‼️Every parent and athlete should listen 🎧👂to Will Compton
🔥Facts don’t care about feelings.
🔥What matters is the evidence you are producing.
💥If you don’t like where you are on the depth chart, then produce evidence you should move up!
Mt. Lebanon Football extends a warm welcome to our new Head Football Coach, Bruce Fronk! Watch X this week for daily announcements of Coach Fronk's coaching staff!
@RobSchneider@apeelsciences Zero critical thinking or individual research done to validate the accusations. Simply retweeting slander. @apeelsciences can SAFELY provide healthy access worldwide to fruits and vegetables.
Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁
"There's a devastatingly short window during which you are your child's entire world. Don't blink and miss it." - @SahilBloom
WOW does that hit hard
Look at the graph below. I'm 37. My kids are 5 and 3. Enjoying every second. And this is a great reminder!
(h/t @MarketPalmer_)
Governor Shapiro is doing a wonderful thing. Giving kids longer recess is so important, and so few leaders are talking about it. Combined with phone free schools, PA students will be more engaged in school than they were before. Bravo @GovernorShapiro
The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids.
Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back.
It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student.
Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.
dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it
Did you know that when you shop at places like Costco, Target, Walmart, and Kroger you’re buying produce coated in a variety of different chemical solutions?
Fresh food travels thousands of miles, crosses borders, sits in storage, and waits on shelves before it reaches your plate. On average your apples are 9 months old by the time you get to enjoy them.
Without post-harvest protection, most food would rot before you ever had the chance to buy it. Access would become an even larger issue than it already is, affordability would be nonexistent, and “fresh produce” would become a luxury good overnight.
For decades, legacy systems have coated fruits and vegetables in synthetic fungicides, petroleum-based waxes, and chemical preservatives.
It “works” operationally, but it was built in a different era that prioritized durability over health and transparency which were never really brought into the conversation. Most people don’t know why coatings like this even exist, and definitely not what’s in them.
Post-harvest protection was invisible, normalized, and largely unquestioned.
I came into building in the food system by asking a different question.
If food needs protection, why are we protecting it with synthetic chemicals instead of plant-based materials?
Why not use compounds that already exist in nature? Materials our bodies and ecosystems already understand? That idea led to developing a plant-based solution that extends shelf life using food, not toxic inputs. And it challenged an industry that hadn’t been meaningfully challenged for generations.
The response wasn’t just skepticism. It included coordinated efforts to discredit the technology and shut down adoption. Rumors, a coordinated disinformation campaign against us, bad actors in the background. And to this day, we still don’t fully know who orchestrated parts of it.
Even still…
Produce does need protection if we envision a more accessible, affordable, and less wasteful future. That will never change and the choice isn’t protection or no protection — it’s what kind of protection we use.
The future of food depends on moving away from outdated chemical coatings and toward plant-based alternatives.
Food protecting food. Apeel forever.
Your fruit is rusting.
As you read this, molecules in the air are eating through its nutritional value.
It’s the same process that ruins cast iron cookware. But materials scientists figured out a clever solution to prevent rust. You know it as “stainless”. Stainless steel doesn’t rust because its surface is covered by a thin protective coating. It’s the same steel, but the molecules in the air can’t get to it. As I spent more time with the idea of Apeel, I remembered back to my undergraduate days at @CarnegieMellon , where we studied steel. I wondered if the same strategy could stop fruit from rusting. But there was one big difference… we’d have to figure out how to make the protective coating out of food.