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Bill Nye—The Rhythm

Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan

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The History of the Sundial

The idea that the clock is ruling us feels fairly recent but actually many people have always been really tied to whatever you might call the clock. Rome got its first public sundial in 263 bca and it was the first publicSundial  in 2200 years ago so like now it was there to show military might but it was also there just as our clocks are to divide our day up to kind of keep us in order through the day. When i was a boy my stomach was the only sundial it was by far the truest but now what there is to eat isn't eaten unless the sun says until then most people crawl along shriveled up with hunger.

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