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Happy equinox to you.

Did you know that the day and night are both about 12 hours long, everywhere on the earth on the equinox? The wikipedia article on equinoxes could use some editing, but the whole thing is kind of neat. (Bonus good word: equilux!) Spoons and I were trying to figure out how the equinox worked on the car ride back from AA yesterday, and we decided a whole semester of high school math/science could be spent teaching geometry and such using the earth and the seasons/days/orbits/etc.

Here are a few other random snippets:

• The Cliche Rotation Project is a great idea, and I fully support the use of the phrase "boot souffle" for "kunckle sandwich" and "like trying to find a clock in a casino" instead of "looking for a needle in a haystack." Saying "Well isn't that the bee's pajamas?" with the right amount of snarkiness could be fun, too.


• Physics bubble chamber art (click for more):
  


• An article from the UK about John McCain that sums up how eh I feel about him these days: "Some of the old fire that captivated independents even as it upset Republican traditionalists, has gone." He used to be a lot more interesting.

// posted by kc @  9:26 PM   1 comments