How to kill a gram
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🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The news is just big. |
| 0:13.2 | It's massive. |
| 0:14.8 | Tell me more what's happening. |
| 0:16.3 | Back in November, scientists and France voted to redefine the kilogram, which is the world's |
| 0:21.0 | standard unit of mass, and that change goes into effect today. |
| 0:24.5 | Today? |
| 0:25.5 | Today! |
| 0:27.5 | How do you redefine the kilogram? |
| 0:31.9 | How do you explain this? |
| 0:34.9 | What do you think a kilogram is? |
| 0:36.6 | I grew up in Canada. |
| 0:38.2 | It's a whole lot of grams. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah, it's a thousand grams. |
| 0:41.4 | Do you know what it is? |
| 0:44.5 | What's the definition of a kilogram? |
| 0:47.9 | I don't know more than a thousand. |
| 0:50.9 | Let me think here. |
| 0:52.5 | I mean, I could tell you how much in like weed, I guess. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, before today, a kilogram was a real physical object in France. |
| 1:01.4 | It's a thing. |
| 1:02.4 | It's a literal weight that's kept under three bell jars outside of Paris. |
| 1:07.7 | It was created in the late 1800s to be this permanent representation of weight that the |
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