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the US Senate is the oldest it's ever been, the speaker of the House is 82, the party leaders in the Senate are 71 and 80, and the Presidency is held by someone who won at age 77, running against a 74-year-old.

A FB post saying: You “volunteer” for us, and we give you chicken as compensation. But because this is a fast-food restaurant and not Burning Man, the store was criticized for apparently ignoring a federal law that outlines how employees should be paid for their time spent working. The post has been removed and Chick-fil-A corporate said the location “decided to end this program.”

WFH has wiped out a third of all office real estate value in NYC, about $58 billion worth, according to a working paper from the Social Science Research Network. Coffee shop sales have topped off at about 75% of their pre-pandemic levels, according to new research from Bank of America. 2.5 years after the pandemic shut down offices nationwide, employees are still spending about a third of their paid work time at home, per the recent Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes.

Reformulated booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna should be lining pharmacy shelves by September, a Biden administration official told NBC News, meaning a campaign to release second boosters to a broader swath of the population this summer is being scrapped. These retooled shots are intended to provide better protection against the BA5 and BA4 subvariants, which accounted for more than 90% of new cases in the US last week.

Historic flooding in eastern Kentucky has killed 25 people, including at least six children, and the death toll will continue to climb, KY Gov. Andy Beshear warned. The intense rainfall—with some areas receiving more than eight inches in 24 hours—left 23,000+ Kentuckians without power and destroyed hundreds of homes. This disaster comes only seven months after Kentucky suffered the deadliest tornadoes in its history, killing more than 70 people.

BMW is selling heated car seats on a subscription basis.

And I'm pretty sure they lasted a LOT longer than modern ones as well. Sigh.

My wife stumbles from the bedroom one morning, into the kitchen, and the cat is right there to meet her. "He didn't feed me," it cries. "I've been so hungry for so long, and he doesn't care! He wants me to st-starve! He doesn't care if I d-d-die!" What a liar! I fed that cat thirty minutes ago! Delicious chicken feast. So delicious that my wife will probably be furious because she planned to use it for our dinner this evening. I throw the cat outside where the plants are. But I forget the Bible principle, ‘Bad associations spoil useful habits.’ When I walk outside later, those flowers lite right into me, complaining about God. "He hasn't watered m…

President Biden met face-to-face with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the leader whom US intelligence has deemed responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Despite getting heat from critics for visiting Saudi Arabia, Biden defended his meeting with MBS by saying it’s in the best interests of US foreign policy to reset fraught relations with the Saudis, who are fierce foes of Iran. Biden also said he raised the topic of the Khashoggi murder “at the top of the meeting” with MBS and blamed him for the journalist’s death.

A cultivated-meat startup wants to…invent brand new forms of meat?

Amazon is helping develop “personalized” cancer vaccines.

If I wanted to set up my own virtual 3D "room" that another person could be invited to visit me in "virtually"... What would be the best way to accomplish this? On my OWN platform... not on a Facebook or Oculus or Google predefined platform. I would like to be able to expand this room eventually as well. Thanks in advance for any guidance.

As Tesla ramps up its production for the Model 3, one of its partners is also planning to increase production of electric vehicle batteries halfway around the world. According to the Japan Times, “Panasonic Corp. said Friday it will start manufacturing lithium-ion batteries for electric cars in fiscal 2019 at its plant in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, expanding domestic production to meet growing demand for green vehicles across the globe.” It’s reported that, “Panasonic has been expanding its lithium-ion battery production both at home and abroad. The Japanese electronics maker supplies lithium-ion batteries to U.S. electric-car maker and energy company Tesla Inc., and th…

This week, U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged that all British newborns will be able to have their genomes sequenced at birth. The babies don't get much of a say, but mums and dads can opt in. By receiving this genetic information, families could get advanced warning of heightened disease risks and plan for personalized treatment. In the U.S., doctors used Crispr to snip the genes of cancer patients (a first in the country). The technology is quickly advancing: Last month, researchers announced a more precise, flexible version called "prime editing." The new genome-editing tool lets researchers ctrl-alt-delete or ctrl-v DNA with less collateral damage. …

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is often called a “time machine.” On Tuesday, the $10 billion telescope earned that nickname after NASA released five images of the universe as it appeared ~13.5 billion years ago—or 300 million years after the Big Bang. The pictures deliver the deepest, sharpest, and most telling look yet into how galaxies merge, where stars are formed, the composition of space objects, and much more. Compare and contrast: The Webb is 100 times faster and more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope—and that’s because of tech advancements over the past three decades, Stefanie Milam, a deputy project scientist for planetary sci…

In-N-Out was founded in 1948 by Harry Snyder in Baldwin Park, CA. His son Rick took over in 1976 and maintained his family's stance against franchising. The view was that franchising would cause them to lose control of the business philosophy that they had spent so much time refining. Many years ago, he commented about franchising in Forbes: "My feeling is I would be prostituting my parents by doing that. There is money to be made by doing those things, but you lose something, and I don't want to lose what I was raised with all my life."

Terkan: I let my students play this lottery simulator from the LA Times. https://graphics.latimes.com/powerball-simulator/ I had them keep playing with $100 at a time for 5 minutes. Some would win, but they would be even deeper in the hole. you can select bet your paycheck and put in a custom amount. I told them to play with one MILLION dollars, and go to lunch. They came back and they all lost absolutely everything. I let them run it again the next day. Same result. 2 lifetimes of money just… thrown out. Across 15 kids. I hope they got the lesson. You MIGHT win big, and surely you will win a little sometimes, but you are going to lose. …