Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 56. Sunrise is 5:46 and sunset is 7:58, for 14 hours, 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 39.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1952, the Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on…
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Daily Bread for 8.3.24: The Most Dangerous Garden on Earth and Other Extreme Gardens
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:49, and sunset is 8:11, for 14h 21m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1977, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.
0:20 Why is this tree so lonely?
04:06 It’s the world’s deadliest garden!
06:18 Imagine holding a 100-pound vegetable
08:45 The world’s hottest river!
Asking Kevin of the the_three_chimigos how he keeps his streets in order:
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Daily Bread for 10.24.21: The Otters of Singapore Offer a Lesson for Whitewater, Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Film, Nature, Plants
Film: The Life of Flowers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Plants, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip
by JOHN ADAMS •
[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps the plant repel insects. But this research takes us further into the evolution of nepetalactone using genetic analysis. According to study co-author Benjamin Lichman, a…