About this episode

The episode discusses the arrival of spring and the significance of the spring equinox.

On Friday, March 20, at 9:46 a.m., the sun crossed the celestial equator — marking the spring equinox. As the term “equinox” indicates, there is roughly equal time between sunrise and sunset around the globe.

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