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Understanding how solar eclipses have shaped civilizations — and how STLPR journalists are covering the one on April 8

Understanding how solar eclipses have shaped civilizations — and how STLPR journalists are covering the one on April 8

St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio

April 8, 202431m 19s

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Show Notes

For millennia, humans have looked to the sky to check out a total solar eclipse. In this episode, we listen back to our conversation with Manel Errando, an assistant professor of physics at Washington University, about how humans have kept track of and tried to understand what solar eclipses mean. Then, we checked in with STLPR journalists in Illinois, Missouri — and on a Southwest Airlines flight — about how they’re taking in the April 8 eclipse.