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Plus, are you smarter than a fungus? Think you can hear just fine? Sure you do… »]( [The Futurist]( [Welcome to the Futurist]( [Welcome to the Futurist]( [Advertise]( | [Talk To Us](mailto:letschat@getthefuturist.com) | [Shop]( | [Unsubscribe]( [The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you.]( [/whoa] [Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises | Popular Science]( [Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises]( “A recent routine autopsy yielded a first-of-its-kind medical finding — a 78-year-old man who lived his entire life with three penises. But given the anatomical complexities, it’s entirely possible he never even knew of his own extremely rare condition. Supernumerary penile formation, aka multiple male genitalia, is only estimated to occur in 1 in 5-6 million live births, and even then, it’s not always what you might expect.” [// Popular Science »]( [/gear] [Jabra - Missed another convo? Time to upgrade your ears | [Partner]]( [Missed another convo? Time to upgrade your ears]( How many times have you said, “What?” this week? If you’ve lost count, you might want to get your hearing checked — and you might just be due for a tech upgrade. The Select 500 is the smallest and slimmest hearing aid from Jabra Enhance, packed with more tech than your average smartphone: Bluetooth streaming, personalized listening, 360° surround sound, you name it. With a 100-day no-strings-attached trial and up to $300 off right now, what’s the worst that can happen — you might actually start hearing what people are saying?! [Ad] [// Listen up »]( [/throwback] [Hidden 2,000-year-old skeletons and ‘Holy Grail’ cup found in secret tomb where ‘Indiana Jones’ was filmed | WION]( [Hidden 2,000-year-old skeletons and ‘Holy Grail’ cup found in secret tomb where ‘Indiana Jones’ was filmed]( “The archaeologists have made a rare discovery of 2,000-year-old skeletons and ‘Holy Grail’ cup in a secret tomb which was underneath the historical place Petra where the famous movie Indiana Jones was also shot. Twelve bodies were found in the tomb and one of them had a chalice which resembled the mythical Holy Grail …” [// WION »]( [/epic] [Scientist shows fungi are ‘mind-blowing’: They have memories, learn shapes, can make decisions and solve problems | Good News Network]( [Scientist shows fungi are ‘mind-blowing’: They have memories, learn shapes, can make decisions and solve problems]( “Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University had this question in mind when conducting a study to measure the decision-making processes in fungi. While it may sound like science fiction, this level of basal cognition is possible even in fungi, which created these shapes above. ‘You’d be surprised at just how much fungi are capable of,’ Yu Fukasawa of Tohoku University told his university press team. ‘They have memories, they learn, and they can make decisions. Quite frankly, the differences in how they solve problems compared to humans is mind-blowing.’” [// Good News Network »]( [/hustle] [StackSocial - Read like a CEO on your coffee break | [Partner] ]( [Read like a CEO on your coffee break]( Drowning in your reading list? Try a lifejacket for your brain: the Headway app. Consume the world's best ideas in snackable 15-minute summaries. 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A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey was best known for founding Del Rey Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint that turned fantasy, in particular, into a major publishing category. … Judy-Lynn del Rey, you see, had very clear notions on what kind of stories people wanted to buy. For some critics, she also committed the unforgivable sin of being right.” [// Gizmodo »]( [/bites] [// Stacks organizes your digital mess into one neat hub. Because who has time to dig through bookmarks and browser tab graveyards? Not you »]( [// How’s your hearing? … We said: “How’s your hearing”?! Oof. Time for an ear upgrade. Save $300 on Jabra Enhance’s smallest hearing aid yet »]( [// Airplane headphones suck. Use your own on your next flight with a tiny transmitter that lets you connect your Bluetooth earbuds to the in-flight entertainment »]( [/biz] [Founder’s Corner]( [Founder’s Corner]( I had a "founder breakdown" last week that has led me to finally make one of the biggest shifts of my career. I love to be in the details of any business I'm involved in — whether that's investing or operating. My superpower is executing pixel-perfect designs or editing a process to perfection. But it broke me during my first startup, and I felt myself falling down the same frenetic, hyperdrive path yet again. I believe that there is nothing more important than speed when it comes to startups. However, as a leader, you cannot be the doer of everything. What is a founder's highest and greatest value then? [// Read more »]( [/imagine] [@david_j_design on Instagram]( [@david_j_design]( Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? 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