February 15, 2021
The month of the robotic invasion of Mars is upon us. Seven months ago, the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates launched missions on a 300 million mile (480 million kilometer) journey to Mars.
Last week, two of the three missions quietly arrived and inserted themselves into Mars orbit. The final spacecraft to arrive, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, however, will not go gently into the Martian atmosphere. On Thursday, February 18, NASA’s latest Mars mission destined to uncover evidence of ancient microbial life on the distant planet is set to touchdown following a spectacular display of extremely complex engineering.
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Have you handled fish in suspicious circumstances, or kept your prescription medication in something other than its prescription bottle? Depending on where you are, you could unknowingly broken the law. From historical oddities to ordinances that are still being enforced, here are a few strange laws you might have broken, in a piece adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube.
1. Eating Fried Chicken With a Knife and Fork
If you re going eat fried chicken in Gainesville, Georgia, you might want to do so with your hands: Technically, you can be arrested for trying to eat fried chicken with a knife and fork. The ordinance was basically a joke passed in 1961 to drum up publicity for the town as the self-proclaimed Poultry Capital of the World. According to a local Gainesville paper, the law was never actually codified but that doesn’t mean no one has ever been arrested for the offense. Back in 2009, Ginny Dietrick was celebrating h
Sinclair drew her conclusions from a 2016 report by EdChoice, a nonprofit that advocates for educational savings account and voucher programs.
Originally known as the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation named for the late American economist who advocated for school vouchers the group says it “promotes school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K-12 education in America.”
The report, A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice, says the majority of random assignment studies conducted over the last several years support a variety of arguments for school choice, including that it boosts academic outcomes for both private and public school students.