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Good morning and welcome to Thursday.
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⏰🚀 Ready, Set, Go: Today’s newsletter takes 4.84 minutes to read. (With the 360° view: +3.36 minutes.)
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👇📰 Quick Bits
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🔒🌐 White House Cybersecurity Summit
Image: Evan Vucci/AP
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🎁 DONUT Headline: President Biden hosted a meeting yesterday afternoon with executives from tech, finance, insurance, energy, and education firms to discuss cybersecurity, framing it as an “existential issue.”
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The attendees represented a 'who's-who' of the technology and finance industries, including the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, IBM, Alphabet, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and more.
🤿 A deeper dive... While ransomware was expected to be a key focus, it wasn’t the sole priority of the gathering.
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Topics on the agenda also included critical infrastructure and supply-chain security, building software and devices with default security protections, insurance policies, and the shortage of cybersecurity professionals.
There are currently ~500,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs across the country.
👁️ Looking ahead... Google and Microsoft were among the attending companies that announced new plans and commitments totaling $30+ billion over the next five years to address cybersecurity.
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Senior White House officials in July said the Biden administration could look to pursue mandates if voluntary security standards aren’t widely adopted.
From the Left: CNBC
From the Right: WSJ
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🌭 Ignorance is Bliss
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🎁 DONUT Headline: A new study of more than 5,800 foods attempts to quantify the impact of dietary choices on your lifespan and the environment – and it’s bad news for anyone who likes hot dogs.
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The moment of truth... Each beef hot dog with a bun you scarfed down at the most recent cookout may have taken 36 minutes off your life. 😱 Some other highlights lowlights:
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Cured meats and poultry take away ~20 minutes.
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Egg/breakfast sandwiches and sugar-sweetened beverages take away ~10 minutes each (really rethinking that Dunkin’ breakfast sandwich and iced coffee rn).
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Burgers, mac and cheese, red meat, and pizza take away ~5 minutes each.
🤔 From Calories to Minutes, Connecting the Dots… Remember the old Dodge commercials about HEMIs? Well, this study has a HENI.
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HENI stands for Health Nutritional Index, and it was created by University of Michigan researchers specifically for this study. It’s an epidemiology-based adaptation of the Global Burden of Disease, where disease mortality and morbidity are associated with a single food choice of an individual.
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Researchers used 15 dietary risk factors and disease burden estimates from the GBD and combined them with the nutrition profiles of foods consumed in the United States, based on the What We Eat in America database of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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What comes out of this data porridge is the net beneficial or detrimental health burden in minutes of healthy life associated with a serving of food consumed.
Put simply, a positive score adds healthy minutes of life, a negative score takes ‘em away.
🔍 Some more positive findings… Eating salted peanuts, baked salmon, and rice with beans may add 10-15 minutes to your life. A peanut butter and jelly sandwich could add 33 minutes.
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In fact, substituting 10% of your daily calories from beef and processed meat for fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and selected seafood could add 48 minutes/day to your life. That same action could also result in a 33% reduction in your dietary carbon footprint.
📝 The bottom line… "Generally, dietary recommendations lack specific and actionable direction to motivate people to change their behavior," said Katerina Stylianou, study researcher and the Director of Public Health Information and Data Strategy at the Detroit Health Department.
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Translation: a poor diet can lead to preventable chronic diseases. So when you can roughly communicate the impact of diet in terms of lifespan, it’s that much more impactful to behavior.
But at the end of the day, other things also affect lifespan, everyone’s body responds differently to food, and this study isn’t perfect. If it was, Joey Chestnut would probably be dead and anyone who only ate foods with positive minute scores would never die.
+Bonus: For those who took the last sentence seriously, a team of researchers in Singapore set out to find the maximum human lifespan. Their results were published earlier this year, you can read them here.
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🍩 DONUT Holes…
Image: Getty
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☝️ The picturesque town of Taos, New Mexico, which was recently named one of America’s most beautiful cities by Condé Nast. See the rest of the list.
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🚫 OnlyFans has suspended its plan to ban pornographic content after reportedly securing assurances from banking partners “to support our diverse creator community.”
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✈️ Unvaccinated Delta Air Lines employees will have to pay up to $200 extra for health insurance starting in November.
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♨️ Etihad Stadium, where Premier League champions Manchester City play, will be serving hot drinks this season out of edible coffee cups.
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🎾 Serena Williams pulled out of the U.S. Open, citing a hamstring injury. The Open, which starts on Monday, will be the first major tennis tournament to not feature any of Serena Williams, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal in the singles brackets since 1997.
+Bonus: Check out this incredible drone footage of Venezuela’s Angel Falls, the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
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🔥 The Hot Corner
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🔢 Stat of the Day… $12,500 = the starting price for a platinum Patek Philippe watch with 90 diamonds monogrammed for Al Capone. ☝️
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Context: A trove of family mementos, jewelry, and weapons that were once owned by the notorious gangster are being auctioned off by his three surviving granddaughters.
💬 Heard Through the Grapevine… “Defendants intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense.” –An excerpt from a lawsuit filed against rock band Nirvana by Spencer Elden, the man who appeared naked as a baby on the cover of their 1991 album “Nevermind.”
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In past interviews, Elden has spoken positively of his depiction on the album and recreated the photo to commemorate the record's 10th, 20th, and 25th anniversaries. He now says it has caused “lifelong damages.”
📖 Worth Your Time… Shipwrecked: A Shocking Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in the Deep Blue Sea
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🗣👂 Dose of Discussion
⚖️ SCOTUS & Immigration
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Image: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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🎁 DONUT Headline: The Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday requiring the Biden administration to reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy commonly referred to as 'Remain in Mexico.'
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The Trump administration introduced the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program in January 2019 and the Biden administration terminated it in June 2021. The MPP requires immigrants seeking asylum at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their applications are pending.
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As a practical matter, the MPP program hasn’t been in use since the start of the pandemic last year. U.S. officials under both the Trump and Biden administrations have been turning back migrants under a public health order known as Title 42.
🤿 A deeper dive... The Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to reject the administration's request to block a Texas-based judge's order earlier this month requiring the government to revive the MPP program.
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The judge was responding to a lawsuit filed by Texas and Missouri alleging they were harmed by the termination of the MPP program since it reduced burdens for their taxpayers, such as having to issue IDs to noncitizens allowed into the U.S.
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His ruling stated the Biden administration acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner and failed to properly consider the benefits of the MPP program before terminating it, citing a similar SCOTUS decision last year refusing to let the Trump administration rescind DACA.
🔭 Zoom out... Migrant encounters at the southern U.S. border are at a 21-year high and expulsions under Title 42 becoming less common in the first months of the Biden administration, according to federal data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
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📣🗣💬 This Week’s Poll Responses
Yes – "It's misleading to pose this question as though it's simply a matter of free speech. What's at issue is a powerful and far-reaching platform (e.g., Facebook) selectively spreading and promoting specific bad information using an algorithm that they won't share any information about with the public. The government should have a role in restricting that power and forcing transparency."
No – "The constitution expressly prohibits the government from stifling free speech. Who decides what "misinformation" is? I can give many examples of what was called misinformation and then turned out to be true. Allowing the government to decide what we can read or say is the furthest thing from why this country was founded."
Unsure – "Attempting to suppress objectively false information only foments resentment and causes the individual who believes in that information to assume that the governing body has some kind of incentive or ulterior motive to censor "their truth." So they dig in their heels. This is a no-win situation, and I don't know what we do about it."
+Note on Sample Size: We received 1,985 responses. 👏🥳 Some may have been lightly edited for grammar or clarity.
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🛸🌄📲 Calling from the Future…
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🚢 Changing Tides
Image: Yara International
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🎁 DONUT Headline: The world’s first autonomous, zero-emission cargo ship is slated to complete a journey between two Norwegian towns, promising to shift the country’s shipping industry from road to the sea.
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According to the International Maritime Organization, the global shipping industry accounts for ~3% of greenhouse gas emissions, producing both nitrogen oxides (toxic pollutants) and carbon dioxide.
Nearly all of Norway’s electricity is generated by hydroelectric power, which still produces greenhouse gases but lowers reliance on fossil fuels.
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Now, the country is on track to mark another sustainability achievement as Norwegian chemical company Yara International prepares to launch the inaugural voyage of the Yara Birkeland, its uncrewed and zero-emissions container ship.
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Although the Yara Birkeland is not the first autonomous ship, it is the first fully electric one - outfitted with a 7MWh battery, the ship will have “about a thousand times the capacity of an electrical car.”
The Yara Birkeland is scheduled to set sail along the Norwegian coast later this year, its movements monitored from three onshore data control centers.
Keep reading.
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🤗 Daily Dose of Positive
👨⚕️🍼One Determined Doctor
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Image: KCRA
Alyssa Stanghellini went into labor in the evening of July 2nd. What she thought would be a standard delivery of her little baby boy soon took a turn for the worse when her unborn son’s heart rate started to rapidly slow after the umbilical cord became wrapped around his neck.
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Alyssa’s doctor George Alkhouri, who was observing the delivery remotely from home, made the executive decision she would need an emergency C-section. He immediately hopped in his car headed for the hospital - only 10 minutes away - to perform the procedure.
That’s when George was struck on the road, sending glass shards into his face, hands, and injuring his leg. In true doctor fashion, he got out as quickly as possible to check on the other driver.
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When both were deemed okay, George called 911. Meanwhile, Alyssa was still waiting for him at the hospital – her son in grave danger.
Keep reading...
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💡 Dose of Knowledge
🪐 Day 'N Nite
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A day on which planet in our Solar System is equivalent to almost eight months on Earth?
A) Jupiter
B) Saturn
C) Venus
D) Mars
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💡 Dose of Knowledge Answer
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D) Venus
Venus is the slowest moving planet in our Solar System. It has a rotational velocity of just 4 MPH - compared to 1,040 MPH on Earth - which results in one complete rotation every 243 Earth days.
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🍩 Daily Sprinkle
"Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well."
–Jim Rohn (1930-2009)
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