Society
Short articles about society, one idea in each.
- Why the week has seven daysDays, months and years follow the Earth, the Moon and the Sun. The week does not. Its seven days come from several ancient traditions that happened to agree.
- Why some countries drive on the left and others on the rightAbout a third of the world's people keep left on the road. Nobody can say for sure how the split began, but the map it left was drawn by empires, neighbours and the price of cars.
- How Saturday became a day offFor most of the industrial age, people worked six days a week. The second day of rest arrived in pieces: half a Saturday in British mills, a Sabbath in an American one, and a car factory.