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Witnesses are recounting the mayhem that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast. Two sisters have told of how their mother and a man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/BRLNjRecAf

— 7NEWS Queensland (@7NewsBrisbane) April 21, 2025

BoyGeeding and I have started watching the Amazon series Invincible together. I was delightfully surprised to see that the main character is half-Asian, with an Asian mother and a white father.

I remember being a young kid watching television and thinking I must have been adopted because no shows had a mixed-race family like mine. In my kid logic, it kind of made sense. I was a loyal viewer of Different Strokes, where the boys were adopted by a white man. So in my little mind, seeing a family like mine just didn’t seem possible unless someone was adopted. Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, young Keith?

Of course, it made no real sense. I was just an ignorant kid trying to fit myself into the stories I saw. It’s funny looking back now. Too bad I didn’t realize back then that Desi Arnaz wasn’t white either.

Speaking of Desi Arnaz, he died shortly before Lucille Ball was honored at the Kennedy Center in 1986. Unknown to her, Desi had written a final note that was read aloud during the ceremony after his passing. Sadly, I bet too many today don’t understand the significance of that moment.

“I Love Lucy was never just a title.”

That simple line hit her hard. It hits differently knowing Desi died just days before. That tribute became both a love letter and a goodbye. Wild how something written for a formal event ends up feeling so personal.

The way Robert Stack, with that incredible voice, reads it — calm, reverent, and with so much understated emotion — and Lucy trying to hold it together in the audience, it’s one of those rare TV moments where everything feels honest and real.

Even though they had divorced back in 1960, there was still a deep, complicated love and respect between them. In private, Lucy reportedly said that Desi’s words “meant the world” to her and that they gave her a sense of closure she hadn’t realized she needed. She also said something to the effect of “it was like Desi was there with me one last time.”

Turns out TV was teaching me more about life than I realized, even if young Keith was a little slow on the uptake. Guess it only took 40 years, a cartoon, and a Cuban bandleader to finally make it click. Representation matters, even if it took me half a lifetime to notice.

JUST RELEASED: When President Nixon met President Clinton for the first time at the White House on March 8, 1993.

Courtesy: William J. Clinton Presidential Library @WJCLibrary42 pic.twitter.com/iR3RBpHWsD

— Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) April 21, 2025

• A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s atmosphere suggests an abundance of a molecule that on Earth has only one known source: living organisms such as marine algae.

  Have you ever wondered how astronomers learn what’s in a faraway planet’s atmosphere? Here’s your one-sentence answer: Gases appear as different colors through the various colors of light in a prism; that is, each gas in a planet’s atmosphere blocks specific colors of starlight. Here’s your more detailed explanation that I learned from watching a couple of episodes of the rebooted Cosmos.
  Each gas absorbs very specific wavelengths of light, like taking tiny, precise “bites” out of the spectrum.

  For example, if you pass sunlight through a prism, you see all the colors of the rainbow smoothly changing from red to violet. But if that same light passes through a gas first, the gas will absorb very specific wavelengths, causing thin dark lines to appear in certain spots of the rainbow spectrum.

  These absorption lines are like fingerprints – hydrogen absorbs different specific wavelengths than oxygen, which absorbs different wavelengths than carbon dioxide, and so on. Each gas has its own unique pattern of these dark lines.

  So when astronomers look at starlight that has passed through a planet’s atmosphere, they don’t just see “the color blue” and think “that must be water.” Instead, they see specific patterns of these thin dark lines in the spectrum and can match these patterns to known gases.

  She briefly explains it here and has some other fun info on the subject to share.

On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.