Born #OnThisDay in 1953, Kevin Rowland, singer, Dexy's Midnight Runners
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen #CoSoMusic
Saturday Morning Grocery Store Soundtrack
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Learning to Fly
The U.S. is in the middle of the biggest summer COVID surge since 2022, right when kids are going back to school. Thankfully, the FDA should be approving a new vaccine to address the new variants in about 2 weeks:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/08/16/health/covid-largest-summer-wave
The astronauts stuck in space on the Boeing Starliner might have to spend 8 months up there before returning. Their mission was supposed to be 8 days.
I donโt understand how this story isnโt bigger.
Banksy is back, surprising London with daily murals of animals across London:
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/nx-s1-5077660/banksy-london-animals-uk-street-art
Goo-Goo Dolls - Iris
Heavy rains collapsed an ancient pyramid in Mexico, reducing one wall to rubble, and climate change is being blamed:
https://www.sciencealert.com/bad-omen-ancient-pyramid-in-mexico-collapses-into-pile-of-rubble
Singing from memory unleashes a surprising super power: you remember the precise key of your earworm:
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-memory-common-musical-superpower.html
China refuses to process payments from Russia.
E tu, Xi Jinping? ๐
Rage, rage against the dying of the light