Most people of a certain age first heard Barry Manilow singing in the mid 1960s.
As many people know, early in his career he wrote a number of commercial jingles. What I just found out, though, was that he was actually one of the singers on the Polaroid Swinger camera commercial back in the mid 1960s. Saw that on the Edwin Land doc on PBS. You can clearly hear him in the commercial.
Manilow was also the piano player for Bette Midler during her Bathhouse Betty days in the 70’s.
In the 1960s, he sang in commercials. He did various things for other singers. It wasn’t until the 1970s that he made his own albums and had some hit records.
Well clearly there was a reason for no windshield and I’m certainly no historical aviation expert. But I was responding to Chronos’ post, which if you had quoted my entire post made more sense:
It is, in fact, what allows us to observe stuff. All our measurements and observations involve some form of EM at the endpoint. This is a major reason why special relativity is so significant.
And it is what makes objects solid and opaque. Everything is composed of tiny things that are not all that close to each other, but the electorstatic force basically fills that otherwise unoccupied space
I heard it quoted by physicists on science shows that if you just isolated the “tiny things” that comprise the Empire State Building into a single pile, it would be about the size of a grain of rice.
Barry Manilow wrote hundreds of songs - including just about every one he recorded.
One noteworthy song that he recorded but didn’t write is “I Write the Songs”.
I’m listening to a webinar called The Care Series: Sleeping Well with a Busy Mind, which was shared by our company president. TIL that ‘People with liberal political beliefs tend to have more sleep disruption.’
The Swiss have a related problem with Iodized Salt.
In 1922, Switzerland was the first country in the world to introduce iodine in salt to protect the population from iodine deficiency (they drink mostly snow melt, and the country is geologically deficient in iodine). The problem is that EU rules require the separate labeling of iodine, and EU food rules regarding defined ingredients don’t permit the inclusion of iodine. Which means that products produced using iodized salt are difficult or even impossible to sell.
As Swiss people switch away from using home-cooked food, they are getting less iodine, and iodine-deficiency disorders are becoming more common again.
The medical side would like to get iodized salt into processed food, but so far, this hasn’t happened, because of the regulatory difficulties.
Someone told me that they saw a chipmunk eat robin’s eggs.
I don’t know about chipmunks, we don’t have them here, but I do know that squirrels not only eat songbird’s eggs, but also the young nestlings.
Today I learned that Chipmunks and Squirrels are two different species.
If you count the red and the grey squirrels as two separate species, as you should, you get three different species.
The grey species, BTW, is an invasive species in the UK and slowly exterminating the red one. Here are some data. It is not welcome in the rest of Europe either.
Wikipedia has an article about the introduction of the grey squirrel in Europe:
Chipmunks, on the other hand, call themselves punks but are anything but. Puerile leaning towards pathetic if you ask me:
Pandas have been seen in the wild catching and eating frogs.
There’s more to learn than that. Those are just common names of two easily recognizable divisions of Sciuridae, which includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, prairie dogs, flying squirrels and others. There are about sixty species of scuirids in North America alone. About seventeen of those are “chipmunks”.
There’s also the black squirrels that have started to become quite common in Hertfordshire. But they’re a genetic mutation of greys.
It’s not easy being green.
Not really surprising though, as giant pandas are in the ursidae family, well suited to an omnivorous diet.
Red pandas, by contrast, are not in ursidae, or any other family except for the one that contains red pandas and their extinct relative species. I believe they are called pandas because, like giant pandas, their diet staple is bamboo, even though it is not their ideal food.
Black squirrels? We don’t want the escapes of Mirkwood here. But don’t bother shooting them for food; I understand that they taste horrible.
It says so in the Red Book of Westmarch.