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Risé Candelaria with BookSpring joined Good Day Austin’s Casey Claiborne Saturday morning to talk about the partnership between non-profit BookSpring and Literati to help deliver free books to kids this summer during the pandemic.

Beatbox might look familiar. We’ve had them on our midday show before, but now they’re back with new flavors for their alcoholic beverages. Beatbox is also hosting events to help local entrepreneurs.

Jordan Nathan, Founder and CEO of Caraway, joined Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round to discuss the company’s latest seed funding round and the increase in sales its seen over the past few months.

The world-renowned TDI Brooks International, a forensic and analytical chemistry lab that has been doing carbon testing on seabed sediment for decades for the government and oil companies, received an abnormal request in 2019. Eterneva, an ashes to diamond company based in Austin, Texas, wanted them to test for the carbon percentages in cremated remains, hair, and aquamation remains. “We’ve never had a sample with the name of a dead person on it here before,” said their lead scientist. Turns out, cremated remains have on average 1-4% carbon. Hair has 36% carbon. And aquamation remains came in at 16% carbon.

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