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Date: October 14th, 2012

Title: Encore: Julius Caesar and the Calendar Reform

Podcaster: Zachary Kessin and Julia Smith

This podcast has been aired onMarch 15th, 2010
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/03/15/march-15th-julius-caesar-and-the-calendar-reform/

Description: Is today really the 15th of March? Calendars are attempts to track the planet’s movement around the sun, but they don’t always work so well.

Bio: Zachary Kessin is a software engineer with Mytopia in Petach Tikva Israel. He lives in the city of Ariel with his wife and 4 children. Zachary holds a BA in physics from Brandeis university in Waltham Ma. He enjoys observing from Israel’s Negev desert.

Julia Smith is a Assistant Professor of anthropology at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington.

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