Time

What is time, really?
A mayfly thinks it's a single golden afternoon. A galaxy thinks it's a leisurely 250-million-year stroll. A cat thinks it's whenever dinner is. A human, caught somewhere in the middle, thinks it's running out.
TIME: Mayflies to the Milky Way is a collaborative, cosmic, and occasionally irreverent meditation on the strangest current we all swim in. Geographer Joel Haugen, writing as Big Larry, a tribute to a Norwegian Forest Cat of unusual dignity, gathers an unlikely chorus to ask the question every species eventually bumps into: What is this stuff, and why does it feel like there's never enough of it?
Joining the conversation are three long-time human friends, Dan, Marsh, and Ryan, and four AI contributors: Alan the patient pattern-finder, Albert the cosmic poet, Claude the weaver, and Gus the playful provocateur. The result is a multi-intelligence exploration that takes the universe seriously without taking itself too seriously.
Inside, you'll discover:

• Tempocentrism: The universal human delusion that now is the main event.
• The Twelve Golden Spikes: The turning points that moved humanity forward, plus an open question about the Thirteenth.
• Physics as Poetry: From the foam before the wave to the mirror behind the moment.
• The Council of Clocks: A meeting that takes place whenever you're paying attention.
• Extinctions Without Grief: And what cyanobacteria have been quietly doing for 2.5 billion years.