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Avery Fisher set a Guinness World Record for most magic tricks underwater in three minutes — 38 — in 2023 when she was 13, after learning how to scuba dive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She set the record at Aquarium of the Bay, in San Francisco, which she'd always loved visiting.
Now 15, she is a youth ambassador at the aquarium and volunteers for 10 or so hours a month.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Avery Fisher, like many young people her age, was craving physical interaction.
"I was in fifth grade and felt really isolated from my friends," recalls the 15-year-old.
An only child living in Tiburon, Calif., next to the bay, Avery grew up familiar with the water. She long loved the ocean and marine life. One day, amid the isolation of COVID, she presented an idea of how to spend her free time that combined those passions to her father, Jon.
"I was like, 'Let's spend the lockdown in a creative way,' " she tells PEOPLE.
By that, she meant, being underwater — learning how to scuba dive. "That was just a really pivotal moment."
Her parents were supportive and hired an instructor. In November 2023, after hundreds of hours of training and after acquiring various certifications, Avery earned a distinction from the Guinness World Records at age 13: the most magic tricks performed underwater in three minutes, 38.
She set that record at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, where she is now a youth ambassador.
After setting the record, Avery worked with the aquarium, which she frequented as a child, to launch a fundraiser that raised more than $500,000 in support of its ocean conservation awareness.
Avery says she realized the importance of conservation from her own time at the aquarium, including as a diver.
"My first time stepping into the tunnels [underwater] was when I really wanted to make a change and bring more awareness to this certain community," she says. "It was just such a surreal experience: You can see everyone below, and it's just kind of like you're in a different world. And I think being able to do that in front of a larger audience, that just sparked a really big interest for me."
Every vacation she went on with her family as a young girl was water-centered, she says. "I've been to Hawaii many times" and that, along with road trips to Santa Cruz, in California, helped build her fondness for spending time in or on the water.
"I grew up loving whales, loving whale watching," she says.
She considers herself fortunate to have seen, up close, "a lot of beauty from the ocean."
"That inspired me not only to raise awareness about the ocean but to be able to do it through scuba diving," she says. "That's really where my interest all stems from."
Avery earned her certifications via the Professional Association of Diving Instructors beginning with a more than 10-hour open water scuba diving course, where she says she was taught most of the basics.
She then underwent pool testing, a phase for initial certification, also called confined water training. It took her a month or so to feel confident.
Avery Fisher while diving.
Kiko Meneguite, Fisher Family Office
"Once I dove, I got a huge liking for it," she says. "And I would just read manual after manual about all the different certifications."
She's notched more than a dozen certifications, each of which she says involved at least five hours of pool diving. And she's gone on more than 30 open ocean dives.
"I feel like it came pretty easily to me, but there's definitely a lot of experience you have to have in the water before you can do it safely," she says.
A sophomore in high school, she says her studies and volleyball take up most of her time, though she also volunteers 10 or so hours a month at the aquarium and has talked to hundreds of visitors.
She's getting noticed, too, and is in negotiations for a sponsorship deal. She looks forward to more diving opportunities not just in California but hopefully, she says, around the world.
"That'd be a dream of mine," she says.
"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
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Avery Fisher set a Guinness World Record for most magic tricks underwater in three minutes — 38 — in 2023 when she was 13, after learning how to scuba dive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She set the record at Aquarium of the Bay, in San Francisco, which she'd always loved visiting.
Now 15, she is a youth ambassador at the aquarium and volunteers for 10 or so hours a month.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Avery Fisher, like many young people her age, was craving physical interaction.
"I was in fifth grade and felt really isolated from my friends," recalls the 15-year-old.
An only child living in Tiburon, Calif., next to the bay, Avery grew up familiar with the water. She long loved the ocean and marine life. One day, amid the isolation of COVID, she presented an idea of how to spend her free time that combined those passions to her father, Jon.
"I was like, 'Let's spend the lockdown in a creative way,' " she tells PEOPLE.
By that, she meant, being underwater — learning how to scuba dive. "That was just a really pivotal moment."
Her parents were supportive and hired an instructor. In November 2023, after hundreds of hours of training and after acquiring various certifications, Avery earned a distinction from the Guinness World Records at age 13: the most magic tricks performed underwater in three minutes, 38.
She set that record at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, where she is now a youth ambassador.
After setting the record, Avery worked with the aquarium, which she frequented as a child, to launch a fundraiser that raised more than $500,000 in support of its ocean conservation awareness.
Avery says she realized the importance of conservation from her own time at the aquarium, including as a diver.
"My first time stepping into the tunnels [underwater] was when I really wanted to make a change and bring more awareness to this certain community," she says. "It was just such a surreal experience: You can see everyone below, and it's just kind of like you're in a different world. And I think being able to do that in front of a larger audience, that just sparked a really big interest for me."
Every vacation she went on with her family as a young girl was water-centered, she says. "I've been to Hawaii many times" and that, along with road trips to Santa Cruz, in California, helped build her fondness for spending time in or on the water.
"I grew up loving whales, loving whale watching," she says.
She considers herself fortunate to have seen, up close, "a lot of beauty from the ocean."
"That inspired me not only to raise awareness about the ocean but to be able to do it through scuba diving," she says. "That's really where my interest all stems from."
Avery earned her certifications via the Professional Association of Diving Instructors beginning with a more than 10-hour open water scuba diving course, where she says she was taught most of the basics.
She then underwent pool testing, a phase for initial certification, also called confined water training. It took her a month or so to feel confident.
Avery Fisher while diving.
Kiko Meneguite, Fisher Family Office
"Once I dove, I got a huge liking for it," she says. "And I would just read manual after manual about all the different certifications."
She's notched more than a dozen certifications, each of which she says involved at least five hours of pool diving. And she's gone on more than 30 open ocean dives.
"I feel like it came pretty easily to me, but there's definitely a lot of experience you have to have in the water before you can do it safely," she says.
A sophomore in high school, she says her studies and volleyball take up most of her time, though she also volunteers 10 or so hours a month at the aquarium and has talked to hundreds of visitors.
She's getting noticed, too, and is in negotiations for a sponsorship deal. She looks forward to more diving opportunities not just in California but hopefully, she says, around the world.
"That'd be a dream of mine," she says.
"It's a good day to dive". 🤿
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Futuristic Interior Of Shenzhen Library,
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This infinite book tunnel isn't a CGI trick; it's a real place where you can get lost in literature—literally. You are standing inside the "Möbius strip" design of Yushin Bookstore, where mirrored floors and ceilings create a dizzying, endless loop of shelves. 🌀
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This week in 1964, The Rolling Stones single “Little Red Rooster” went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart (December 9)
“Little Red Rooster” is a blues standard by prolific songwriter Willie Dixon, and was originally recorded in 1961 as “The Red Rooster” by US blues musician Howlin' Wolf in the Chicago blues style.
In 1962, before they had recorded as a group, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards attended the first American Folk Blues Festival in the UK, whose performers included Howlin' Wolf.
Willie Dixon, another Festival player, later recalled: "When the Rolling Stones came to Chess studios, they had already met me and doing my songs, especially 'Little Red Rooster'".
He added:
“I left lots of tapes when I was over there [in London ... I told] them anybody who wanted to could go and make a blues song. That's how the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds got their songs".
And Brian Jones loved it…it was his favourite Rolling Stones single.
Rolling Stones biographer Stephen Davis wrote:
“It was his [Jones'] masterpiece, his inspired guitar howling like a hound, barking like a dog, crowing like a rooster" (similar to Billy Preston's "playful organ vocalizing").
Bill Wyman wrote "I believe 'Rooster' provided Brian Jones with one of his finest hours."
It was to be the Rolling Stones’ last cover song to be released as a single during the 1960s, and remains to this day the only time a blues song has ever topped the British popular music charts.
Bill Wyman noted that when the song went to #1, it “realized a cherished ambition [of Jones] to put blues music at the top of the charts, and meant his guilt of having 'sold out' completely to pop fame was diminished".
As well as topping the charts in the UK, “Little Red Rooster” went to #2 in Australia, #4 in the Netherlands, #6 in Norway and Sweden, #14 in Germany, and #21 in France.
It wasn’t released in the US.
Bill Wyman later wrote in his book Stone Alone that "on December 18, 1964, news came from America that 'Little Red Rooster' was banned from record release because of its 'sexual connotations'".
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This week in 1979, the Styx single “Babe” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 ( December 8 )
The song from their “Cornerstone” LP was Styx's first, and only, US #1 single, spending two weeks in the top spot.
The love song was also #1 in Canada for six weeks, #1 in South Africa, #3 in Australia and New Zealand, #4 in Ireland, and #11 in the Netherlands.
It was the band's only UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #6.
The song was written by member Dennis DeYoung as a birthday present for his wife Suzanne.
It was a personal thing, and was not originally intended to be a Styx track, but band members James "J.Y." Young and Tommy Shaw convinced DeYoung to put the song on “Cornerstone”.
DeYoung married his wife, Suzanne Feusi, in January 1970 and they’ll soon be celebrating their 54th anniversary.
Suzanne sang backup on many of Styx's songs.
In 1999, "Babe" was included in the soundtrack to the film “Big Daddy”, starring Adam Sandler, whose character is a huge fan of Styx.
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1. The Matrix (1999)
- Neo discovers that the world he lives in is a computer simulation.
- Famous for the red pill vs. blue pill choice, it makes you wonder if our own reality is just an illusion.
2. Inception (2010)
- A team of thieves plant ideas through dreams within dreams.
- The spinning top ending leaves viewers questioning whether Cobb is still dreaming.
3. Donnie Darko (2001)
- A troubled teen sees visions of a man in a rabbit suit who tells him the world will end.
- Blends time travel, hallucinations, and existential dread.
4. Fight Club (1999)
- The narrator’s fractured psyche and the twist about Tyler Durden force viewers to rethink identity, consumerism, and what’s “real.”
- It’s a psychological grenade that makes you question whether reality is just a construct of our minds.
5. The Truman Show (1998)
- Truman Burbank slowly realizes his entire life is a TV Show
- Raises questions about freewill, surveillance, and whether our lives are scripted.
6. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004)
- A couple erases memories of each other after a painful breakup.
- Express whether erasing pain also erases what makes us human.
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The Philippine peso has reached a new all-time low of ₱59.22 to the US dollar, recorded on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
This surpasses the previous record of ₱59.17 set just a few weeks earlier in November 2025.
Factors Contributing to the Decline
The peso's continued weakening is driven by a combination of global and domestic factors:
Strong US Dollar: The US dollar has generally strengthened against most Asian currencies, which puts downward pressure on the peso.
Anticipated US Rate Cuts: Markets are anticipating potential interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, which contributes to market volatility and a stronger dollar in the interim.
Philippine Central Bank Policy: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has signaled a tolerance for a weaker peso and is expected to cut its own benchmark interest rates to stimulate the local economy. This contrasts with some other Asian central banks that have actively intervened to support their currencies.
Domestic Economic Concerns: Slower economic growth and concerns over governance issues, including a widening corruption scandal, have dampened investor confidence and led to foreign funds selling local equities.
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