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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Leap Second

Image Source: Time.

On the night of 30 June 2012, the entire world gained one grain of sand in the hourglass - what is called a 'leap second' - one extra second in time in order to regularize sunsets. It seems negligible, but a second can change everything. See the report at Time here.

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