{"id":1626,"date":"2003-12-18T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/12\/18\/1626.html"},"modified":"2003-12-18T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T04:24:43","slug":"sunshine-juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/12\/18\/sunshine-juxtaposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First, Nao pointed to a BBC News article on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/3323259.stm\">how the Stradivarius got its sound<\/a>; specifically:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists from Columbia and Tennessee universities ... say the Sun's [reduced heat during the 17th century] resulted in colder winters and cooler summers, [which] produced slower tree growth which in turn led to denser wood with superior acoustical properties....<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So reduced sunlight (specifically reduced heat from sunlight) led to better wood which led to better violins.  I feel like I'm watching an episode of James Burke's brilliant TV show <cite>Connections.<\/cite>  But wait, there's more: according to the <cite>Guardian,<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/feature\/story\/0,13026,1108853,00.html\">the sun is getting dimmer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what's causing 'global dimming'&#8212;or what it means for the future. In fact most scientists have never heard of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And to top it off, according to Wayman, the National Weather Service sez it's going to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wayman\/47314.html\">a whole lot hotter very quickly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>UNUSUALLY HOT WEATHER HAS ENTERED THE REGION FOR DECEMBER...AS THE\nEARTH HAS LEFT ITS ORBIT AND IS HURLING TOWARD THE SUN.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can't tell whether all this solar activity is good news or bad news for music lovers.  Maybe we won't know for another couple hundred years.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Nao pointed to a BBC News article on how the Stradivarius got its sound; specifically: Scientists from Columbia and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}