Ep 184: Artisanal Sinks, Chicken Bones, & a 5K

Alrighty, grab a glass of wine, your fuzzy socks, or pull over with a coffee, and join your besties for some Ranting and Raving!! This week Dana and Jess talk sink fiascos, fake apologies are topping the charts. Tune in to join the laughter and the call for sanity in sink design and heartfelt apologies.

 

***CLEANSING BREATH***

 

Jess Corner - Ummmmm, What?

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/woman-with-chicken-bone-stuck-in-throat-dissolves-it-by-drinking-coke.html#more-79055

A New Zealand woman who had a small chicken bone lodged in her throat claims that she was prescribed an interesting remedy by an emergency room doctor – lots of Coke.

 

Dana Corner - What the What!?

A Chinese manufacturing company has come under fire for allegedly firing employees who can’t finish a 5 km (3 miles) race in 30 minutes, because ‘they lack hard-working spirit’.

 

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Jess Rave - Start Lighthouse 

https://www.startlighthouse.org/

Founded in Bronx, NY, Start Lighthouse is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to advancing childhood literacy through a social justice lens. Childhood illiteracy is an everyone, everywhere problem. This is especially the case in the Bronx, where 70% of students do not read proficiently. The biggest barrier to literacy in the Bronx is access to books.

 

Dana Rave - Sea Trees 

https://sea-trees.org/

SeaTrees is a program of the 501c3 non-profit Sustainable Surf that plants, protects, and restores blue carbon coastal ecosystems around the world to reverse climate change. We develop coastal restoration projects, also known as blue carbon projects, across five ecosystem types: mangrove forests, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and coastal watersheds.