Tell you the tooth: So good to see you, dear readers, and sincerest apologies for letting you down on Wednesday. For those keeping score, everything you’ve ever heard about fractured wisdom teeth, dental abscess and double extractions is absolutely true.
But whatever doesn’t kill us, as they say … an especially true truism in the innovation world. So, let’s rinse, spit and sink our (remaining) teeth into an engaging, week-ending socioeconomic review (with real bite).
Walk it off: A good day to take a hike, in the most positive sense.
Friendship Island: Speaking of missing newsletters, Innovate Long Island will be taking off a couple of days next week for much better reasons – please watch for your regularly scheduled Monday Calendar Newsletter on Nov. 20, then enjoy a safe and happy Thanksgiving week with family and friends. We’ll be back Nov. 27 to start a blessedly uninterrupted run.
We appreciate you sticking with us through these schedule interruptions – the sign of a true friend, which is no little thing, especially on National Unfriend Day, the annual Nov. 17 cleansing of irritants and no-shows from our social media lists. (Invented by Jimmy Kimmel, by the way.)
No, literally: That would seem to jibe nicely with National Take a Hike Day, but it doesn’t, since the day is actually about hiking.
And it clearly contradicts two more annuals celebrating compatibility today: National Homemade Bread Day and National Butter Day, complementing each other every Nov. 17.
Pardon our appearance: Further contradictions await in the United States Congress, which convened in Washington for the first time on this date in 1800, relocating from Philadelphia to the still-under-construction Capital Building.
Fine form: Contradicting hunches and longshots, the Daily Racing Form – still providing statistical services for pony players every day of the year, except Christmas – broke from the gate in Chicago on Nov. 17, 1894.
Madison about you: Boston finally got game, arena-wise, in 1928.
Garden variety: Providing a Beantown balance to New York City’s majestic Madison Square Garden, the original Boston Garden opened on this date in 1928.
Hello, computer: Forever changing the way humans interact with computers, electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart patented the computer mouse on this date in 1970.
That’s a wrap: And condom ads on network television became a thing 32 years ago today, when a commercial for Trojan brand prophylactics aired nationally on the Fox Television Network.
That sounds counterintuitive – until you understand Fox’s criteria that the ad had to promote STD prevention, not birth control.
An even stronger STD message: American actor Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr., 1925-1985) – a popular star of Hollywood’s Golden Age whose premature death from AIDS-related illness drew global attention to the disease – would be 98 years old today.
Many talents: Master engineer Honda built motorcycles and robots, too.
Also born on Nov. 17 were American physicist William Arnold Anthony (1835-1908), who pioneered electrical-engineering instruction; Japanese engineer and industrialist Soichiro Honda (1906-1991), who founded the world’s seventh-largest carmaker, according to current revenues; American filmmaker and actor Charles Martin Scorsese (born 1942), who was driven to greatness by illness and loneliness; American baseball pitcher George Thomas “Tom” Seaver (1944-2020), simply “The Franchise” to adoring Mets fans; and American actor, author and media personality RuPaul Andre Charles (born 1960), a real drag.
Live from New York: And take a bow, Lorne Michaels! The Canadian American television producer, actor and comedy writer – still working Saturday nights – turns 79 today.
Wish the TV legend well at editor@innovateli.com, where our best bits rely on your news tips and your calendar events provide engaging infotainment just about every night of the week.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
We know what you did last summer: Nearly 100 Hofstra/Northwell medical students highlighted a broad array of medical investigations last week, sharing the results of intensive research projects conducted last summer.
The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell’s 12th annual Medical Student Research Week showcased a smorgasbord of clinical- and translational-medicine research in various specialty areas including cancer, cardiology, surgery, genetics, public health and more. Most of the projects involved on-site clinical research and mentoring from “project investigators” – professional providers already on the job at various Northwell Health hospitals, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and elsewhere.
The research and numerous in-person panel presentations by a dozen-plus Northwell Health educators and scientists made Medical Student Research Week both a rite of passage and a “valuable experience” for students, according to Zucker School Professor Joel Stern, director of the school’s Office for Medical Student Research. “[It] allows students to have an intellectual exchange from all fields of medicine,” Stern noted. “Medical Student Research Week is about showcasing our students’ hard work and dedication to research.”
Girls can’t play hockey: Oh, yeah? Come to Utica in April.
On tour: Albany has pumped another $15 million into statewide tourism, including a six-figure stipend for the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.
The 13th funding round of Empire State Development’s Market New York program included a $125,000 grant for the creation and promotion of “Billy Joel, My Life: A Piano Man’s Journey,” LIMEHOF’s retrospective of Long Island’s favorite son, slated to open next week. Other checks cut this round include $2 million for construction work at Art Omi in Columbia County, $600,000 for a new covered walkway at Chemung County’s Tanglewood Community Nature Center and $125,000 to publicize the International Ice Hockey Federation World Women’s Championship, expected to attract 80,000-plus visitors to the Mohawk Valley in April.
Those projects check the right boxes for Market New York, which aims to boost tourism-related capital improvements and regional marketing of attractions and special events and has now invested nearly $122 million in 600-plus statewide tourism projects. The awards “will further grow our tourism economy, support our communities and promote world-class destinations,” according to Lieutenant Gov. Antonio Delgado, who chairs the Statewide Regional Economic Development Councils initiative.
TOP OF THE SITE
When life gives you lemons…: …make a mobile bar truck. And that’s just one pandemic pivot that helped this resourceful restaurateur prove what’s so awesome about National Entrepreneurship Month.
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ICYMI
Much-needed stabilization of global semiconductor supply chains is coming – and Voices Technology Anchor Heidi Anderson, head of Stony Brook University’s Clean Energy Business Innovation Portal, sees some enormous opportunities for tech-heavy Long Island.
BEST OF THE WEST (AND SOMETIMES NORTH/SOUTH)
Innovate LI’s inbox overrunneth with inspirational innovations from all North American corners. This week’s brightest out-of-towners:
From Ohio: Cincinnati-based human-capital management platform Paycor installs new HR functionality encompassing end-to-end workforce dynamics.
From Washington: The D.C.-based Milk Processor Education Program powers up national support hotline to combat “milk shaming.”
From Ohio: Orrville-based third-party logistics ace Jarrett Logistics publishes innovative guide to navigating shipping and supply-chain risks.
ON THE MOVE
Kevin Reed
+ Kevin Reed has been appointed associate provost for climate and sustainability programming at Stony Brook University. He is a professor in SBU’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and recently served as associate dean for research.
+ Heather Lynch has been appointed director of the Collaborative for the Earth at Stony Brook University. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution in SBU’s College of Arts and Sciences.
+ Stephen Hammer has been named the founding chief executive officer of The New York Climate Exchange. He is a leading global climate policy expert and top climate advisor at the World Bank.
+ Chris Croken has been appointed president of the Farmingdale State College Alumni Association. He is vice president of business development and hospital and healthcare partnerships at Bethpage Federal Credit Union.
+ Ian Connett has joined the Corporate Practice Group at Uniondale-based Harris Beach as senior counsel. He was previously general counsel to New York City-based Pymetrics.
+ Ann Emrick has been named deputy director for operations at Upton-based Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was the chief operating officer for BNL’s Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate, Computational Science Initiative and Advanced Technology Research Office.
+ Daniel Serota has been appointed to the Old Bethpage-based Museum of American Armor’s Board of Trustees. He serves as mayor of Brookville and is the principal of Serota Properties in Valley Stream.
+ Patrick Fife has been promoted to general counsel for the West Babylon-based Long Island Board of REALTORS. He previously served as associate general counsel.
+ Megan Robinson has been hired as an account coordinator at WordHampton Public Relations in East Hampton. She was an office cataloguer at Southampton Books in Southampton.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Holiday Feast Edition)
Birdland: America played the field before committing to a (rocky) love affair with Thanksgiving turkey.
Meat market: Turkey soared in the 1860s – before that, Thanksgiving menus varied.
No thanks: Behold, America’s most hated Thanksgiving foods. (Turkey is fourth!)
Orange gold: How the humble Cheez-It has made cheddar for more than a century.
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