Noteworthy News

[The Valkyrie]

Keep your eyes on the skies for the next few days. The sun has produced several very energetic flares, and the ejecta is en route to Earth. Two or more of these may combine en route and produce even more potent "cannibal" CMEs. Details at SpaceWeather.

The upshot of all that is that we have good odds of seeing low-latitude northern lights over the next few days.

'The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
I cremated Sam McGee.'

Boru

Did Sam know you were going to cremate him when he went with you to the lake?

[Angrboda]

The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today — ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.

About half of Americans now say religion is not an important part of their daily life. They remain as divided on the question today as they were last year.

Such large declines in religiosity are rare. Since 2007, only 14 out of more than 160 countries in the World Poll have experienced drops of over 15 percentage points in religious importance over any 10-year period.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop...world.aspx