Tan Mom, North Jersey Native, Running For US Senate
From the tanning salon to the US Capitol: Patricia Krentcil a.k.a. "Tan Mom" is trying to make it happen.
Krentcil, an Essex County native, who went viral 2012 after being accused of bringing her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon in her native Nutley, announced she is running for the Republican nomination for US Senate in Florida next year.
"Patricia went out in the streets of Florida and came face to face with the heartbreaking issues affecting so many here," her campaign website reads.
"From the attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, equality, diversity, and beyond, Patricia is a champi…
Google Doodle Honors Mass Scientist Who 'Planted Seed' Of Climate Change Awareness
Search engine giant Google paid homage to Eunice Newton Foote, a scientist, inventor, and women's rights advocate, on what would have been her 204th birthday Monday, July 17 with a Google Doodle.
Foote, who was born in Connecticut (in the town of Goshen in Litchfield County), and died in Lenox, Massachusetts, was the first person to document what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Google said Foote "planted the seed" for climate change awareness more than 160 years ago.
According to NewScientist, Foote described how different gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon di…