You know that 10 AM wall? The one where you’re staring at your screen and your brain feels like wet cardboard? I hit it every day. Or I did. For three years, my go-to fix was a second espresso. Then a third. I was drinking like 4 cups a day and still crashing by noon. … Read more

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You know that 10 AM wall? The one where you’re staring at your screen and your brain feels like wet cardboard? I hit it every day. Or I did. For three years, my go-to fix was a second espresso. Then a third. I was drinking like 4 cups a day and still crashing by noon. … Read more

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You know that 10 AM wall? The one where you’re staring at your screen and your brain feels like wet cardboard? I hit it every day. Or I did. For three years, my go-to fix was a second espresso. Then a third. I was drinking like 4 cups a day and still crashing by noon. … Read more

A Noble Experiment? The Prohibition Act

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The American Prohibition Act of 1920 outlawed the use, possession, transportation, manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages. But despite the wreckage that this generally good-intentioned law caused in the U.S., it was referred to by President Herbert Hoover and many other people of the time as the Noble Experiment. According to Nebraska Studies.ORG, the logic … Read more

Playgrounds for seniors

I recently became aware of an innovation from the Finnish playground manufacturer Lappset: the playgrounds (in Finnish, leikkialue) for senior citizens. First I was not sure should I was going to laugh or what, but then I decided to take it as a reflection of today’s culture.,Lets face the facts: the population of industrialized countries … Read more