The Times They Are a-Changin'

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 December 2013

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

At the start of this new year we crack open some fossils, peer back into ancient seas, and look up at lunar skies to find that a year is not quite as fixed as we thought it was.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:12.0	Shorts!
0:13.3	From W. N. Y.
0:15.8	C.
0:16.7	C?
0:16.8	C?
0:16.8	Yes.
0:18.5	And NPR.
0:37.8	Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod. I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. And it is almost New Year's, actually. We're recording this a few hours before New Year's Eve. Well, it's not a few. I mean, today's Monday, tomorrow night. So, 50 hours. We have 50 hours left to 20. No, less than that, 20.
0:39.0	Well, whatever.
0:39.8	I just, because it's that time of year, I want to tell you a story about a discovery I made.
0:44.9	Not me.
0:45.8	I just learned about it from other people, but it has made me completely reconsider what a year means and specifically how big a year really is.
0:55.4	How big a year, what?
0:57.9	How big a year really is.
1:00.3	I don't know what, how is a year, how long a year is?
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