🎙️Episode 022: Stream, Sleep, Score

📚 Education: AI is changing how we assess learning—focus on thinking, reasoning, and the learning process, not just the final product.

🛒 Economics: Hawaii, Alaska, and several mainland states top the list for high grocery bills due to geography, labor, and infrastructure.

📝 Productivity: Handwritten to-do lists reveal habits, stress management, and thinking styles that digital lists can’t capture.

📖 Technology: E-readers may help you fall asleep faster than paper books by reducing physical and cognitive effort.

🎬 Entertainment: Amazon’s Fire TV gets a sleek redesign, and Apple TV streams big-name sports to restaurants and bars.

🎮 Gaming: Xbox names AI-focused executive Asha Sharma as new CEO, signaling a tech-driven shift in leadership.

⚾ Sports: MLB removes on-screen ball/strike indicators and introduces new rules; Diamondbacks could see realignment.

🏈 College Football: Detroit’s GameAbove Sports Bowl canceled amid declining attendance and playoff-era changes.

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Sources:

Education

https://www.fastcompany.com/91496903/its-time-to-rethink-assessment-for-learning 

Economics

https://www.worldatlas.com/society/10-u-s-states-with-the-highest-grocery-bills.html 

Productivity

https://parade.com/living/traits-of-people-who-write-to-do-lists-by-hand-according-to-psychologist

Technology

https://www.androidpolice.com/e-readers-better-for-sleep-than-traditional-books-researcher-claims/

Entertainment 

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/amazons-fire-tv-redesign-is-rolling-out-today-150000988.html

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/19/apple-tv-f1-mls-mlb-streaming-reach-expands-to-bars-restaurants

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xboxs-leadership-shift-proves-it-the-gamer-era-is-over-ai-runs-the-show-now

Sports

https://www.thebiglead.com/mlb-announces-that-they-will-no-longer-show-if-a-pitch-is-a-ball-or-strike-during-game-broadcasts-with-abs-taking-over/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/berniepleskoff/2026/02/24/major-league-baseball-adds-three-new-rules-for-2026-season/

https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/realignment/3612009/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/02/10/detroit-bowl-game-canceled-college-football-motor-city-gameabove-sports-quick-lane/88613177007/

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