Monday 6/26/23
Celebrate:
Beautician's Day
Forgiveness Day
National Barcode Day
National Canoe Day (Canada)
National Chocolate Pudding Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
Tropical Cocktails Day
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Weekend Box-Office
1. Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse $19.3 Million
2. Elemental $18.5M
3. The Flash $15.3M
4. No Hard Feelings $15.1M
5. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $11.6M
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We all know the evening sound of a cricket (and it's only the males.) Did you know that the number of cricket chirps reports the temperature?
The insects’ muscles contract to produce chirping, based on chemical reactions. The warmer the temperature, the easier the cricket’s muscles activate, so the chirps increase. The cooler the temperature, the slower the reaction rate, and the less frequent the chirps and the lower the chirp rate.
The formula is known as Dolbear's Law.
Just count the number of chirps in 14 seconds, then add 40 to get the temperature.
For our metric friends, it's a little bit more math.
Count the number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get the temperature.
Plus, you can keep crickets as pets!
They need water and food. They eat raw vegetables such as cucumber as well as grains including granola and oats. They will also need a little protein (tofu, chicken, or even a dog biscuit) or they will start eating each other.(!!!)
Read more on keeping a cricket, and some great facts from The Old Farmers Almanac here.
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There's a billionaire boys brawl on the horizon. Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO and the owner of Twitter, recently used his social media network to criticize Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is developing a Twitter-like app. Warned by a replying tweet that Zuckerberg knows jiu-jitsu, Musk said, "I'm up for a cage match if he is lol." Apparently, the Facebook founder is, and asked for a location in an Instagram post. So are these tech bros going to brawl or what?
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A previously unpublished story by the beloved author of Where the Wild Things Are is coming out next year. Maurice Sendak, who died in 2014, wrote and illustrated Ten Little Rabbits, a pamphlet made for a 1970 museum fundraiser.
Like Wild Things and another Sendak story, In the Night Kitchen, the new book follows a boy on imaginative adventures.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Cate Blanchett is the only woman who's been nominated for an Oscar for playing the same character in two different movies. She got nominations as Queen Elizabeth in "Elizabeth" in 1998 and "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" in 2007.
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