March is firmly underway. In our  neck of the woods it came in like a lamb…so we’ll be hanging onto our hats at the end of the month. It’s uncanny how that old adage seems to ring true every year.
If anyone is following our pregnancy progress, this last week we found out we are having a healthy GIRL, so we are celebrating this in our family!
On to the good news!
Fresh Veggies Need Light
The lights above the produce in the produce section help keep spinach fresh and producing new vitamins. These findings should apply to other fresh vegetables as well. This is good news for figuring out ways to keep produce fresher longer.
Grocery stores often display fresh spinach in clear plastic containers. They keep temperatures constant at around 39 degrees F under fluorescent lights 24 hours a day. Spinach kept under lights has been shown to have significantly higher levels of vitamins C, K, E and folate. Leaves stored in the dark actually lost nutrients.
Diver Wrestles Frisbee Off Shark’s Neck
John Dickinson was diving off the coast of southern Florida when he found a nurse shark laying quietly on the ocean floor. After tugging on its tail, the shark began to swim away. At that point, his diving partner went after the shark, grabbed it with both arms and wrestled with it until he was able to remove a frisbee. The shark swam away safely.
The shark was emaciated because it could not eat properly (wasn’t able to open his jaw because of the ring around his neck). The Frisbee also might have been preventing it from getting the oxygen he needed.
Massive Head of Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt
Archaeologists have uncovered a huge red granite head of an Egyptian pharoah who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago.
The head of Amenhotep III (approximately the height of a person) was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple. The leader of the expedition says it as the best preserved sculpture of Amenhotep III’s face found so far.
Amenhotep III, was the grandfather of the famed Tutankhamun. He ruled from 1387-1348 B.C. at the peak of Egypt’s New Kingdom. He also presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south to Syria in the north.