Frank Racioppi
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I am a South Jersey-based author who is a writer for the Ear Worthy publication, which appears on Vocal, Substack, Medium, Blogger, Tumblr, and social media. Ear Worthy offers daily podcast reviews, recommendations, and articles.
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The hero behind the heroes who serve our country
Heroes. They can be men like King Leonidas of Sparta at the Battle of Thermopylae. They can be women like Katherine Johnson who intricately calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon. They can champion seismic change like Martin Luther King Jr. or their contribution can go unnoticed for over a century like Ada Lovelace, who is said to have written the instructions for the first computer program in the mid-1800s even though her work went undiscovered until the 1950s.
By Frank Racioppi6 years ago in Serve
The One Simple Key To Life
Don’t watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep Going. That quote is plastered on posters meant to be inspirational for employees in thousands of workplaces. Typically, that poster is mounted next to the one with the adorable kitten dangling from a rope with a caption that reads, “hang in there.”
By Frank Racioppi6 years ago in Motivation
The Five Worst Types of People at your Gym
The fitness center industry has been in a growth cycle the last decade, with more than 61 million people a member of a fitness center. There are more than 36,000 fitness centers in the U.S. and they gross more than $26 billion annually. In those 36,000 fitness centers there is a melting pot of exercisers – from Yoga enthusiasts to body builders, cardio fanatics to no-body-fat HIIT acolytes. However, accompanying these fitness fans, there are those workout wannabes that constitute the worst five types of people you can see at your gym.
By Frank Racioppi6 years ago in Longevity
Artificial Sweeteners toxic to gut microbiome
Artificial sweeteners have always captured that health halo that follows any food without calories. From diet sodas to zero calorie sweeteners for your three-dollar coffee, artificial sweeteners offer us a unique consumption proposition – eating and drinking without restriction and no apparent weight gain or negative consequences.
By Frank Racioppi6 years ago in Longevity
The Top 10 Songs of August 22, 1964
How culturally relevant is our popular music? Is it truly a diary of our present, a crystal ball into our future and a commentary on our past? Is some music popular simply because it is an earworm that infects us without our permission? Or does the music on the charts reveal anything about our society? What was the creative incubator behind these hits?
By Frank Racioppi6 years ago in Beat
