Meet the Founder Who Disregards “Impossible”

Manuel Rendon is an engineer with a knack for solving seemingly impossible problems. He started with plastic waste, inventing chemistry that lets plastic dissolve in water after use. 

That invention led to something bigger with String Cubed, and he’s inviting investors to join him as he uses that same chemistry to tackle an even bigger “impossible” problem: modern supply chains. 

With String Cubed, Manuel is developing at-home 3D-printing technology capable of producing food, medicine, and practically anything else on demand. And with inflation driving prices 40% higher since 2016, investors are paying attention.

String Cubed holds the only granted U.S. patent in their field. They’re already shipping eight distinct materials to thousands of customers, projecting ~4X revenue growth by 2028. 

But that’s just the start of Manuel’s plans. Get 15% guaranteed bonus shares as an early-stage String Cubed investor by October 29.

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➤ Cincinnati stunned No. 8 Texas Tech 37-24 Saturday to earn its first home win over a top-10 team since 2006. Cole Tabb rushed for a career-high 173 yards and sealed the victory with a 58-yard touchdown run in the final minutes. (Watch Touchdown)

➤ The Tampa Bay Rays gave fans plenty of hope with a 4-0 first-inning lead Saturday, but Milwaukee rallied for a heartbreaking 5-4 victory, leaving Tampa Bay trailing 2-0 in the World Series. The Rays will look to turn things around Monday when the series shifts to St. Petersburg for Game 3. (More) 

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➤ The Indiana Fever fired general manager Amber Cox, hours after president Kelly Krauskopf stepped down. The moves followed a first-round playoff exit despite the highest-scoring offense in WNBA history. (More)

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The Soap That Proves Anything Is Possible

Turns out soap’s good for more than cleaning. But after successfully 3D printing the first bar ever, String Cubed used it to prove the “impossible.”

Because 3D printers run at 392°F, they’re limited to objects made of plastic. But String Cubed invented a cooling process to protect heat-sensitive materials, unlocking applications in food, medicine, agriculture, and beyond.

They’ve already printed everything from seed pods that water themselves to materials that generate electricity. That’s helped lead to ~4X projected revenue growth by 2028.

Long term? String Cubed is developing a device that will let anyone print anything they need directly from their home.

With eight distinct materials currently printed and sold today, this breakthrough is already producing results. Invest in String Cubed by October 29 to earn 15% in guaranteed bonus shares.

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➤ Canadian military officials say a live-grenade exercise sparked the fire that killed four soldiers and injured dozens at an Alberta base, with fierce winds rapidly spreading the flames. (More)

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Whatever happened to the Emergency Broadcast System?

The Emergency Broadcast System was introduced in August 1963, built so the president could reach every radio and television set in the country within minutes of a nuclear attack. It was tested every week for decades.

If you were there, you remember the ambush. Mid-cartoon, mid-ballgame, mid-movie, the picture would cut away to a slide carrying your local station’s call letters and those three words, and then two blended tones, 853 and 960 hertz, would grind away for 20 to 30 seconds.

No warning, no pattern you could predict, no appeal. Those tones are still legally fenced off today: in 2015, the FCC upheld $1.4 million in fines against Viacom and ESPN for slipping them into a movie trailer for the film Olympus Has Fallen.

It was never activated for a national emergency, and neither has its successor been, in all the years since—except for that one Saturday that the real emergency code was sent by accident.

On Feb. 20, 1971, at 9:33 a.m., a civilian teletype operator at Cheyenne Mountain reached for the weekly test tape and grabbed the wrong one. The message clattering out to some 5,000 radio and 800 television stations carried the day’s genuine authentication word—HATEFULNESS—and ordered every station in America to drop its programming.

Six botched cancellations later, the correct code word, IMPISH, went out at 10:13. Forty minutes. Only about one station in five followed the rules; plenty assumed an alert arriving at the usual test time had to be a mistake. It was. Nobody was disciplined.

Ultimately, the EBS gave way to the Emergency Alert System on January 1, 1997, doing the same job, with a harsher squawk, and now a buzz in your pocketed cell phone, too. It still earns its keep locally: tornadoes, Amber Alerts, flash floods.

It’s not ancient history, either: In a few weeks, on Nov. 17, FEMA will run another nationwide test at 2:20 p.m. Eastern. Sixty-three years on, the script hasn’t meaningfully changed. But remember: This is only a test.

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How many major league ballparks have you visited?

1. One to five: 70%
2. None, and never will: 13%
3. Six to 15: 11%
4. None yet, but I’d like to: 3%
5. 16 to 29: 2%
6. All 30: 1%

Today’s Trivia

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