The Wrap Up Mar 11-17
These are the biggest stories of the week from my daily newsletter which if you are interested in getting them each day, you can find here
We have stories about stunning ads, eating in space, TikTok, Danny Carey from Tool, a dope new EV, and why you shouldn't keep that laptop plugged in all the time. Have an awesome week.
Kim Gehrig directed the three-minute film, which was created by agency Uncommon. A shorter version will air nationally during the Oscars on ABC this weekend. It starts out with a young Black girl dancing in a mostly empty loft space to Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red.”
New research suggests links between ultra-processed foods—such as chips, many cereals and most packaged snacks at the grocery store—and changes in the way we learn, remember and feel.
Do you want to be chained to an outlet for the rest of your life? Of course not. That’s why you got a laptop in the first place. Somewhere down the line, many of us got the idea that our laptops should always be plugged in to improve their performance. This is a myth that’s slowly killing your laptop. Once your laptop is charged, you need to unplug it, or you might be tethered to the wall forever.
The supposed mission of the meal is twofold — to push the bounds of space tourism, and to give “all proceeds” to the Space Prize Foundation, which promotes education and develops mentorship opportunities for young girls interested in space.
Founded by a pair of former executives from Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, and an Apollo astronaut, the company, Interlune, announced itself publicly Wednesday by saying it has raised $18 million and is developing the technology to harvest and bring materials back from the moon. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
After he spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok, Donald Trump’s abrupt effort to defend the Chinese-owned app late last week caught many in Washington by surprise.
Danny Carey from Tool runs down his drumkit set-up
That really happened in one of Amsterdam’s wealthiest neighborhoods, on a street dotted with Range Rovers and a G-Class Merc costing nearly ten times as much as the little?BMW Isetta?throwback I was driving. What followed was a bevy of questions I had already answered dozens of times in my one week with the car: What is it? How much does it cost? Can I drive it on the highway?