How often do you think about bubbles?

When you pour most carbonated drinks into a glass, bubbles rise to the surface in a fairly chaotic fashion. Yet when you pour champagne, bubbles form perfect "bubble columns."

What do the French know that we don't?! Probably lots of things...

But an American scientist did just crack the champagne bubble code. Champagne is full of chemicals called surfactants that "coat" bubbles and create a swirling mechanism that eliminates bubble chaos.

Now it's on you to weave "bubble chaos" into your cocktail party small talk. Good luck.

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By now, you've almost certainly heard of Ozempic and/or Wegovy - two weight loss drugs that have taken America by storm.

Both are trademarks for the same compound - semaglutide - which decreases appetite and slows down the emptying of the stomach. In short: they make you less hungry.

And while these drugs were designed to treat Type II Diabetes, they're now consumed by millions of folks who don't have Diabetes, but instead simply want to shed pounds.

Well, pharma giant Eli Lilly just announced it's getting in on the action with an even more powerful drug called Mounjaro (side bar: did they just merge "Mount" + "Kilimanjaro"?).

Users of Ozempic and Wegovy shed ~15% of their body weight over 16 months, whereas users of Mounjaro lost up to 22% over that period.

Is any of this good for society? Hard to say! I'm primarily a proponent of nutrition, sleep, and exercise, but I also can't ignore data.

"If everyone who's [overweight] lost 20% of their body weight, we'd be taking patients off reflux, diabetes, and hypertension medications," says Dr. Apovian, a director at the Center for Weight Management at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Again...tricky topic. Society needs more data to chart the best path vis-à-vis these drugs.

In any case, clean nutrition will always be your friend!

You know how coffee served at pretty much any café comes out 100X too hot?

It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how you can salvage your precious tastebuds...

Next time you're at Starbucks, Dunkin, or that hipster hole-in-the-wall your yoga instructor Moonbeam goes to, try saying this:

"Can you please serve that at kids temperature?"

After the barista finishes contemplating why you're serving your child coffee, he or she will deliver a perfect-temp cuppa joe.

But again...prepare for a subtly awkward exchange here.

1. We may have to revert back to handwritten assignments and in-person tests because of artificial intelligence.
2. A dirty welcome mat is gross, but a clean welcome mat is sad.
3. Fish are always hungry and never thirsty.
4. When you marinate tofu in soy sauce you just put soy beans into more soy beans.
5. People who sleep with their eyes open are at a higher risk of having devices compromised via facial recognition.

Anonymous: "The dream that doesn’t scare you is not a dream."

Today I learned that the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities. (more here)

importune [ im-pawr-toon ] - verb
demand or beg with urgency or persistence
He stood on the street corner, importuning passersby for help.

Q: What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
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