During Spring and Summer, I often ride my bicycle to work that involves crossing a mile-long bridge on a pedestrian/cycle path on the side of I-95. Last month, a crash damaged this path very badly and it is shut down. I was bummed that I am not able to commute to work but, this news makes me happy.
Why? Don’t the people moving to Florida know that in 15-20 years, their houses will be turning into swimming pools?
Supernova SN2023ixf
Supernova SN2023ixf was spotted on May 19th and it continues to brighten. Took the top image on May 23rd and for comparison is an image from April 30th on the bottom. This supernova will continue to brighten over the next few days. This supernova is in galaxy M101 which is 21 million light years away. That means the event we are watching "live in real-time" actually happened 21 million years ago.
Supernova SN2023ixf was spotted on May 19th and it continues to brighten. The top image is from May 23rd and an image from April 30th on the bottom. This supernova is in galaxy M101 which is 21 million ly away -> this “live in real-time” event actually happened 21 million years ago.
That was too much time spent in the car over 3 days. From Friday morning to Monday morning, I travelled between Maine and Washington DC area all along I-95 corridor totaling 1200+ miles. I don’t want to sit in a car for all of next week now.
One minute of recording in Merlin app and found so many birds by sound ID in a meadow in West Windsor, NJ. There are a few more that didn’t fit on this screen.
A quick trip to Maryland in DC area today to celebrate 90th birthday of my wife’s uncle. It will be a nice family event.
Yesterday drove my daughter back home from Bowdoin college. Can’t believe that she already completed her sophomore year - halfway through her college years already. She won’t go back to Bowdoin until January 2024. She has the summer fellowship project to study invasive plant species in conservation land trusts here in Connecticut and then in Fall, she will be away at University of Edinburgh for her study abroad semester.
It’s May 19th - time to look for pink lady’s slippers, one of the native orchids in northeast US. This lives only in certain habitats (bogs with acidic soil)and has a symbiotic relationship with a fungus that is needed for it to grow. Found this yesterday in Old Lyme, CT.
Now with his final high school concert and all the AP tests done, my son has to show his face at school and chill for next 4 weeks. Only important things left to do are senior prom and graduation. He doesn’t have to take any tests in his non-AP classes as his grades are good enough to be exempt.
Now that I am in my 50s, here are the topics I discuss with my peers:
- Back pain
- Aging and dying parents
- Kids' college
- Back pain
- Retirement plans
- Health concerns
- Back pain
It has been estimated that, thanks to the availability of Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S., from November 2020 until March 2022, 2,265,222 deaths were averted, 17,003,960 fewer hospitalizations occurred, and 66,159,093 Covid-19 infections were avoided – all leading to $899.4 BILLION in healthcare costs averted.
These are huge numbers!!! I am one of those 66 million.
Link to article.
Sound ID works so well in Merlin Bird app. It was my first experience with it and am thoroughly impressed.
They say that married people start to look like each other. It hasn’t happened to my wife and me yet but, we have definitely started to think alike over the years. We start solving “wordle” with different starting words but, our penultimate words are identical many many times.
A face-on spiral galaxy, M101 aka the Pinwheel galaxy is at 21 million light years away in Ursa major and contains about 1 trillion stars. This image is a stack of sixty 2-min exposures.