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Martin Fone examines the science behind snow and explores the history of snowfalls in the UK.
It is estimated that about a million billion snowflakes fall around the world every second, averaged over a typical year. My mind is boggled by such incredibly large numbers: to put it into context, that is enough snow for every person on planet Earth to make a snowman every ten minutes.
Some flakes have chosen to fall in my garden as I write this, but, alas, not in sufficient quantities to warrant me rummaging around for a carrot and two pieces of coal.
Ruth Okediji
Six mainland legal scholars, including experts on criminal justice transformation, business law and human rights, legal entrepreneurship, the protection of Indigenous people’s knowledge, and tax law and policy, will teach intensive extra-curricular classes January 11–15 as extra credits for University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law students. This year, because of the pandemic, the scholars will teach and lecture via Zoom.
January-Term (
J-Term) brings outstanding jurists and legal authorities to the
UH law school annually, offering a bonus series of mini-courses to law students. Additionally, four of the classes on Friday, January 15, will be open to the public and available to attorneys wanting to earn continuing legal education (