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☆ Opinion | R.I.P., the Sun Triangle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It was an obtuse triangle whose steepest side pointed directly at the sun at solar noon — the moment in the day when the sun is highest overhead — on the summer solstice. The Sun Triangle, as Spilhaus named it, gave off a Stonehenge vibe to those who knew what it was. People would gather beneath the giant triangle — once described by The New York Times as resembling the head of a pterodactyl — and watch the shadow beneath it shrink as solar noon approached. This year the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice occurred on Wednesday at 10:58 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Solar noon in Manhattan came about two hours later, at 12:57 p.m. (Solar noon jumps ahead an hour on the clock during daylight saving time.

Persons: Athelstan Spilhaus Organizations: Sun, The New York Times Locations: Midtown Manhattan, Americas, Manhattan

☆ When is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere? Find out what it is, and its meaning
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Shayanne Gal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The 2023 summer solstice happens on Wednesday 21 June at 10:58 a.m. It is due to Earth's tilted axis as it orbits around the sun. How the summer solstice worksThe summer solstice is the point when the sun will stay closest to the horizon all day. Shayanne Gal/Business InsiderOn the summer solstice, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, where the sun rises earlier and sets later, meaning countries will get the longest day of sunlight they will get all year. Why it's so celebratedRussians celebrating the 2015 summer solstice with a bonfire.

Persons: —, Shayanne, Dmitry Feoktistov Organizations: Service, NASA, Cancer, Heritage Locations: China, Sweden

☆ Vintage Glastonbury photos show how much the festival has changed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Martha Alexander | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

(CNN) — The countdown to this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival is on; the stages are built, headliners are on their way and some 200,000 people are expected to attend. -Twenty six-year-old British photographer Paul Misso was there on a dual mission: to drive an RV for his friend, the Oscar-winning actress Julie Christie, and to take pictures of the event. “They just languished in a drawer for decades.”A couple sit in a wildflower meadow at Glastonbury Fair in June 1971. The resulting tome, “In The Vale of Avalon: Glastonbury Festival 1971,” may be more than 50 years after the event, but it serves as both a work of art and a historical document. It’s phenomenal.”“In The Vale of Avalon: Glastonbury Festival 1971” is published by IDEA books and available in a limited run of 1,000 copies at Dover Street Market, London.

Persons: David Bowie, Paul Misso, Oscar, Julie Christie, Nicolas Roeg, Christie, “, ‘, ”, Paul Misso Misso, —, Misso, Peter Neal, Roeg, Jean Shrimpton, David Owen, Twiggy, Paul Misso “, Bill Harkin, ” Misso Organizations: CNN, Glastonbury Fair, Fairport Convention, London School of Printing, wholesomeness, Glastonbury, ”, IDEA, “, Nikon Locations: Glastonbury, London, ”, Avalon, British, Dover, Market

☆ Manhattanhenge is coming to New York City tonight. Here's where to see it best.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Manhattanhenge is happening in New York City on Monday. It's the phenomenon where the setting sun perfectly aligns with the city's street grid. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term. The term Manhattanhenge was coined by the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a native New Yorker. The Tudor City Overpass in Manhattan and Hunter's Point South Park in Queens are two more scenic spots, he says.

☆ Banks' internship and analyst programs could be in flux, and that might spell bad news for senior dealmakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But before we get started, First Citizens BancShares has agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank, according to a statement from the FDIC. Some of the ripples from the fall of Silicon Valley Bank have felt particularly significant (Credit Suisse bankers nod ominously). Some banks had to even break a cardinal rule of Wall Street: Turn away business. Click here to read more about how college students are feeling on edge about their upcoming Wall Street jobs and internships. You don't necessarily need seven-figures in assets to call it quits, per The Wall Street Journal.

The vernal or spring equinox of 2023 happens Monday, March 20. Technically, two things: Earth's tilted axis and the planet's orbit around the sun. How the spring equinox worksThe Earth orbits the sun once every 365 days and six hours. The spring equinox occurs when the sun's warming rays line up perpendicular to Earth's axial tilt:An illustration of the spring equinox. About 92 days and 19 hours after the spring equinox, the Earth will reach its summer solstice.

☆ A climate tech CEO took calls from an airplane bathroom to try and save his company when his bank collapsed
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Baird, the founder and CEO of BlocPower, a climate-tech company electrifying buildings in underserved communities, had more than $1 million in deposits at SVB. SVB worked with more than 1,550 clients in the climate-tech and sustainability sectors, particularly community solar. Baird said SVB was a great partner for early-stage startups because, unlike many traditional banks, it would provide loans, credit cards, and bank accounts. "People who aren't in Silicon Valley are thinking, 'Look at these rich, immature tech bros who cannibalized their own bank.

☆ Silicon Valley Bank seizure leaves a massive hole — and a large opportunity — in the world of climate finance
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"Nobody understands startups as well as Silicon Valley Bank and how to lend to them," says Zachary Bogue, a long-time tech investor and cofounder of DCVC. "Silicon Valley Bank understood that even though we may have only had $10,000 or so in deposits at the time, we had a lot of potential," Clerico told CNBC. "That early investment in our relationship paid off," Clerico told CNBC. In this, the bank "was a climate bank pioneer," said Steph Speirs, co-founder and CEO of Solstice Power Technologies, which has built a technology to help connect people to community solar projects. But it will take some time, and delays can be costly in the fight against climate change," Bhatraju told CNBC.

☆ Movie theaters aren't dying — they're evolving
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

As the space contracts, cinema operators are investing in the basics, improving sounds, picture quality and seating as well as in bolstering its food and beverage offerings, events and alternative programming. While cinema operators are pleased that studio production has increased, they are no longer taking audiences for granted. Over the last few years, movie theater operators have been removing traditional digital projectors and installing laser units, citing cost savings over time and a better picture quality for moviegoers. Many theater operators told CNBC they are planning similar upgrades to sound systems, saying they have partnered with companies like Dolby to bring quality speakers into their auditoriums. So far in 2023, that premium ticket average is higher — $17.33 each — because so many moviegoers saw Disney's "Avatar: The Way of Water" in premium formats and 3D.

☆ Winter Solstice 2022: When It Is and How It’s Observed
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The annual winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, which this year occurs on Dec. 21, marks the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year in that half of the world. It coincides with the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which marks the start of summer and the year’s longest day there. In the months leading up to the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, the sun’s rays gradually shift southward from the equator until the sun reaches its most southerly point in the sky at the Tropic of Capricorn, a mapmaker’s line that parallels the equator at 23.5 degrees south latitude. After a brief pause at that line on the solstice, the sun appears to reverse direction and begins its journey northward.

☆ Winter Solstice 2022: When It Is and How It Is Observed
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ 11 ancient sites that are mysteriously aligned with the sun on the winter solstice, in photos.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Archaeologists have found many ancient sites that line up with the winter solstice sun. Here are 11 sites that line up with the winter solstice, and what experts think about them. Newgrange, County Meath, IrelandPeople celebrating the sunrise at Newgrange on the morning of the winter solstice in 2018. ShutterstockOne of the most famous examples of ancient architecture lining up with the winter solstice is in Machu Picchu, Peru. "From the winter solstice the days are longer, which was a metaphor of the rebirth of the deceased," he said.

☆ How a Dreaded Holiday Tradition Turned Into the Best One
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Elegant setting and gorgeous music notwithstanding, I started dreading the next year’s concert as soon as the first one ended. Of course I forgave the person who compiled the program; I hadn’t taken leave of all the pillars of Catholicism (just the guilt). Every time my mom left my house, she made sure I knew where to sit and how impossible it would be to park. We no longer need a babysitter, but we’re grateful for all the years she showed up with homemade meatballs. When they hit adolescence, she celebrated their independence, accepted their prickliness and embraced everything about them except their “godforsaken music.”

☆ Full ‘cold moon’ shines bright and eclipses Mars in a rare event
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —December’s full moon, also known as the “cold moon,” will shine bright in the night sky this Wednesday, peaking at 11:08 p.m. December 7 also marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission launch — the last time humans set foot on the moon. Moon observingThe full moon will make its way across the sky starting at sunset. It was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program and brought the number of humans who have walked on the moon to a grand total of 12. Apollo 17 was the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program.

☆ Camille Herron put her ‘heart and soul’ into breaking the 100-mile world record. But officials now say the course was too short
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“I definitely want it to count [as a record] because I put my heart and soul into that performance,” she tells CNN Sport. “It was such an historical moment for the sport.”More than nine months on from the race, Herron remains adamant that she ran at least 100 miles that day. Herron currently holds the women's 100-mile world record, set in 2017. Kevin YoungbloodEight months later, without Rubeli present, the course was remeasured once more by USATF officials and yielded the distance shy of 100 miles. Running a record time in Phoenix might allow Herron to put some of the pain from the fallout of February’s race behind her.

☆ United Furniture Industries owner reportedly has vanished and is staying silent after laying off 2,700 staffers right before Thanksgiving
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

United Furniture Industries founder David Belford has remained silent and unreachable since firing 2,700 employees last week. Belford allegedly shut down a plan to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy days before the layoffs, the New York Post reported. Staffers were terminated in late-night emails and texts sent right before Thanksgiving. In the messages, sent just before midnight, UFI said it was laying off "all employees" due to "unforeseen business circumstances." "Belford said, 'We are not going forward with a Chapter 11,'" Hearn told the New York Post.

☆ Fact Check-Alexander Gleason’s map of the world does not prove the earth is flat
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

One Instagram user (here) shared a TikTok video which tries to challenge the fact that that Gleason’s map is a projection of the earth as a globe. Gleason argued that the earth is flat in his 1890 book “Is the Bible from Heaven? ALL 2D MAPS DISTORT EARTHAs Gleason’s map is centered on the north pole, the edges indicate the south pole. “A projection of a person on a page is also flat (see Jeff Brown’s ‘Flat Stanley’ character), but people aren’t flat,” Bennett said. Gleason’s map is a depiction of the earth as a globe in a north-polar azimuthal equidistant projection and is not proof that the earth is flat.

The fall equinox happens when the sun's warming rays square up perfectly with the earth. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyThursday is this year's fall equinox. This astronomical event, which happens every year, means the day is about as long as the night. How the fall equinox worksIn June and December, the Earth hits its solstices — the longest and shortest days of the year. Matt Cardy/Getty ImageCelebrating equinoxFor some, equinox is more than a day that comes with the return of the pumpkin spice latte.

☆ Cinci automobile rare procurate în credit în Republica Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Iată care sunt cele mai speciale automobile finanțate de Mogo în Republica Moldova. Honda Legend, model din 1989Honda și a creat un model pentru clienții clasei de mijloc care își doreau un sedan premium. În ciuda nominalizărilor pentru Mașina Anului în America de Nord și Designul Anului, ales de Asociația Jurnaliștilor Auto din Canada, Solstice a fost produs doar patru ani și a fost vândut în 65.000 de exemplare. Deseori Mercedes-Benz G-Class era utilizat și ca automobil de escortă a celor mai importante persoane și beneficia și de o versiune blindată. CLK a fost lansat inițial în varianta CLK 200 care avea un motor de doi litri pe benzină ce producea 136 de cai putere.

Organizations: Honda, Pontiac, roadsterul, Asociația Jurnaliștilor, Mercedes, Benz, Mercedes - Benz, Porsche, BMW, Audi, CLK Locations: Republica Moldova, America de Nord, Canada, Solstice, Panamera, turismo

☆ Google во Франции начнёт платить издателям СМИ за использование их контента
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-22 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Материнская компания Google и французская ассоциация издателей подписали соглашения об авторских правах, согласно которым компания будет платить за контент СМИ, используемый в своих сервисах, пишет Reuters. Уже несколько лет медиакомпании критиковали Google за использование контента и отказ выплачивать вознаграждения авторам, писало Bloomberg в июне 2020 года. В 2014 году из-за требования платить издателям контента Google закрыла отделение News в Испании. В компании заявили, что сервисы вроде Google News привлекают трафик на сайты СМИ и таким образом помогают им зарабатывать. В 2019 году Apple в США представила сервис для чтения статей разных журналов в приложении Apple News.

Persons: Figaro, L'Obs Organizations: Google, Reuters, Bloomberg, Spiegel, Associados, Apple Apple, Apple, ABC, Wall Street, The Washington Post Bloomberg, СМИ Locations: Германия, Австралия, Бразилия, Испания, США

☆ Mardi Gras: The most fun you’ll have with a history lesson
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-05 | by ( Emanuella Grinberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —It’s time to break out your beads and get in your last bites of king cake – Mardi Gras time is here. Whatever your motivation, here’s everything you need to know about Mardi Gras to be conversant in the holiday’s history. Sean Gardner/Getty ImagesAccording to historians, festivities resembling Mardi Gras go back thousands of years to ancient Roman festivals celebrating the harvest season. One of those Roman traditions became the sweet staple of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras known as the king cake. Mardi Gras in the New WorldFollowing a long tradition, revelers pack Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras day back in 2016.

Persons: CNN —, Mardi Gras, It’s, Lent, Ash, Gras, Charles, Sean Gardner, Christianity, Mardi, de Reyes, ”, Father William P, Saunders, “, Shrovetide, Jonathan Bachman, Chris Graythen, Mobile , Alabama –, Lake, Read, Beatriz Da Costa Organizations: CNN, Mardi, Saturn, ”, Mardi Gras, Getty, Orleans ’, New Orleans, Hurricane, New York Times Locations: Gras, Mardi, it’s, New Orleans, Venice, Rio, St, Rome, Europe, Spain, Latin America, United States, Mexico City, Mardi Gras, Shrovetide, CatholicCulture.org, England, France, Americas, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Louisiana, Orleans, New, While New Orleans, Gulf Coast, Mobile , Alabama, Gulf, Lake Charles , Louisiana, Galveston , Texas

☆ The December solstice is here. Here's how it works and why it starts winter and summer at the same time.
▼ + stars: | 2018-12-21 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Shayanne Gal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The 2022 winter solstice happens on Wednesday 21 December at 4:48 p.m. It is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere but the summer solstice in the southern. This is due to Earth's tilted axis as it orbits around the sun. How the December solstice worksThe winter solstice is the point when the sun will stay closest to the horizon all day. At that point, the sun's most direct rays reach the Tropic of Cancer, summer starts for the northern hemisphere, and winter begins for those south of the equator.

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