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Stuff You Should Know

How the Antikythera Mechanism Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1900 sponge divers found the wreck of a 2000 year-old treasure ship that contained within it a machine that should not exist. Learn of the device that reveals an understanding of the cosmos far more sophisticated than anyone knew the Greeks possessed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.0

Welcome to Steppy Should Know, GrimhouseForks.com.

0:41.0

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.5

I'm Josh Clark, this is Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

0:45.5

So this is Steppy Should Know, The Podcast.

0:49.4

Guess indeed.

0:53.1

You know, Archaeology was the first big word I could spell early.

0:57.8

Yeah.

0:58.8

I was like two weeks old.

1:00.8

You're spelling Archaeology.

1:02.6

Yeah.

1:03.6

Couldn't spell anything else for years.

1:05.6

Years.

1:06.6

But I could spell Archaeology.

1:07.6

I love Archaeology.

1:08.6

Yeah, me too.

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