274: Not and Never Both
Dear Hank & John
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Do You Want to Find Out if You Died?
If 68 year old me came back from the future and wanted to talk to me about technology, i would say like, listen, i'm happy to put my finger on that phone. Next question comes from ivan, who asks, dear hank and john, when did we start to count seconds and minutes? It seems like unimportant for some one in the middle ages, but very important in modern times. Did we have other measurements before pumpkins and penguins? Ye. Seconds are called seconds because the person who invented them also created thirds and fourths. And these were other div isions of minutes. So seconds are so that you got, like ours divided into sixtiet
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