1. Day one of the Democratic National Convention is over, with President Joe Biden officially passing the baton and Kamala Harris taking to the stage to a rock-star welcome at a packed United Center in Chicago.
2. On the other side of the presidential election, former President Trump shared a supposedly artificial intelligence-generated image of Taylor Swift, falsely claiming an endorsement from the singer.
3. Sharks on Planes – Lufthansa is testing a thin material that mimics shark skin on its plane fuselages to save fuel. It's estimated that the shark's microstructure could reduce drag by up to 10%.
4. After watching the video of a home on North Carolina's Outer Banks being swept away by waves from Hurricane Ernesto, leaving an Arizona beachfront property in your will seems like a good idea.
5. Marathon swimmer Jim Dreier recently completed a challenge to swim 80 miles across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin because he got lost. If he'd put fresh batteries in his GPS, he wouldn't have gotten lost. Instead of swimming east to west, a support team boat pulled up alongside him to let him know he'd swum 60 miles, but he'd been swimming all the way north.
And that's the trend
