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Ep298 - Dr. Moiya McTier | The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

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Ancient Humans Used the Night Sky to Navigate

Ancient humans used the stars to make cultural connections and to establish cultural identities. They also used the night sky for extremely practical things like thing time. Polynesian Wayfarers traveled thousands of square miles around the ocean using the stars long before their accomplices. Today there are 70 million Americans who read their horoscopes every day.

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