Friday, May 3, 2024
Well, well, well. Look who's come crawling back. It's me! Crawling back to you, with some a fresh Wolmania.
Item 1: a link
Viewers of last week’s solar eclipse were treated to stunning celestial phenomena up and down the event’s path during totality. But those who watched it from Montreal saw a pair of additional surprises in the half-hour before and after the eclipse, when the moon obstructed the sun on April 8.
The first was an unusually sharp shadow caused by a passing airplane just after the total eclipse concluded. The second came in the form of a spectacular halo around the partially eclipsed sun.
Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin explains in The New York Times that before and after a total eclipse, when the sun is mostly obscured by the moon, shadows are much sharper than usual, so the jet contrails' penumbra is less diffuse than usual.
Stuart-Ulin also explains what's going on with the sun's halo, which you can see in the bottom half of the photo, but I will let you click through for that part.
Item 2: a list
Manet or Monet? Ranked.
- Monet
- Manet
Item 3: a media recommendation
Item 4: word of the week
Codicil
Don't think of it as a betrayal of everything I claimed I stand for. Think of it as a codicil to my stated belief system.
Item 5: a photograph
See ya!
Thanks for reading. See you next week.
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