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ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) 1. A few weeks ago week, McDonald’s UK announced they will be testing a new system for what disposable vessel that will be reusable and returnable? 2. What windy day kid’s toy served as the inspiration for a new type of airborne wind turbine? A startup in Germany is building one that uses ten times less material at half the cost of traditional options. 3. Purdue engineers announced the development of a simple printing process that can render what material into a
Answers to What’s It Called? 1. barrel; 2.pride; 3.murder; 4.flock; 5.trip or tribe; 6.parliament; 7.school; 8.colony; 9.swarm; 10.kindle
What’s It Called? Animal Groups Ex: A group of cattle is called a drove. 1. Monkeys 2. Lions 3. Crows 4. Sheep 5. Goats 6. Owls 7. Fish 8. Ants 9. Bees 10.Kittens
Answers to ICYMI 1.coffee cup; 2.kite; 3.a piece of paper or cardboard; 4.mountain bike; 5.Google Loom Project; 6.New Orleans; 7.Tiny Homes; 8. ROBOT cleaners, autonomous self-cleaning droids—2020 Rosie; 9. Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench; 10.They discovered ten that were thought to be extinct since the pioneer days.
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uizmaster Abby Karavanic created these thought provoking questions to test participants at the September Trivia Night at 2 Witches Winery & Brewery, 209 Trade Street, Danville. Teams of three or four people wrote answers to the oral questions. At the end of four rounds, the number of correct answers from each team was tallied and a winner announced. The honor system was used. The prize was bragging rights for a lifetime! No registration is necessary for the October 5 and October 19 competitions starting at 7:00 p.m. There is no charge. Just show up or Zoom in on Facebook. The only requirement is that everyone have fun.
keyboard, keypad, or other easy-to-use human machine? 4. Outdoor adventurist, Christian Bagg, created the Bowhead Reach, a three-wheeled, motorized version of what for people with physical limitations? 5. Which tech giant launched a fleet of giant balloons over remote parts of east Africa that will broadcast mobile internet to roughly 72% of that area’s population living without internet? 6. Unsurprisingly, which Southern city has a musician that is trading trumpets for guns with the city’s youth? 7. What architectural and social movement that advocates simple living led California based company, Mighty Buildings, to begin producing 3D printed versions that can be completed in just twenty-four hours? 8. Schools in Manchester began employing what kind of machine to sterilize rooms for returning humans? 9. In June, Dr. Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in outer space, became the first woman to see the deepestknown point on the ocean floor. What is the deepest part of the ocean known as? 10.Retirees E. J. Brandt & David Benscoter became amateur botanists for their Lost Apple Project and discovered forgotten genetic strains of apples. How many had they rediscovered as of April 2020?
Desert Dust Over Danville by Mack Williams While searching for new ways to entertain yourself or others, remember to look up. The sky always offers a fascinating show. Former science educator, Mack Williams, writes about his experience earlier this summer. On the day of the muchanticipated Saharan dust plume’s arrival in our area at the end of June, there were numerous weather warnings of particulates in the air of nearby localities. I skipped my Ballou Park exercise walk, fearing that pollen plus sand-dune dust might set off a particular kind of cytokine storm! I decided to find my binoculars, most often used for the moon, stars, and planet, and use them to look more closely for tell-tale signs, or the color of a plume of stratospheric desert dust, such dust having been separated
from its Saharan sand like the Biblical chaff being separated from its wheat. The day was mostly cloudy, but in the cloud breaks, the sky looked a much lighter shade of blue than I expected. While gazing for traces of the Saharan dust cloud, I sometimes imagined hearing the luscious strains of the “Lawrence of Arabia” soundtrack (1962). Even with those imaginary strains of desert music, my mind still wasn’t able to morph those highest clouds into riders crossing the sands. I did notice, however, that some of the highest, thinnest clouds seemed to be just as exactly wind-rippled as many of the Saharan dunes, or those of the Mohave Desert. But maybe they only seemed to be so. Perhaps it was just a mirage.
