Kyle Nowak

💰🐭 Disney is nearly doubling its planned investment in its parks and cruise business to ~$60 billion over the next ten years. And if you said – with that kind of money they could create a small world after all, you wouldn’t technically be wrong.

🌏 A Danish artist was ordered to repay a museum after submitting blank canvases as commissioned work, Chinese marriage rates are at their lowest level in decades, and more.

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, September 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

–Mary Schmich (b. 1953)

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“Try all things, hold fast that which is good.”

–John Locke (1632-1704)

🌎 Around the world: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu met with Elon Musk for a live-streamed discussion, Canada expelled a top diplomat over allegations linking India’s government to an assassination, and more.

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with California’s decision to sue fossil-fuel companies?

🧠😵 Humans around the world show similar brain activity and report similar experiences when dying or close to death, including seeing their life flash before their eyes, per a first-of-its-kind study.

🏆🧪 The 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes – created as an ode to strange scientific discoveries – include an excretion-analyzing toilet, an experiment that used spider corpses as robotic claws, and more.

📝🛢️ On Friday, the state of California sued five major oil companies, alleging they knowingly deceived the public for decades about the climate-change risks associated with fossil fuels.

🌏 Iranian citizens commemorated the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, Italian researchers found some genes inherited from Neanderthals are linked to severe Covid risk, and more.

🚗 The United Auto Workers have launched a strategic strike against GM, Ford, and Stellantis after the parties failed to reach an agreement on a new labor contract

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🔥 It’s Monday, September 18th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with Gov. Grisham’s emergency health order to suspend the right to carry guns in Albuquerque for a “cooling-off period”?

📅 What you can look forward to this upcoming week...

✈️ The airport lounge arms race is in full swing. Both credit card companies and airlines are building out their lounge networks to attract travelers, and competition is fierce.