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China will open the world’s longest seabridge today. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridgeis over 34 miles long, 20 times as long as the Golden Gate Bridge! It’s curved design looks like a snake, and will hold up during earthquakes or 221 mile per hour winds. 420,000 tons of steel were used in its construction!
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17 year-old Benji Williams has been making rubber band balls since he was 6. Now he wants to make the largest rubber band ball in the world, and he needs a little help! He has a GoFundMe site to collect donations for more rubber bands, and show a video of his progress.
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Today is Mole Day. It has nothing to do with the animals that tunnel underground, or skin growths, or the sauce made from chilis and chocolate. It refers to the unit of measurement for a substance. At 6:02 on 10/23, Avogadro’s Number is represented. 6.02 x 10^23 is roughly the number of particles per mole.
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Attention! Chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows! A recent study of 1000 adults, showed 48% of them didn’t know where chocolate milk came from, and 7% thought it only came from brown cows. For the record, chocolate milk is just milk with chocolate syrup added. But I wonder if strawberry milk comes from pink cows!
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About 200 people gathered in Soka Japan, to make the world’s largest rice cracker mosaic. Using 7 different flavors of Sokasenbei crackers, they recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. The mosaic covered 126 square yards, and used 23,360 tasty crackers. After lots of photographs, they ate the artwork bite by bite!
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Last week, NASA took a photograph of Antarctica that shows a totally rectangular iceberg. Although it looks man-made, it’s actually perfectly natural. It’s called a tabular iceberg, with nearly vertical sides and a flat top. The crisp angles occur when a chunk breaks off the ice shelf. The largest was a 4,200 square mile giant!
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Dunkirk France has become the largest European city to provide free bus rides for everyone. It’s had a huge impact on the city of 200,000. Even visitors travel for free, so there’s less air pollution, more people having conversations, and more mobility for the young and old who don’t drive. It makes getting around easy!
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It’s National Color Day! Wear your most colorful clothes, use your red pen, and eat colorful fruits and vegetables! It’s also Nut Day, so grab a handful of almonds or walnuts to much on. Then celebrate CAPS LOCK DAY by using all uppercase letters while typing, for TODAY ONLY. It looks like you’re yelling.
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The Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in Minnesota needs your help, to name their new baby giraffe. The calf’s parents are named Daisy and Skeeter, and they can’t decide whether to name their daughter Lily, Tulip, or Penelope. If you want to help, you’ll have to visit the nearly 6-foot tall baby today, and vote!
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Chinese scientists have developed a type of rice that grows in saltwater. The crops also yield twice as much rice! The rice could be grown in areas where the soil is too salty for regular crops, or where freshwater is scarce. It would feed hundreds of millions of people!
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