Please note: Totality is the ONLY time when it is safe to look directly at the sun without wearing protective eyewear, such as official solar eclipse glasses. "During this period when any of the disk is visible, one must use protective equipment to view the sun," William Teets, director ...
and Canada issued a state of emergency ahead of the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, including Niagara Falls, Ontario. This maneuver freed up money so first responders, sanitation departments, and infrastructure crews could handle the immense influx of touris...
Ask any stargazer or astrophotographer for the best time to see and image the Milky Way; they'll tell you from April through November. That's the time to see its bright center, but if you want to see its spiral arms — and the Orion Arm in particular — January is the best month....
RACISTS:This is the most obvious. Not every Trump supporter is racist, but all racists support Donald Trump. There are clear-cut examples, like the people waving their Confederate flags and confronting Black Lives Matter protesters with their AR-15s slung over their shoulders. These are the whi...
The only time you can ever see a New Moon, without some serious astronomical equipment, is during a solar eclipse, when the Earth, Moon and Sun line up perfectly. If you're anywhere else in the world, based on the timing of this event, you'll have to...
It is the norm for centers of power to be on the earth’s power points. There is a reason for this. My house was relatively close to Great Falls, Maryland. Access to the falls themselves, at least when I was young, was cut off after Hurricane Agnes went through in 1972. There was...
momentum is transferred from a source body to a target body. It seems impossible to conceive of a static field with literally no moving parts as capable of transferring momentum. This is the dilemma of the “rubber sheet” analogy again. Just because a rubber sheet or Space-Time is curved,...
Living close to the land, I experienced the immediacy that opens up when the buffer of technology is removed. I got colder often, hotter more fre- quently, soaking wet a lot, bitten by insects faster, and synchronized quicker to the rhythm of the day and seasons. Time seemed abundant. ...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
The Sun ' s Eclipse and Fantasy of the Eye : Feminist Vision in Virginia Woolf ' s The Sun and the Fish Eileen ( Xiaoxi ) Virginia Woolf’s story essay The Sun and the Fish is based on her experience of witnessing the 1927 total solar eclipse in London. In this essay, Woolf fa.....