Instead of having class, today was picture day- apart from a main group picture, each school represented on SAS had an individual school picture. The six wolverines featured from left to right are: Jenny Feuer, me, Jill Horning, Ivy Forester, Laura Budde, and EJ Horstman. Go Blue!
Tonight we will cross the International Date Line. For those of you who are as confused as I am by this here is Wikipedia’s explanation of this phenomenon:
The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it. Roughly along 180° longitude, with diversions to pass around some territories and island groups, it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating −12 and +12 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Greenwich Mean Time – GMT). Crossing the IDL travelling east results in a day or 24 hours being subtracted (so the traveler repeats the date), and crossing west results in a day being added. The exact number of hours depends on the time zones.
Bottom Line: Today is Tuesday, February 2nd. After we cross the date line, sometime today or tonight, it will be Thursday, February 4th. February 3rd is the lost day. Instead of being hours behind East Coast Time or Pacific Time, we will be ahead of it. Had we crossed the date line from East to West we would have repeated a day… I think. Regardless, this time tomorrow it will be 3:35 on Thursday, February 4th. I hope I shed some light on that confusing topic… or at least got some of you to look it up and better understand it yourself.
I think we decided to do our Global Studies project on Food Production and Distribution and how that varies in each country. We will mostly focus on distribution and its correlation with socioeconomic status. Pamie- thanks for the education suggestion, it was a good one. I think everyone just likes eating too much to not do a topic on food.
In honor of LOST season six premiering tonight I thought I would mention (because I forgot to in a previous post) that the psych hospital that I visited in Honolulu was the same hospital where the scenes of Hurley in the hospital were filmed! Too bad I won’t be able to watch any LOST until May 5th… no spoilers please…
Tonight we will cross the International Date Line. For those of you who are as confused as I am by this here is Wikipedia’s explanation of this phenomenon:
The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it. Roughly along 180° longitude, with diversions to pass around some territories and island groups, it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating −12 and +12 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Greenwich Mean Time – GMT). Crossing the IDL travelling east results in a day or 24 hours being subtracted (so the traveler repeats the date), and crossing west results in a day being added. The exact number of hours depends on the time zones.
Bottom Line: Today is Tuesday, February 2nd. After we cross the date line, sometime today or tonight, it will be Thursday, February 4th. February 3rd is the lost day. Instead of being hours behind East Coast Time or Pacific Time, we will be ahead of it. Had we crossed the date line from East to West we would have repeated a day… I think. Regardless, this time tomorrow it will be 3:35 on Thursday, February 4th. I hope I shed some light on that confusing topic… or at least got some of you to look it up and better understand it yourself.
I think we decided to do our Global Studies project on Food Production and Distribution and how that varies in each country. We will mostly focus on distribution and its correlation with socioeconomic status. Pamie- thanks for the education suggestion, it was a good one. I think everyone just likes eating too much to not do a topic on food.
In honor of LOST season six premiering tonight I thought I would mention (because I forgot to in a previous post) that the psych hospital that I visited in Honolulu was the same hospital where the scenes of Hurley in the hospital were filmed! Too bad I won’t be able to watch any LOST until May 5th… no spoilers please…
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