Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Hosts Caldecott
Award Read-In Adults and children ages 10 and up are invited to see
more than 100 of the best picture books for children published in the last year
all in one place. Help us choose the
local Caldecott winner. Compare
favorites and meet others interested in book design and stories for
children. Caldecott Read-In Saturday, January 26 9 a.m. - 3
p.m. Maumee Branch 501 River Road Enjoy a potluck lunch! Bring a salad or dessert to share. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of
nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for
Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to
the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Georgia, a country with an 8,000-year-old viticulture tradition, is putting its
top space and wine scientists to work figuring out how to grow grapes on
Mars. The project, named IX Millennium, ostensibly as a nod to Georgia's
ninth millennium making wine, will involve several phases of research into
building an agricultural infrastructure on Mars. One critical step: identifying the grape
varietals on Earth best equipped to withstand the harsh radiation, fearsome dust storms and severe temperature swings of the Red Planet. (The
origins of wine are still debated, but Georgia holds a valid claim thanks to
their recent discovery of an old wine-stained pot dated to 6000 B.C.) The new space wine project will kick off in
2019 with the installation of "vertical greenhouses" inside a hotel
in the capital city of Tbilisi, according to Georgian news
agency Agenda.ge. There,
floor-to-ceiling pods of soil and seeds (including grapes, strawberries and
arugula) will be left to grow under hydroponic lights with minimal human
interference, simulating the possible conditions of a controlled agriculture pod on Mars. In the meantime, Georgian wine experts are
hard at work trying to figure out which grape varietals might best survive
harsh Martian conditions. These
experiments likely will not bear fruit until at least 2022, but scientists
already have a hunch that white wine will fare best on the Red Planet. "Whites tend to be more resistant to
viruses," Levan Ujmajuridze, director of Georgia's vineyard Laboratory,
told The Washington Post. These
experiments could well provide future Martians with grapevines—but the actual
fermenting, bottling and aging would be up to them. Astronauts aboard the International Space
Station (ISS) have already begun growing salad crops in microgravity, while China's
recently deployed Chang'e-4 lander will attempt to grow potatoes and
rockcress (a flowering plant similar to cabbage and mustard) on the moon. The makers of Budweiser, meanwhile, have
launched barley seeds into space three times in hopes of becoming "the first
beer on Mars," while a batch of Ardmore scotch whisky spent three years
aboard the ISS from 2011 to 2014.
Brandon Specktor
Stefani
Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga,
is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
In 2005, Gaga recorded two songs with hip-hop singer Grandmaster
Melle Mel for an audio book accompanying Cricket Casey's children's
novel The Portal in the Park.
She also formed a band called the SGBand with some friends from
NYU. The band played at gigs around New
York, becoming a fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene. After the 2006 Songwriters
Hall of Fame New Songwriters
Showcase at The
Cutting Room in June, Gaga was
recommended to music producer Rob Fusari by talent scout Wendy Starland. Fusari collaborated with Gaga, who traveled
daily to New Jersey, helping to develop her songs and compose new material. The
producer said they began dating in May 2006, and claimed to have been the first
person to call her "Lady Gaga", which was derived from Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
adamantine
adjective Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant;
incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Link to quotations at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adamantine
When a salmon egg is ready to hatch, the baby salmon will break free of
the egg's soft shell retaining the yolk as a sac that hangs below its body
(yolk sacks are the orange pouches underneath them). At this stage, they are called Alevin and are
about one inch in length. During the
next month, the alevin will remain hidden in the gravel nest and feed from the
nutrient-rich yolk sac until it is completely absorbed. The yolk sacks contain protein, sugar,
minerals, and vitamins. These yolk sacks
are also known as "lunch bags".
The "lunch bag" lasts only a month until they have to hunt for
themselves! Once the "lunch
bag" is gone then they start to become a fry. https://salmonfactswork.weebly.com/alevin.html
Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality vs. Mixed
Reality To cut a long story short, here’s the difference
between virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies: Virtual reality (VR) immerses users in a
fully artificial digital environment.
(Views of the outside world are completely blocked.) Augmented reality (AR) overlays virtual
objects on the real-world environment.
(Pokemon Go used this technology.)
Mixed reality (MR) not just overlays but anchors virtual objects to
the real world (allowing the user to interact with elements in both.) See further descriptions and an infographic
at
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/02/the-difference-between-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-and-mixed-reality/#4a1cf6552d07
Thank you, Muse reader!
No-Boil Mac and Cheese Easy recipe courtesy of Raquel Pelzel serves 6-8
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by Saul McLeod Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology
comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical
levels within a pyramid. Needs lower
down in the hierarchy must be satisfied before individuals can attend to needs
higher up. From the bottom of the
hierarchy upwards, the needs are:
physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem and
self-actualization. Read extensive
article and see graphics at https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
THOUGHT FOR
TODAY Be master of your petty
annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's
the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service, writer (16 January 1874-1958)
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com January 16, 2019 Issue 2023
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