How Krispy Kreme is honoring Leap Day birthdays
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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Summary
In honor of Leap Day, Krispy Kreme is giving a free dozen original glazed donuts to anyone who has a February 29 birthday. This news caused me to wonder: How many donuts could the company potentially give away? Whether your birthday is today or not, you should be grateful for today and for the next Leap Day in 2028—if we make it to 2028. This week’s news could cause us to be pessimistic about the future, so where do we turn for the hope that we need?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Today is Leap Day, Thursday, February the 29th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily |
| 0:07.8 | article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim |
| 0:13.8 | Denison. In honor of Leap Day, Krispy Kreme is giving a free dozen original glazed donuts to anyone who has a February |
| 0:23.7 | 29th birthday. This news caused me to wonder, how many donuts could the company potentially give away? |
| 0:30.3 | It turns out the odds of a leap day birthday are one in 1,461, equaling about 5 million people in the world. |
| 0:40.3 | I also learned that people with leap year birthdays are called, quote unquote, |
| 0:45.1 | Leaplings, which doesn't seem like an altogether flattering title, |
| 0:49.2 | and that they can have problems with health systems, insurance policies, and other organizations that require |
| 0:55.8 | a birthday but don't have February 29th built in. Whether your birthday is today or not, you should |
| 1:01.8 | be grateful for leap day. As one physics instructor notes, without the leap years, after a few |
| 1:08.2 | hundred years, we will have summer in November. Christmas will be in summer. |
| 1:12.7 | There will be no snow. There will be no feeling of Christmas. Accordingly, we should be thankful for |
| 1:18.0 | leap day when it occurs again in 2028. That is, if we may get to 2028. This week, we've been exploring |
| 1:24.9 | ways to find optimism in pessimistic times. |
| 1:28.0 | Today's news demonstrates the relevance of our theme. |
| 1:30.9 | A cyber attack shut down a pharmacy system that handles 15 billion healthcare transactions annually. |
| 1:37.4 | The co-director of Stanford's Human-centered AI Institute told MIT Technology Review that AI poses, quote, catastrophic risks to society. |
| 1:48.0 | The founder of Anthropic, who has raised $7.3 billion for his AI startup, says there is a 10% to 25% chance AI technology could destroy humanity. Demonstrating how difficult it will be for Israel to eradicate Hamas, the Terror Group's Lebanon branch fired 40 rockets into Israel yesterday morning. |
| 2:10.6 | Scientists are warning that ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could be released by Earth's warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak. A wildfire in the Arctic permafrost could be released by Earth's warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak. |
| 2:20.3 | A wildfire in the Texas Panhandle forced a temporary shutdown of the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility. |
| 2:26.3 | The blaze is only 3% contained as of this morning and is now the second largest in state history. |
| 2:33.3 | At least one person has died in the |
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