Setting the Record Straight
In a famous 1989 documentary, filmmakers ask newly minted Harvard University graduates a very basic question: Why is it hotter in the summer and colder in the winter?
The students, still wearing their caps and gowns, confidently oblige their interviewers. It's warmer in summer, many of them explain, because the Earth is closer to the sun at that time of year.
Unfortunately,...
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