💬 Quoted… “By working together with manufacturers and the entire industry, we can develop quieter options that benefit everyone.”

• USA Pickleball, the governing body for America’s fastest-growing sport, announced a new initiative yesterday to address the noise complaints associated with pickleball. Their plan includes the creation of new equipment that generates half as much noise compared to typical paddles, which produce a popping sound as loud as 70 decibels – roughly the same as a vacuum cleaner – each time they strike a pickleball.

🧑‍💻 Stat of the Day: Gen Z Americans are ~3x more likely to get caught up in an online scam than Baby Boomers (16% vs 5%), per a recent Deloitte survey. Stay vigilant out there, folks.

🤔 Did You Know?... Scientific retractions are on the rise. At least 5,500 faulty scientific papers were retracted in 2022 compared with 119 in 2002, according to Retraction Watch, a website that keeps a tally; the overall rate stands at ~0.8% of all publications.

📰 Worth a Read: The totally perplexing and possibly never-ending treasure hunt for the golden owl → (Atlas Obscura)