6 Aug
Weather
Expectations
Week 32
Day
218 Flag Today 85°/55°
Wind 8 mph
Gusts 9 mph
Risk of fire: Extreme Active Fire: 64 miles away
Nearest Lightning: 522 miles
away Humidity: 35%
Air Quality: Fair Moderate Sunshine Partly Cloudy
July Averages: Temps: 82°\51° 9
days with rain
Today’s Observances:
Hiroshima
Day
India Pale Ale Beer Day Link
Moms' Equal Pay Day Link
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day
National Root Beer Float Day
National Social Engineering Day Link
Weekly Observances:
International
Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
International Lace Week: 2-7 Link
International
Psychic Week: 2-8 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8 Link
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Farmers' Market
Week: 2-8 Link
National
Health Center Week: 2-8 Link
International
Assistance Dog Week: 2-8 Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Old Fiddler Days: 3-8 Link
National
Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
National Hobo Week: 6-9
Fresh Quotation:
Today’s Reflection:
I’m enjoying a nice summer day.
My brother got really good news that the growth on his neck lymph
node is not cancer. Now they will just check it every so often.
A couple of days ago I mentioned that our neighborhood youth are
using kick scooters. I should have also mentioned that almost all are wearing
helmets.
It should be noted that the UFC lost $30million in the 4th
of July fight on the White House grounds. They spent $60 million to hold it. Hmmm.
When will news media stop listing polls regarding upcoming
elections? They are usually wrong. Just look at the polls for El Sayed
victory. The polls were way off.
It is being reported that our military missile stockpile has been
severely depleted and it will take years to build it back up. Oops.
The Navajo Times is a weekly paper that is very popular of the
Navajo Rez. This year it is celebrating its 66th year. Good job.
The month of July had the highest number of arrests for ICE in its
history. Too bad most of the arrests were not the ‘worst of the worst’.
Historical events
Cool to know:
The largest known living organism is an aspen grove.
Pando (Latin for "I spread out") is a group of
genetically identical quaking aspens in Utah with an interconnected root
system. It's an estimated 80,000 years old and takes up more than 100 acres.
Today in
Science:
The Amazon’s
lush rainforest harbours a hidden world of tiny creatures, nearly all
of them unknown to science. But now hundreds of scientists in Brazil are
collaborating on a quest to count every species of insect in
one expanse of the Amazon — the largest insect-biodiversity study ever to
explore the forest from the ground to the canopy.
Preliminary data suggest
that the number of insect species could surpass 40,000, which is almost 0.7% of
the widely accepted estimate of six million living insect species worldwide.
And that 40,000 figure is for a single location in the Amazon. “If we start
sampling other parts of the forest, the number of new species will likely
increase almost exponentially,” says José Rafael, an entomologist at the
National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, and one of
the scientists leading the megaproject.
The project is unique, says Rudolf Meier, an entomologist at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, because it is collecting insects high above the ground, in layers that have remained largely unexplored. He adds that the megaproject is also one of the largest to use DNA barcoding in insects, a method which identifies a species on the basis of a short fragment of its DNA, enabling researchers to sequence parts of the genome of thousands of specimens in a small amount of time.
An overview of the
campaign was presented in a video poster as part of the online programme of the
annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science in
Niterói last week.
Picture of the Day:
Winner of
the “Wildlife” category – 2021 Drone Photo Awards
Title: Back to Adventure Description:
“A green turtle heading back to the water after laying down eggs in
her peaceful nest on the Oman coastline between Ras Al Jinz and Rashad turtle
reserve.” Qasim Al Farsi
Today’s Birthdays:
JonBenet Ramsey Pageant
Contestant [1990-1996] @6…still unsolved
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Leslie Odom Jr. Stage Actor
45 years old
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Lucille Ball TV Actress
[1911-1989] @77 years old abdominal aortic
aneurysm
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Andy Warhol Pop Artist
[1928-1987] @58 years old cardiac arrhythmia
Birthplace Pittsburgh, PA
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Soleil Moon Frye TV Actress
50 years old
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That’s
All for Now
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