The Great Eggscape

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Today’s world, simplified for you:

We’ve covered some pretty wild food heists in our day—remember the Grate Cheese Robbery or Pie Pilfering? But this might just take the (pan)cake: Thieves nabbed 100,000 eggs (worth $40K) from a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are, shall we say, scrambling to solve this crime, and they haven’t cracked the case yet.

I can't blame local breakfast lovers for feeling extra protective of their sunny sides with prices already sky-high and Waffle House adding surcharges per egg. Keep those shells close, folks. It’s an eggs-treme world out there.

Bonus: Here are some cheaper—and tasty—alternatives to eggs.

Slow DEIth

Corporate America is feeling the ripple effect of President Trump's new executive orders—hard. Diverse, Equity, and Inclusion teams (once loved by "Best Places to Work" rankings) are disappearing faster than you can say, "DEI who?"

Big names like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Target all canceled initiatives or cut hiring goals, worried about legal trouble. DEI professionals are polishing up their summaries and bracing for a less inclusive job market. The question is: Could they spark a comeback, or will "fear and restructuring" drown out the gains?

In Context: The deadline for federal workers to buy out or return to work is tonight.

Zapped to Life

A small spinal cord device might just give people with muscle-wasting diseases (like SMA) a leg up—literally. Three patients improved their standing and walking after their weak muscles started waking up thanks to the implant's gentle electrical pulses

Even better, the boost sometimes lasted after the stimulator was turned off (yes, supercharged legs). While it's still early days—the implant had to be removed at the end of the study—this pilot is a ray of hope for a condition rarely rewarded with good news.

Bonus Watch: Understanding Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Out of Juice

Orange juice used to be a morning no-brainer. Now, it's edging out of the grocery cart—thanks to skyrocketing prices, citrus greening, and hurricanes that keep knocking fruit off the vines. Combined with health-conscious consumers who are increasingly wary of sugar (hey, at least there’s no red dye!), you get shrinking orchards, higher OJ prices, and more people drinking coffee or seltzer water.

The result? "Breakfast as we knew it" might soon be a sunny memory.

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💬 Beyond the Core

Finding Love: Locals' picks for the best (and worst) cities for dating.

Clean Break: Watching a guy unclog a drain sometimes is all you need.

Mama Shield: Speaking of precious eggs, look at how she kept her eggs protected during a storm.

💡 Core Wisdom

📸 Lens to Life

Hundreds of naked, armed holy men appear in photos of the Hindu festival.

🧮 Core Count: 57,000,000

Tons of plastic pollution the world pumps out every year.

.🗓️ Flashback:

1508 - Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, the first Emperor in centuries not crowned by the Pope.

1778 - The Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance were signed in Paris between the United States and France, the first negotiated by the United States.

1865 - General Robert E. Lee is appointed General-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies during the American Civil War.

1921 - Charlie Chaplin's first full-length feature, "The Kid," was released.

1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeded King George VI to the British throne and was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.

2023 - Two powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, one at 7.8 magnitude at 4.15 am and the other at 7.5 magnitude at 1:24 pm. 59,000 people in Turkey and 8,000 in Syria have died.

I'm glad we could get together here. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Fatih Taskiran