3I/ATLAS will pass closest to Earth on December 19, 2025,” explained Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has long championed the far-fetched theory that the object may be an alien spacecraft, on his blog. “Fortunately, this date coincides with a new Moon when the view of the sky will not be contaminated by moonlight, making it an ideal observing night for Earth-based telescopes.”
https://futurism.com/space/mysterious-interstellar-object-now-approaching-earth
Strange it will be closest on a clear night. Almost like it was planned...
In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading.
Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times.
Twelfth-grade reading scores are at historic lows, and college professors, even at elite schools, are increasingly reporting difficulties in getting students to engage with lengthy or complex texts.