Tuesday 11/30/21
Celebrate National Personal Space, Mason Jar, Mousse, Meth Awareness, Security, Stay Home Because You're Well, Mississippi (20th 1817), Day of Giving, and Computer Security Day.
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Canada is the latest country to tap its strategic reserves -- not for oil, but for maple syrup. The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers -- often referred to as the OPEC of syrup -- recently said it would release half of its emergency maple syrup stockpile, roughly 50 million pounds of the stuff, to ease global supply shortages of the breakfast staple. Quebec produces about three quarters of all the maple syrup in the world, and last year’s harvesting season was cut short due to warmer than usual temps.
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A great mindset hack is to assume there are no secrets to being fit, saving money, losing weight, or making friends, just well publicized proven techniques that people do not want to do because they take time, effort, and sacrifice.
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Billy Joel said that Taylor Swift is "like that generation's Beatles."
In a recent interview with USA Today, Joel was asked about who is favorite “current singers” were, and after praising Adele, he referred to Swift as the Fab Four of her generation.
“She’s productive and keeps coming up with great concepts and songs and she’s huge,” Joel added. “You have to give her high marks. She knows music and she knows how to write. She’s like that generation’s Beatles.”
Reacting to the comment in an interview with Extra, Swift said: “That honestly like broke my brain because that doesn’t seem like a real thing that would happen in life.
“I might have hallucinated it, maybe we had the same hallucination, because I don’t really know how to process words like that from someone like him, I’m a huge fan of his.”
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The New York Times reports that an Ohio man appears to have been cured of his Type 1 diabetes after participating in an early-stage clinical trial of a stem cell treatment by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the New York Times reports.
"We've been looking for something like this to happen literally for decades," said Irl Hirsch, a diabetes expert at the University of Washington who was not involved in the research.
But, but, but: The results are still early and have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Experts say they want to see the study replicated, see if there are unanticipated adverse events and if the treatment will last a lifetime.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - It’s impossible to tickle yourself.
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