At the Mystic Aquarium

buy tickets membership volunteer donate Mother's Day Weekend Spoil Mom with the mother of all gifts - memories! On Saturday, May 13 and Sunday, May 14, Moms receive FREE admission to Mystic Aquarium with the purchase of a full-price ticket purchased at the gate day of visit.   The Muddy World of Amphibians Join us May 6 for family friendly amphibian explor- ation!   Pancakes with Penguins Plan ahead and reserve your tickets for Pancakes with Penguins on May 7.   Food Truck Rally Juicy burgers, dripping wings, salt water taffy and so much more May 19 & 20.                   Endangered Species Day             Fri., May 19 from 10:00am to 2:00pm            From vaquitas to African penguins, we'll be celebrating the            conservation efforts that are in place to help save some of            our most threatened species during  the Aquarium's              Endangered Species Day celebration.   Animal Spotlight: Blue Blubber Jelly  These jellies, also known as the Blue Jelly, are mesmerizing with their scrubbing-bubble-like movements. They inhabit the coastal lagoons of eastern Australia, and can appear in colors varying from dark purple and burgundy to light blue.   More camps than you can shake a flipper at!  Summer is fast approaching.  Be sure to sign your camper up for Summer fun! Offered June through August, our camps offer hands-on activities, up-close animal encounters, field trips and other fun and educational experiences for children ages 3 to 16. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!  See these tips on how we can conserve water: Turn off water and your hot water heater when going on a trip. Don't run water continuously when washing dishes, brushing teeth, shaving, etc. Install a water-conserving shower head. Special invite from our friends at  Mother's Day Brunch  On May 14, treat the mom in your life with a  scrumptious brunch at the Mystic Yachting Center, prepared just for you by Ocean Blue Catering. Advanced registration required. Membership: Sea Change Unlimited visits are great. Free 4-D is quite a perk. Clean oceans are life-giving. The benefits of a Mystic Aquarium membership are far-reaching.  We seek change through conservation, education and research. You sea change with your membership. Click here to join now!  Get a FREE kids ticket to participating zoos and aquariums.     FREE KID'S ADMISSIONS TICKET  When you purchase two specially marked     Stonyfield Organic YoKids multipacks, you can  get a FREE kid's ticket with the purchase of an  adult ticket.  Bring your kids face-to-face with  endangered species and inspire them to make a  difference. Mystic Aquarium's Corporate Sponsors  The mission of Mystic Aquarium is to inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through conservation, education and research. www.MysticAquarium.org Mystic Aquarium  | 55 Coogan Boulevard  | 860.572.5955 TAIL US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Gardeners delight on May 6

URI to host 16th annual Spring Festival at new location

Todd McLeish

The University of Rhode Island’s 16th annual Spring Festival, featuring plant sales, gardening workshops, children’s activities and educational exhibits, will be held Saturday, May 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.  

This year’s event will be held at a new location – the URI Botanical Gardens and the adjacent Fine Arts Center parking area.

First step to recovery is admitting you have a problem

Golf Addicted Old Man Says He “Couldn’t Care Less about Golf”

By Conover Kennard ·

Just as drug addicts and alcoholics tend to be in denial of their disease, former reality show star Donald Trump does not think he has a problem. 

The alleged president has not addressed opioid addiction which is sweeping across the U.S., and that’s probably because he, too, suffers from a type of addiction and remains in denial. 

Donald Trump needs treatment, but that would mean he’d have to take a leave of absence from his job.

The amateur president has spent 31 days of his time in office visiting at least one of his properties, including 19 visits to his golf clubs. He’s been on the job for only 100 days. 

In contrast, former President Barack Obama only hit the golf course once during the same amount of time in office. Obama’s first golf game was on April 26th, 2009.

Still yet, as addicts do, Trump defended his frequent weekend trips to his luxury resort and properties, saying he does not care about golfing as much as people might think he does, according to The Hill.

Contempt of Court

Trump’s Unconstitutional Assault on the Judiciary

By Robert Reich

One way dictators take over democracies is by threatening the independence of a nation’s courts. Donald Trump is doing just this. 

Connect the following dots:

1. In January, Trump blasted a federal judge for staying his travel ban. “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” he tweeted.

2. In February, after the judge made the stay permanent, Trump issued a veiled threat: “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”

What is the price of stability?

Show him the map

Dan Rather

What is the price of stability? 

For a business man who boasts constantly about his intelligence, President Trump seems to have a lot to learn about cost benefit analysis.

I know someone had to show him a map to make him understand the implications of pulling out of NAFTA.

So maybe someone can show him a map (other than his new favorite foreign policy advisor Xi Jinping, the president of China!) to explain the predicament our friends in South Korea find themselves.

Sabre rattling and blustery talk against North Korea may make a President who approaches 100 days in office with a string of failures feel like he's the type of tough leader he promised during the campaign, but it doesn't add up to a coherent foreign policy.

And when that is followed by messages about mixed as James Bond's martini, the anxiety in Seoul only intensifies.

Under the dome

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An amazing Astronomy Picture of the Day

Exploring the Antennae 

From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies are colliding.

Stars in the two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, very rarely collide in the course of the ponderous cataclysm that lasts for hundreds of millions of years.

But the galaxies' large clouds of molecular gas and dust often do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the cosmic wreckage.

Spanning over 500 thousand light-years, this stunning view also reveals new star clusters and matter flung far from the scene of the accident by gravitational tidal forces.

The remarkable mosaicked image was constructed using data from the ground-based Subaru telescope to bring out large-scale and faint tidal streams, and Hubble Space Telescope data of extreme detail in the bright cores.

The suggestive visual appearance of the extended arcing structures gives the galaxy pair its popular name - The Antennae.