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by hugofirth 4532 days ago
How else would you have an article referring to an open question phrased?
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"We wasted our time writing this. Now you can waste your time reading it."
That's not fair at all. I enjoyed reading about ancient timekeeping and the theories that powered them. I had no idea how they tracked time at night, for example; now I do.
"The mystery of why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?"