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Daily Bread for 8.3.24: The Most Dangerous Garden on Earth and Other Extreme Gardens

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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.

By Dave Jones – EEVblog, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34239424
0:00 Intro
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

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51.  Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 5:57 PM for 10h 36m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 86.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket [from White Sands…

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Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip

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[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…