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I quit drinking coffee for 4 weeks. My hands stopped shaking and my skin cleared — here’s how I coped with withdrawal and what I drank instead.

Julia Poggensee. Julia Poggensee Insider’s Julia Poggensee gave up coffee for four weeks after developing hand tremors. After two weeks, she said the tremors stopped and even her skin improved. She added that the key to giving up was finding a good alternative drink. This is an edited, translated version of an article that originally…

How Cyber Monday surpassed Black Friday to become the biggest shopping event of the holiday season

Cyber Monday deals have been a part of holiday shopping for a decade and a half. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews Cyber Monday is the biggest holiday-shopping day of the year by sales, outpacing even Black Friday. It started in the early 2000s as consumers shopped online from work, according to a new podcast. The day was…

Levi’s got its start making clothes for cowboys — now it’s a Gen Z status symbol. Here’s how the 169-year-old retailer became the world’s most iconic denim company.

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Levi’s didn’t invent denim, but it did invent blue jeans as we know them today.  The 169-year-old retailer has weathered world wars, the Great Depression, and the cyclical nature of fashion.  Its jeans were once worn by cowboys in the American West — now, they’re revered by celebs and Gen Z shoppers. Here’s…

Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me Review – true crime antics and dreary puzzles

Tragedy plus time equals… mythology? Cultural fascination with true crime and serial killers is having its moment, and The Devil in Me is comfortable plucking its inspirations from the 1800s. “America’s first serial killer” and serial fraudster may never have had the “murder castle” equipped with traps and torture devices that his mythology credits him…