Did you know the Calendar we all use is full of... mistakes?
Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids
Atomic Entertainment Group LLC
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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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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