A fan letter to AeroPress for a leaner product and less miscellaneous plastic in our oceans…

A Texas school started giving children four recess breaks a day, and teachers and parents say the results have been wonderful. Eagle Mountain Elementary is one of four public schools in the Fort Worth area trying out LiiNK, a new program that boosts the amount of recess for the youngest students. The goal: to help children focus and learn better once they’re back in class. More and more, parents are protesting…

The image above looks like concept art for a new dystopian sci-fi film. — David Rainoshek Opening Note: This article from Rich McCormick at The Verge is highly worth reading… VR Headsets are a certain part of our future. It’s Good news / Bad news. …

Anyone who’s ever been given one of their friend’s Adderall knows the powerful effects brought on by this tiny unintimidating pink pill. Increased energy, enhanced ability to focus and concentrate, and a euphoric sense of being are the most common effects of this drug. Coincidentally, increased energy, enhanced ability to…

Transcript: “Bernie is almost not a person, he is an IDEA. To use a fancy modern term he is a MEME. He is a viral idea. And that viral idea is very central to the concerns of the American people. He has managed to connect up the idea that: people’s wages are not advancing; that the real income has not increased in the middle class in 25 years; along with the idea that there is a corrupt political system based in Wall Street and corporate money and PACs. . .

It’s getting real… is the internet making a shift to a new ethos? Articles: Why Snapchat is better than Facebook

Freebooting is the act of downloading the video of another content creator and then reuploading it to your own page (FB, TW, Instagram, etc.) so the views (and potentially, the ad revenue) accrue to the freebooter instead of the content creator. The videos above and below are not freebooted…

AMERICA USED TO BE CALLED, “THE GREAT UNSLEPT.” NOW, IT’S THE WORLD. “Every night, we move farther and farther from the nine to ten hours of sleep a night the average adult got in 1920. Each weekday night we get an hour and thirty-six minutes less, on average, than…

Today’s Topics: Ultralightweight Backpacking, The Seven Stages of Disease, Dick Van Dyke, The Oldest Showgirl in the World, Thru-Hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail… just normal stuff like that. Subscribe to my new YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/davidrainoshek David Rainoshek, MA is a regular contributor here on Medium. If you liked what you read, you may also like these Medium articles: