1964 – Bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are discovered in a Mississippi dam, nearly two months after their disappearance.

August 4th

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Guess what! This is post number 850 for Ed Tech Emergent!

If you’d like to see post number 800 (with links to all of the other century mark posts) it’s still “pinned” to the top of the home page (or you can just click here.)

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I don’t know about you, but I needed some humor and laughter today. Fortunately, I found some and am pleased to share them with you here.

First, we’ve all seen the COVID risk graphs/charts. I’ve even featured one or two on this blog previously.

Cartoonist xkcd gives us this chart showing risks of COVID horizontally and just general risks vertically. My favorite one is “opening a kissing booth at a COVID test site”

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Are you the competitive type? Ever thought about exploring the world of competitive lock picking (yes, it’s a real thing.)

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So we know that in the U.S. Major League Baseball players are competing in empty stadiums. This is happening around the world for other sports like soccer.

While the players are on the field and the seats are devoid of corporal fans, what are the team mascots up to?

The Atlantic published this funny, surreal set of photos called “Lonely Days for Sports Mascots” Here’s my three favorite photos:

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Finally, to a competition without COVID or team mascots. After ten events in the Marble League 2020, here’s the overall standings:

And here’s event #11. Hope you don’t get dizzy watching it!