Everything is Arbitrary

Time

Episode Summary

Clock time, yam time, overtime, daylight saving time, atomic time... We arrange our whole lives in time, it's something we can sell, something we can waste, something humans have come to order in a wide range of ways, and something we can measure with ridiculous amounts of precision. Find out why it's arbitrary and coercive, but also very cool, and a source of connection.

Episode Notes

Correction: although there were heliocentric theories (i.e. the Earth revolves around the sun) in antiquity, this was an unsettled matter until the Copernican Revolution.

 

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