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The lab that knows where your time really goes

Armed with 850,000 diaries, an Oxford centre is trying to find out why modern life seems so hectic.

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Pearson, H. The lab that knows where your time really goes. Nature 526, 492–496 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526492a

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