Today is September 13, but the bad luck tag on Fridays known as  paraskevidekatriaphobia ,  is not associated with other days of the week.  109 days remain until the end of the year.  Back in history on  September 13 : 1501:  Michelangelo began work on his statue of David.  I visited David when I once spent some time in Florence on a bioreactor exchange program Is a 17-foot tall statue of the future king who faced Goliath. He is left-handed. Said to be worth $200 million. The city of Florence and national government of Italy are fighting over who owns him. There are numerous replicas, two in Florence. The circumcision was minimal.  Sometimes a fig leaf has been used to avoid censorship. Supposedly, those four presidential four faces on Mount Rushmore today would cost  $11 billion . 1609:  Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him. 1788:  The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the U.S., making New York City the country&#

  Let's today ignore the question of who created God or what happened before the Big Bang, or why anything like that even occurring.  Let's just assume that there is a   God who created Man in his own image .  Then, on this Sunday, set that possibility aside to consider that other option called the Big Bang. Of course, even science is speculative, so here is another point of view: So from left to right,  time marched on  where basic elements began to form 3 seconds after the BB,  stars/galaxies at around a time of 300 million years.  Now looking backwards from the present, life began to form 3.8 billions ago, dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago and we  Homo sapiens  evolved  600,000 years ago .  However, anatomically modern  Hs  appeared around  300,000 years ago . Now, imagine the entire history of the Universe compressed into a calendar year.  Each month would be equal to almost a billion years, so this is what December would look like: Okay, so here we are, 12 Septem

The world is into our 5th wave of COVID-19 deaths, and perhaps 6th, if you count two in that middle wave  Note, however, that there seems to be a definite decline of new deaths in our current surge: However, if you look closely at the  Worldometer  data: The USA yesterday dwarfed other countries in new cases with 171,125 and new deaths with 1761. India and the UK were at around 37,000. Russia had the second most new deaths with 789 and Mexico was next with 730. Florida had the most new cases in the country with 17,854, but did not report how many new deaths they had.   Texas had 17,208 new cases and 412 new deaths, the most in the nation, if higher than Florida.  This rate is 14 new deaths/million population. The world new deaths/million yesterday was around 1.0.  India was only at 0.2/million. Russia had 5.4 new deaths/million. Hawaii had 5.8 new deaths/million, higher than Russia, which yesterday had the second-most new deaths in the world. What is wrong with the USA??? Petite Syrah