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b'Think back, way back. Beyond last week or last year \\u2026 to what was happening on Earth 100,000 years ago. Or 100 million years ago. It\\u2019s hard to fathom such enormous stretches of time, yet to understand the evolution of the cosmos \\u2013 and our place in it \\u2013 your mind needs to grasp the deep meaning of eons. Discover techniques for thinking in units of billions of years, and how the events that unfold over such intervals have left their mark on you.\\nPlus: the slow-churning processes that turned four-footed creatures into the largest marine animals that ever graced the planet and using a new telescope to travel in time to the birth of the galaxies.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nJim Rosenau \\u2013 Artist, Berkeley, California\\n\\n\\nRobert Hazen \\u2013 Senior staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory and the author of The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet\\n\\n\\n\\nNeil Shubin \\u2013 Biologist, associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago, and the author of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People\\n\\n\\n\\nNicholas Pyenson \\u2013 Curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution\\u2019s National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.\\n\\n\\nAlison Peck \\u2013 Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nFirst released April 22, 2013.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'