Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
The Sun is switching poles
By DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS
As an aging citizen of Scandinavian descent, I dread this time of year. Each evening the sun sets significantly earlier. Deep in the bones of us northern people is the notion that summertime is the season of life and hope while winter is, well, cold and horribly dark.
This week all of the globe enjoys roughly 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of night. The "reason for the season" relates to the Earth's orbit around the sun. During summertime, our planet's north pole points mildly toward the sun and we in the northern hemisphere get more than 12 hours of sunlight. Durin...
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