Monday, May 5

United States President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious island prison off the coast of San Francisco, to hold some of America's worst criminals once again.

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Fact of the Day (BBC): Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. However, phagocytosis isn't harmful-- it actually helps preserve your grey matter.

Quote of the Day (Gracious Quotes): The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.(Tara Brach)

Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster): Risible (adj, RIZZ-uh-bul) - Risible is a formal word used disapprovingly to describe things that deserve to be mocked or laughed at because they are absurd or unreasonable.

In a Sentence: Although the teachers derided the students’ slang as risible nonsense, the same had been said about their own generation’s lingo.