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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

We've all seen confusing newspaper headlines.

Some of my favorites are

kids make nutritious snacks,

juvenile court to try shooting defendant,

complaints about NBA referees growing ugly,

two sisters reunited after 18 years at checkout counter. Hospitals are sued by seven-foot doctors.

Lack of brains hinders research. Now we've stepped into a new day that is confusing as well.

Today is the first day of the new decade. Or is it? Most of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, which started in the year

one. As a result, decades should logically end with the years that end with a zero. In other words,

the next new decade would begin on January 1st, 2021, or so the U.S. Naval Observatory and the

Farmer's Almanac insist.

Making things more complicated, in 731 AD, a monk known as venerable Bede established that

the years before Christ's birth were known as BC.

However, he didn't include a year zero in his calculations.

As a result, the year before 1 AD was 1 BC. Thus, the first decade was completed with the year 10

AD. Here's the problem. People commonly think of decades as aligning with the years that denote them.

It would be strange for the 80s to include 1990, and psychologists point to a phenomenon called

round-number bias, by which we prefer to start new decades on an even-numbered year. The times are so

confusing, we're even confused about the Times. But here's a simple resolution we can keep

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