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Lucky you! It’s No Homework Day! It leaves you more time to celebrate World Laughter Day! Tell some jokes while having an extra special drink for National Beverage Day. Hot cocoa with marshmallows? Or an ice cold lemonade, for National Lemonade Day! It’s Crepe Suzette Day also, so enjoy your beverages with sweet crepes!
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NASA just launched an interplanetary rocket from California. If all goes as planned, the Mars InSight lander will arrive on Mars in less than 7 months, on November 26th. The lander’s mission is to drill down to check the planet’s soil temperature, place a seismometer to measure marsquakes, and install antennas to measure the planet’s movements.
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It’s a great time for black rhinos in Africa. The endangered rhinos have not roamed the plains in Chad for 50 years. But 6 black rhinos were relocated from the city in South Africa, to Zakouma National Park in Chad! A rhino team will keep them safe from poachers, and hopefully the rhinos will repopulate their native home.
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Aggressively Organic is a company trying to tackle the problem of world hunger. They’ve developed Plant Pods, a hydroponic micro-gardening system. You can grow more lettuce in one room than on a half-acre of land, and each head of lettuce requires only 16 ounces of water instead of 25 gallons!
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Spice up your food with smoky peppers today; it’s Totally Chipotle Day! It’s also Start Seeing Monarchs Day. Look for the orange butterflies around milkweed plants. You should also look for a comic book store, because they might give you a freebie for National Free Comic Book Day! And for train lovers, it’s National Train Day!
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Today is Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for the Fifth of May. The day commemorates a victory in 1861: when 2000 Mexican soldiers fought off 6000 French soldiers in the Battle of Puebla, during the Franco-Mexican War. Mexican-Americans started the holiday as a celebration of their Mexican heritage including music, food, and dancing.
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As our Milky Way galaxy rotates on its axis, does it make noise? Mark Heyer developed a way to express the movement of gases in musical notes. Then he took 20 years of radio telescope data and created the “Milky Way Blues.” Other people have made music from Voyager probes, stars, and gamma ray bursts!
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Buskers are musicians playing on the street for money. One busker, William Boyajian, noticed many homeless people while he played his guitar, in the New York subway tunnels. He put a sign on his case, offering the money to any homeless who needed it. Then he started the charity, Helpful Cases, and other buskers also participate!
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Mr. Chen has a very devoted dog. When he goes to the train station in China each day to go to work, his dog follows. Then Xiongxiong, which is Chinese for bear, waits patiently for 12 hours, accepting occasional pats on the head. He saves all his excitement and tail-wagging for Mr. Chen’s return!
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If you live in the middle of Australia and walk 500 miles in any direction, you’ll still be in Australia. But if you live in Austria, a 500 mile walk could take you to 30 different countries! Just think of all the different languages you’d hear. You could also build an amazing coin and stamp collection!
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