Kyle Nowak

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🔥 It’s Friday, February 14th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot (besides tonight's dinner date).

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"“Respect and acceptance stem from simple acts such as remembering a person’s name and using it whenever appropriate.”

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

📈 January’s CPI was released yesterday. And if the economy was a dinner party, inflation is the one guest that – despite frequent cues to leave – sticks around long after everyone else has left.

❓ Our question to you: Do you think the US government should stop minting pennies?

🔥 It’s Thursday, February 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🧑‍🎤🎥 A contentious docuseries about Prince will no longer see the light of day – but a new project has emerged to take its place.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 President Trump revealed he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to open immediate negotiations on ending the yearslong Russia-Ukraine war following an hour-plus long phone conversation.

😬🤖 New data from the BBC won’t help anyone with trust issues.

The British news org recently gave four prominent AI chatbots access to its site, then asked them questions about the news they “read,” prompting them to use BBC articles as sources where possible.

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“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

–Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

🍿🧙 Last year, Wicked defied gravity the odds of movie musicals. But the witches of Oz now have to walk a fine line between avoiding oversaturation and keeping audiences interested ahead of the Part Two release later this year.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, February 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🚫🪙 On Sunday, President Trump ordered the US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing the coin’s high cost of production as wasteful government spending.

🍿 Minute-long dramas – talk about a period piece. Revenue in China’s mini-drama industry rose 35% to reach $6.9+ billion last year, making it more valuable than the country’s entire film box office.

🏛️ The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday began implementing its plan to place a 15% cap on “indirect costs” associated with tens of billions of dollars in research grants, a move that’s drawn sharp criticism from the academic research community.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

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“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

–Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)