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Belgian mathematician Valery Vermeulen is also a musician. He has created electronic music, from the gravitational waves of black holes. The project, called Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001, used data from the Voyager Satellite, floating 14,000,000,000 miles from Earth. Valery also used radiation readings from white dwarfs and neutron stars, to create his data sonification.
Archaeologists discovered a 2700-year-old toilet, inside an ancient settlement in Jerusalem. The toilet is a block of limestone, with a hole carved in the middle, placed over a septic tank. At that time, only very rich people, would have had toilets. This one probably belonged to one of the kings of the Judean Kingdom.
Did you know it’s World Egg Day? Ostrich eggs are so big, that one weighed nearly 6 pounds! A vervain hummingbird’s tiny eggs are only 10 mm long. Snake eggs are leathery, while frog eggs are clear and look like jelly. Even some mammals lay eggs, like duck-billed platypuses and echidnas. Eggs are egg-citing!
Today is World Octopus Day! Octopuses have 3 hearts, and 8 arms, not tentacles. Tentacles only have suckers at the tips. Octopuses are extremely intelligent, masters of camouflage, and escape artists! Today is also Touch Tag Day. An octopus would be great at water tag! My favorite version is freeze tag. Tag, you’re it!
People often put things by the curb, with a free sign. It’s an easy way to give stuff away, to anyone passing by. But in Wisconsin, someone left their boat, with “FREE” painted on the side, along the edge of a highway. Maybe it fell off someone’s trailer, and they’d simply had enough!
Electric cars have to charge up their batteries, which takes a lot longer than filling up a gas tank. But vehicle chargers are getting faster than ever. The Terra 360 charger, can fully charge 4 cars at once, in only 15 minutes. I wonder if I could plug my phone in for a minute.
Mosquitoes transmit a disease called malaria, which kills around 400,000 people per year, mostly in Africa. For the first time, scientists have developed an effective malaria vaccine. They have been working on malaria vaccines for 30 years, so they’re excited to finally see some success! It will save thousands of lives.
Friday night may be a good night, to see some meteors! The Draconid meteor shower should be visible in the early evening, and is caused by debris from the 21P/Giacobini-Zinner Comet. Debris burns up in the atmosphere, creating fireballs that streak across the sky. The Southern Hemisphere, will also see the Arids meteor shower.
Today is Bathtub Day, so skip your shower and take a relaxing bubble bath instead! You could also pamper your tub by giving it a good cleaning. It’s also LED Light Day. Light Emitting Diode bulbs are bright and energy efficient. LED holiday lights are the best, because the bulbs don’t fall out!
Squirrels are busy gathering nuts for the winter, but where do they store them all? A red squirrel in North Dakota, decided a truck, was the perfect place for his stash. When Bill Fischer opened the hood of his Chevy Avalanche, he found 42 pounds of walnuts stuffed everywhere! That was one busy squirrel.