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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
April 06, 2020
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1BillieEilish:everything i wanted
2BillieEilish:everythingiwanted
3GreenDay:OhYeah!
4TheKillers:Caution
5TheUnlikelyCandidate:Novocaine
6twentyonepilots:TheHype
7MegMyers:RunningUpThatHill
8Absofacto:Dissolve
9CageTheElephant:BlackMadonna
10TheLumineers:LifeInTheCity
11NeonTrees:UsedToLike
12lovelytheband:lonelinessforlove
13Grouplove:Deleter
14SubUrban:Cradles
15AWOLNATION:TheBest
16TheBlackKeys:ShineALittleLight
17TameImpala:LostInYesterday
18AJR:Bang!
19GlassAnimals:YourLove(DejaVu)
20FiveFingerDeathPunch:InsideOut
21PowfuFeaturingbeabad:deathbed
22IPrevail:Hurricane
23TheStrokes:BadDecisions
24BreakingBenjaminFeat:FarAway
25SaintMotel:VanHorn
slashdot
- Tesla Shows How It's Building Ventilators With Car Parts
- NVIDIA Is Contributing Its AI Smarts To Help Fight COVID-19
- US Schools Are Banning Zoom and Switching To Microsoft Teams
- Experiment Finds That Gravity Still Works Down To 50 Micrometers
- UK Government Encourages Social Distancing With In-Game Health Messages
sportsnet
- In Conversation: Richards, Graves on family, who impacted their lives and Humboldt
- Why Raptors likely to rebuff Bulls’ interest in Bobby Webster
- Raptors Rewind Watch Party: Raptors beat Bucks to reach NBA Finals
- Darnell Nurse walking the walk, talking the talk as Oilers’ homegrown leader
- Marleau, Matthews, Marner show friendship ties still run strong
canoe
- Prince Harry and Meghan plan new Archewell charitable organization
- 3M makes deal with White House, says Canada will continue to receive N95 masks
- Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria pregnant again
- Coronavirus spread may be leveling off in New York, New Jersey; vigilance urged
- Lights out for David Spade as TV show axed
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reuters
- Trump says OPEC has not asked him for a U.S. oil production cut
- Wall Street soars on hopes of slowing coronavirus deaths
- Airbnb secures $1 billion investment from Silver Lake, Sixth Street
- Allstate to return $600 million in auto premiums as coronavirus cuts driving
- White House considering U.S. Treasury coronavirus bond: Kudlow
cbc
- U.K. PM Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as COVID-19 symptoms worsen
- Ottawa reports progress in talks with U.S. over medical supplies as 3M strikes deal to send masks to Canada
- Anxieties over COVID-19 and possible PPE shortages prompting some health care workers to draft wills
- Technical glitch stalls some emergency loans for stranded Canadians
- Under Sweden's divergent COVID-19 policy, schools and cafes stay open as death toll climbs
space
- Catch this week's supermoon, biggest and brightest of year
- Choosing rocks on Mars to bring to Earth
- COVID-19: How satellites can help
- Image: Hypersonic surfing simulation
- Rodents and a rocket carried these researchers' dreams to space
science daily
- Targeting tumors: Synthesis against the clock
- Surgical masks likely good for most COVID-19 treatment
- COVID-19: On average only 6% of actual SARS-CoV-2 infections detected worldwide
- X-rays reveal in situ crystal growth of lead-free perovskite solar panel materials
- Positives in first published clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment
new scientist
- Coronavirus latest: US braces for 'peak death week'
- An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars
- How realistic is Contagion? The movie doesn't skimp on science
- Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
- Deepmind AI can understand the unusual atomic structure of glass
Tue Apr 7Mainly sunny
Mainly sunny
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Word of the Day
incarcerate

verb (in-KAHR-suh-rayt)

1 : to put in prison

2 : to subject to confinement


"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
science blog
- Cold War nuclear bomb tests reveal true age of whale sharks
- Viruses don’t have a metabolism; but some have the building blocks for one
- Making biofuels cheaper by putting plants to work
- The four horsemen of the COVID-19 pandemic
Born on this day
- Aaron Bernstein, writer
- Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
- Gertrude Short, American actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1968)
- Hans W Geissendorfer, Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof)
- John Huarte, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1964, Notre Dame; Super Bowl 1970, KC Chiefs), born in Anaheim, California
- Michael Rooker, American actor (Guardians of the Galaxy), born in Jasper, Alabama
- Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
- Simon Coombes, Australian swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Melbourne, Victoria

Weather fact of the day
On this date in 1936, a pair of F4 tornadoes killed 203 people and injured 1,600 in Gainsville, Georgia. The twister sisters cut a path of devastation four blocks wide through the city, wrecking Gainsville's business district and demolishing the Cooper Pants factory. More than 70 people were killed in that one building.

Today in History
- Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état
- 1st credit union forms in US
- 8th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Craig Wood wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson; Masters' first wire-to-wire champion
- 22nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of his 4 Masters titles, 1 stroke ahead of Doug Ford and Fred Hawkins; first of his 7 major titles
- Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite launched
- The Scarman Tribunal Report, an inquiry into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 in N Ireland, is published, finding that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been seriously at fault
- Friedrich Robert Volkmann, German composer, born in Lommatzsch, Saxony (d. 1883)
- Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
- Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
- Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)

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