In the huddle: Welcome to Wednesday, intrepid innovators, as we power-rush through another busy autumnal workweek – and, yes, a surprisingly exciting NFL season.
For the record, we officially take back what we said last week about “another lame New York football season” – the Jets are the Jets, of course, but the Giants, even without their star quarterback, are actually fun to watch. (Go Blue!)
We’re also circling back with this gentle reminder: Innovate Long Island is taking a bye and refining its playbook next week, so new newsletters on Oct. 14 or 16. Please enjoy this week’s regularly scheduled editions and your Monday Calendar Newsletter on Oct. 12; we’ll return to the regional-socioeconomics gridiron on Oct. 19. Another reminder Friday.
Say it right: It’s cold, it’s creamy and it rhymes with “flap day.”
Inside job: Back here on Oct. 7, we’re kicking things off with some healthy introspection – a good place to start on National Inner Beauty Day, which reminds us that physical attractiveness is pure luck (and always less important than the quality of a person’s character).
In a donut shop, perhaps? Today is also National Coffee With a Cop Day, encouraging us to establish trust in, engage in dialogues with and otherwise buddy up to local law enforcers. (This plays nicely with National Frappé Day, which is best served cold – actually, it’s exclusively served cold.)
A frappé is one of the better choices on the Oct. 7 holiday menu, though National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day makes a strong case – and of course, there’s nothing wrong with superfood-celebrating National Kale Day or seasonal sensation National Pumpkin Seed Day (though neither sets our mouths watering).
You gotta believe: We wouldn’t have cops, kale, frappés, pretzels or anything else if the universe (and/or some higher power) hadn’t conspired to create the Earth – which happened on this date in 3761 BCE, according to second-century Rabbi Yose ben Halafta, who based his calculations solely on Hebrew bible scriptures. (For the record, science has irrefutably proven that his kickoff date of 5,787 years ago was slightly off.)
Copy that: Whenever the Earth was created, we know that advanced print-duplication technologies became a thing on Oct. 7, 1806, when English inventor Ralph Wedgewood patented carbon paper (as a tool to help blind people write, for those keeping score.)
It all adds up: Old Yose might have done better with a modern calculator – too bad he couldn’t stick around until this date in 1954, when IBM introduced the first calculating machine to incorporate solid-state transistors (instead of vacuum tubes).
See you on the dark side of the moon: As seen by the Luna 3 spacecraft in 1959.
Dark development: All sorts of mathematical calculations were in effect 67 years ago today, when the first photographs of the Moon’s far side were beamed back to Earth by the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 space probe.
Longshot: And it was Oct. 7, 1965, when the longest confirmed hole-in-one in golf history was knocked in by two-handicap amateur Robert Mitera, who dropped a one-and-done on the par-four, 447-yard 10th hole at the Miracle Hills Golf Club in Omaha, Neb.
Other amazing shots lay claim to this title (including the longest official PGA tour hole-in-one, a 332-yarder sunk in 2001 in Arizona by professional swinger Andrew Magee), but according to several eyewitnesses (and the Guiness Book of World Records), Mitera – aided by a fortuitous 50-mph wind gust and a particularly dry fairway – aces them all.
Nuclear man: Danish theoretical physicist, researcher and philosopher Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) – a 1922 Nobel Prize laureate and friendly (though fierce) scientific rival of Albert Einstein who made foundational contributions to the understanding of atomic structures and the development of quantum theory – would be 141 years old today.
Little ditty: And more than a few massive hits, courtesy of the artist formerly known as Johnny Cougar.
Also born on Oct. 7 were American computer programmer Henriette Avram (1919-2006), the “Mother of MARC” (for “machine readable cataloging”) who digitized the Library of Congress; Scottish South African Anglican bishop and theologian Desmond Tutu (1931-2021), who earned the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his unparalleled anti-apartheid and human-rights activism; American poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman (born 1948), revered for her poetic explorations of the natural world; American cellist Yo-Yo Ma (born 1955), a child prodigy who grew into a 20-time Grammy Award-winner; and Setauket’s own Marco Beltrami (born 1966), an Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated (and Emmy-winning) television and film composer who’s worked across numerous genres but is known best for his moody horror-film scores.
Name that rocker: And take a bow, John Mellencamp! The American singer-songwriter – a Grammy Award-winning heartland rocker and 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known alternately as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp – turns 75 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Entrepreneurial: A hefty federal grant will support new business-development-focused educational and entrepreneurial experiences at Adelphi University.
The Garden City-based university’s Robert B. Willumstad School of Business will create the Adelphi Entrepreneur Experience leveraging a $982,000 stipend from the PJM Entrepreneur Education Program, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency. The program – open to undergraduate and graduate Willumstad School students and certain “non-matriculated participants,” according to Adelphi – will position aspiring entrepreneurs to launch, grow and sustain new ventures in high-growth sectors identified by the Empire State Development Corp., New York State’s main economic-development engine.
Cleantech, AI, eldercare, social services and software development are among the sectors targeted by the ambitious program, which reflects the university’s “commitment to social mobility,” according to Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Dean MaryAnne Hyland. “The Adelphi Entrepreneur Experience will further advance that focus across and beyond the Greater New York City region,” Hyland added. “The program will support new businesses in high-growth and high-demand industries … and the program participants will have a holistic experience that will support strong outcomes in a new model for economic development.”
Space age: High-tech advances (and plenty of elbow room) mark the new Mount Sinai South Nassau operating theaters.
Operation(al): A wide range of advanced surgical procedures are now in play at Mount Sinai South Nassau.
The Oceanside-based medical center has ceremoniously cut the ribbon on five new state-of-the-art operating rooms, with four more slated to open before the end of 2026. Featuring open floor plans, enhanced lighting and a host of cutting-edge technologies – including robotic surgical assistants and “three-dimensional image-guided surgical systems” – the new suites double the size of most existing South Nassau ORs, according to a statement from the New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, accommodating larger surgical teams and new procedures that previously required patients to travel to other Long Island facilities or into New York City.
The modernized surgical suites are part of a $500 million capital-improvement initiative at Mount Sinai’s flagship Long Island facility. “The opening of the new ORs marks a major milestone in the evolution and progress of our hospital,” noted Mount Sinai South Nassau Interim President Joshua Kugler. “The spacious design and new technology … will allow our surgeons to operate in a setting that will maximize their expertise while enhancing patient safety, comfort and outcomes.”
TOP OF THE SITE
To protect (and serve): According to one influential leader of Long Island’s mental-health community, proper IP protections for cutting-edge healthcare research have never been more important.
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VOICES
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And all that over the last few weeks! Innovate Long Island’s educational, enlightening and endlessly entertaining Voices Library tackles the big issues and offers the best path forward for you and your enterprise, courtesy of our heavy-hitting team of sector-specific anchors. Real estate, healthcare, media, law, technology, social services … pick an industry, choose a topic, select an expert and learn an important lesson today!
STUFF WE’RE READING
57 varieties: Kraft Heinz is going all-in on protein, fiber and other better-for-you nutrition trends. Reuters passes the ketchup.
151 trillion reasons: With a mindboggling domestic infrastructure investment projected over the next quarter-century, financing must also innovate. Forbes adds it up.
25 (and under): Behold, the National Geographic Society’s 2026 Young Explorer Cohort – 20 up-and-coming storytellers and scientists out to change the world. NatGeo shines its spotlight.
RECENT FUNDINGS
+ Authors First, a New York City-based book-to-screen studio and distribution platform, raised $10 million-plus in Seed funding led by Brand Foundry and founder Robert Hamwee, with participation from Bolt Ventures, Andy Mills, Mike Duggal and John Kline.
+ Santé, a NYC-based, AI-powered operating system for wine and spirits retail, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by FINTOP, with participation from Bonfire Ventures, Operator Collective, Y Combinator and Veridical Ventures.
+ Pro Shop, a Florida-based golf/mainstream culture media platform, raised $24 million in Series B financing led by Arthur M. Blank Sports and Entertainment, with participation from Causeway Media Partners, the PGA Tour, Powerhouse Capital, Phoenix Capital Ventures and Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment.
+ Multiply Labs, a California-based robotic automation and biomanufacturing technology startup, raised $75 million in Series B funding led by NantWorks, with participation from AstraZeneca Ventures, Lingotto, Legend Biotech, Fifty Years Ventures, Ora Global, Teradyne Ventures, Strange Ventures, Casdin Capital, Lux Capital and Founders Fund.
+ KymaThera, a California-based provider of precision medicines for genetically defined diseases, raised $80 million in Series B funding led by Alta Partners, with participation from Venrock, Foresite Capital and J. Wood Capital.
+ Type One Energy, a Tennessee-based innovator of stellarator-fusion energy technologies, raised $200 million in Series B funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Clutterbuck Capital, with participation from Lowercarbon Capital, Siemens Energy Ventures and SiteGround Capital.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Time Travel Edition)
Out of time: So what was a turn-of-the-20th Century Swiss ring watch doing in a sealed, 400-year-old Chinese tomb?
Relatively: According to Einstein, yes – it is possible to travel backward in time.
Say cheesy: Photographic fakery … or pictorial proof of actual time travel?
Great Scott! Ranking the greatest time-travel movies (of all time).
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