The RECC’E - DAY 89 | MAR 30 | ANIMAL-LESS EGGS

Day 89 / 365

38YEARS ago today New York police detective Robert Cunningham offered waitress Phyllis Penzo half of a $1 lottery ticket instead of tipping her, the next day the pair won $6 million. 

RECC’E OF THE DAY

86.7mMETRIC tons of eggs were produced globally in 2020, now a food technology startup trying to manufacture true animal-free proteins through a process known as precision fermentation has done just that. They’ve created the world's first animal-free egg white.

NEED-TO-KNOW

80%SUCCESS rates have been shown in an experimental new therapy which transplants Mitochondria - the energy producing powerhouses of our cells - from living cells into damaged tissues. This survival rate of transferred Mitochondria is a breakthrough that could one day save dying or diseased organs and even offer the potential to rejuvenate cells damaged by age. 

$5mCAMPAIGN by environmental groups looking to tackle the global energy usage of Bitcoin has gotten underway. The group wants to reduce consumption of the cryptocurrency by 99.9% by switching it over to ‘proof of stake’ rather than ‘proof of work’ processes which uses less energy as there are no puzzles to solve. A process already in place with Ethereum.  

SHOULD-KNOW

410SQ KM of the Amazon rainforest are owned by one company who are now selling NFTs linked to specific tracts of land in the Brazilian rainforest in a bid to create a “generation of guardians”. While the company claims that it’s a bold new vision for conservation critics are arguing it’s a harbinger of a wave of problematic crypto-driven greenwashing.

16.6%INCREASE in 16 years for the prevalence of prediabetes among US youths has been evidenced in a new study. Between 1999-2002 and 2015-2018 a shift from 11.6% to 28.2% for pre diabetes warning signs has been deemed vastly significant. This includes a shift from 18.2% to 40.4% across the same period among youths with obesity.

7HOURS and 37 minutes - according to internal White House records this is length of a gap in Donald Trumps phone logs on 6th January 2021, the day of the Capitol riots and the most tumultuous hours of his presidency. The findings have drawn renewed scrutiny concerning the former presidents unusual phone habits. 

GOOD-TO-KNOW

322FOOT TALL - around 17ft taller than the Statue of Liberty - NASA’s upcoming weekend launch of their new SLS megarocket could end up being a fairly secretive event after concerns were raised that they might inadvertently disclose too much information which could in turn help adversaries build ballistic missiles. 

$84bnINCREASE in Tesla’s market cap across a single day was the outcome of its announcement to split stock for the second time in 2 years. This single day increase is more than the entire value of Ford.

 

SIGN-OFF STAT

90%OF THE WORLDS population lives in the Northern Hemisphere - north of the equator. That’s because the Northern Hemisphere contains 67.3% of Earth’s land; the Southern Hemisphere is about 80.9% water.

  

   

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