It’s Friday and it’s open thread time. That means your Friday is already halfway over!
It’s also National Mole Day, a celebration of Avogadro’s number, 6.02 x 10^23 (the number of atoms in a mole). It’s celebrated from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM on 10/23 every year. This link gives you some tips on how to celebrate Mole Day:
*Send a Mole Day greeting card to friends.
*Drink a glass of molasses milk (201g [ 7.1 oz ] of C6H12NNaO3S = 1 mole) at 6:02am & pm.
*Bake and eat 6.02 molasses cookies.
* Drink 1 mol of H2O (18 g or 0.63oz) of water at 6:02am.
* Ask people to guess how many moles you have in a brown paper bag.
I haven’t gotten any extra appreciation for National Chemistry Week. Perhaps everyone was waiting until Mole Day?
Bwahahaha – this is just funny. In North Carolina, a Republican critic of the Democratic governor delivered a wheelbarrow full of surveys to the governor’s office. Apparently he didn’t read the responses:
“I am embarrassed to be associated with this organization. Your tactics are disgusting and you’re going to lose a generation of voters,” was one, Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson told the News.
“Stop wording questions so geared up to get the answers you want and start wording them to actually find out the people’s opinion, not just confirm your own,” read another.
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Other questions on the survey included:
“Do you oppose Bev Perdue and the Democrats’ plan to pass a job-killing $1.6 billion dollar [sic] tax increase in the middle of a recession?”
“Do you support sending the North Carolina National Guard to help secure our southern border?”
LOL, is North Carolina in danger from South Carolina?