Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of fifty-six. Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:50 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with only eight-percent of its visible disk illuminated.
In yesterday’s FW poll, Friday Poll: Brewers – Good or Lucky?, 50% of respondents weren’t sure, 29.17% said good, and 20.83% said lucky.
In Underlapse, French filmmakers Claire & Max show what the world would look like in time-lapse, if one viewed the passing scene while upside down. They call their work an ‘antigravity visual experience’ —
On this day in 1954, significant medial trials begin:
…the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere….