Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be a mostly cloudy, seventy-three-degree day.

Tonight @ 7 PM in Common Council’s chambers there will be a League of Women Voters’ hosted forum on the upcoming school referendum.

On this day in 1965, Pres. Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing the right to vote in all Americans.

Over at ScienceNews, Rebecca Cheung writes that Size doesn’t matter for crayfish’s one-two crunch: Biological deception may give crustaceans an advantage during a fight —

When it comes to male crayfish, not all claws are created equal. In these crustaceans, the left and right claws might be very different sizes — and the larger one isn’t necessarily stronger, researchers report online March 14 in Biology Letters.

This deceptiveness could help crayfish bluff or trick an opponent during a fight, says study coauthor Robbie Wilson, a biologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. What’s more, the findings suggest that within a species, “dishonesty occurs in nature more commonly than we expect,” Wilson says.

It’s a mixture of food, geography, and language from Google’s daily puzzle: “How would you ask a grocer for “Edam cheese” in the language of the country where it originates?”

Good morning.

Whitewater’s Wednesday could be a summer day: sunny and seventy-six.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that in 1979 the Bucks set a scoring records: “Milwaukee set a team scoring record for a regulation-length game with 158 points against New Orleans. [Source: Bucks.com, Official Site of the Milwaukee Bucks]”

Google celebrates the birthday today of origami master Akria Yoshizawa, 1911-2005.

Here’s a video featuring some of his intricate, captivating designs:

Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater: Sunny and sixty-four degrees.

In late January, I posted a link to a Condor Cam at the San Diego Zoo. These weeks since lead here, to a condor hatchling:

Google’s daily puzzle combines president, invention, and office furniture: “You can thank this president for doubling the size of the United States, and for making you more comfortable at work. What piece of office furniture did he invent?” more >>

Good morning.

It’s a day of showers for Whitewater, with a high of sixty-one.

The city’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM.

Google has a daily puzzle that’s fit for poker players: “You’ll find me buried beside fellow gunslinger Calamity Jane. What’s the name of the poker hand that honors my death?”

On this day in 1923, Talkies Talk … On Their Own:

Radio pioneer Lee de Forest demonstrates his Phonofilm movie process to the press, bringing the world of synchronized sound to the movies.

Inventors as august as Thomas Edison had been trying to link two marvels of the age — the phonograph and the moving picture — for several decades. The fidelity was as good (or bad) as the phonographs of those days, but it was nearly impossible to synchronize the sound of the human voice with moving lips on the screen. So the first sound films the public saw were presented with recorded musical accompaniment, but they still used full-screen dialogue titles and weren’t “talkies.”

De Forest’s technical advance was to synchronize sound and motion by placing the sound recording directly on the film in an optical soundtrack. Analog blips of light represented sound frequency and volume. It was the prototype of the optical sound-on-film process used from the 1930s onward, with continued improvements like high fidelity and stereo, until digital sound began to replace it in the 1990s.

Perfect for any season, it’s Sunshine Week, 3.11-3.17, in America. Sunshine Week is a “national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.”