Misc. Articles
Eclipse Shadows Southeastern China
The Moon's shadow engulfed Taiwan and a large swath of southeastern China and the Pacific Ocean on the morning of July 22, 2009, during an unusually long total eclipse of the Sun.
This pair of images from the Japanese geostationary satellite MTSAT show the view of Earth at 8:30 a.m. local time in Taiwan (left) and an hour later (right), near the time in eastern China when the disk of the Moon completely overlapped the disk of the Sun (called totality). The longest period of totality occurred over the Pacific, where the total eclipse lasted more than 6 minutes.
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International Teach-In (October 22nd): "90 Minutes on 350"
The seminar will keep you informed. With The 350 Teach-In, engage your whole campus or community with a compelling educational event. Why 350? The Teach-In is being held in conjunction with the International Day of Action (10/24), organized by Bill McKibben's 350.org group. Many scientists believe that we must get below a long run target of 350 ppm CO2 concentrations if we are to stabilize the climate at a point avoiding catastrophe, and already, more than a thousand groups across the world have signed up to get the 350 message out. Through the Teach-In , your school can be a part of this movement.
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How Students Can Teach Congress about Climate Change
The current issue of Scientific American has a feature on our open-ended teach-in's held in 2008 and 2009! But this academic year we are recommending single, campus-wide Interdisciplinary Plenary: one half hour of roundtable presentation followed by an hour of discussion, and action. Start with a five minute introduction, followed by eight faculty, staff and students. They talk for 3 minutes each about "350" as an over-arching goal for global human society: from the perspectives of chemistry, economics, law, politics, ethics, psychology, geophysics, public health, communication, engineering, art and religion.
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