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&#

On this Friday, I'll just provide the latest of what is happening to Humanity this weekend.  First, that booster shot decision is beginning to get crystal clear as to why the sudden concern.  Those to get fully vaccinated early, like me with two Modernas, have now exceeded six months since completion.  From all reports, I was once 95% protected, but am now less than 50% safe, and probably lower.  Three vaccinated senators joined Lindsey Graham.    You can read that article .  I'll probably be among the first to get that booster, but that won't be until October, then it will take a few weeks for full effectiveness.  I'll need to be very careful for the next three months. That chaos around the Kabul Airport is only getting worse.  See those people standing around in the hot sun?  The temperature on Saturday will go up to 89 F, with the heat increasing to 92 F on Tuesday.  August experiences an average low of 63 F and high of 90 F.  These Afghans have been sent to Qatar, w

It all began with Amanda Gorman, who was 22 when she shined at Joe Biden's inauguration earlier this year.  While she was new to most of us, she had in 2015 published a poetry book,   The One for Whom Food is Not Enough .  Plus, in 2017 she had already become the first National Youth Poet Laureate. That introduction to the general public catapulted her to an even bigger stage, the pregame ceremony for  Super Bowl LV , where she read a poem honoring the heroes of the pandemic: So while we honor them, it is they, every day, who honor us. In the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics around a quarter of the athletes representing the U.S. were Black.  You can expect  about as many in Tokyo .  While Simone Biles and Sha'Carri Richardson led the list, Simone is too famous to qualify for this posting, and Richardson was not selected for failing a marijuana test.  However, black females dominate the U.S. basketball and track teams.  One of them will attain international stardom through her victories