The RECC’E - DAY 82 | MAR 23 | MALE BIRTH CONTROL

Day 82 / 365

165YEARS ago today Elisha Otis installed the worlds first fully functioning commercial elevator in the five-story EV Haughwout Building at the corner of Broadway and Broome Street in New York City. It would revolutionize architecture by making skyscrapers possible.

RECC’E OF THE DAY

6%OF TEENS failed to quit using nicotine products in 2020 according to a new study - 2% cigarettes and 4% vaping - the highest level of failure in 13 years. From 1997 to 2019 the numbers of teens using cigarettes and failure rates on quitting had both dropped, however researchers found the mass introduction of e-cigarettes has made quitting noticeably more difficult.  

2.5kCHILDREN under 18 years of age try their 1st cigarette each day in the US and more than 400 of them will become new, regular daily smokers. Half of these will ultimately die from their habit. If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 5.6 million of today’s youth under age 18 in the US will eventually will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease. 

TRACKING: UKRAINE

<90%OF RUSSIA’s pre-invasion combat power remains according to official US defence sources; the first time its dropped below this level since the war began. 

4MORE children have officially been recorded as being killed in attacks yesterday bringing the total number of children killed since 24th February to 121. 

100kPEOPLE are reportedly stuck in the city of Mariupol without food, water or medicine. A doctor from the ‘international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war’ states the world is being held hostage by nuclear threat. These comments come as a Kremlin spokesperson stated Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence was threatened.

$10kREWARD for a Russian soldier who has handed his tank over to Ukrainian forces in an extraordinary story emerging from Ukraine’s Ministry of interior.  

300MEMBERS of Russia’s lower House of Parliament are expected to receive fresh sanctions as Biden travels to Europe today for NATO and G7 talks this week.

220TROOPS from one Russian unit have reportedly refused to continue taking part in the invasion. This one unit has already suffered 50 soldiers being killed and 110 wounded since the war began.

3DAYS of food and ammunition are all thats left stockpiled for Russian troops according to Ukraine’s military. According to the US, Russia is still picking up the ‘deconfliction telephone line’ - set up as a direct communication to avoid escalation between the 2 countries; a phone which is tested daily.

NEED-TO-KNOW

99%EFFECTIVE in preventing pregnancy in mice, a non-hormonal birth control pill for men is all set to start human trials this year. The pill kept lab mice sterile for four to six weeks with no side effects and works by targeting how our bodies interact with vitamin A, known to be essential to fertility in mammals.

6MONTHS straight - how long wage growth for women in the US has outpaced mens. February wages were up 4.4% over last year for women and 4.1% for men. December saw a gap of 0.5%, the widest margin since 1997. Interestingly, 31% of women who changed jobs during the pandemic have reported a salary increase of more than 30%; 28% of men reported the same.

98%+ACCURACY in reading the genome of a 5 day old embryo created via IVF is being hailed as a scientific breakthrough. The findings could assist in screening and predicting the likelihood of specific illnesses in adults only days after they were conceived. Deciphering almost all the DNA code of a days-old embryos has previously proved challenging because of the tiny volume of genetic material available for analysis.

SHOULD-KNOW

250kCONSUMERS and enterprise customers now subscribe to Elon Musk’s Starlink global high-speed internet service. Now the company has begun testing aviation-specific Starlink terminals, also known as satellite antennas, on aircraft in a bid to dominate a market they feel is ripe for overhaul, in-flight internet.

3rdTRIAL phase shows MDMA - known as ecstasy - can improve mental health of those suffering with PTSD when combined with talk therapy according to a new clinical study. Specifically, 2 months after the last therapy session, about two-thirds of patients who took MDMA no longer fit the criteria for active PTSD and the results showed relief remained durable many months later.

15APPLE services including podcasts, maps, the App Store and iCloud have briefly suffered outages over the last 2 days, the latest issues yesterday caused by a domain name system issue. The widespread outage yesterday was the 2nd in 2 days for the giant. 

GOOD-TO-KNOW

65NEW planets revealed by NASA bring the total number of exoplanets - known planets outside of our own solar system - to 5000. The mix includes ‘Super-Earths’, planets orbiting two stars at once and planets stubbornly orbiting the collapsed remnants of dead stars.

3OF 4 commissioners for the US Securities and Exchange Commission have approved a proposal that could require public companies to start updating investors annually on how much pollution their activities produce and how that pollution could ultimately affect their earnings. This comes as some companies, including Amazon, have actually seen their emissions grow since pledging to reach net-zero emissions.

1.8mmTHICK and costing $440k, the worlds thinnest mechanical watch - with an NFT included - has gone on sale by Bulgari. The Octo Finissimo ultra can barely be felt on the wrist and comes with an engraved QR code front and centre. 

 

SIGN-OFF STAT

200mSKIN CELLS are lost by humans each hour - 5 billion a day - and this is the main reason dead skin is actually the main ingredient in household dust. On the bright side, a skin oil called squalene naturally helps reduce indoor ozone levels by up to 15 percent.

  

   

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