Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Sunday, the 28th day of June and the 178th day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 13th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a full moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 13 days, 16 hours, and 31 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. The next full moon will occur on Monday, June 29th at 2:05 PM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:16 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1985, Mike Tyson was disqualified in the third round for biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Pope Paul VI (1476), Henry VIII (1491), John Wesley (1703), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Richard Rodgers (1902), Mel Brooks (1926), Robert Ledley (1926), Pat Morita (1933), Leon Panetta (1938), Tükan Soray (1945), Gilda Radner (1946), Kathy Bates (1948), John Elway (1960), John Cusack (1966), Steve Burton (1970), Elon Musk (1971), Felicia Day (1979), and Prince Hussein of Jordan (1994).
Happy Birthday, Professor Ledley
Dr. Robert Ledley, best known for the invention of Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) whole-body CT scanner, is celebrating his 86th birthday today. Ledley's work earned him U.S. Patent No. 3,922,552 on November 25, 1975 and vastly revolutionized medical diagnosis. The ACTA can make a three-dimensional analysis of all organs and parts of the body in a series of cross-section images using thin X-ray beams and high power computer processing of the collected data. Using the ACTA, diagnosis of tumors, infection or bleeding is possible even deep within large organs, and it can give improved radiation therapy for cancer. The framework can be tilted to give results from planes other than vertical.
Dr. Ledley is fluent in many languages, including mathematics, physics, computing, biology, medicine and dentistry. Other than the whole body CT/CAT scanning technology, he is known for contributions to optical pattern recognition, bioinformatics and computing advocacy. He is currently Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Sad as it may be, there are those who have made a convincing case that pop culture is the most powerful factor influencing the way we think and conduct ourselves. If that's indeed the case, it's re-assuring to know that there are pop culture icons who are deep thinking intellectuals, eager to impart their wisdom, thus making them ideal role models for the younger generations. Today we acknowledge and celebrate the noble efforts of Britney Spears--actress, model, magician musician, and woman of letters. In her words...
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Britney Spears
The Technology
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