In fertility news, a baby in Tennessee has been born from a record-setting 27-year-old frozen embryo. The scientists later released an aging expert's projection of what the baby will look like as an adult.
Speaking of growing things in test tubes, in Singapore, lab-grown no-kill chicken meat has been approved for sale, signaling a new era of food produced in bioreactors without slaughtering any animals. The effort was funded by dark money from a group of high-profile, wealthy chickens. A spokesman for KFC said "Look, if we don't get to torture and murder chickens, why are even in this business?"
This is cool. The European Space Agency is planning a debris removal mission in 2025 where they will use a giant claw to grab space junk. And if it's anything like the claw-grab machine at my local arcade, it will only take six thousand attempts to get each piece of space trash.
Here's one for the crypto bros. In Venezuela, you can now use Bitcoin to buy pizza and wings at all Pizza Hut locations. Sadly, you can't use bitcoin at Banana Republic because... the country is one.
In Tesla news, Elon Musk asked Mexico if he can call his new tequila "Teslaquila", but the government would not allow it. He said "OK, how about Muskzal" and they said .... "No."
One more story about the Tesla tycoon. Elon Musk is tired of taxes and coronavirus lockdowns in California, and has decided to move Tesla to Texas. Sure, Texas… where Big Oil will welcome him with open arms.
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