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Jason is Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on helping people live their best life through tips, tricks, and advice on everything from parenting to career building. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek, another How-To Geek sister site focused on consumer products and services. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. In addition to his current duties as Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, he's an Editorial Advisor on How To-Geek's editorial board where he helps direct the growth and vision of the How-To Geek family. He's also the site's resident trivia expert---relentlessly poring over research and publications in search of the bizarre to amaze and delight 365 days a year.
He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. In 2019, he stepped back from his role at Review Geek to focus all his energy on LifeSavvy.
In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five paragraph essays. While his days of steering students towards greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on with his work for How-To Geek and Review Geek.
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Nearly four dozen buildings in New York City have their own distinct ZIP code. It isn’t contingent, as you might assume, based on the size or population of a given building, but on delivery zones and routes instead.
Many spider species will eat their own webs as a way to recoup the proteins used in the silk and cut down on the new resources required to spin the next web.
ZIP codes, or Zone Improvement Plan codes, were introduced to the U.S. mail system in 1963 and were expanded to the ZIP+4 system in 1983.
The kind of amnesia portrayed in films like 50 First Dates is called anterograde amnesia, where the patient is unable to form new memories after the date of the event that caused the condition.
Rebracketing is the historical linguistic process by which words (and typically their articles) are broken apart and recombined while still retaining their meaning; it is by this mechanism that, in English, “a nadder” became “an adder” and “a napron” became “an apron”.
The 2013 Chevy Impala was the last passenger car sold in North America to feature a front bench seat, a feature once commonplace in automobiles.
A sperm whale’s brain is the largest in the world and is at least five times as large as a human’s brain.
Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen gas to prevent spoilage and soggy chips. The extra “air” also helps protect the chips from being damaged by rough handling during the shipping process.
Because Lucasfilm owns the rights to the term “Droid”, they have received royalty payments for every Droid cellphone sold.
The popular brand of popcorn, Act II, was preceded by Act I—a product notable because it was made with real butter and required refrigeration.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who played Nurse Christine Chapel on Star Trek: TOS and Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek: DS9, was the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Oreo cookies were introduced in 1912 and are the best selling cookies in the United States.
Domino’s Pizza originally intended to add a domino dot to their red-and-blue domino block logo for each new store they opened, but the franchises proved so popular and spread so rapidly, however, that the plan was scrapped.
