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Dungeness crab season in San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast will come to an early end
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The already-shortened 2023-2024 Dungeness crab season in the San Francisco Bay Area and central California will come to an end early, in slightly more than a week.
California Department of Fish and ...Read more
DeSantis' office quietly backed Florida ban on wind energy
TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office quietly helped write a bill to curtail wind energy in the state of Florida, email records provided to the Tampa Bay Times show.
A version of that bill is now awaiting DeSantis�...Read more
Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom
Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications ...Read more
As climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to repopulate future oceans
Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and among the most valuable. They nurture 25% of all ocean life, protect coasts from storms and add billions of dollars yearly to the global economy ...Read more
A thought for the day
A thought for the day: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by ...Read more
Other Notable Events for March 29
On this date in history:
In 1812, Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of U.S. President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Dodd in the first wedding performed in the White House.
In ...Read more
Notable Birthdays for March 29
Those born on this date include:
- John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, in 1790
- baseball pitching legend Cy Young in 1867
- first lady Lou Hoover in 1874
- Rep. Frances P. Bolton ...Read more
Astronomy
Today is Friday, March 29, the 89th day of 2024 with 277 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus.
Today's Word "impassible"
impassible \im-PASS-uh-buhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain. 2 : Unfeeling or not showing feeling.
"After we discovered this, we never went into ecstacies any more -- we never ...Read more
Six Clues
What are the answers to all these clues and what do those answers have in common?
1. An amber tinted paste used on a wienerwurst.
2. A purple fruit
3. Besides the number of days, the months of May and August have this in common.
4. A finely feathered and polychromatic avian friend.
5. A 7 letter word for a pigment like crimson.
6. A bleached and neutral hue.
NASA's attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission's problems are not
Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation's worth of scientific progress contingent upon solving them.
That's the current state of Mars Sample ...Read more
These Puget Sound orcas could be designated as distinct species
SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types.
But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the differences between ...Read more
Starvation has decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast. Can the giants ever recover?
LOS ANGELES — When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along North America’s Pacific Coast nearly six years ago, marine scientists could only speculate at the reason: Was it disease? Ocean pollution? ...Read more
Other Notable Events for March 28
On this date in history:
In 1881, P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey merged their circuses to form The Greatest Show on Earth. The circus later merged with the Ringling Bros. to form Ringling Bros. and Barnum &...Read more
Notable Birthdays for March 28
Those born on this date include:
- Roman Catholic St. Teresa of Avila in 1515
- Russian author Maxim Gorky in 1868
- brewer Frederick Pabst in 1836
- brewer August Anheuser Busch Jr. in 1899
...Read more
Today's Word "wraith"
wraith \RAYTH\ (noun) - 1 : An apparition of a living person seen before death; hence, an apparition; a specter; a ghost. 2 : A shadowy or insubstantial form, appearance, or representation of something.
"I could almost ...Read more
Holiday Songs
Below are six statements which, if reworded, are actually the titles of six popular holiday songs. Can you decipher them? (For extra points, try the bonus!)
1. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis.
2. Frozen precipitation commences.
3. Oh, member of the round table with missing areas.
4. I envisioned a trio of marine vessels.
5. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure that stimulates my auditory sense organs?
6....
This Day in History, March 28
On March 28th, 1979, a failure in a cooling system at Three Mile Island resulted in contamination of the water from nuclear waste.
A 'potentially explosive' hurricane season is coming, predicts AccuWeather
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — AccuWeather on Wednesday released its seasonal forecast, predicting a “potentially explosive” hurricane season this summer and fall.
The season runs June 1 to the end of November, but there ...Read more
Plan to shoot thousands of West Coast owls ignites protest
A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups.
On Monday, a coalition of 75 ...Read more
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