Kyle Nowak

😞 Nearly 50k Americans died from suicide in 2022, the highest number in recorded history, per newly-published CDC data based on US death certificates.

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🔥 It’s Monday, August 14th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📉 US execs and lawmakers are increasingly moving away from investing based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations.

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."

–Beverly Sills (1929-2007)

🎂🎤 Hip-hop – the musical genre that spawned from young people living amidst poverty and crime and has grown to shape culture not only in the US but across the world – is celebrating its 50th anniversary today.

🌏 Russia launched its first Moon mission since 1976, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate was assassinated two weeks before the election, and more.

❌💰💊 The Supreme Court blocked a $6 billion bankruptcy settlement involving Purdue Pharma, its Sackler family owners, and thousands of plaintiffs, putting the disbursement of funds on pause pending further review by the Court.

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🔥 It’s Friday, August 11th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🧑‍🚀🚀 Around 11 am ET, the launch window for Virgin Galactic’s first spaceflight containing at least one paying civilian passenger begins. And for the Richard Branson-founded space company, which opened shop in 2004, it’s been a long time coming.

“From the errors of others, a wise person corrects their own.”

–Pubilius Syrus (85 B.C. – 43 B.C.)

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

🌏 The Panama Canal is experiencing a large ship pileup, Iraq ordered companies to replace the term “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance," and more.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, should Congress keep authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war against Russia for the foreseeable future?

📝⚡ Late last month, a team of Korean scientists published two preprint studies claiming to have developed LK-99, a material that can act as a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure – one of the holy grails of physics. This kicked off a race to reproduce the results.

🤖🎶 Google and Universal Music, the music industry’s largest record company, have entered into talks to create a tool that would enable individual creators to legally use other artists’ melodies and voices in songs generated by AI.

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🔥 It’s Thursday, August 10th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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