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You Might Be A Law Student If. . .

. . . instead of Harry Potter or Star Wars, you find yourself camping out front the Supreme Court for oral arguments in D.C. v. Heller, to be argued Tuesday morning at 10:00am. The Court doesn’t allow live broadcast of oral arguments, but is making the rare accommodation of publishing its own recordings of the arguments immediately after they end, at about 11:30am. CSPAN will air them at that time, as live as they can get. In case you’ve been living somewhere dank and unhealthy for the past six months, Heller is the first time the Court has been faced with the necessity to [ . . . ]

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2008: 03/18
POSTED BY: Qwertz
CATEGORY: Current Events
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Daylight Saving Time

I did some mathematical jiggery-pokery and came up with this pretty little graph. You will need to click on that to get it big enough to read. The graph shows sunrise, sunset, waking hours, and business hours through the course of the year. Solar noon is at the center, sunrise is above, and sunset below. It makes some pretty wild assumptions, too. It is based on an average observer at 40°N latitude. It assumes that the average observer wakes at 6am and goes to bed at 10pm. It assumes business hours of 9am to 5pm. It assumes that the observer is [ . . . ]

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