What we are reading September 25, 2024

Nike CEO John Donahoe will retire from the company in October. He will be succeeded by company veteran Elliott Hill.

Ellison pulled back the curtain on Sam Bankman-Fried’s dark arts for the US jury at his trial last year.

A survey asked voters if they think there is a retirement savings crisis in this country. The responses transcend party lines.

Murder dropped 11.6% from 2022 to 2023, the largest single-year decline in the last 20 years. Property crime was also down overall, while motor vehicle theft and shoplifting rose.

Today, yellow pencils are just normal, generic pencils, but when they were popularized in the late 19th century, they were considered the height of luxury. Before then, lacquered pencils were often a sign of low-quality wood that needed to be covered up, and they were usually finished in darker colors such as black or maroon. A decent pencil, meanwhile, would either be plain or varnished wood. But that all changed with the introduction of luxury pencils made with the finest, purest graphite, which came from a mine on the border of China and Siberia. Advertisement The German pencil manufacturer Faber (now Faber-Castell) was the first company to get its hands on graphite from the region, and it allowed for extremely fine-tuned pencil formulas, with 16 different degrees of hardness and softness. This was a big deal in the pencil world, and Faber boasted in ...Read More