👋  Good morning. We wish you all the same prosperity that recently blessed an Arlington, Virginia, woman. She decided to play an online lottery game during a lunch break and wound up with a jackpot a little north of $1.7m. The clear takeaways here: always eat lunch, play more games, and simply coax luck to be on your side to a nearly statistically impossible degree. You got this.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The most interesting business stories of the week

• Send your dog's poop to this startup — they won't be mad:  Mailing your dog's stool to a molecular lab and waiting two days for the verdict may be a new love language for anxious pet owners.… at least that's what at-home diagnostic startup Petwealth is banking on.  Read more
  
  
• Top-tier sisterhood doesn’t come easy — or cheap: For Greek life hopefuls, getting into the sorority of their dreams is of just as much consequence. To improve their shot at top-tier sisterhood, “rush” coaches have emerged to guide them through the process.  Read more
  
• What's up with those weird tech startup ads on the subway?: New Yorkers face a barrage of bewildering business-to-business ads promoting tech startups with jargon-heavy language that leaves most straphangers scratching their heads.  Read more
   
• This startup wants to replace animal testing with human testing… kind of: Biotech startup Vivodyne thinks its tech could help do away with animal testing while making drug development faster and a lot more effective. It's running experiments on lab-grown human tissue instead.  Read more
  
  

WORTH A CLICK

👵  An oldie but a goodie:  Why introverts make great leaders

🔥  One of our most-read stories this week:  How do Necco wafers, paper receipts, and farmers almanacs still exist?

⚒️  A free resource:  How to motivate and manage Millennials

AROUND THE WEB

🙅  Game: Opposite Wordle where the goal is to not guess the right word.

📸  That’s cool: Learn more about the first-ever selfie, taken nearly 200 years ago.

🤯  Whoa: The very first social network was started in… 1971?!

🐙  That’s interesting: Why are octopuses so intelligent? A unique mutation, apparently.

🏯  Bored?: Check out what’s going on right now in Japan, via 1.4 livecams.

🐶  Aww: Puppy on a skateboard.

SHOWER THOUGHT 

It's kind of weird that we just squeeze cows and then pour that on our cereal.  SOURCE