Levi CEO: Shower with your jeans on
Levi’s CEO: Shower with your jeans on Never put your jeans in a washing machine? Never? Not even after you have been wearing them for two weeks? That is…
Author: The Smart Reader Staff
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Pirates surround sunken treasure ship
When the 62-gun Spanish galleon the San Jose lost a battle with the British and sank off the coast of Colombia in 1708, it took 200 tons of gold, silver…
Stay awake during takeoff and landing
The tedious airplane boarding process may seem like the perfect opportunity to get some shut-eye, but it’s not the best time. During takeoff and landing,…
New year babies
* Jan. 31, 1919, Jackie Robinson, first Black player in major league baseball * Jan. 6, 1412: Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’Arc), Maid of Orleans: French heroine:…
Important January days in history
On Jan. 20, 1885, L.A. Thompson of Coney Island, NY, patented the roller coaster. His 450-foot coaster had a drop of 30 feet. On Jan. 17, 1910, Thomas…
The marriage divide
Less than 10 percent of the births to college-educated women occur outside marriage, while for women with high school degrees or less the figure is nearly…
A shakeup at OpenAI hints at future trouble
As The Wire’s Omar Little said, memorably paraphrasing Machiavelli: You come at the king, you best not miss. Jaws dropped across the tech sector on…
Goliath versus Goliath? AI copyright battles blow up
By his own admission, Matthew Butterick is an unlikely warrior against Big Tech. A web entrepreneur turned lawyer, Butterick is a creative at heart who…
Blow for blow TikTok shadowboxing is a viral hit
Across the country and indeed the world, kids have been engaging in high-octane boxing on TikTok. Don’t worry though, the challengers aren’t throwing…
Avoiding travelers’ thrombosis
* Walk for 30 minutes before long road trips or airline flights. Take short walks at stops during a car trip, and walk in the aisles on the aircraft. *…