Tuesday 11/23/21
Celebrate National Doctor Who Day!!! Eat a Cranberry, Fibonacci, Cashew, and Espresso Day.
Doctor Who Day marks the 54th anniversary (1963) of “An Unearthly Child,” the debut episode of Doctor Who and the origin point of an ever-expanding universe.
Originally airing on the BBC at precisely 5:15, William Hartnell’s Doctor Prime hopped in his big blue police box and embarked on an adventure that has enamored millions of fans for more than a half-century.
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If you have read The Davinci Code, you are familiar with the Fibonacci sequence. In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, For instance 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144.
Fibonacci numbers can be found in many aspects of the natural world, including petal arrangements in flowers, the shape of hurricanes, a honeybee’s family tree, and even DNA molecules.
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A Tuscan-style eight-bedroom villa with views of Biscayne Bay went on sale Wednesday for $31.75 million — a whopping markup from the purchase two decades ago from Madonna for $7.5 million.
The home is owned by Gunter the VI, a German Shepherd. Yes you heard right..a dog.
The dog’s lineage dates back decades to when Gunther III inherited a multimillion-dollar trust from late owner German countess Karlotta Liebenstein when she died in 1992.
Since then, a group of handlers have helped maintain a jet-setting lifestyle for a succession of dogs. There are trips to the Milan and the Bahamas, where the latest Gunther recently dined out at restaurants every evening — his handlers like to make sure he’s well socialized.
According to the real estate agent, “He literally sleeps overlooking the most magnificent view in an Italian custom bed in the former bedroom of the greatest pop star in the world.”
https://www.yahoo.com/now/meet-gunther-german-shepherd-selling-175930236.html
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A behavior some experts call “stomach gripping,” or what’s more widely known as sucking in your stomach could potentially affect the pelvic floor muscles, which are involved in posture, urination, bowel movements and sex, sucking in your gut all the time “could alter the mechanics of your abdomen; it could alter its ability to respond to demands in the environment,” according to Julie Wiebe a clinical assistant professor in the physical therapy department at the University of Michigan-Flint. “It could change your breath patterns.”
Habitually contracting your oblique abdominal muscles can exert force down on the pelvic floor muscles and potentially cause the pelvic floor to become overwhelmed, which could have consequences such as incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
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Spotify has stopped shuffling albums by default, all because Adele asked them to. The streaming service has taken the shuffle button off all album pages after Adele made the request, tweeting: "We don't create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason” and that getting rid of the shuffle button was the one ask she made ahead of the release of 30. Spotify users can still shuffle albums, but the default will now be to play a record in the order chosen by the artist.
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Weekend Box Office
1. Ghostbusters: Afterlife $44million
2. Eternals $10.8million
3. Clifford the Big Red Dog $89.1million
4. King Richard $5.7million
5. Dune $3.1million
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I saw on ABC during the AMAs that Live in Front of a Studio Audience will return for a third installment on Tuesday, Dec. 7, recreating episodes of Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff, The Facts of Life.
The cast of Diff’rent Strokes will feature Kevin Hart as Arnold, succeeding Gary Coleman; John Lithgow (3rd Rock From the Sun) as Phillip Drummond, succeeding Conrad Bain; Damon Wayans (My Wife and Kids) as Willis, succeeding Todd Bridges; and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) as Mrs. Garrett, succeeding Charlotte Rae. No word yet on who might play Arnold and Willis’ sister Kimberly, originally portrayed by Dana Plato.
The cast of Facts of Life will be announced at a later date.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - A dragonfly has a lifespan of only one day. (Now I’m sad..they are so pretty.)
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