National School Backpack Awareness Month Heavy backpacks weigh on health
Books, lunch, laptop, and more — all go into a school backpack and before you know it, the backpack is heavy, often way too heavy. Kids are getting back…
Author: Rick Good
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader's money, real estate, and business coverage.
The great cone ice cream cone controversy
While you’re enjoying your favorite ice cream on National Ice Cream Cone Day, September 22, think about the container. Is it waffle cone, sugar cone, or a…
Anne Dudley Bradstreet Day, Sept. 16 The secret poet of the Colonies
The first American poet to be published had to keep her book a secret. Anne Dudley Bradstreet was forced to pretend she knew nothing of the publication of…
Famous centenarians
Bob Hope (died 2003), George Burns (1996), Irving Berlin (died 1989), and Grandma Moses, who started her painting career at age 80 and lived to celebrate…
How can some people live to 113?
The older you get, the healthier you have been. That’s the finding of research by the Boston University School of Medicine. People who live longer and…
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Top 20 Supercentarians as of July 31, 2016 (all women) 1 Emma Morano 29 November 1899 116 Italy 2 Violet Brown 10 March 1900 116 Jamaica 3 Nabi Tajima 4…
The new human time travelers
The U.S. Census Bureau reported exactly one year ago that the life expectancy average is now 78.8 years. That’s just a statistic to most of us unless we…
Smart sutures
Tufts University scientists are experimenting with flexible, electronic sutures that actually collect data on an incision. The thread-like devices could…
OCD treatment hope
Scientists at Duke University have found that blocking one neurotransmitter in the brain stopped obsessive-compulsive behavior in minutes. According to…
Neurons influence alcoholism
A new study has identified the neural stop and go signals for drinking. The study by Texas A&M College of Medicine, using a study on mice, found that…