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Der Bestseller von Ursula Poznanski: spannend, realistisch, unvorhersehbar. Fünf Tage im tiefsten Wald, ohne Strom, ohne Handy: Normalerweise wäre das nichts für Medizinstudenten Bastian. Dass er dennoch mitmacht bei dieser Reise in die Vergangenheit, liegt allein an seiner Freundin Sandra. Doch das abgelegene Waldstück, in dem das Abenteuer stattfindet, soll verflucht sein, und aus dem harmlosen Live-Rollenspiel wird plötzlich ein tödlicher Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced, exploring how the ancient Romans developed a novel sense of time and used it to construct their views of the past and of the possibilities of the future.

Sir Isaac Newton famously complained about action at a distance. How was it possible, he wrote, that gravity, or attraction, operated between objects without physical contact? Well, jump to the twenty-first century, and we have a lot more to say about that. Listeners will enjoy a brilliant, outrageous, playful exploration of quantum physics in everyday life, from a secret interplay of TV plots with us, in electricity, to other speculations, founded in the authors decades of initiations as well as being an original thinker and a scholar.