Elizabeth Lopatto

In some places, such as Scandinavia and Alaska, moose are big hazards. (Moose crashes can be fatal for people.) So a master’s student developed a moose crash test dummy to help carmakers improve moose safety. “The crash test results were very pleasing since the demolished cars looked very much like cars involved in real moose crashes,” wrote Magnus Gens, who won a 2022 Ig Noble award for the work.

FedEx says a recession is coming. Why should that make you nervous? Well, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan used to talk with FedEx every week for the “FedEx indicator.” If you’re still raising for your company, you might want to hurry up and close the round.

Hey, remember Game Stonk and the meme trading “revolution” that peaked and fell back last November? Netflix’s Eat the Rich is here to recap that very recent history, again. The production looks less 90s-era MTV than Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets, but I really wonder if there’s any new ground to cover.

Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, was at the center of crypto’s biggest scandal this year: the cataclysmic collapse of Luna/Terra coins from $60 billion to zero. South Korean authorities issued the warrant for his arrest on “allegations that include violations of the nation’s capital markets law,” Bloomberg reports. Kwon is in Singapore.

“As a mom, I would be grateful if my college student son was not allowed to own or trade stocks. And as a member of Congress, I’m working to pass a law to force him to listen to his mother,” she told The New York Times.

Musk is wading into the fight between Twitter and security researcher Peiter “Mudge” Zatko again, after The New Yorker reports people are trying to dig up dirt on him. Good luck to whoever at his law firm has been assigned to watch his Twitter feed!

Twitter is down less than one percent as I write this, while the rest of the exchange it trades on — the NYSE — is down a little more than two percent.