Good morning.
Whitewater’s Monday will bring sunny skies and a high of seventy-eight.
The city’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5 PM today. Thereafter, the Planning Board meets at 6 PM, and the Library Board at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1897, in England, the world saw the first drunk driving arrest. In 1936, in America,
Dr. Rolla Harger, a professor of biochemistry and toxicology, patented the Drunkometer, a balloon-like device into which people would breathe to determine whether they were inebriated. In 1953, Robert Borkenstein, a former Indiana state police captain and university professor who had collaborated with Harger on the Drunkometer, invented the Breathalyzer. Easier-to-use and more accurate than the Drunkometer, the Breathalyzer was the first practical device and scientific test available to police officers to establish whether someone had too much to drink. A person would blow into the Breathalyzer and it would gauge the proportion of alcohol vapors in the exhaled breath, which reflected the level of alcohol in the blood.
If you’ve never seen a cyborg cockroach, that’s about to change. Scientists at North Carolina State have created cyborg cockroaches that they can guide by remote control:
Google’s daily puzzle asks about a character from one of Plato’s works: “In Plato’s “Apology,” what’s the job of the man with ‘not much of a beard, and a rather aquiline nose?'”