The RECC’E - DAY 69 | 03.10.22 | SHIPWRECK

Day 69 / 365

146YEARS ago today Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call, saying to his assistant Thomas Watson "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you". This was the foundation of a company that would become what is known today as AT&T.

RECC’E OF THE DAY

107YEARS after it sank, scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks - Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Found 10k feet down in the Weddell Sea, its being hailed as one of the finest wooden shipwrecks ever found due to its remarkable condition.

144ftLONG, the three-masted Endurance set out to take Shackleton and his team south to make the first land crossing of Antarctica between 1914 and 1917. However prior to reaching landfall they had to abandon the quest when the ship became trapped and then holed by sea-ice, sinking on November 21, 1915.

TRACKING

516CIVILIAN deaths is now the official UN figure with 908 injured. This news comes as Russia admits to the use of a thermobaric weapon system in Ukraine. These missiles suck oxygen from surrounding air to create a high-temperature explosion and are illegal when used against civilians.

1YEAR of conscripted military service is mandatory for all Russian men aged 18 to 27 and Russia has now confirmed conscripts have been used in the invasion of Ukraine.

1170CIVILIANS have reportedly now been killed in Mariupol alone since the invasion began. The latest air strikes in this city saw a children’s hospital and a maternity ward destroyed injuring 17 women. Mariupol is estimated to run out of food in 3 to 5 days.

35kPEOPLE were evacuated from 3 cities on Wednesday during a planned 12 hour ceasefire however corridors in some of the hardest hit areas such as Mariupol and Kharkiv did not hold.  There are a further 6 humanitarian corridors planned to open on Thursday.

27EU MEMBER states have agreed to start the lengthy process of examining membership bids by Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. It’s a process which ordinarily takes years however Ukraine has requested an expedited process, one which doesn’t currently exist.

58%OF RUSSIAN people approve of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while 23% oppose it. For those aged 18-24 - 39% oppose the ‘special operation’ and 29% support it.

NEED-TO-KNOW

2bnGENETICALLY modified mosquitos have been cleared for release in California and Florida.  The modified male insects are designed to produce infertile offspring, ideally reducing local populations and rates of mosquito-borne illness.

6MONTHS is how long it typically takes to train a bio-detection dog which can detect cancer. Now in the first study of it’s kind researchers have found ants have the ability to sniff out cancer in humans and can be trained in much larger groups, much faster. Scientists found ants can ‘discriminate between cancerous and healthy cells and between two cancerous lines.'

100+COUNTRIES are already exploring or piloting the concept of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC’s). Now President Biden has appeared to show support for the concept in the U.S by stating that a CBDC would positively impact the climate and environment as there would be no need for mining with a digital currency issued by a central bank. Bitcoin was trading 8% higher on the back of ”a supportive stance toward the industry".

SHOULD-KNOW

9SYSTEMS and organs within our bodies may all be ageing at different rates. The cardiovascular system correlated most with peoples ‘chronological’ age and the biological age of the gut microbiome showed the weakest link to ‘true’ age. Tracking individual ageing trajectories of organs could now help predict the risk of developing specific diseases.

2MONTHS have passed since a U.S man with a terminal heart disease who was ineligible for a human transplant became the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. Yesterday doctors confirmed the man has now died. Knowledge gained from the groundbreaking surgery will one day assist in ending the organ shortage crisis worldwide.

89%OF CHILDREN aged 6 to 17 in Canada play video games regularly and now a new study has shown that video games can actually improve reading skills. Researchers determined that exposure to more peripheral demands in video games likely exercise visual attention systems in the brain that are required for quick and efficient reading.

GOOD-TO-KNOW

4.5MONTHS, on average, after even just a mild case of COVID-19 is when brain regions related to smell show a decline. `Also noted was a reduction in grey matter and a reduction in whole brain size; the effects ranged from 0.2% to 2% additional change compared to people who had not been infected.

0.4mmTHICK at the equator of the eye, the sclera - white of the eye - has baffled scientists for years as to its purpose beyond structural support. Now researchers have established that this part of the eye contributes decisively to the visibility of directions of gaze through its basic colour properties aiding non verbal communication.

56%OF TECH WORKERS are unable to relax once the workday is over and 62% feel physically and emotionally drained according to a new study of more than 36,200 IT professionals across 33 counties. 2 in 5 employees want to quit due to excessive stress, exhaustion and a broken work-life balance while women (46%) are more likely to burnout than men (38.2%).

SIGN-OFF STAT

1DAY every year in November South Korea falls silent. Planes are grounded, constructions are paused, banks close and even military training ceases. The reason is to help students concentrate for the most important exam of their lives - the gruelling 8-hour marathon of back-to-back exams known as the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). This day is called Suneung.

  

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