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Welcome to the 50th edition of The Daily Zap — A Daily Newspaper (Kind of 🙏). Here, you'll get links to all of the latest news and updates mostly from the last 24 hours, divided in Sections (much similar to pages on a newspaper).
Let's unfold!

~Bitcoin News of the Day

  • Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital and Riot Platforms reported their highest monthly production since the halving in April — signaling a strong rebound since miner rewards were halved. Marathon produced 717 Bitcoin worth $48.8 million in October, which the company attributed partially to its energized hashrate rising over 14% to surpass 40 exahashes per second, Marathon’s CEO Fred Thiel said in a Nov. 4 statement.

Global Trade & ~Econ

  • The “America first” approach of Donald Trump has actually been a bipartisan policy. At least since previous president Barack Obama’s policy of energy independence, the US has been on a mostly inward-looking quest of maintaining technological supremacy while ending the offshoring of industrial jobs.

~Politics_and_Law

  • Harris chose not to provide extensive explanation, or sometimes any rationale at all, for the gaping chasm between many of her past policy positions on everything from hydraulic fracturing (a huge issue in Pennsylvania) and clean car mandates (a big deal in Michigan) to providing citizenship to unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. She led with a “my principles haven’t changed” approach that would have to serve as a catch-all.

~Stacker_Sports News

  • Embiid’s suspension will begin with the next regular-season game for which he is eligible and able to play. The 2023 NBA MVP has yet to play this season because of what the 76ers call left knee management.

~Tech & ~Science

  • ...the total number of cancer cases worldwide is expected to grow by nearly 77 per cent between 2022 and 2050, which would mean an additional 15.3 million cases in 2050 on top of the 20 million in 2022. Global cancer deaths are also projected to rise by almost 90 per cent during this period, resulting in 8.8 million more in 2050 compared with 2022, in which 9.7 million people died from the disease.

~History with Mystery

  • The first blood transfusions were done in France in 1914 through a direct vein-to-vein method, from donor to patient, Schneid explains. “The problem was that there was no way to preserve the blood after it was taken, so the transfusion had to be immediate,” he says. It was also difficult to find enough available donors and surgeons when multiple patients required a transfusion at the same time.

~Entertainment World

  • Former U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson was “fired” from Channel 4‘s overnight election coverage after going on and on about his book, according to the program’s co-host.
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Good morning.. Wow!! Doing a "Vein to Vein" transfusion 😳 I mean direct!! It seems something difficult to imagine.. but at that time in the middle of war!! Impossible things happen... I imagine that many lives would be saved like this... I like to read here because it has a little bit of everything👍 and such a bad disease as cancer is not surprising that its numbers are going to rise over the years⌛ people worldwide are eating poorly.. and nobody wants to exercise and I am sure that most of the foods they buy in the supermarket induce cancer or have cancer cells.. and that is if we do not include cigarettes 🚬⚰️ in terms of health, humanity is not on the right track🏃
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I didn't realize blood transfusions were invented in WW I. I would have expected it to be a little older than that.
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I was also a little surprised to find it. But then I realised modern pathology had its roots somewhere around the 1880s and so.
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I usually expect these things to have been discovered during the American Civil War. That seemed to be the right place at the right time for many medical breakthroughs.
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Yupp! You're a true American Patriot. You can still pass the claim for American discovery for blood transfusion.
The first blood bank in the United States was established in 1937 by Dr. Bernard Fantus at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
But even this wasn't world's first. The first one was established by Frederic Durán-Jordà during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
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