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Padres sell the farm for two quality bats. Right Fielder Juan Soto and First Baseman Josh Bell were the key parts of the largest trade of the Major League Baseball season as the deadline came and went. The Nationals received four of the Padres' top five prospects along with First Baseman Luke Voit and touted minor league Pitcher Jarlin Susana. This move will be talked about for years to come.

Batgirl film canned despite nearly being complete. Evidently, the Batgirl film is a victim of not being big enough for a global release, or small enough to justify an HBO Max release (at least by the office of Warner Bros. Discovery). Oddly, the film was in post-production. A strange move, especially considering the film cost $90 million.

Yang becomes the first Chinese person elected as film academy president. Janet Yang has been named the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy Awards people) by the organization's Board of Governors. She also becomes the first Asian individual to hold the position and the fourth woman.

Vin Scully now calling baseball in the beyond. Vin Scully has passed away at 94. The legendary Los Angeles Dodgers announcer called his first game with the team on April 18, 1950, and continued through the 2016 season. His final game announcing was on September 25, 2016. Scully will definitely find baseball to call somewhere.

You've made it to your shipwreck news in this issue! Are you ready? Can't hear you...get a little more hype than that...That's better.

The Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) sank on the western side of the Little Bahama Bank in 1656. The Spanish galleon was part of a fleet sailing to Spain from Havana with royal and privately-cosigned (perhaps stolen) treasures from the Americas. Evidently, the Maravillas hit the flagship of the fleet before hitting a reef; only 45 of 650 on board survived.

Maravillas sank with a large cargo of gems, gold, and silver.

A team of divers led by Allen Exploration and licensed by the island's government launched an expedition to research the ship and find lost treasure, and they found quite a bit of that.

Numerous artifacts were found during the exploration, which should bring forth the adventurous spirit in anyone who is a fan of epic adventures. Luckily, there were no pirate encounters involved, despite numerous treasure hunting attempts over the past three hundred years to salvage riches from the wreckage.

Don't get any ideas to dive close to any shipwrecks...you may unleash...

The Kraken.

Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine used DNA to engineer materials that could revolutionize electronics.

Never-ending batteries? Light bulbs that never go out? PCs that never have blue screens of death?

No, this isn't science fiction. Superconductors, the team at the University of Virginia engineered superconductors that have zero electrical resistance, allowing electrons to flow unimpeded, meaning they don't lose energy nor create heat like current electrical transmission.

The first idea for such a superconductor was proposed by Stanford physicist William A. Little, who was famous for his work on superconductivity in the 1960s. It hasn't been until recently that his ideas seemed feasible.

Without going into all of the science, let's take a moment to appreciate how far we can advance in science and technology when we focus on those areas.

STEM seems to pay off in the end. If you want to read more about their findings, the research is available in the Science (appropriately, yet boringly named) journal.

Go, get your lab coats, everyone. It's time for science.

You know when you make a little mistake and say, "My bad"?

There needs to be a new phrase for the alleged mistake by Equifax. Reports say the credit-reporting firm sent out incorrect credit scores for millions of customers applying for home and auto loans.

While credit scores are ridiculous, as they don't take into account paying rent and other bills on time; however, that's a story for another time.

According to reports, some scores changed by as much as 20 points in either direction -- enough for some to get rejected for a loan. A small number of people went from not having any credit to having a score of 700, and vice-versa.

The scores were sent to Ally Financial, JPMorgan Chace, Wells Fargo, and others -- according to reports. Equifax addressed the issue and said it was a 'coding issue.'

Heh.

While this should highlight the need for a change in how we calculate individuals' responsibility (why aren't we checking the responsibility of lenders...btw?) it will likely be forgotten relatively soon.

Will this mistake cost Equifax $700 million like its 2017 data breach? Unlikely.