Good morning.
We’ll have a partly sunny Thursday with a high of seventeen. Southwest winds of ten to twenty miles per hour will produce windchill values well below zero.
People sometimes wonder what it would be like to fly. An eagle in Chamonix shares its bird’s-eye view:
On 12.12.1901, Guglielmo Marconi sends a radio transmission a long distance:
Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less. The message–simply the Morse-code signal for the letter “s”–traveled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.
Puzzability‘s series on cold weather has been surprisingly apt. Here’s Thursday’s puzzle:
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This Week’s Game — December 9-13
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The Bitter End
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like winter out there. For each day this week, we started with a word and added the sound “brrr” to the end to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the shorter word followed by the “brrr” word.
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Example:
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Saloon employee who cuts men’s hair
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Answer:
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Bar barber
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase, with the “brrr” word second (as “Bar barber” in the example), for your answer.
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Thursday, December 12
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