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Bill Nye—The Rhythm

Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan

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The Resistance to Time

The idea that we've internalized since the 16th or 17th century is the idea that time can be wasted. There has been so many episodes in history where people have actively resisted the control that clocks have and often their resistance has taken the form of attacking the clock itself. In 1894 when it was an astronomical observatory there was a bomb exploded there by a french anarchist who saw time the centralization of time. People in factories and mills and plantations have resisted as well.

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