Hoo-ray! Earliest sunset today.
12-10-20, 12:10 PM
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I was told that riding a bike makes us immortal, as long as you keep the rubber side down.
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12-10-20, 01:58 PM
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Yes, from mow until the summer solstice, the sun will be up in the evening a little longer every day. The shortest day is not until 21 Dec. but owing to the elliptical nature of the earth’s orbit, the apparent movement of the sun gets enough out of kilter with the clocks this time of year that the clock timing of sunrise, noon, and sunset gets shifted. By Christmas, you will notice the afternoon sun definitely lasting longer.
The downside for those who have to get up early is that latest sunrise doesn’t occur until about 10 Jan. So those post-New Year commutes make for awfully dark mornings.
This “time-shifting” has nothing to do with the seasons per se. It’s just the orientation of the ellipse happens to make the effect strongest in that portion of the orbit that we call December. “The equation of time.”
The downside for those who have to get up early is that latest sunrise doesn’t occur until about 10 Jan. So those post-New Year commutes make for awfully dark mornings.
This “time-shifting” has nothing to do with the seasons per se. It’s just the orientation of the ellipse happens to make the effect strongest in that portion of the orbit that we call December. “The equation of time.”
12-10-20, 02:25 PM
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I hate to harsh your mellow, but we're going to keep losing morning daylight for about another month--it's in the evening that we're making small gains.
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12-10-20, 06:44 PM
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] do you have any thoughts regarding something like the Hafele–Keating experiment?(There was a story at the time, perhaps invented, Albert Einstein was asked by a newspaperman, “Professor Einstein, is it true that only two people in the world understand your Theory of General Relativity?” Einstein paused...then, “I’m just trying to think who the other fellow might be.” Now they probably teach it in high school.)
My recollection is that the flight was taken, fittingly, in a then-new Pan Am 747, an iconic aircraft on an iconic airline. It is still the fastest subsonic airliner ever, and if you were going to fly around the world, Pan Am was the way to go.
Cycling even at our steadily declining speed keeps us young, so-what if not immortal.
12-10-20, 11:25 PM
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...Is this still a bike forum?
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Thanks for sharing this painful story, John.
I think the editor treated you in a detestably shabby manner. In no way did you deserve to be thrown under the bus publicly. The editor ought to have taken responsibility for your article at two occasions. First he should have done his own fact-checking before running it. Editors are supposed to have Rolodexes full of people they can call up for a second pair of eyes. Then he could have said, “Uh, John, I think you’re a little off base here...” and saved you both, and the magazine, a lot of embarrassment.
Second, he should have manned up about the critical letters and admitted that he made a mistake personally in running the article as written, without publicly humiliating you for it. There are face-saving ways to do this, even if it’s just the wishy-washy “Mistakes were made...”. But better would have been, “Yankee Magazine acknowledges responsibility and regrets its errors.”
Early in the pandemic, The Lancet ran an article that appeared to debunk anti-malarial drugs in treating Covid-19. Within days it was clear that the authors had invented their findings using imaginary data and the journal had to apologize to its readers for its negligence in editorial oversight. The findings were literally too good to be true. Sure, the study’s authors were bad guys but the journal didn’t get off the hook just by saying, “Oh, well, we got scammed, tra la, tra la...”. It goes to the heart of their scientific credibility and integrity.
I do hope your writing career recovered and thrived from that learning experience. (And here I’ll feel a little silly if you turn out to be a Pulitzer or Nobel winner unbeknownst to me
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-Les
I think the editor treated you in a detestably shabby manner. In no way did you deserve to be thrown under the bus publicly. The editor ought to have taken responsibility for your article at two occasions. First he should have done his own fact-checking before running it. Editors are supposed to have Rolodexes full of people they can call up for a second pair of eyes. Then he could have said, “Uh, John, I think you’re a little off base here...” and saved you both, and the magazine, a lot of embarrassment.
Second, he should have manned up about the critical letters and admitted that he made a mistake personally in running the article as written, without publicly humiliating you for it. There are face-saving ways to do this, even if it’s just the wishy-washy “Mistakes were made...”. But better would have been, “Yankee Magazine acknowledges responsibility and regrets its errors.”
Early in the pandemic, The Lancet ran an article that appeared to debunk anti-malarial drugs in treating Covid-19. Within days it was clear that the authors had invented their findings using imaginary data and the journal had to apologize to its readers for its negligence in editorial oversight. The findings were literally too good to be true. Sure, the study’s authors were bad guys but the journal didn’t get off the hook just by saying, “Oh, well, we got scammed, tra la, tra la...”. It goes to the heart of their scientific credibility and integrity.
I do hope your writing career recovered and thrived from that learning experience. (And here I’ll feel a little silly if you turn out to be a Pulitzer or Nobel winner unbeknownst to me
.)-Les
Alas, I never did win a Nobel Prize, or even a Pulitzer. I think the equation of time debacle turned the prize committees against me. The closest I came was a Gold Award from the National Regional Publishers' Association for the best essay of 1995 (or thereabouts.) If I remember correctly, the award itself, which came to me in the mail, was hand-written with magic marker on a paper plate.
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