I fear this is the beginning of the end for our illustrious scientific institutions.

I’m sorry this was necessary, but admire your strong statement. ❤️‍🔥

I’ve always thought this! All those words are carefully defined before that scene so that Bigwig’s defiance needs no translation. Huge payoff.

Whimbrel or curlew?

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The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.

Hello, sweetkins! Love that curious little face. 😻

Here we go: it's paywalled of course, but if your institution doesn't subscribe, I can send you a PDF.

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Excellent! I should dig up the essay my literature professor mother wrote about parallax...

And observations of binary stars like Algol, which I was happy to see in your stellar evolution spread -- I studied a similar system for my Ph.D. and made good use of the fact that our viewpoint on it changes as it rotates.

Ahhh, fun! We haven't done that step yet, but it's a good reminder that we have the data for it!

Also, love the connection with multiple perspectives... I think about that a lot with respect to astronomical parallax.

Then we went outside and measured people's shadows to calculate the Sun's position. 😄😎

I'd love to see it! BTW, I used your foldable syllabus in my first class meeting and my students enjoyed it. I'm trying to emphasize direct physical experience (of the sky, since it's an astronomy class) and it was a great intro to that approach.