I highly recommend the book (or audio book) Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are" by Rebecca Boyle. There's a lot of information on how important the moon has been for calendars for 12,000 years of civilization.
Besides the idea of doing one podcast every leap day, perhaps a podcast about other things that are done very very slowly. Matt Parker just had an episode about an art installation that adds one block every decade. There's music that is currently being played, but just one note every year (or so). There was even a game streamer that had a long-running play-through series where he would publish one episode per year on every April 1 based on the game Factorio, which he called "Slowtorio". You could even consider the infrequent occurrence of Tim remembering to covertly insert his secret words; which I think is like once every five years or something.
Yes, but we're kind of overdue. Leap seconds are added fairly often but irregularly, though the last one was in 2016. The last year with two leap seconds was 1972. And leap seconds are added to either the end of June or the end of December, not February. So that New Year's count-down oopsy could happen, but very quickly, and only then in say the UK, since its insertion isn't shifted by time zones like the fireworks and celebrations are.
There is a great podcast that discusses this topic in amazing detail: "The Song of Urania"
Yay! Happy Leap Day!!
I highly recommend the book (or audio book) Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are" by Rebecca Boyle. There's a lot of information on how important the moon has been for calendars for 12,000 years of civilization.
Besides the idea of doing one podcast every leap day, perhaps a podcast about other things that are done very very slowly. Matt Parker just had an episode about an art installation that adds one block every decade. There's music that is currently being played, but just one note every year (or so). There was even a game streamer that had a long-running play-through series where he would publish one episode per year on every April 1 based on the game Factorio, which he called "Slowtorio". You could even consider the infrequent occurrence of Tim remembering to covertly insert his secret words; which I think is like once every five years or something.
Didn't we add a leap second a few years ago?
Yes, but we're kind of overdue. Leap seconds are added fairly often but irregularly, though the last one was in 2016. The last year with two leap seconds was 1972. And leap seconds are added to either the end of June or the end of December, not February. So that New Year's count-down oopsy could happen, but very quickly, and only then in say the UK, since its insertion isn't shifted by time zones like the fireworks and celebrations are.
I don't like this nominee thing.