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Monday, March 22, 2021
The IOC just announced that the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will not have any viewers from outside the country. The Olympics, originally scheduled for last year, are still called the 2020 games, even though they will be held in July of this year. For athletes, this has both been good and bad. For some, it has taken a mental toll as the intense physical and mental training they go through every day has been extended for a full year, while others are grateful for the extra practice. A CNN hero named David Flink who has learning disabilities is helping other children who are like him get through school. His nonprofit, Eye to Eye, has helped many children express themselves through art with college mentors who are just like them and know what they are going through. Though the program has moved online, its efforts to help are still continuing.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Last year, Australia suffered from a record-breaking bush fire season. Now, it's being deluged by floods. A series of overlapping storms is dumping feet of rainfall into many areas still recovering from the fires. Spring break travel is hitting levels not seen during pandemic times as college students across the students return home to see family. This comes as many states are beginning to offer COVID vaccines to individuals 16-64 in age. Many secondary schools are reopening as well. In Space, there is a lot of debris from old spacecraft that we don't use anymore. Some of these pieces are big, but others are small. These small pieces moving at fast speeds can have catastrophic impacts on both current satellites and our spacecraft. A company called Astroscale is trying to help solve this problem. Its satellites have magnets, and once it gets close enough to an object, it can use it to attach then return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
There is a worldwide shortage of computer chips. This is due largely to the COVID-19 pandemic. The average car uses around 50-150 chips, but when car production stalled, many chip makers redirected production to device makers, leading to a shortage as the world economy reopened. Many of them are now scrambling to reroute wafer fabrication plants once again, but many car manufacturers fear the shortage will end up impacting production, especially for low-demand models. A volcanic eruption in Iceland is attracting lots of sightseers. The eruption is a slow, calm one, so people can get nearby and even cook food on the partially cooled lava.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
The Suez Canal is a canal through Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, and it has a traffic jam. A massive transport ship called the Ever Given got stuck diagonally across the narrow canal after heavy winds. The Suez Canal is a key waterway between Europe and Asia, and as many as a hundred ships could be lined up at either end to wait for the canal to be clear again, which could take days. When we order takeout, the environmental cost is high - we throw away all of the plastic utensils, the container, the bag - all contributing to massive amounts of waste. A company called DeliverZero is trying to change that. They partner with restaurants across the New York area to deliver food in reusable containers that can be returned either via a courier or in person, then reused by the restaurant. This eliminates almost all the waste that comes out of delivery, and the ordering process is almost the same as any other service like Doordash.
Friday, March 26, 2021
The Ingenuity helicopter that landed on Mars recently with the Perseverance rover is almost set to fly. It will go through preliminary tests for a couple more weeks before attempting to become the first object to ever fly on another planet. Australia is getting some reprieve after days of heavy rain. Many areas that almost always dry have seen inches of rain. In fact, at the Uluru historic site, waterfalls have formed on the famous monument, a rare occurrence. Parts of Australia are still flooded even as the rain has stopped. Nearly a third of the Earth's land is covered by forest, but that number is steadily decreasing. In recent decades, deforestation has had a devastating impact on forest species, and one of the conservation groups trying to stop that is working in São Paolo, Brazil, where the Atlantic forest is now a series of small fragments. They plan to build corridors leading from each of the fragments to give the animals in them more diversity from other places.
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