I am adding this quite late for a good reason.   As I predicted in my  blog of March 16 , watch  Caitlin Clark  of Iowa.   Well, she only scored 41 points, with 8 assists and 6 rebounds, in an incredible upset of heavily favored South Carolina.  Maybe the best single performance in the history of the Big Dance, women's or men's.   Iowa faces my team, LSU, which got trounced by South Carolina last month.  That's Angel Reese, for these two might be the best women playing at the college level this year. Why I'm adding this now is that my next blog will be published after that Iowa-LSU game is over, which begins at 7:30AM Fiji time tomorrow, but at 3:30PM EDT on Sunday in the U.S.   How to watch?  Click on this.    We left the Coral Sea and are now in the South Pacific Ocean.  Amazing that I am able to send this with nothing in sight around us for hundreds of miles. I also said that if you wanted a long shot on the men's side, pick San Diego State.   They will play Conn

Today, everything you would want to know about a nickel, the coin and the mineral.  Why?   It's big news this week . Nickel, the coin, is 25% nickel, the mineral.   The rest is copper. Nickel at 8.33% is used in other coins. But nickel, the mineral, was taken out of the nickel, the coin, during World War II and replaced with manganese and silver. For those who don't use coins anymore, it is worth 5 cents. Introduced in 1866 as the Civil War ended. Nickel, the mineral: Is element #28, between cobalt and copper in the periodic table of elements. Many meteorites consist of nickel-iron alloy. The explosion of  Supernova 2007bi  created a mass of nickel three times greater than that of our Sun.  Not to worry, for this occurred 1.6 billion light years away. First recognized in 1751 by Swedish alchemist Baron Axel Fredrik, who called this new element nickel. Nickel allergy is the most common cause of contact dermatitis. Adding nickel to glass gives it a green color. One kilogram (2.2