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type: NYT (Copyright 1992 The New York Times)
priority: Regular
date: 11-30-92 1451EST
category: Domestic
subject: BC EDUC SCIENCE NEWSWEEK NYTSF
title: FROM THE LAB TO THE LIBRARY
author:  CONNIE LESLIE
text: 

[...]
       In a documentary film called ``A Private Universe,'' 23 gowned
graduates at a Harvard University commencement are asked the
question ``Why is it hotter in summer than in winter?'' Only two
come up with the right answer. (It's because of the tilt of the
Earth with respect to the sun.)

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About the photo: White Mountains of California, 10,500' in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. The tree in the foreground is probably 3,000 years old (they grow slowly in the dry climate there which is caused by the rain shadow of the Sierra Mountains to the east). Camera was facing east and left open for six hours at f/4 on Agfa Ultra 50 negative film. 28mm lens? and Nikon 6006 (whose lithium battery was dead probably 1 hour into the exposure; the shutter stuck open though and when I put a new battery in at 4:30 a.m., the shutter/mirror thunked closed).

More photography by Philip Greenspun.

philg@mit.edu