Expensive Food 🧀 🥦
This Week in Review☕️: These items have become very costly| Big Tech and Internet connectivity | The Woolly Mammoth returns to the Arctic Tundra | Krispy Kreme is being extra innovative this fall
Quick Bites:
Food 🥦: Food prices are the highest since the ‘70s, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Meanwhile, the minimum wage has hardly changed since the 80s! How much was a cheeseburger back then vs now? And no, we're not talking about the Dollar menu at Burger King
In August alone, global prices rose by 33% from a year earlier as labour shortages and supply issues shot up costs.
The USDA reported last week that 13.8mn households were considered food insecure in 2020, NY Times reports.
Food. It's one of the most basic and perhaps the only necessity to survive. So, this article definitely makes for a humbling read 🙏
Tbh, most stores hide the increased price.. unless you pay attention. Rather than charge more, they shrink the size of the product. 500g of cheddar soon becomes 450g, 400g, 350g, 300g.
Price stays the same but manipulation increases. Pay👏 attention👏 people👏
Data📱: Facebook and Google lay thousands of miles of undersea cables to ferry internet around the world, Tech Insider reports.
And people still think satellites give us internet lmao
Key Facts from Tech Insider:
💡Usually Google and FB invest in cable projects with other companies although Google has 5 privately owned projects underway
💡Determining the route alone can take up to an year
💡The cable itself has the thickness of a garden hose
💡Once the route is mapped, the cable is loaded onto a specialized laying vessel
💡When the vessel reaches its final destination, a line of buoys helps float the internet cable on the surface of the water
Our Thoughts💡: Wait until Google and Fb realize they hate your vax status, race, sexual orientation, political party, tax filings and decide to cut off your internet.
Giving big tech any more control of our lives?!
We'll pass 👋
A Quick Interruption 📢: Word of mouth has been a TOTAL game-changer for us, so bring your friends in the loop! 📨
Refer your friends to help em’ get smarter one weekly newsletter at a time👇🏻
Climate Change 🌎: Will we soon be seeing mammoths running the Arctic? Startup 'Colossal' aims to revive the extinct species to combat climate change.
The biotech startup has raised $15mn to bring back the woolly mammoth 4,000 years after its extinction.
Just in time for it to slosh around in all the melted permafrost.
PS. Our instinctive response is that this is a really, really bad idea..
Key Facts:
💡Colossal will partner with Harvard university to use gene-editing technology
💡Existing asian elephants to be genetically engineered
💡It will have traits to help it survive in the Arctic
💡The company hopes combat climate change through “ecosystem restoration”
💡The first set of calves born in the next 4-6 years
💡The aim is to repopulate the Arctic tundra- the mammoth's natural habitat
Our Thoughts💡: Sure, Who cares about the current affairs challenging the world?! Let's bring back the woolly mammoth. Thats gonna make everything better.
PS. Why bring back an ice-age creature in the middle of global warming? Wouldn't it be wiser to bring back something that can actually thrive in this damn heat?
Wake us up when we revive the Rex 🦕
Fall Season 🍁: : Move over Pumpkin Spice, it's Apple Cider week! Krispy Kreme offers Apple Cider donuts for limited time for fall season.
A Glazed Doughnut filled with Brown Sugar Kreme, made with Real Apple and Spices? You have no idea what you've unleashed...!!! 🍩 🍩
While, pumpkin spice is usually the center of attention, Krispy Kreme is being innovative this 2021👇🏻
“Why stop there when there are so many more flavors to fall [..] we’re adding two first-ever fall-inspired glazes"
Gotta say though- it definitely doesn't help that Krispy Kreme is offering free doughnuts everyone who got the jam!
Which, tbh, is fantastic news for anyone who wants to avoid the virus but still has an obesity wish
Our Thoughts💡: Brb, we're starting a petition to keep apple cider around forever because they are so.darn.delicious 😋
Although, Krispy's gotta work on the crunch factor.. lacked the crispy crust of a fresher old-fashioned doughnut
Quicker Bites:
US to ease travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international passengers.
The UN General Assembly gets underway in New York.
World's biggest carbon-sucking plant opens in Iceland.
There is not enough data to prove that vitamins can prevent or treat Covid-19, according to experts.
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-days in space.
Statue honoring mysterious Bitcoin founder unveiled in Budapest.
Covid-19 may become endemic in 6 months, expert says.
Around 3,000 healthcare workers suspended from work as France's vaccine mandate kicks in.
670,000 flags on the National Mall pay tribute to America's devastating Covid-19 losses.
Covid-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness and death, trials show.