Hello. Hello everyone. Welcome back to Jet News. I'm Baker for
and I
time for our good to know headlines.
Instagram had an unexpected worldwide outage last night for about half an hour,
hour and a half.
Excuse me. 90 I
think.
Yeah. Right.
A lot longer people trying to use the app or met with a series of error messages.
Their feeds wouldn't refresh the website wouldn't load.
Many people took to Twitter to express their frustration,
which says a lot because people are avoiding Twitter.
We need a place to go.
Instagram. Hashtags like Instagram down were trending.
The issue was fixed around 7 30 PM Eastern time yesterday.
In a statement,
Instagram's parent company meta said the temporary
outage was caused by a technical issue.
Did you notice this?
I did, I noticed it all and,
and they're also saying in a statement that this affected a myriad of meta apps.
So we're talking whatsapp Facebook, a bunch of other ones as well.
Uh They said it was a, as you mentioned,
a technical issue that they were able to sort of get fixed here.
But the funniest part is everybody
to Twitter to complain about it.
Which is the only reason why people are going to Twitter anymore
these days is to vent about another social platform being down.
All the more reason that I think Instagram needs to have another platform for
people to vent frustration with something I would have gone on Tik Tok.
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
You could have gone on tiktok and made a video and this did affect people worldwide.
This was a global issue. but like I said, it was figured out at night.
And meanwhile,
a new study shows that climate change is making it harder for us all to fall asleep.
That study published in Cell press over the weekend
shows that millions of people already sleeping
less because of the higher overnight temperatures.
The study looked at people in 68 different countries and
it found when nights were hotter than 86 degrees,
people slept 14 minutes less that averages out to about 44 hours of sleep per year.
Now, here in the US,
at least 30% of adults in most areas
reported sleeping less than seven hours per night
with as many as 43% in areas of the south and the west. Basically getting that
the elderly and people in low income countries were
the most impacted here with the study citing a
lack of air conditioning as a reason because we
know in cooler temperatures you have higher rem sleep.
Um which is why you always want to make it as cool as humanly possible,
either a fan or air conditioning or whatever.
I can't sleep when it's too hot. I know.
I know some people enjoy it because it's a little cozy.
But I, the last thing I need is sweat when I'm, I agree.
And I'm not even getting seven hours of sleep and
I'm doing everything I can to cool my house out.
And you made a really good point because we've noticed this in the last few years.
A lot of the countries and regions that are dealing
with climate change are the poorer regions in Asia,
South Asia, Latin America.
And you say less sleep, it doesn't seem like a major thing.
But when it's repeatedly, it ha it affects your mental health.
It causes chronic disease. It's a much bigger problem.
And of course, the poorer countries are really dealing with with the majority of it.
And finally, a couple of weeks ago,
we told you about that study showing that
coconut wash might stop mosquitoes from biting.
Well, now there's new research that shows your body odor also a major factor.
All right.
The study published in current biology showed that carboxylic acid,
it's a compound that's produced by bacteria on
our skin was the most attractive to mosquitoes.
One subject to higher levels of eucalypt, that's a chemical found in Eucalypt,
eucalyptus trees repel the mosquitoes the most the study cited diet
as a potential source of high eucalypt all levels unfortunately,
these scents can be so subtle that showering or wearing strong,
stronger deodorant probably won't be enough to trick the flying pests.
But the research could help develop better repellents
or traps for mosquitoes in the future.
So, coconut oil, eucalyptus. Yes. Exactly.
This is obviously not gonna help you for your barbecues this summer, but it's more,
they're clearly learning a lot more about why mosquitoes
go after people like me who get eaten alive
alive. I think it's probably about how tasty my blood is. That's it.