1. Religious affiliations will increase due to folks feeling more and more disconnected from other people

2. US football will be on the decline as more parents pull their kids out of the sport.

3. Electric cars will be mainstream and taxes on electricity or miles driven will be applied

4. Meat consumption in the developed world will be reduced significantly per capita, though aggregate consumption will go up.

5. Global temps will rise, more natural disasters due to climate change and as we get near 2030 we’ll see the US signing onto international agreements with teeth.

6. A major recession in there which is either caused or will be a trigger for an armed conflict

7. The next iteration of Al Qaeda/ISIS will rise, likely targeting moderates

8. Backlash against some of the addictive qualities of smartphones and their apps. Limiting screen time will become more important especially for young kids.

9. Electricity goes even further in renewables and nuclear. Planning to remove dams will pick up though likely won’t be done until the 2030’s

10. A public option for health insurance in the US

I’ve had migraines since I was a kid and have been fortunate to have identified my triggers(caffeine/cacao) and found medication that works when one comes on.

I can’t imagine how awful it is for folks who have no respite and hope this treatment can provide some relief.

I used to get horrible migraines from high school age on, my triggers were bright reflections and too much MSG (I kept track of what I ate and then tried to avoid anything that triggered) and generally I was useless for at least 4 hrs several times a month. If I was really quick a single Vicodin would at least make it manageable but generally I could keep nothing down. As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more frequency to the point of being unable to do much at all.

One summer in college for a month I got a cluster headache every morning. 20 minutes of absolute agony that made migraines seem like a walk in the park. Thankfully those never came back.

I am glad research has been finding more ways to treat and even stop them.

> As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more frequency to the point of being unable to do much at all.

I also started getting mine in high school (sophomore or junior year, I think?). Never had them frequently, just once or twice a year, which is plenty. I too have noticed a shift in their effect as I get older, away from my predictable blind-spots-followed-by-pain to a wider variety of visual effects and usually just feeling really weird and "off" for the rest of the day.

Oddest one so far involved fairly bad tunnel vision, which was new and I've not had again since, plus the usually just-off-center-of-vision blind spot I get, followed about a half hour later by needing to sleep. It wasn't the same feeling as being very tired, exactly, but I just needed to get in bed and go to sleep. No pain, just that. So weird.

That’s funny (not in a good way!) because caffeine is one of the go-to remedies for migraine attacks. It’s a vasoconstrictive and the best (triptans, at least as of yesterday) pharmaceuticals just basically took that vasoconstriction an order of magnitude or two higher (though with horrifying side effects).