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Cool Stuff Daily

Tue. 11/15 - Chimps––They're Just Like Us!

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In what feels like the start of a riddle, egg prices are surging, but chicken prices are going down. Plus, it turns out chimps like to share cool stuff as much as some daily podcasters. And Artemis I is supposed to launch late tonight, but if this mysterious “space prophet” continues to be right, the launch might not happen until 2023. Sponsor: Rocket Money, Cancel your unnecessary subscriptions at RocketMoney.com/COOL Links: Why egg prices are surging — but chicken prices are falling: It's an 'act of God' event, says trade strategist (CNBC) Do Chimps Share Cool Stuff Just for Fun? Uganda Forest Study Provides a Hint That They Might (Scientific American) Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention (University of York) The oracle who predicted SLS’s launch in 2023 has thoughts about Artemis III (Ars Technica)  How to Watch the Inaugural Launch of NASA’s SLS Megarocket (Gizmodo) Artemis launch delay is the latest of many NASA scrubs and comes from hard lessons on crew safety (The Conversation) NASA Sets New Coverage for Artemis I Moon Mission Launch (NASA) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Tuesday, November 15th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. In what feels like the start of a riddle,

0:58.9

egg prices are surging, but chicken prices are going down. Plus, it turns out chimpanzees like to

1:06.5

share cool stuff as much as some daily podcasters. And Artemis 1 is supposed to launch late

1:14.0

tonight. But if this mysterious space profit continues to be right, the launch might not happen

1:20.7

until 2023. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:30.8

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

1:36.3

It's an arguably unanswerable question, but here's one we do know the answer to.

1:38.8

Which price surged first?

1:40.5

The chicken or the egg.

1:42.6

That would be the egg.

1:46.2

Right now, a strange thing is happening in the U.S. in which egg prices are skyrocketing, but chicken prices are actually falling. Now, I definitely noticed

1:52.6

that egg prices had risen last time I went to the grocery store, and according to the U.S.

1:56.8

Consumer Price Index, the average price of a dozen large grade A eggs is almost double what it was a year ago, going from about $1.80 to $3.42. Even just this fall, prices spiked 10% in October alone, the largest monthly increase of any grocery store item.

2:19.0

Year over year, the only grocery store staple that is surged in price more is margarine.

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