Tonight, I feel quite tempted to watch this:
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Precision: The Measure of All Things
Series 1 - 1. Time and Distance
1/3. Documentary exploring humanity's obsession with compartmentalising the environment into ever-more-precise units of measurement - from the first cave paintings of the Cro-Magnons, to today's atomic clocks. In the first edition, Professor Marcus du Sautoy charts the history of the metre and the second, and examines scientists' continuing efforts to redefine how time and length are quantified.
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