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World timekeepers have decreed there will be no leap second on December 31, 2021. Overall the spin of Earth is slowing down, but in 2020 it sped up.

Why does the New Year begin on January 1? The tradition stems from the festival of Janus, the Roman god of past and future.

But then are you saying that in this market—oriented capitalist united states of america of 2021, where the internet and digital culture dominates all, are you saying that there — that writing fiction and the novel matters as much as ever? that, you know, you in the generation before you, of updike and bellow and roth and all these others. it doesn't matter because a book is read by one person at a time. and the book, in spite of everything, is the only — a novel, for example, is the only place, i think, in the human world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. and t...

Personal solstices - photos from the EarthSky community around the world - showing what the December solstice means to them.

The iconic "Earthrise photo," taken Christmas Eve, 1968, from Apollo 8 during its orbit of the moon, helped launch the environmental movement.