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See what the solar eclipse will look like in your city April 8, 2024, may be your best chance to view a total solar eclipse for the next two decades. See how close to a total eclipse you’ll get in your city.

To read more about the eclipse and see a simulation of what it will look like where you are, check out the full article from me, Szu Yu Chen, N. Kirkpatrick & Emily Eng (🎁): wapo.st/3VBxacF. And most importantly, go see the total eclipse on April 8 if you’re able!!

A graphic of peak eclipse in Indianapolis with the title "View from Indianapolis, IN: Sun will be 99% obscured."

Here’s what totality will look like in Indianapolis, where I plan to view the eclipse. (Hopefully there won’t be clouds... if so I will be very sad)

A graphic of peak eclipse in Detroit, Michigan with the title "View from Detroit, MI: Sun will be 99% obscured."

A graphic of peak eclipse in Washington, DC with the title "View from Washington, DC: Sun will be 87% obscured."

Here’s an approximation of what the eclipse will look like in D.C. vs. Detroit. Even though Detroit will have 99% of the sun covered by the moon, it won’t feel much more dramatic than D.C.’s 87%! To see the true drama of the total eclipse, you gotta make your way to the path.

Espenak said once you’re out of the path of totality, there’s not a big difference in what you’ll see. “It’s just a thinner slice of the sun that’s visible. It’s only when you make that transformation from the partial eclipse to a total eclipse that you get this dramatic change.”

“During a total eclipse, you’re plunged into the moon’s shadow.... you see the sun’s solar corona. You don’t see any of those things in the partial eclipse, even at 99%. It’s the difference between night and day.” — Fred Espenak, retired NASA astrophysicist

An image of a globe focused on North America. The path of the April 8 eclipse is shown. Small suns across the continent show what the eclipse looks like at each spot at 3:06 pm ET

Another awesome part of this eclipse is it will be visible, in some capacity, from the whole continental U.S.! But don’t be fooled — even if the sun is 99% covered by the moon where you are, there’s a huge difference between seeing a partial eclipse and a total one.

Totality will also last a while this time, exceeding 4 minutes of the sun being fully covered by the moon in some cities. During the 2017 eclipse, the location with the longest time in totality only experienced it for 2 minutes and 42 seconds.

This eclipse coincides with heightened solar activity, meaning the sun’s corona — the aura that shows up during the eclipse — will appear extra dramatic. During totality, you can even take off your solar eclipse glasses, and safely stare directly at the sun!

A map of North America showing the path of totality for the April 8 eclipse. The map shows which areas will have 100%, 90%, 80%, etc of the sun covered. Cities that will see 100% of the sun covered include Mazatlán, Eagle Pass, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo, Burlington and Houlton.

They’re calling it the “Great American Eclipse” for a reason. Especially if you live in the Midwest or East Coast, this will likely be the closest total eclipse to your city in your lifetime. And if you live out west, you’ll still have to wait until 2045 for a closer one!

An image of a globe focused on North America showing upcoming total eclipses over the next 50 year. The upcoming April 8 total eclipse is highlighted in yellow. It crosses the U.S. from Texas to Maine, also going through Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and a few other states. The next total eclipse visible in the U.S. will be in 2044, only visible in Montana and North Dakota. After that, one will happen in 2045, going through California, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and a few other states. In 2052 and 2071, total eclipses will also pass through the U.S.

PSA: If you’re on the fence about going to see the total eclipse in 1.5 weeks, this is your sign to make it happen!

For many Americans, April 8 will bring the closest total eclipse for the next 20+ years. And as we reported for
@washingtonpost.com, it will be extra special!! (🧵)

area chart of emmy nominations showing the fall of broadcast, the rise and fall of cable, the rapid rise of streaming and the endurance of hbo.

why did it take me so dang long to see this killer chart from @carsonology.bsky.social and Hannah Zakharenko?!

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Thx Andrew!

No problem, thanks for reading!

The links in this thread bypass the paywall

A chart comparing the life expectancy of U.S. states and shows if they have a higher or lower life expectancy than Indiana. Each state has a horizontal line and a rank. This is the order of the first 25 states (continued in next image): Hawaii (1st) California (2nd) Washington (3rd) Massachusetts (4th) New Hampshire (5th) Minnesota (6th) Oregon (7th) Vermont (8th) Connecticut (9th) Colorado (10th) Rhode Island (11th) Idaho (12th) Maine (13th) Florida (14th) New York (15th) Utah (16th) Nebraska (17th) New Jersey (18th) Wisconsin (19th) Virginia (20th) Iowa (21st) North Dakota (22nd) Illinois (23rd) Montana (24th) South Dakota (25th)

This is the order of the last 25 states & the District of Columbia: Maryland (26th) Arizona (27th) Delaware (28th) Pennsylvania (29th) Alaska (30th) Kansas (31st) Texas (32nd) North Carolina (33rd) Nevada (34th) Wyoming (35th) Michigan (36th) Washington, D.C. (37th) Georgia (38th) Missouri (39th) Ohio (40th) South Carolina (41st) Indiana (42nd) (43rd) New Mexico (44th) Oklahoma (45th) Tennessee (46th) Arkansas (47th) Kentucky (48th) Louisiana (49th) Alabama (50th) West Virginia (51st) Mississippi

Indiana also falls near the bottom when compared with other states.

A line chart with the headline: "Life expectancy for women has increased in the developed world since 1980, but the United States has fallen behind the pack. The lines show overall life expectancy in U.S., Indiana, and peer countries from 1980 to 2020. France is shown as one of the highest lines. The U.S. line starts out in the middle of the peer countries, but ends up at the bottom of the list. Indiana's line is close to the U.S. at the beginning, but dips lower starting in about 1990. All of the lines dipped slightly in 2020 due to factors including COVID-19.

While the U.S. used to do OK on life expectancy, it's now the worst among its peers. And Indiana is below average. (See where your state falls: wapo.st/3LNb4hH)

A chart with the headline: "A 22-year-old woman will live for 59 more years on average. That's about the same as a similar person in Hungary." The chart has a horizontal line for each place's life expectancy. It shows that Hungary has the closest life expectancy to Indiana for a 22-year old, with a bit less than 1 year more than Indiana. Japan has the highest life expectancy on the chart with about 10 more years. Here is the order of the places from most to least life expectancy: Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Iceland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Taiwan, Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, U.S. overall, Ecuador, Hungary, Indiana, Kyrgyzstan.

My life expectancy right now as a Hoosier is similar to a 22-yo woman in Hungary.

A graphic with different colored concentric circles. The first layer of circles are white and represent your age. The second layer are yellow and represent your average expected years remaining based on life expectancy data. The last layer is pink/purple and represents how many more years someone from Japan would live. There are three text boxes that say, "If you were a 22-year-old woman from Indiana, you could expect to live 59 more years. That's 10 years fewer than a 22-year-old woman from Japan."

Americans don't live as long as those in peer countries & that plays out differently based on where you live. If I grew up in Japan rather than Indiana, I would likely gain a decade of life.
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See where your state/age/gender stack up (gift link): wapo.st/3LNb4hH

An abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later. Brooke and Billy High, first featured in a widely read Washington Post story last year, are caring for their twin daughters in a new city, trying their best to hold it all together.

Last year, teenagers Brooke & Billy were profiled in a @washingtonpost.com story after they had twins right after an abortion ban. Today, we published a follow-up story about their life with two toddlers.

Design by me.
https://wapo.st/3Ok2zeF

Washington Post employees gather together, holding signs saying "#IStandWithEvan" inside the newsroom. On a monitor in the center of the newsroom photo is an outline of Evan's headshot with #IStandWithEvan in bold text underneath.

It's been 100 days since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia and falsely accused of espionage.

Journalism is not a crime. Free press is crucial to maintaining a free society. Especially on this difficult milestone, our newsroom #StandsWithEvan.

When they said a dinosaur would turn into mush 😭😭

As the machine drills, it also lays grout and pushes dirt out of the way. This far down, most of the soil is indistinguishable. “You could mine through a dinosaur and it’s all going to come out looking like toothpaste,” said Ryan Payne, an engineer overseeing the project.

this is the best local journalism you'll read all year!

but it also feeds my deep-seated anxiety that miners, frackers, drillers and diggers are down there totally obliterating cool fossils

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/202...

Is this how to Bluesky??

Chestnut on how he feels mid-contest: “That feeling of full is is completely ignored. What you’re feeling is tightness and feeling the burps trying to come up. You’re trying to...stop them from coming out or try to sneak the burps out very carefully so they don’t look like barf.”

Above all, the eaters agreed their sport is a mental game. "One of the things that allowed me to excel is my threshold for discomfort, where for other people it may be a genetic predisposed to a longer torso," said Nick Wehry, No. 4 ranked eater.

"In competition, you can’t hope. You have to get prepared. Be ready," Chestnut said.

Where other eaters might get in just a few full 10-minute practices, Chestnut said he aims for seven or eight, cycling through an intense regimen of a digestive cleanse, 10-minute practice in his basement and multi-day recovery over and over for two months before the 4th.

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All the eaters exhibited intensive attention to detail. None moreso than Joey Chestnut, who built his own equipment to allow him to lift weights with his jaw. He also uses a product called Jawsrsize to practice chewing.

It could also mean swallowing with certain body motions to reduce pressure on the throat muscles.

“Sometimes I’ll throw my head back like a goose just trying to swallow something,” said Michelle Lesco, the 2021 women's hot dog champion.