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It’s Friday, May 3 — here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter:

• Another mysterious Boeing whistleblower death

• An orangutan who used a plant as medicine

• 4 quick hits of news from the last 24 hours

- Jeff (co-founder of Shades)

✈️ Another whistleblower death

✈️ Barstool: There are now two mysterious Boeing whistleblower deaths in a matter of months. Joshua Dean was said to have died of an infection, but was there something more sinister here?

✈️ The Daily Beast also implies that something fishy is going on. Dean had alleged serious misconduct on the 737 line before being fired in April 23.

✈️ But a Redditor on r/AirCrashInvestigation thinks Dean probably died from what they say he did: a staph infection in the hospital.

✈️ Another Redditor has a grim joke: Boeing whistleblowers have a higher death rate than COVID.

🍃 Dr. Orangutan

🍃 Axios: An orangutan was spotted medicating his face wound with a medicinal plant. Researchers say it may be the first documented instance of a wild animal using a plant for wound care.

🍃 Read the study in question here. Authors say the orangutan's self-medication hints at animal self-care smarts.

🍃 The NYT says documented instances of animals self-medicating are rare — but we already knew primates treated wounds.

🍃 Still, a professor in Stat News believes that the report challenges human exceptionalism: Humans tend to assume they're more unique than they actually are.

4️⃣ Quick hits

📉 April saw the U.S. adding fewer jobs than expected with a slight uptick in unemployment and moderated wage growth.

🛑 Turkey stops all import and export transactions with Israel in protest over the Gaza conflict.

✊ Nationwide college protests in support of Palestine lead to over 2,000 arrests and widespread campus disruptions.

🚒 I-95 in Connecticut shut for days after a tanker fire damages a bridge, causing widespread traffic disruptions.