Thu. 09/22 - Fall Is Here & Your Phone Is Dying

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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It’s the first day of fall. Or is it? Everything you need to know about the equinox, plus some seasonal music recommendations. An app you can only use when your phone’s battery is less than 5%. And why Queen Elizabeth II and other royal family members are buried in lead-lined coffins. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: The first day of fall marks the autumn equinox, which is different from a solstice (NPR) Fall equinox 2022: Not as 'equal' as you may think (CNN) Fall equinox: explaining the beginning of autumn, end of summer (The Washington Post) Amount of daylight across North American on Fall Equinox (Brian Brettschneider, Twitter) Autumnal Equinox 2022: First Day of Fall | Facts, Folklore & More (Old Farmer’s Almanac) Wed. 09/22 - The Wonders of Fall, and the Cosmos (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult - But the lyrics are Ai generated images (Daara, YouTube) Fluxblog 386: let's get back to autumn 1991 (Fluxblog Newsletter) Halloween Lite playlist (Jackson Bird, Spotify) Weezer Ring in SZNZ: Autumn EP by Performing “What Happens After You” on Kimmel (Consequence) This Chatroom Only Opens When Your Phone’s About to Die (VICE) This Website Only Works When You’re Offline (VICE) Offline Only The Disconnect Why Royal Family Members Are Buried in Lead-Lined Coffins (Mental Floss) An exploding king: Why Queen Elizabeth II's coffin was lined with lead (Washington Post) Why Is Queen Elizabeth II Going To Be Buried In A Lead-Lined Coffin? (IFL Science) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	it's thursday september 22nd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today is the first day of fall, by some definitions.
0:46.2	Everything you need to know about the equinox, plus some seasonal music recommendations.
0:52.8	An app that you can only use when your phone's battery is less
0:56.7	than 5%, and why Queen Elizabeth II and other royal family members are buried in lead-lined
1:05.2	coffins. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:11.6	Today is officially the first day of fall, at least astronomically speaking, and in the
1:18.9	northern hemisphere.
1:20.6	Today is the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere, and when you celebrate the
1:25.3	equinox could actually be today or tomorrow based on what time zone you're in around the world.
1:31.1	But generally speaking, an equinox to mark the changing of seasons is here,
1:36.6	and all around the globe, today, or tomorrow, people will be experiencing an even split of 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, more or less.
1:48.3	Equinox comes from the Latin equis for equal and Knox for night. And it occurs when the sun
1:55.0	crosses the celestial equator, an abstract projection of the Earth's actual equator line out into space. So when the
2:03.4	sun crosses the line from north to south, here in the northern hemisphere, we get the autumnal
2:09.1	equinox. And when the sun crosses the line from south to north, we get the spring equinox, or
2:15.0	vernal equinox. And in the southern hemisphere, it's reversed.
2:19.6	These equinoxes are basically the complement to the solstices, when the tilt of the earth is at
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