25 Jan 2022

Why we have a seven day a week calendar dictating our lives

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 25 January 2022

We don't like Mondays. We struggle to get over the hump on Wednesdays and we prepare ourselves on Sunday to go to bed and start the whole week over again. Whose idea was the seven day week anyway?

David Henkin has spent years looking at the week and shares his insights into the seven days that define the rhythm of our lives. 

Calendar (close-up, shallow depth of field)

Photo: Dafne Cholet, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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