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Daily Bread for 6.19.26: The End of Ridglan Farms

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:36 for 15 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 26 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas,…

Animals, Birds, Conservation, Daily Bread, Nature, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 5.8.26: Improving a Habitat in the Central Sand Plains

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 67. Sunrise is 5:39 and sunset is 8:03 for 14 hours 24 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 62.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, the German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect. (The…

Animals, Cats

Friday Catblogging: Cat or Otter?

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Embed from Getty Images Cat! Over at Discover Wildlife, Catherine Smalley has the answer: The jaguarundi is one of the strangest-looking cats in the Americas. Long-bodied, short-legged and sleek, it has more than a hint of otter or weasel about it, which explains why it is sometimes called the otter cat. Yet this elusive hunter…

Animals, Birds, Conservation, Daily Bread, Environment, Insects, Nature, Plants, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 6.24.25: Prairies & Pollinators

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia. An interlude for…

Animals, Daily Bread, Faraway Places, Nature

Daily Bread for 4.12.25: Taming Pythons in Thailand

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 45. Sunrise is 6:17 and sunset is 7:34, for 13 hours, 16 minutes of daytime. The moon is full this evening.

On this day in 1776, with the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

The real White Lotus in Thailand, Four Seasons Koh Samui, and Anantara Mai Khao Villas aren’t just stunning backdrops for HBO’s hit series — they’re home to Nok, a real-life sustainability manager protecting endangered sea turtles, giant monitor lizards, and native birds. As The White Lotus Season 3 wraps, we uncover the wild side of these luxury resorts and meet the woman fighting to preserve paradise behind the scenes.

Fox takes a drink:

Animals, Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 2.8.25: Saving Orphaned Otters

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:01 and sunset is 5:17, for 10 hours, 17 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1971,  the NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

Saving Orphaned Otters:

This British animal rehabilitation center rescues endangered Eurasian otters in the wild by giving them shelter and care in a safer habitat. Watch this animal loving couple protect the ecosystem by giving these cute creatures a second chance.

Watch Boom XB-1 take off and go supersonic in historic flight highlights:

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet soared to at an altitude of around 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) and exceeded Mach 1, the speed of sound. It marked the first time a civil aircraft has gone supersonic over the continental United States. The chief test pilot was Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg.

Animals, Daily Bread, Science/Nature, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 11.30.24: Studying Wisconsin’s Black Bears

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 24. Sunrise is 7:05, and sunset is 4:22, for 9 hours, 17 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1939, the Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places and bombs Helsinki and other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.

Wisconsin Bear Research:

Researcher Jennifer Price Tack leads the largest bear project in Wisconsin.

So, why build a muon collider? A three minute guide:

For physicists, there’s been one answer that has worked for nearly one hundred years – take two particles and smash them together as hard as you can. But the current generation of massive colliders like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, haven’t produced the flood of new particles some scientists were expecting. So attention is turning to a new type of experiment, using a particle that has never been collided before; muons.