Good morning, Whitewater.
Icy road conditions have led to a two-hour delay for Whitewater’s schools. We’ll have a high of thirty-five today, with snow showers (but accumulation of less than one inch). Sunrise is 7:13 AM and sunset 4:20 PM. The moon is waning gibbous with 95.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6:30 PM. (Update: this meeting has been canceled.)
The Earth’s not flat, but what would life on the planet be like if it were flat? That is, as a thought-experiment, what would it be like if we did live on a giant disk rather than a sphere (assuming a giant disk would retain that shape under gravity’s pressure)?
Vsauce has the answer:
On this day in 1941, Pres. Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war against Japan:
Google-a-Day asks a question about British history:
What was the title of the father of the first child born to the sister of the British monarch who ascended the throne in February 1952?