Cool Facts About Time Perception
I recently came across an article with some really amazing facts about time perception. There were 14 different examples, but I thought I’d talk about a couple of them that really stuck with me.
Woolly mammoths, who survived long after the building of the Pyramids
The one fact that really blew my mind was that when the Egyptians first built the Great Pyramids, woolly mammoths were still around. It’s true that the majority of woolly mammoths went extinct around 10,000 years ago, due to a combination of climate change and overhunting by humans. However, isolated populations of the prehistoric beasts still lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean, until about 1650 BC. By then, the pyramids were already about 900 years old!
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., one of John Tyler’s still-living grandchildren.
Another amazing fact mentioned in the article is that John Tyler, who served as President during the early 1840s, still has two living grandchildren. Tyler had a total of 15 children with two different women, more than any other US President in history. He was having children as late as 1860, by which time he was 70 years old. One of his children, Lyon, was born in 1853. Lyon had two sons in the 1920s, by which time he was in his 70s. Both of these sons are now in their 80s, and still alive today. This would make John Tyler the oldest former President of the United States with living grandchildren. However, in spite of their grandfather’s advanced age (he was born nearly 224 years ago) the Tyler boys aren’t the oldest living presidential grandchildren; Jane Garfield, the granddaughter of former President James Garfield, is still alive at the ripe old age of 99!
If you would like to see the article, you can take a look here. It’s definitely worth a look!
Tea Party Watches Nebraska
Ben Sasse, shown here, could very well be the saving grace the Tea Party is looking for in their effort to gain a hold of the Republican Party.
This Tuesday, it looks like the Republican Party is looking to get back their “groove” at the Republican Senate primary race in Nebraska, where leading conservative groups and figures are gathering. The election is being watched closely, especially since the Tea Party movement has struggled to execute the electoral coups that ousted GOP incumbents tagged as “too moderate” in 2010 and 2012. In North Carolina last week, the Tea Party-backed candidate lost to state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the Senate GOP primary. However, Nebraska Senate candidate Ben Sasse, president of Midland University, seems to have a lead in the polls. He’s facing off against former state treasurer Shane Osborn, as well as Omaha businessman Sid Dinsdale. Sasse’s campaign image is that of an anti-regulation, anti-ObamaCare, pro-gun rights “maverick”.
Sasse is backed by the Club for Growth, Tea Party Patriots and other conservative organizations, including Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, all of whom have joined him on the campaign trail. Osborn, on the other hand, has been fighting back against Sasse’s platform, which he labels as “I’m-more-conservative-than-thou”, accusing his rival of supporting the 2010 federal health care law. Sasse’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act has been a major centerpiece of his campaign. However, he has advised former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt’s firm as the group reached out to businesses and organizations in 2010 to help implement the new law.
While Osborn’s campaign has been more focused on attacking Sasse, Sasse has been working to put out “positive” messages instead, which seems to have been paying off; a recent poll shows him holding a 14-point lead in the ace. It will be interesting to see how this pans out for Sasse, and if his work will pay off.
About Nelson Lewis
An exposure to politics at a young age had a profound effect on media maven Nelson Lewis, who worked as a volunteer for numerous Republican politicians in and around his native Savannah. Nelson worked as a reporter and eventually anchor at two Savannah television stations growing up, WJCL ABC-22 and WTGS FOX-28, also recording voice teasers for airing on Fridays on WJCL-FM KIX 96 and previewing his upcoming stories, which aired on the Sunday evening news.
One of Nelson’s favorite experiences at WJCL was reporting live from the St. Patrick’s Day Parade (America’s second largest) from 1998-2000. Continuing in the spirit of his grandfather’s pioneering and trailblazing footsteps (he was the first to bring all-color television and stereo to the Savannah market), Nelson became the first person in Savannah market to bring a kid’s perspective to local news as its first youth reporter. In fact, one of the competing stations, WSAV NBC-3 hired their own youth reporter, Sean Champion, 18 months after Nelson began his reports and WJCL/TGS’s ratings dramatically increased.
Work In Political Media
While a sophomore and junior at Lynn University, Nelson Lewis hosted “Politijam”, a lively political debate show that became well known across the university campus and served as the media editor of the univeristy’s weekly EPulse newspaper. While at Lynn, Nelson was selected to represent the entire undergraduate student population as a member of Lynn University’s Academic Task Force, charged with the duty of streamlining the core curriculum of the universities.
While attending Lynn’s College of International Communication, Nelson developed a friendship with Irving R. Levine, a well-known and nationally recognized correspondent for NBC News who became the network’s first full time economics correspondent, and was the creator of the precursor to CNBC. After a 45-year career in journalism, Levine went on to become Dean of Lynn’s communication program. After finishing college, Nelson Lewis followed Levine’s suggestion and moved to Washington, DC where his first job was as a press intern for a Republican congressman, which then led to a job booking at the Fox News Channel from 2006-2010. Here, he was able to put his love of politics and interest in the Republican Party to good use.
Upon the suggestion of Mr. Levine, Nelson Lewis enrolled in the Masters of Professional Studies in Journalism (International Politics) program at Georgetown University in 2009, where a special emphasis was placed on the dissolution of America’s Fairness Doctrine and on the major player in its demise, Bruce Fein.
Nelson was honored to be invited to speak at a roast honoring Levine’s 2009 death at the National Press Club, where he spoke alongside Levine family members and contemporaries such as former Meet the Press Moderator Marvin Kalb. He subsequently wrote a letter to the editor published in The Hill newspaper eulogizing Levine as a “top-notch raconteur” who many others have tried to emulate.
From his work at Fox News, Nelson Lewis was able to take a firsthand role in the DC journalism scene, and was blessed with the opportunity of meeting entertainment, political, and academic luminaries on a daily basis, including numerous sitting and former representatives, senators, governors and cabinet secretaries. These unique experiences gave Nelson a front row seat to many historic events and gave him a firsthand experience of how the Washington system works, from how laws are created to how news is made.
Through Nelson Lewis’ work creating Her Golf Network, coupled with his extensive booking experiences in segment producing gained at America’s highest rated cable news channel and through his time performing key internships at places such as WPBT’s Nightly Business Report in Miami, where he honed his scriptwriting skills, and at WTOC in Savannah, where he provided copyediting and on-site production assistance at the 2004 Sea Island G-8 summit, have provided him with a solid foundation and understanding of the news business. His time as a reporter/anchor growing up prior to his undergraduate studies helped him get an early start at doing what he loves most, reporting.
