Dovi’s Digest Volume 248
Five years on 🦠 🤧 😷
A weekly newsletter for all your intellectual, spiritual, and physical needs
Hello all! Welcome to Volume 248 of Dovi’s Digest!
In this week’s added extras:
The Smithsonian National Zoo’s live Giant Panda Cam.
These secret World War II tunnels are set to become a major tourist attraction.
The difference between $30 and $300 pairs of jeans
Underwater photographs of the year competition winners.
Courtesy of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, how to make yourself less valuable to Meta.
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There were THREE correct answers to last week’s brainteaser, Well done to Ariel S Jonathan A, and Chaim E! The answer and this week’s riddle are below.
Keep those articles (and everything else) coming.
Have a great weekend,
Dovi
And now, the articles:
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything
Millennials Have a Terrifying New Role
From work to parenting, the never-grow-up generation is suddenly in charge.
Five Years On: The Countries That Never Locked Down for Covid-19
Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries didn't impose any lockdown restrictions – so was their decision the right one?
Prolific Blood Donor Who Saved 2.4 million Babies Dies At 88
(Courtesy of Myer B)
James Harrison of Australia, whose blood had a rare antibody, donated 1,173 times over six decades, potentially saving millions of lives. He said he hoped someone would break his record.
In Defense of Turkish Delight
This traditional sweet is actually pretty delightful.
The Household Item Turning Runners into World Record Holders
In an eight-day span in February, seven of track and field's historic marks were broken. And it's partly thanks to baking soda.
How Prescription Drugs Get Their Names
Hint: It's all in the suffix.
What Happens after a Death on Campus
Following a string of suicides, U of T abandoned its students. It should have protected them.
Quote of the Week:
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” – Abraham Lincoln
Word of the Week:
Pullulating
puhl-yuh-layt-ing/ˈpʌljʊleɪtɪŋ/
Adjective
very crowded and lively; teeming.
"The towers of our pullulating megalopolis"
2. spreading or multiplying prolifically or rapidly.
"His face was covered with pullulating boils."
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Facts of the Week:
Rats dressed in polyester trousers have sex less often than those made to wear woollen ones.
By examining the DNA of any rat in New York, researchers can tell which part of the city it comes from.
Manhattan has a monument commemorating the sinking of the Staten Island Ferry by a giant octopus, an event that was entirely made up by the artist.
15,152 life forms can be found in the New York subway.
New York state has a town called Lonelyville.
Disenchantment Bay is a place in Alaska.
The Useless Islands belong to New Zealand.
Misery is a village in France.
Cartoon of the Week:
Tweet of the Week:
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Brainteaser of the Week:
Say you flip a coin five times in a row. What is the probability that you get at least three consecutive flips on the same side (heads or tails)?
Last week’s brainteaser and answer:
Below are clues that lead to two words that are anagrams of each other.
Example: An Egyptian snake and a health club with a steam room = asp, spa.
1. To pointlessly use up perspiration
2. To support a highly prized seafood
3. The table city southeast of Phoenix and the home of Iowa State University
4. One is often depicted with a white beard, the other with horns
5. *Three responses: * Sold to the highest bidder, what you get in school, and…they warned you about this
Answer:
1. Waste, sweat
2. Bolster, lobster
3. Mesa, Ames
4. Santa, Satan
5. Auctioned, education, cautioned