Today is International Children’s Book Day

Today is International Children’s Book Day.  Go buy a book and don’t forget to read to your kids if they are still young enough.  You should read to them as much as possible anyway, but we don’t live in a perfect world so make a special effort today.  After all, it’s for the kids!

International Children’s Book Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, April 2, International Children’s Book Day is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and call attention to children’s books. The event is sponsored by IBBY, The International Board on Books for Young People, a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.

Each year, the International Children’s Book Day celebration allows one of their 60 National Sections the opportunity to be the international sponsor of International Children’s Book Day. The host National Section decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to create a message for the celebration and a well-known illustrator to design a poster.

International Children’s Book Day celebrations across the world involve the holding of special events that may include encounters with authors and illustrators, writing competitions, or announcements of book awards.

Blood groups can be changed!

  Wow, finally an advance that helps people   I donate blood as often as I am able and know that there is always a shortage.  The largest portion of the shortage is always O.  O, you know… the “universal” blood type.  Now we can make O from the other types is awesome!  This is going to save many many lives….

 

Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another.

The technique potentially enables blood from groups A, B and AB to be converted into group O, which can be safely transplanted into any patient.

The method, which makes use of newly discovered enzymes, may help relieve shortages of blood for transfusions.

The work, led by the University of Copenhagen, is reported in the journal Nature Biotechnology.