The Daily Populous

Monday May 29th, 2017 day edition

image for How Bad Are K-Cups for the Environment?

Last year K-Cups accounted for most of Keurig Green Mountain’s $4.7 billion in revenue—more than five times what the company made five years prior.

* * * As a twenty-something Bostonian in 1992, John Sylvan didn’t have a particular passion for coffee.

As he explains the appeal now, “It's like a cigarette for coffee, a single-serve delivery mechanism for an addictive substance.”

And like printer cartridges or razor blades, the Keurig business model was predicated on another type of dependence.

It’s digital rights management, the coffee equivalent of Steve Jobs’ attempt to fill iPods only with music sold through iTunes.

Using them is extremely wasteful and irresponsible; they are a stupid way to make coffee that simply cannot be sustained.

Keurig has said it was at work on a solution to the waste problem since back in 2010 when Carpenter first visited. »

Need Period Relief? Women Could Smoke Weed for Cramps If Medical Marijuana Bill Passes in New York

Authored by newsweek.com

That dreadful feeling has a name: Dysmenorrhea—the medical term for severe period pain commonly referred to as cramps.

The New York Assembly's Health Committee passed an initiative Tuesday that would add dysmenorrhea to the list of conditions necessary to qualify for medical marijuana use.

“People are starting to understand that medical marijuana is a useful tool to relieve suffering and women’s suffering from severe menstrual cramps.”. »

Nintendo is reportedly boosting production of Switch consoles

Authored by theverge.com

Nintendo is ramping up its production order of Switch consoles ahead of the increased demand expected during the 2017 holiday shopping season, reports the Financial Times.

The Japanese gaming company already reportedly boosted its production order in March: The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was aiming to produce at least 16 million consoles this fiscal year.

Increasing the number of consoles out there would certainly help with demand, and Nintendo has seen a string of shortages with the Switch and its now-discontinued NES Classic. »

FBI 'warned MI5 in January that Salman Abedi was planning terror attack in UK'

Authored by independent.co.uk

In response, defence officials said that at any one time they are juggling 500 terror investigations involving 3,000 subjects.

30/37 A forensic officer collects evidence on a walkway between Victoria station and Manchester Arena following a deadly terror attack in Manchester, Getty Images.

Detectives believe they have detained “a large part of the network” involved in planning the attack. »