Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 1, 2018

The Weather:

The 2018 Hurricane season begins today... and meteorologists believe we'll see 14 named storms, of which six will become full-fledged hurricanes. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from today through Nov 30, although sometimes storms will form before or after those dates, as witnessed by Tropical Storm Alberto, which ripped through the Gulf Coast last week.

Trolling for publicity:

MAYIM BIALIK is just as brainy as her signature character Amy Farrah Fowler from "Big Bang Theory." The actress wrote a brand-new book called "Boying Up: How to be Brave, Bold and Brilliant" and discussed the differences between raising boys versus girls with the Houston Chronicle.Mayim claims that young females get mixed messages about being perfect, but "every image in the media indicates that you're not," while dudes hear a lot about emotional processing. Her theory is that guys need to be "sensitive but not too sensitive and aggressive but not too aggressive" and claims raising little men has been a "real exercise in patience."
Mayim has a doctorate degree in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles and also authored the best-selling book, "Girling Up: How to be Strong, Smart and Spectacular."(Lee)

Lowering expectations:

Some fifth-graders in New York are asking their school-district to stop giving them homework.
Students at Farley Elementary School in Stony Point have petitioned their district to get rid of homework because it causes too much stress. Here's the kicker: the district is actually considering their proposal. Officials say they agree with the students' points and were already looking for ways to reduce the stress of homework. The district hopes to have a new homework policy in place for next school year. It's unclear if they'll actually get rid of homework altogether or just find ways to reduce it. (Still)

Trendspotting:

There's a new subscription service for t-shirt lovers that says is 100 percent waste-free --essentially making it what Teen Vogue describes as "Netflix for t-shirts." The service is called For Days. It works like your basic fashion or beauty membership service: You sign up and choose your package: either three, six, or ten new T-shirts, for $12, $24, or $36, respectively. The T-shirts are made using responsible dyes and organic cotton that's grown in the United States. But after you've worn out your t-shirt --stained it, put holes in it, has a weird smell you can't get rid of, whatever-- you can send it back at no additional cost. They take your shirt, recycle it ("upcycle," as they call it) and send you a brand new shirt --made from their collection of recycled shirts!
The fashion industry has been grappling in recent years with waste, with cheap-but-harmful materials clogging landfills and polluting the environment. For Days founder KRISTY CAYLOR says using the recycling and subscription model creates the fashion industry's first-ever "closed-loop system," that gives customers "access to newness whenever they'd like without spending extra money or accumulating excess." (Bartha)