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Why Do We (Or Should We) Stick To A Seven-Day Week?

IDEAS Posted: May 28, 2014 12:27 am

The day, the month, and the year all have clear and obvious bases in nature, but the “pattern of living on a seven-day cycle – with one or two of those days set aside for rest – is a relative novelty. Only in the past few centuries, with Western colonization of most of the world, have the majority of human societies adopted it.”

IDEAS Published: 05.26.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 05.26.14

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