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How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals
Science Magazine Podcast
The Evolution of Body Based Units
In Northern Africa or the Middle East, you would still find people using body based units as recently as 20th century. It's hard to say when they emerge specifically because we don't have the kind of evidence but at least we have evidence of the use of body based units. So perhaps the surprising thing there for the uninitiated is that quite often body based units were used to design these ergonomic everyday technologies.
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