On 9 November 2023, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced the first whole-eye transplant in a living person. The recipient, a military veteran who had been badly injured in a work accident, received the eye together with part of a donor's face. The challenge is that the optic nerve, which carries signals from the eye to the brain, cannot yet be reliably reconnected, so the surgeons could not expect sight to return. The team showed that the transplanted eye could survive: it had a blood supply and a healthy retina. Before this, only the cornea, the clear front of the eye, could be transplanted, and that restores sight only when the rest of the eye works.

In 1909 D. W. Griffith made a 14-minute film about a speculator who corners the wheat market and doubles the price of bread. A farmer sows his field while a 'Wheat King' gambles in the Chicago wheat pit; bakers raise the loaf from five cents to ten and the poor line up for bread. Griffith cut back and forth between the farm, the feast and the breadline, a technique called parallel editing, so audiences saw both ends of the economy at once. The film drew on Frank Norris's stories and on a real scheme: months earlier Chicago financier James Patten had cornered wheat, sent bread prices up and made about $5 million, roughly $185 million today.