Good morning.
Sunrise today is 6:41 AM, and sunset is 7:19 PM. It’s a new moon at 1:45 PM today. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty-six degrees.
On this day in 1981, mentally ill gunman John Hinckley shot Pres. Reagan in Washington, D.C. Hinckley also shot three other people with the president, including the presidential press secretary James Brady, a police officer, and a Secret service agent.
Looking at pictures and portraits, most people tend to pose with the left sides of their faces toward the camera or painter. (Artists also tend to present their subjects that way in historical pictures and drawings.)
In Why We Tend to Show Our Left Side in Pictures, science writer Sam Kean explains why that might be: