Please Explain: Calendars

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

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vor 13 Jahren

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, prompting some to believe the world will end on that date. For this week's Please Explain, we thought we'd find out about that calendar and the many others used through history by different cultures to account for the days and months that make up the year. Joining us are John Pratt?and Ken Seidelmann, Research Professor at the University?of Virginia's Department of Astronomy.