Halley's Comet and Cholera

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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John Green reviews Halley's Comet, a celestial body visible from Earth once in a lifetime, and cholera, an infection caused by bacteria and people. Thanks to audible for sponsoring today's episode: http://audible.com/anthro

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0:00.0	Shhh!
0:01.0	Listener Support It.
0:05.5	WNYC Studios.
0:08.7	Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets
0:13.5	of the Human-Centered Planet on a 5-star scale.
0:16.7	I'm John Green, and today I'll be reviewing Haley's Comet and also Calera.
0:27.1	At first a quick thank you to our sponsor, Audible.
0:29.8	You can get a free audiobook right now by signing up for Audible at audible.com slash
0:33.9	Anthro or by texting the word Anthro to 500500.
0:39.2	Alright, let's begin with Haley's Comet or possibly Haley's Comet or maybe even Haley's
0:49.6	Comet.
0:50.6	We don't know for sure what to call it because the astronomer for whom this comet is
0:54.3	named spelled his own surname variously as Haley, Haley, and Holly.
1:01.2	Like we think language moves around a lot these days with the emergence of emojis and
1:05.5	the shifting meaning of words like literally, but at least we know how to spell our own
1:10.1	last names.
1:11.1	Anyway, I'm going to call it Haley's Comet because that's what my parents called it when
1:15.3	I was a child.
1:16.8	Haley's Comet is the only periodic comet that can regularly be seen from Earth by the
1:21.1	naked eye.
1:22.3	It takes between 74 and 79 years for the comet to chart its highly elliptical orbit around
1:27.8	the sun.
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