What I Found Interesting: September 24, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Coffee filters providing floodproofing for endangered birds, a successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, and the Seine river in Paris cooling 800 buildings in summer are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Photo of the Week: Moon, Venus, and Regulus Conjunction

The waning crescent moon with the crescent on the bottom of the moon stands out against the dark sky. To the right of the moon is the bright light of the planet Venus and in the lower right is the less bright light of the star Regulus.

When I woke up early on September 19, 2025, it was still dark outside. I happened to look up to the eastern sky when I saw the crescent moon with the crescent on the bottom.

Something I don’t believe I’d seen before.

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Yesterday – A Database Administrator’s Backup Song

A white sheet of paper with a headline of Yesterday: a DBA's backup song with lyrics from the first two stanzas of the song:

Decluttering my physical file cabinet this week brought a smile to my face when I found a print copy of something I saved years ago, but is still appropriate today.

Not sure when I saved it, but I’m thinking it may have been when I was volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Detroit in the late 1990’s to mid 2000’s.

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