A new study calculated the average “global human day,” revealing which activities take up most of our time
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This article was originally published with the title “How We Spend Our Time” in Scientific American 329, 4, 94-95 (November 2023)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1123-94
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Clara Moskowitz is a senior editor at Scientific American, where she covers astronomy, space, physics and mathematics. She has been at Scientific American for a decade; previously she worked at Space.com. Moskowitz has reported live from rocket launches, space shuttle liftoffs and landings, suborbital spaceflight training, mountaintop observatories and more. She has a bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University and a graduate degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Follow Clara Moskowitz on Twitter Credit: Nick Higgins
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