Today is May 6, is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
239 days remain until the end of the year.
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Among other things, today is Bike To School Day, Great American Grump
Out, International No Diet Day, Joseph Brackett Day, National Anxiety
Disorders Screening Day, National Beverage Day, National Crêpe Suzette
Day, National Nurses Day, National School Nurse Day, National Tourist
Appreciation Day, No Homework Day, Occupational Safety and Health
Professional Day.
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As a maskless Trump tours an Arizona plant making face masks, someone
plays "Live and Let Die" over the PA system...
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Remembering Orson
Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985):
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On this day in 1937, the
German zeppelin Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed while
attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst
in New Jersey. 36 persons were killed, including one on the ground.
Trivia: The Hindenburg was supposed to be filled with helium instead of
flammable hydrogen, but the sole source of helium, the United States,
refused to sell it to Germany. Although abundant in the universe, helium
is very scarce on Earth. The only commercially viable reserves are a few
natural gas wells, mostly in the US, that trap it from the slow alpha
decay of radioactive materials within the Earth. By human standards,
helium is a non-renewable resource that cannot be practically
manufactured from other materials. When released into the atmosphere,
e.g., when a helium-filled balloon leaks or bursts, helium eventually
escapes into space and is lost.
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On this date in 1994, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and
French President François Mitterrand officiated at opening of the Channel
Tunnel between England and France.
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Willie
Mays is 89 today.
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Bob
Seger is 75 today.
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Tom
Bergeron is 65 today.
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Murder
hornets doubt they can do as much damage as Trump. (Borowitz)
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Oh, jeez. Anti-vaccination
leaders seize on coronavirus to push resistance to inoculation.
Leaders of the anti-vaccination movement, who in recent years have seen
their efforts frustrated as U.S. states have adopted stricter laws
promoting the inoculation of children, are seizing on the anxiety and
social unrest generated by the virus and the government attempts to
contain it.
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Octopus-like
creatures inhabit Jupiter's moon, claims space scientist.
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Find
a vaccine. Next: Produce 300 million vials of it. Scaling up the
manufacturing of syringes and other medical products required to deliver
a vaccine to millions of Americans will be just as important as the
vaccine itself.
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Will
Covid-19 go away in the summer and return in the fall? While heat
and humidity harm the virus in the lab, that's not the same as real life.
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Trump
says he shares his famed uncle's science genius. A friend says the uncle
‘would have been horrified.' The famed scientist John G. Trump
once explained his theory of how to treat one malady by the “direct
injection of electrons” into patients' skin. To treat another disease,
he cited tests that showed it was possible to use electrons to “destroy
or inactivate hepatitis virus in blood plasma.” But, President Trump's
uncle said, “We unfortunately were not able to persuade anybody to try
this,” because there had been “some casualties among volunteers.”
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In
Japan, the ‘Murder Hornet' is both a lethal threat and a tasty treat.
Long before the insects found their way to American shores, some
Japanese prized them for their numbing crunch and the venomous buzz they
add to liquor.
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Virus-afflicted
2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march. Modern science quickly
identified today's new coronavirus, mapped its genetic code and
developed a diagnostic test, tapping knowledge no one had in 1918. That
has given people more of a fighting chance to stay out of harm's way, at
least in countries that deployed tests quickly, which the U.S. didn't.
But the ways to avoid getting sick and what to do when sick are little
changed. The failure of U.S. presidents to take the threat seriously
from the start also joins past to present.
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One
in five Wendy's is out of beef. Around 1,000, or 18%, of Wendy's
5,500 US restaurants are not serving any hamburgers or other meat-based
items, according to an analysis of online menus at every location
conducted by financial firm Stephens. Wendy's is "more exposed" to the
shortage sparked by the coronavirus pandemic because of its reliance on
fresh beef compared with its competitors, the note said.
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Think murder hornets are bad? Alabama
police search for "aggressive chicken" attacking people at ATMs.
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