#40: Do You Have the Time?
So, not to get all philosophical on you, but what is time, really? Is it all just a human construct? Why did we decide to divide one rotation of the earth into twenty-four hours, divide those hours into sixty minutes, and divide those minutes into sixty seconds? Would we experience time differently if we had decided to label it differently?

I’m not even a little bit qualified to answer any of those questions. But now, I’m at least qualified to answer this question: where do the words “minute” and “second” come from? I should have guessed the answer was Latin. Most things seem to tie back to Latin somehow.