Tuesday 11/8/22
Celebrate:
Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Cook Something Bold Day
Election Day
National Ample Time Day
National Cappuccino Day
National Dunce Day
National Harvey Wallbanger Day
National Parents as Teachers Day
National STEAM Day
National Young Reader's Day
Skeptics Day International...is it???
World Pianist Day
World Town Planning Day
X-Ray Day
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With Elon Musk buying Twitter, everyone's talking about social media and the toxic HELLSCAPE it can be sometimes. So here's a question . . .
Overall, would you say social media has been mostly good for the world, or more bad than good?
Someone polled 1,400 Americans, and most said it's been BAD of us.
. . . 54% think it's had a negative effect on society in general
. . . 25% think it's done more good than bad
. . . and 21% aren't sure.
Also, only 36% of us think conversations on social media are "generally healthy."
But opinions like that haven't stopped us from using it. 93% use social media regularly . . . 74% said at least once a day . . . and 55% said multiple times a day. Only 5% of us use it less than once a month.
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A new study found smiles are as contagious as laughter, and spread to an average of three other people.
Here are a few more quick stats on how it can brighten someone's day . . .
1. 75% of people say a nice smile from someone can lift their spirits.
2. 36% say it makes them want to do something nice for someone else.
3. 64% say a smile from a stranger is as good as getting three compliments.
4. Smiles also make us want to be nicer to folks we just met. The people we're most likely to pass the positivity onto are friends, family, and strangers are third.
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Election Day - Go vote..it's your right.
States used to hold elections whenever they wanted within a 34-day period leading up to the first Wednesday in December. This ultimately created some issues, as you might imagine — early voting results ended up holding too much sway over late-deciding voters, for one thing. The current date was implemented by the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845, and federal elections now occur every two years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
the date was chosen quite deliberately. American society was much more agrarian in the mid-19th century than it is today, and it took a full day of traveling for many to reach their polling place. Church made weekends impractical, and Wednesday was market day for farmers, so Tuesday proved ideal. November, meanwhile, worked because weather was still fairly mild, and the harvest was complete by then.
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Blood grown in a lab has been transfused into people for the first time, according to researchers in the U.K. leading a clinical trial. Scientists hope that lab-grown blood can become a more reliable source of transfusion for people with blood types so rare that almost no blood donors have it.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Can you use coconut water in place of plasma??? Coconut water is the liquid inside a young coconut. If the shell of the coconut has not been cracked, the coconut water inside is usually sterile.
Besides high potassium, coconut water is also loaded with calcium and magnesium, which means it's definitely not suitable for patients with kidney failure, severe burns, etc. Another problem is that it is much more acidic than human plasma. The bottom line is that coconut water is not identical to human plasma.
In an emergency, coconut water can be used...but it might be one step to far.
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