8/8/20

Episode 12: things we learned/things we got wrong:

addition to time travel segment--calendars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars

News:

El Paso shooting

China devalued its currency

Dayton shooting

Southaven MS shooting

scientists discover new prehistoric bird species https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/07/scientists-just-discovered-prehistoric-parrot-nearly-size-kindergartner/

Toni Morrison passed away

crossing the English Channel

David Berman passed away

ABC Anthology series Women of the Movement

Topics:

Women in Translation Month

https://bookriot.com/witmonth/

Unarmed atomic bomb dropped in S. Carolina

Emily Reading Stats

Thomas the Tank Engine and autism

April is Autism Awareness Month

Correlation between trains and autism

https://www.autismspeaks.org/expert-opinion/what-it-about-autism-and-trains-0

https://www.verywellhealth.com/thomas-tank-engine-autism-3971458

In a Different Key by John Donvan

Perseid meteor shower

https://earthsky.org/?p=165416

Neowise https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-comet-c2020-f3-neowise