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Odd News – Annual Salamandar Migration?

I just read on the website of my local newspaper that a road nearby would be closed tonight due to the “anticipation of the annual salamander migration”. This is definitely the first time I’ve heard of such a thing.   East Brunswick Environmental Commission Vice Chairman Richard Wolfert said the drop in temperature to below …

Did you know…

…that every hundred years, the leap year is skipped? Apparently, while the leap year occurs every four years, once every hundred years it is skipped. I learned from Pat Sajak’s random comments at the end of Wheel of Fortune tonight that in 2000 the leap year was skipped and this is why. Upon some research, …

Lunar Eclipse

Tonight was a total lunar eclipse– the last total lunar eclipse until December 20, 2010. There were two last year. I’ve been looking out the window periodically tonight and just now I looked again and it was totally eclipsed at this point..pretty cool. I was reading earlier that later this year, sometime in August I …