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Why is change so hard?

Mar.07, 2007 in Education, Environment, History, Technology

Why is it so hard to change, even when the evidence for doing so is overwhelming? This article from Scientific American, answers the question Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?
It is interesting, if not surprising, that these measurements [...]

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10 days that unexpectedly changed America

Apr.14, 2006 in Economy, History, Science, Technology, USA politics

The excellent series on the History Channel, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, continues to be very educational and quite entertaining. Watching these 10 events, I feel compelled to add and question if perhaps other unexpected events would be in my top 10. Their events are:

Massacre at Mystic
Shays’ Rebellion: America’s First Civil War
Gold [...]

  

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