Good morning.

It’s a breezy Tuesday in store for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-eight.

It was a warm but lovely Memorial Day in Whitewater yesterday. The day began well, and even afternoon showers weren’t enough to spoil it.

For those who’ve asked, grilling went well yesterday, and the fish – tilapia (commonly used in fish tacos) – was tasty.

On this day in 1953, “Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.”

In Wisconsin History, the Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1848,

1848 – Wisconsin Enters the Union

On this date Wisconsin became the 30th state to enter the Union with an area of 56,154 square miles, comprising 1/56 of the United States at the time. Its nickname, the “Badger State,” was not in reference to the fierce animal but miners who spent their winters in the state, living in dugouts and burrowing much like a badger. [Source: “B” Book I, Beer Bottles, Brawls, Boards, Brothels, Bibles, Battles & Brownstone by Tony Woiak, pg. 37]

Google’s daily puzzle asks about someone’s career change: “A famous playwright left his prestigious position as Louis XIII’s valet-tapissier de chambre du Roi (arranger of the king’s furniture) to pursue a theater career. What comedy did he premiere in 1664?”

Good morning.

It’s a warm Memorial Day for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-nine, and a forty percent chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Whitewater’s Memorial Day Parade begins at 10:30 AM along Main Street, from First Citizens Bank at 208 W. Main Street to American Legion Post 173 at 292 Wisconsin Street.

Google’s daily puzzle is right up a marine biologist’s alley: “What’s the only mammal you’ll find living in the world’s deepest lake?”

Good morning.

It’s a mostly sunny day ahead in the Whippet City, with a high temperature of seventy-eight.

On this day in 1977, with Memorial Day approaching, Star Wars first hit theaters:

Google’s daily puzzle asks about how a watchdog was once distracted: “In Roman mythology, what pastry did Aeneas and Psyche use to distract a three-headed watchdog?”

So how do you keep a group of dancing robots in synchronization? It’s a Bacterial Trick [That] Keeps Robots in Sync:

You don’t have to watch Dancing with the Stars to know that keeping in sync is tough — and it’s even tougher for a robot. A new approach keeps several robots in step, and even enables a dancing robot that loses its footing to seamlessly rejoin its synchronized peers.

One way to synchronize a group of robots is for each to communicate with one another about their positions, but distance between the robots can lead to time delays. And when many robots are involved, the complexity of this communication network grows. To skirt such problems, researchers from MIT have taken inspiration from bacteria that synchronize their behavior not by checking in with each other, but by checking in with their environment….

Similarly, MIT’s Jean-Jacques Slotine and Patrick Bechon coordinated the behavior of eight dancing humanoid robots by having the bots send information to — and get information from — an external computer server. The work was posted May 14 on arXiv.org.