Why do we have leap years?

People have been keeping track of time, since they existed. At the beginning,
they just wanted to have an idea what season it was,
and maybe which season is coming next. But then it becomes important for them
to be able to measure time because they needed to know what to do with their
crops. After trying to measure time by the number of days of the year, they
realize that there is a problem. If the Earth always got back to the same place in
its orbit after a set number of complete rotations, which would be an exact
number of days, but it doesn't.
And for that we have to add an extra day to the calendar from time to time and
move it on February 29th.

What’s a squillo, and why do opera singers need

it?
How is it possible single voice can be heard so clearly, above the strains of
many instruments? The answer lies in the physics of the human voice, and the
carefully honed technique of an expert opera singer.

From the frequency of vibrations - especially the number of waves per second -
our brains determine the height of one note. Human ears are most sensitive to
frequencies between 2,000 and 5,000 vibrations per second. So if the singer can
bring out the partials in this range, she can target a sensory sweet spot where
she’s most likely to be heard. Higher partials are also advantageous because
there’s less competition from the orchestra, whose overtones are weaker at those
frequencies. The result of emphasizing these partials is a distinctive ringing
timbre called a singer’s squillo.

Kristin 8a