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JUNE 2024 NYS Earth Science Regents:

Humans pump so much groundwater that Earth’s axis has shifted, study finds

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Paleontological Research InstitutionThe Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) serves society through education and research about the history of life on Earth. Located in Ithaca NY, PRI and its two public venues for education, the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center, are separate from, but formally affiliated with Cornell University, and interact closely with numerous University departments in research, teaching, and public outreach. This channel serves to help us in our educational mission to increase environmental literacy, and encourage wise stewardship of the Earth.

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Dust Might Have Snuffed Out the DinosaursA simulation suggests that fine particles played a stronger role in cooling the planet and stalling photosynthesis after an asteroid impacted the Earth.

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Birth Of A New Island Off Japan - Videos from The Weather ChannelThe eruption of an undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off Japan has led to the formation of a new, tiny island. But scientists say it may not last long. - Videos from The Weather Channel | weather.com

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Next door to Vesuvius, another Italian volcano is waking up | CNNExperts fear the volcanic region of Campi Flegrei, or the Phlegraean Fields, near Naples could be reawakening after generations at rest.

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Milky Way’s hidden supernova revealed by JWSTIn 1667, a core-collapse supernova happened right here in the Milky Way, invisible to all humans. ~350 years later, here’s what JWST sees.

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Ever wonder why clocks turn “clockwise”?

Earlier this week I suggested (“CLOCKWISE CLOCKS”) that our clocks rotate “clockwise” because their predecessors—sundials in the Northern Hemisphere—did. To illustrate my point I included this short video: https://youtu.be/pWJz6bnZ-to.

But I need to be a bit more precise. The direction a sundial shadow swings doesn’t strictly depend on the hemisphere it’s in; it depends on its position relative to the plane of the ecliptic! (That's the plane defined by Earth’s orbit around the sun.)

North of the ecliptic, a sundial’s shadow swings clockwise.

South of the ecliptic, it swings counterclockwise.

The plane of the ecliptic inclines to our equatorial plane by 23.4°, but the two otherwise roughly coincide. If you’re north of the ecliptic you’re almost certainly in the Northern Hemisphere. So it remains true that the vast majority of people with sundials were north of the ecliptic and located in the Northern Hemisphere. Their sundial shadows rotated in the direction we call “clockwise,” and I remain convinced that that’s why our clocks do the same!