Hunh?
"The word “solstice” ... reflects what we see on the first days of summer and winter when, at dawn for two or three days, the sun seems to linger for several minutes in its passage across the sky, before beginning to double back."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/opinion/20cohen.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
I can barely think of anything right about that paragraph.
What actually happens is that, in the days before the Winter Solstice, the Sun rises farther and farther south of east each morning until, for a few days running, it rises at more or less the same spot. Then it starts rising farther and farther north again. The sun doesn't "linger" anywhere, nothing happens "for several minutes", and it doesn't "double back" except over a course of days.
I realize this is an Op-Ed, but c'mon, NYTimes, don't you have editors?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/opinion/20cohen.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
I can barely think of anything right about that paragraph.
What actually happens is that, in the days before the Winter Solstice, the Sun rises farther and farther south of east each morning until, for a few days running, it rises at more or less the same spot. Then it starts rising farther and farther north again. The sun doesn't "linger" anywhere, nothing happens "for several minutes", and it doesn't "double back" except over a course of days.
I realize this is an Op-Ed, but c'mon, NYTimes, don't you have editors?