NASA bound for Mars Perseverance The rover is ready to take off! You can see the launch of the groundbreaking mission on Thursday (July 30) live online, as well as on TV, cable and satellite, and kick in on social media. Perseverance, nicknamed “Percy,” is scheduled to take off on …
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Overreaction on MLB 2020 Opening Day: Christian Yelich is lost, Reds and Padres are real and more
Finally, we witnessed a meaningful full day of baseball. The overwhelming majority of Major League Baseball teams (the Yankees and Nationals were out after Thursday’s first game) played a regular-season game on Friday for the first time since September 29, 2019. It felt so good to see the best players …
Read More »The unlikely pet of the pandemic: chickens
It was then that Gillian Frank and his wife, Kathryn Jones, both 41, discussed how to get chickens. “Wouldn’t that be a fun hobby? And it would guarantee that we had eggs if we had chickens,” Frank told CNN. Frank, who is a historian at the University of Virginia, and …
Read More »These ‘scamdemic’ skeptics still want to sell you a mask
Don Caple will not wear a mask. He doesn’t think they really stop the spread of the new coronavirus, and he’s pretty sure the mask mandates are a “communist move” by the government to see how many people are willing to give up their freedom. But if you are looking …
Read More »Fun with Kyle Hendricks Brewer Domination: Every K, Silly Contact, Give it the Cy Young
I’m still in awe of that performance from Kyle Hendricks, who missed out on being a Maddux for just three pitches. You could see live how masterful it was, even without taking into account the strange context of Opening Day, but then you check the data and it just gets …
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