Site Theme: Cycles
January 15, 2010
As mentioned in my post on phenology, I’ve been considering cycles lately. Seasons. Rotations. Circles. Calendars. Orbits. In the next while, perhaps a month or so, I’ll be highlighting content that carries this theme.
Please let me know if you have an idea for a post topic that falls in this theme: something interesting, curious, perplexing related to cycles.
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It might be interesting to explore tree rings, and the causes for different widths and what that can tell about those seasons in the past.
There was a Radiolab or This American Life episode that touched on this a bit. Scientists were able to take a sample of a 1200 year old tree or something and they could look at the density and/or alignment of the cells to determine what was going on. When great fires were, dry seasons, etc.