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Bill Nye—The Rhythm

Strange Customs with Sasha Sagan

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The Utopia of Time Zones

Time zones emerged from a conference in Washington DC in 1884 whose time is going to be the prime time for the world to march in the world when it was chosen well that tells you a lot about empires yes. The idea that we can fix everything with this one size fits all system has been proven century after century never to work quarter of the population of earth today use daylight saving time right we change our clocks twice a year and advance them by an hour I mean that's insane when you think about it some places like Australia where they've already got fractional time zone so they've got time zones that aren't an integer number of hours from Greenwich  and then that zone itself splits into

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