Good morning,

It’s another rainy day in Whitewater, with a chance of snow (of little accumulation) later this afternoon.

Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM. The agenda is available online. A portion of the meeting is in closed session, but most of the meeting is scheduled for open session. (The agenda is written poorly, and does not make clear that items 12-14, including future agenda items, should be open session after reconvening from item 11, “Whitewater University Technology Park Executive Director Search & Screen Update.”)

Asteroid 2005 YU55 – with an appearance and name only a mother could love — passed close to Earth yesterday, within the distance of the moon’s orbit. Here’s a video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Cal Tech of that large object, as posted at YouTube:

Here’s Google’s puzzle for the day, about another large object, found even closer to us: “You’ll find the world’s largest living superorganism off the coast of what state?”

Good morning,

Rain falls on the Whippet City today with a high temperature of forty-three.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls a day of political foolishness in Milwaukee:

1910 – First Socialist Mayor Elected in Milwaukee
On this date Emil Seidel was elected Mayor of Milwaukee. He was the firstsocialist mayor in the City. [Source: Milwaukee County History]

For all the talk about who’s a supposed socialist, there was a time (and for Vermont still is a time) when actual socialists were the socialists of whom people spoke.

How foolish to think that skateboarders are just skateboarders, as Skateboarders rock physics: Experienced riders show gut knowledge of slope speeds.  Bruce Bower reports that

Good morning,

It’s a partly cloudy day with a high temperature of sixty ahead for Whitewater, and rain likely tonight and tomorrow.

In our small city today, there will be a meeting of the Park & Rec Board at 5 PM.  The meeting agenda is available online.

On this day in 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power, when forces led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.  The New York Times archive includes a story reporting on the beginning of one of history’s most violent regimes.

There’s a happier anniversary on November 7th: it’s Madame Curie’s birthday. Google has a doodle in her honor, and Wikipedia offers still more on the accomplishments of the two-time Nobel laureate.

Of Google, there’s a daily puzzle you might want to try. They publish a puzzle each day, with a separate search site that readers can use that filters published answers so that one cannot simply search for the correct response.

Here’s the puzzle for 11.07: “If the Statue of Liberty (including pedestal) were measured with the unit of length most common in 2650 BCE, how tall would she be?”