Good morning.
For Whitewater: a sunny day, with a high temperature of forty-nine. For Charlestown, SC: showers, a high of sixty-eight, and televised political ads non-stop until their presidential primary.
There’s a meeting of the Tech Park Board this morning at 8 AM. Even mentioning the meeting gives the board more attention than it should ever receive.
On this day in 1935, “aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.”
There’s a disparity among different deep-sea ecosystems, as it’s Crabs hither, shrimp thither:
Like the boroughs of New York City or the arrondissements of Paris, deep-sea communities are turning out to have a strong local flavor.
In the waters off Antarctica at the southernmost seafloor vents where hot water percolates from below, piles of hairy crabs swarm in the thousands. In the middle of the Indian Ocean lives a motley collection of creatures never before seen together. And south of Cuba, at the world’s deepest vents, shrimp rule.
Google’s puzzle for 1.11 asks about flowers: “In Texas they’re called Tarragon, in South America they’re turned into perfume, and in England you put them on to wash dishes. What is the more common name for these flowers?”