Starlink satellite internet is now on hundreds of planes across United, British Airways, Qatar, Air France and others, with speeds fast enough for actual Zoom calls — and some airlines are now explicitly allowing them, while passenger complaints are already mounting. Also: a new report from Deep Science Ventures finds that fruits and vegetables have lost 20 to 50% of key minerals since the 1960s due to declining soil quality and breeding crops for yield over nutrition — you now need to eat twice as many vegetables to get the same levels of potassium, magnesium, and copper. And a new DatingNews survey of 1,013 Americans finds 64% of Gen Z has tried manifestation, psychics, tarot cards, astrology, or love spells to improve their dating life — and 19% paid for a love spell, with Etsy offering them for as little as $2. Plus 10 birds in a traveler's underwear, a flight diverted for broken bathrooms, a Spirit Halloween planet, and a fake substitute teacher in Milwaukee.
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