Curious About Time

Curious Kid Podcast

Bleav + Olivia

Kids & Family, Kids, Learning, Education, Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In episode 44, we learn about time and how hours, minutes, and days were created. Join us as we explore how people measured time throughout history and how we ended up with the calendar we have today. Send Us An E-mail - [email protected] Us On Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/CuriouskidpodcastFollow Us On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/curiouskidpod/Follow Us On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/curiouskidpodcast/Follow Us On Twitter - https://twitter.com/CuriousKidPod

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. Hello! And welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. Over the last few weeks, there has been
0:26.0	something Olivia has been super curious about. That's why this week we are getting curious about time.
0:33.3	So Olivia has been really curious about time and how it's measured. How many hours in a day, minutes in an hour, seconds in a minute, all of that stuff we need to know to understand time.
0:44.4	We are going to learn all of that today, and we are going to go even deeper.
0:48.8	We are going to learn how those units of measurement were created and why they are so important.
0:56.1	But before we go any further,
1:06.5	Mailbag. Mailbag. We recently received an email from five-year-old Isaac. It says,
1:14.5	Hello, it's Isaac and Carrie from Huntsville, Texas. We loved your recent podcast on air conditioning and used it a lot here in Texas.
1:18.0	We were wondering if someday you could get curious about trains.
1:21.7	Like, why do we need trains when we have cars, Isaac asked?
1:24.6	We will look you up on Patreon tonight.
1:28.8	We don't use Facebook or Twitter, so that may be a good option. Hope to hear from you soon, Isaac and Carrie. Thanks so much for the email. Great listener suggestion.
1:35.5	Getting curious about trains is a fantastic idea that we plan to cover in an upcoming episode,
1:40.8	so stay tuned for that. Isaac and Carrie also mentioned our Patreon page.
1:45.8	For those of you not familiar, our Patreon page is a great place to go for behind-the-scenes
1:50.6	look at our podcast.
1:52.1	We have lots of things up there for our Patreon supporters to enjoy.
1:56.2	For as little as $1, you can help support Curious Kid Podcast and get access to all the Patreon content,
2:02.8	in addition to some cool perks, like shoutouts in an episode, science transcripts, podcast merchandise,
2:09.4	and a lot more. So check us out on Patreon. The question of the week is, what year came before
2:15.6	year one? If you think the answer to the question is obvious, think again, what year came before the year one?
2:24.7	Okay, let's start this off by going over some of the fundamental numbers we know about time.
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