between the known and the unknown? Throughout history, human beings take note of patterns that emerge in the world around us, and even more note of those instances where breaks in a pattern form. We seek out abnormalities, edges, oddities. And we…