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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2025 May 16 Messier 101 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO; Acknowledgement - K.Kuntz (GSFC), F.Bresolin (U.Hawaii), J.Trauger (JPL), J.Mould (NOAO), Y.-H.Chu (U. Illinois) Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse's large 19th century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsontown. Assembled from 51 exposures recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 20th and 21st centuries, with additional data from ground based telescopes, this mosaic spans about 40,000 light-years across the central region of M101 in one of the highest definition spiral galaxy portraits ever released from Hubble. The sharp image shows stunning features of the galaxy's face-on disk of stars and dust along with background galaxies, some visible right through M101 itself. Also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 lies within the boundaries of the northern constellation Ursa Major, about 25 million light-years away. Tomorrow's picture: (The) Martian landscape < | Archive | Submissions | Index | Search | Calendar | RSS | Education | About APOD | Discuss | > Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. Mary Live long and prosper

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First up today: Two new DOGLAND events! ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Laughing at earthquakes Tommy Tomlinson May 17 READ IN APP First up today: Two new DOGLAND events! On Sunday, June 8, I’ll be at Little Jumbo in Asheville for a conversation with author Denise Kiernan about the craft of writing and whatever else comes up. Denise has written amazing books such as THE LAST CASTLE and THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY. She’s a great conversationalist. Plus there will be cocktails. This will be a blast. Then on Saturday, Aug. 2, I’ll be back in my hometown—St. Simons Island, GA.—for a talk at the Casino Theater sponsored by the St. Simons Literary Guild. The Georgia coast is still my favorite place on Earth, and I can’t wait to see old friends and make some new ones. Plus there’s a 99 percent chance I will visit Brogen’s next to the Casino for some shrimp and beer. Come out and see me if you’re anywhere nearby. Last Saturday we were at a vacation rental with some friends up in the mountains near Waynesville, NC when we felt something like—have you ever had a washing machine get unbalanced and it rattles the whole house? Like that. But nobody was doing laundry. A butter knife jiggled on a plate. I thought a bear might be loose in the basement. A few of us considered the fact that we were 4,000 feet above sea level, in a house built on the side of a mountain. We glanced outside to make sure we weren’t sliding down. Then we started Googling until somebody found this. X marks our spot: Graphic from the NYT; poorly drawn red X by yours truly I can remember being in only one other earthquake, at least 15 years ago, at the old Charlotte Observer building. That was just a little shimmy—I remember seeing ripples on a glass of water somewhere. This one was a good solid shake. We decided right then to call it the Earthquake House and that’s how it will live in our memories. That’s fitting because we spent a lot of time over the weekend talking about the earthquakes in our lives. We’re all in our 60s or beyond these days. At least three of our group have had some sort of heart issue. We’ve got lots of bad knees and backs. Nearly all of us, in the last year or two, lost someone dear to us. Every day it feels like the fault lines grow a little bigger and that distant rumbling is not so distant anymore. So how do you keep going? I keep thinking about something I heard Amy Poehler say a few weeks ago … she was on her GOOD HANG podcast, talking to ABBOTT ELEMENTARY creator Quinta Brunson. Toward the end they start talking about how much laughing means to them, and at around 43:20 or so Poehler says laughter is spiritual. She quotes the great writer Anne Lamott, who calls it “carbonated holiness.” It turns out it’s not the first time she’s said something similar (this is a shorter clip but go to 2:00 for the essence): The one thing I have in common with all my tribes—all the people I spend time with, whether it’s family or neighbors or college friends or journalism friends or whoever—is that we spend most of our time laughing. Even in the midst of what I’ve come to call the organ recital—where we go around describing our various ailments—we’re laughing more often than not. One of the things that Amy Poehler asks her guests is what their go-to thing is to get away from the troubles of the world. I have lots of escape hatches, but the one I think of right off is Martin Short as Jiminy Glick interviewing Bill Hader: Bill Hader’s laugh in that clip

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Love True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.~ Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Chilean American writer (1942-present) Chilean author Isabel Allende is one of the most widely read Spanish-language authors in the world, with a style that combines magical realism, personal experience, and historic events. She began her writing career translating Barbara Cartland novels into Spanish, while surreptitiously adding a few changes to make the female characters more intelligent (a practice that later got her fired). She was a TV personality for a while, wrote for a feminist magazine, worked for the United Nations, and fled Chile to Venezuela following dictator Augusto Pinochet’s coup. She later moved to California, where she still lives and writes today. To say that she was well received in the U.S. would be an understatement: In 2014, Allende was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. Mary Live long and prosper

Here's today's celebrity birthdays. Jackie May 16: Jazz drummer Billy Cobham is 81. Actor Danny Trejo is 81. Actor Bill Smitrovich (“Crime Story,” “Life Goes On”) is 78. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 72. Actor Debra Winger is 70. Actor Mare Winningham is 66. Violinist Boyd Tinsley of The Dave Matthews Band is 61. Bassist Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 60. Singer Janet Jackson is 59. Actor-singer Scott Reeves (“Nashville,” ″General Hospital”) is 59. Actor Brian F. O’Byrne (“Million Dollar Baby”) is 58. Singer Ralph Tresvant is 57. Actor David Boreanaz (“Bones,” ″Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) is 56. Actor Tracey Gold (“Growing Pains”) is 56. TV personality Bill Rancic (“America Now,” ″The Apprentice”) is 54. Country singer Rick Trevino is 54. Actor Khary Payton (“The Walking Dead”) is 53. Rapper Special Ed is 53. Actor Tori Spelling is 52. Actor Sean Carrigan (“The Young and the Restless”) is 51. Rapper B. Slade (A.K.A. Tonex) is 50. Actor Lynn Collins (“John Carter”) is 48. Actor Melanie Lynskey (“Two and a Half Men”) is 48. Actor Joseph Morgan (“The Originals,” ″Vampire Diaries”) is 44. DJ Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers is 40. Actor Megan Fox (“Transformers”) is 39. Actor Drew Roy (“Falling Skies,” ″Hannah Montana”) is 39. Actor Jermaine Fowler (“Superior Donuts”) is 39. Actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster (“Game of Thrones”) is 35. Actor Marc John Jefferies (“The Tracy Morgan Show”) is 35. Actor Miles Heizer (“13 Reasons Why,” ″Parenthood”) is 31. Mary Live long and prosper

From: Jackie Schmitt Music History for May 16 1946 - The Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun opened at New York’s Imperial Theatre for the first of 1,147 performances. 1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared with Chuck Berry on the television show Hollywood A-GO-GO. 1965 - The Beach Boys appeared on the "The Ed Sullivan Show" and performed "Help Me Rhonda." 1966 - The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds was released. 1968 - Tony Joe White recorded "Polk Salad Annie." 1969 - Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for possession of marijuana at the Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans. 1969 - Pete Townshend (Who) was arrested onstage after mistakenly kicking a New York police officer. 1970 - Randy Bachman left the Guess Who. 1970 - Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for marijuana possession and for contributing to the delinquency of minors in Bloomington, MN. 1980 - Dr. George C. Nichopoulos was indicted in Memphis on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and nine other patients. 1981 - Martin Chambers (Pretenders) married Tracy Atkinson. 1983 - The television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever aired. It was a taping of the first time that Michael Jackson performed the moonwalk for a live audience. 1984 - Prince's song "When Doves Cry" was released. 1986 - Caitlin O'Riordan (Pogues) and Elvis Costello were married. 1991 - Ray Charles was inducted into the Atlanta Celebrity Walk. 1992 - Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana" hit #35 in the U.S. 1998 - Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) fell off a chair while reaching for a book in his Connecticut home and injured his chest and ribs. A few concert dates were cancelled. 1999 - Paul Brandt and Claudia Church leave for Bosnia to entertain U.S. troops there. 2000 - The Artist announced that he was reclaiming the name "Prince" since his contract with Warner-Chappell had expired. The contract officially ended on December 31, 1999. 2000 - The "What My Heart Has Seen" exhibition opened at the Catto Gallery in London. The art is the work of Tony Bennett. 2000 - The Britney Spears album Oops!..I Did It Again was released. Mary Live long and prosper

From: Jackie Schmitt TV History for May 16 1958 - The final episode of "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" aired. 1995 - The final episode of "In the Heat of the Night" aired. 1997 - The final episode of "Baywatch Nights" aired. 1999 - The 225th episode of "The Simpsons" was aired. The animated show had been airing since January 14, 1990. 2005 - The final episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" aired. Mary Live long and prosper

One of Nice News’ ?top stories? last year was the news that opioid drug deaths were plummeting to an “unprecedented” level. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?.? Daily Edition ? May 16, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Summer in the U.S. is the perfect time to hit the open road and explore what the country has to offer via car. But if you’re planning a road trip in the coming months, there are some things you should account for beyond packing your fave snacks and curating the perfect playlist. From getting your car inspected to plotting out nearby gas stations, here are five tips for common road trip emergencies. And one bonus tip: If you’re prone to motion sickness as a passenger, look into the anti-motion sickness feature on iPhones. Must Reads Before turning 1, KJ Muldoon made medical history: Meet the 9?-month-old who became the first person to receive a custom gene-editing treatment ? ?A tour of the pope’s potential new digs Health Opioid Overdose Deaths Plunged to Lowest Level Since 2019 OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images One of Nice News’ top stories last year was the news that opioid drug deaths were plummeting to an “unprecedented” level. At the time, experts were cautiously optimistic about the numbers coming out of certain opioid crisis hot spots, and now we know they were right to feel hopeful. U.S. drug overdoses in 2024 dropped to their lowest annual level since 2019, according to a report updated Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ? Preliminary data shows roughly 80,000 fatal overdoses in 2024. That’s down a whopping 26.9% from the year prior. More good news: Overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants decreased as well, and fatalities aren’t just dropping in a few states — nearly all are reporting lower numbers. ? Some credit the drop to the wider availability of the opioid reversal drug naloxone (a version of the drug, Narcan, was made available over the counter in 2023). Better treatment programs and health care services are potential factors, as well as a waning effect from the COVID-19 pandemic ending. ? To keep the trend going in the right direction, many experts agree that these efforts to curb drug usage need to remain in high gear: “The recent drop in overdose deaths is extremely welcome news, yet there is still a colossal amount of work to be done,” Andrew Kessler, founder of Slingshot Solutions, a consulting firm focused on mental health and substance abuse, told Vox. “Just as with HIV, COVID, or any other public health emergency, the keys are investments in research, practicing prevention, and evidence-based treatment. It is a tried-and-true formula that should not be deviated from.” Together With Incogni How Incogni Removes Your Pe

Wordsmith.orgThe magic of words MooT, MetaMooT, and UltiMooT - the semantics and etymology trilogy The world's toughest language game gets even tougher. mootgame.com How to sponsor? May 16, 2025 This week’s theme Interesting usage examples This week’s words renunciatory winsome susurrant ruderal bereft Bereft, 1893 Art: William Harris Weatherhead A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bereft PRONUNCIATION: (bi-REFT) MEANING: adjective: Deprived of or lacking. ETYMOLOGY: Past participle of bereave (to deprive), from Old English bereafian (to rob someone of something). Earliest documented use: 1531. USAGE: “Too many voters today are easily conned, deeply biased, impervious to fact, and bereft of survival instincts. Contrary to myth, frogs leap out of heating pots. Stampeding cattle stop at a cliff edge. Lemmings don’t really commit mass suicide. We’ll find out about Americans in 2024.” Mort Rosenblum; Deadly Hot Air; The Mort Report; Feb 10, 2023. See more usage examples of bereft in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. -William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator (16 May 1801-1872) We love your comments. Click here to share. Or email us at words@... Subscribe | Update address | Gift subscription | Contact us We are powered by you C o n t r i b u t e ? 1994-2025 Wordsmith.org