The swine Flu

A new kind a flu has been going around, called Swine Flu, originating from a virus that infected pigs. It hit Mexico hard, killing around 80 people, and causing Mexico to close down public schools and other public events. This flu has been declared a "public health emergency" making it of some concern. Some scientists believe that it will not be too long before a Pandemic Status to be reached, where travel may be banned to and from infected countries. Cases of this flu have been spotted in California, New york city, and Texas, meaning that it has reached the United States. In other places, detention of possible cases are more severe. China has made so that anybody with a fever over 100.4 degrees must be put in detention immediately to avoid further spread. Even worse is that this virus is constantly mutating and evolving, making it very difficult to get immunization from. Currently, the flu is not extremely serious, however these strains of influenza are very unpredictable.

Futuristic Car

There is a new futuristic car, the Aptera 2e, for sale this October for a price between $25000 - $40000 dollars. This new car is electric, and has three wheels. It has got a top speed of around 90 mph, and has around a range of 100 miles, and you can charge it overnight with a 110 volt outlet apparently. It seems to drive around fine even with its odd shape and design, with plenty of room inside. The car weighs in total around 1700 pounds.

Is the car safe? This car includes frontal and side air bags. Its framework doesn't seem to be too fragile as well, despite the car's fragile appearance. The roof of the development shell managed to support 8 workers on top of it, even after the shell went through the government roof-crush testing.

Groundhog Day

February 2nd, 2009 is groundhog day, and thus Punxsutawney Phil comes out to see, or not see, his shadow. If he sees his shadow, it means that winter will continue for six more weeks. In the end, Phil ended up seeing his shadow, thus signaling more weeks to the current winter. In Phil's long record, he has seen his shadow 97 times and hasn't seen it 15 times. Even though I don't mind winter too much, I think we need a blinder groundhog.

In other groundhog day related news, another groundhog in New York seemed unhappy to be wakened from hibernation. "Chuck" went and nicked at Mayor Bloomberg during the annual celebration. The bite drew blood from the Mayor, but he did not get rabies.