"September 22 or 23 is the moment in time of the autumnal equinox, or September equinox, when Earth's orientation is such that the circle of illumination again passes through both poles so that all parts of the globe experience a 12-hour day and a 12-hour night." - Geosystems, An Introduction to Physical Geography, by Robert W. Christopherson
Book meme:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
The closest book was one from my very few elective classes in college and not a computer science-y one. See, University of Minnesota students are required to take one biology class so that we're forced to learn about evolution (liberals!). I'm already sold on evolution (and I'm terribly uninterested in the subject) so I took biogeography to spite the system. All labs were computer-based (no animal cadavers) and I learned about continentality. Goodbye Minneapolis.
