Five Things You need to Know Today June 29

1) Today will be partly sunny, with a chance of showers. Highs in the upper 70s, and humid. The clouds should scatter around sundown, making for a clear night in the high and mid 60s.

2) The Crazy Quilters of Cape Cod kick off their today, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., at . Check out hundreds of homemade quilts in every color and style, and demonstrations of the art of quilting. Door prizes, raffles, and vendors provide the opportunity to take home a souvenir or two. Admission is $5. For more, call (508) 548-57-37, email dsbercovici@gmail.com, or visit http://www.crazyquiltersofcapecod.com.

3) Anyone with an appetite and $19.95 to spare is invited to for the summer's first . The buffet offers such sumptuous dishes as salad with apples, almonds, and goat cheese, margarita pizza, penne pomodoro, red chili enchilada casserole, vegetarian chili, and much, much more. Children ages four through nine get in for $10.95, and those under four eat free. For more, call (508) 563-2560, email cfarm@capecod.net, or visit http://www.coonamessettfarm.com/id47.html.

4) The 's summer lecture series continues tonight with . Elaine A. Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute uses the domestic dog as an example of the large effects which can come about through small changes in genes. Possibly the most morphologically variable species on earth, today's innumerable breeds of dog are the results of artificial selection, a process analogous to natural selection. Now as in Darwin's time, their enormous variation provides a valuable example of genetics in action. The lecture is free, and begins at 8 p.m., in the MBL's Lillie Auditorium. For more, call (508) 289-7423, email FEL@mbl.edu, or visit http://hermes.mbl.edu/events/events_friday_06_29_12.html.

5) This day in history: Shakespeare's home base, the Globe Theater, burns to the ground after cannon fire used in a play sets its thatched roof alight (1613); Isabela Peron becomes president of Argentina (1974); and space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian space station Mir, temporarily forming the largest artificial satellite ever to orbit the earth (1995).