Researchers in Canada have pulled together time data from countries across the globe and calculated what an average human day looks like, and the big, capital-Z finding is: sleep. About 38% of our time – 9.1 hours – is spent in bed, according to the researchers, which one of them called “not necessarily surprising when you think about it” (unless you’re getting well under that and thinking about sleep all the time…). A second big chunk was a category called ‘Direct Human Outcomes’ (9.4 hours), which included 1.6 hours on meals, 1.1 hours grooming, 0.2 hours in religious practice, and a pleasant 4.6 hours on interactive and social activities. Comparing Australia to the rest of the world, the researchers found that we sleep slightly less than the global average and spend slightly less time on grooming (0.9 hours). And we should say thank you for spending some of your Direct Human Outcomes minutes with us today – we appreciate it….