🏢 Surfside Building Collapse Update

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The death toll from the collapse of a 12-story beachfront condo in Surfside, FL, rose to nine on Sunday as rescuers continued to dig through the rubble.

• No one has been pulled out alive since hours after the collapse Thursday. Over 150 people remain unaccounted for. Authorities have noted the numbers will continue to shift as they determine how many people were actually in the building overnight.

Records released by local authorities late Friday included a structural survey report from 2018 finding “major structural damage” under the building.

• A separate report from the same firm recommended $9M+ in structural repairs, which had not yet begun. The owners of the condo building’s 136 units faced a July 1 deadline to start making payments.

More: An NPR report published Sunday found a Surfside town inspector met with residents of the building one month after the 2018 structural survey report was filed, and told them the building was “in very good shape.”

Even More: Engineers say the cause of the implosion may take weeks to pinpoint, but the early consensus suggests a concrete slab or support column beneath a pool deck broke first, falling into the parking garage and triggering a crater-like collapse.

🎁 DONUT Headline: The U.S. government’s big UAP report was released Friday – and it didn’t really tell us anything new.

🎁 DONUT Headline: The UK is launching a large-scale trial of a new blood test showing promising accuracy in detecting 50 types of cancer – often before any signs or symptoms appear. (But, like, for real this time.)

Up to 6.5 inches of rain overnight Friday left thousands in Metro Detroit without power as homes, businesses, and highways were flooded.

• No fatalities or injuries have been reported. Thunderstorms remain in the forecast for the rest of the week, though they are not expected to be as severe.

🔭 The Week Ahead

Monday: Wimbledon begins (ends July 11); Men’s College World Series finals Game 1 (Vanderbilt vs. Mississippi State; NC State was disqualified due to COVID-19); Stanley Cup Finals Game 1 (Montreal vs. Tampa Bay)

Tuesday: National Camera Day

Wednesday: End of Q2

Thursday: NIL laws affecting college athletes take effect; Canada Day; The Chinese Communist Party turns 100 years old

Friday: Monthly U.S. jobs report

Right now, the U.S. intelligence community recognizes two likely theories regarding the origins of COVID-19:

1. Zoonotic spillover – The virus may have been transmitted from animals to humans, either directly or through an intermediate host.
2. Accidental release from a lab – The virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where three researchers were hospitalized in November 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,” per U.S. intelligence.

📊 What do the polls say?

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At the start of the pandemic, 49% of all Americans believed it was definitely or probably true that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in China. (YouGov | May 7, 2020)

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Public polling earlier this month found 58% of all Americans believed it was definitely or probably true that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in China. (YouGov | June 2, 2021)

📸 The Big Picture
In late March, the WHO and China published a joint report on the origins of COVID-19 concluding the virus likely spread to humans via animals, deeming it “extremely unlikely” the virus escaped from a laboratory.

• In May, an international group of 18 scientists published a letter in Science criticizing the findings of the joint WHO-China report and calling for further, independent investigation into the matter.
• Later that month, President Biden ordered the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble their efforts” to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and provide a report within 90 days.

Hasta La Vista, Anxiousness 😎

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When Covid first hit the U.S. in March 2020, Delta Airlines was forced to temporarily retire more than 70% of its fleet, moving the aircrafts into storage for what they believed was a two or three-week lockdown.

• With America reopening and more people willing to travel again, the airline is returning to business as usual.

One pilot assigned to “wake-up” aircraft #3009 last month found a small note left on the dashboard of the plane from 15 months prior.

Keep reading.

🚢 Now On Sail…

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Cargo shipping companies are facing increasing pressure to address their production of toxic air pollution – the global maritime industry is responsible for nearly 3% of the world’s yearly greenhouse gas emissions.

Answering the call to reimagine more sustainable shipping vessels, French tire maker Michelin unveiled its Wing Sail Mobility (WISAMO) project earlier this month.

• The project involves retrofitting existing ships with puffy, inflatable sails reaching up to 55 feet high that can inflate and deflate autonomously.
• The sails are estimated to improve a ship’s fuel efficiency by up to 20%, reducing shipping companies’ operating costs by curbing the amount of fuel necessary to complete a voyage.

Michelin plans to test its WISAMO technology on a commercial freighter in 2022.

Keep reading.

How long did it take the inventor of the Rubik's Cube to solve his own puzzle?

A) One hour
B) Ten hours
C) One week
D) One month

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D) One month

Erno Rubik, a 29-year-old design professor, created the first Rubik’s cube in 1974 while fiddling around with a set of wooden blocks in an apartment he shared with his mother.

• After initially twisting and turning the cube to create a kaleidoscope of color, Rubik wanted to put the blocks back to their original form.
• There was only one problem: he didn't know how. It took one full month of twisting and re-twisting to solve his own puzzle.

Modern Rubik's cube experts have the inventor’s pace beat by quite a bit – 3.47 seconds is the current human world record, while 0.38 seconds is the record for robots.