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Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Did you know the Calendar we all use is full of... mistakes?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

Atomic Entertainment Group LLC

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Why are there 12 months in a year? Why do the months have different amounts of days? Where do the names of the months come from? For free home activities sign-up at www.WhoSmarted.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Smarty Pants and Smarty Families, trusty narrator here with a must-listen podcast I Know Your Love.

0:07.0

It's a show called Steam Daydream, made by our friends at National Children's Museum in Washington, D.C.

0:13.8

In the new season of their show, they investigate everyday mysteries like why bubbles around and where trash goes

0:20.9

to uncover the science, technology, engineering, art and math that explains the world around us.

0:27.9

Every episode is 20 minutes or less and features real life experts and curious kids like you.

0:34.5

You can follow the fun by searching Steam Daydream with National Children's Museum wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:41.7

Hello Smarty listeners, please take a moment and leave us a five-star Apple rating review.

0:46.8

It not only helps us grow the show, but we might also read your review on Who Smarted.

0:52.1

So do it now and don't forget you can listen to Who Smarted anywhere, including Apple podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music,

1:00.2

including hands-free listening powered by Alexa on all Apple, Android and Echo devices.

1:05.1

Psst, Smarty Pants, when's your birthday? Go ahead, shout out the date.

1:11.4

I'm guessing you all got it right, but that's an easy question.

1:16.5

The hard question is this, tell me your birthday without naming the month.

1:21.5

Huh? For example, how many days is your birthday from the start of the year?

1:27.0

75, 246, 338? Not so simple now, is it? Unless you were born in January.

1:35.6

Try this. You know how many years old you are, but how many days have gone by since you were born?

1:43.0

Yeah, it's hard to imagine living without months or years, but ancient humans did just that.

1:51.7

Until they figured out the best way to group days together.

1:56.8

Of course, first they had to figure out days, which wasn't too complicated.

2:01.2

Sun goes up. Sun goes down. That's a day. But what about the rest? Why do we have seven day weeks

2:10.1

and months that vary from 28 days to 31 days? Where do the names of the months come from?

2:16.1

And best of all, did you know the calendar you used today is full of mistakes?

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