Blue Apron, a meal-delivery service based in New York City, filed an S-1 on Thursday as the company plans to go public. Though the company has a history of losses, its revenue continues to grow each year.

I tried Blue Apron for myself a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. Back then, the meal plan was pre-set, but now, depending on your meal plan, you can select three dishes sent you each week in advance from eight different choices.

That's thanks to the range of ingredients as well as the meal presentation that made me look like an expert chef.

It also put an emphasis on cooking tutorials and instructions online, so I really felt as if I was improving my cooking skills with each recipe instead of just "painting by numbers," so to speak.

So should you give it a try yourself?

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My Blue Apron box had arrived by the time I got home. My boyfriend threw it in the fridge just in case, but the company says the contents will stay cold in the box for "several hours."

Opening up the box, you'll find a letter from Blue Apron and the three different recipe cards.

Blue Apron used to send customers a breakdown of what they're cooking as well as some more information on the ingredients — this is the one I got. Now, each box contains the three recipe cards, plus sometimes an extra pamphlet on ingredients or an additional recipe.

This weekend is the seventh edition of the annual Governors Ball music festival at Randall's Island in New York City.

Throughout the three-day festival, over 50 musicians will perform, with headliners like Chance the Rapper, Lorde, Phoenix, Childish Gambino, and Tool.

As with any festival these days, there are artists from all different genres including indie, rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, and dance. Sometimes, the choices can be overwhelming.

We decided to help make it a bit easier by curating your days for you.

Check it out below.

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Start off the festival with electrifying contemporary R&B by Francis and the Lights, who have worked with everyone from Kanye West to Chance the Rapper.

Friday 2:15-3:00 PM, Bacardi stage

Singer Kehlani has been inescapable lately with a massive single off the Fate of the Furious soundtrack, but she's got a ton of great R&B to listen to.

Friday 3:00-3:45 PM, GovBall NYC stage

Next up is singer Tove Lo and her sharp, dark, synth-laden pop hits.

Friday 4:45-5:45 PM, Honda stage

President Donald Trump has announced he intends to pull the US out of the Paris climate deal, following through with a key campaign promise.

The news comes at a time when climate scientists are fearing the worst.

In January, a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level rise that would put some American landmarks, towns, and cities underwater during this century. That scenario is considered unlikely, but possible.

Research and advocacy group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plugin for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today. You can install it (directions here) and see anywhere in the US.

We surveyed Washington, DC, to see what might happen in the president's backyard.

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In a worst case scenario, flooding — caused by polar melting and ice-sheet collapses — could cause a sea level rise of 10 to 12 feet by 2100.

Here's Washington, DC, today. The famed Potomac River runs through it.

And here's what Washington, DC, might look like in the year 2100 — as seen on Climate Central's plugin for Google Earth. Ocean water causes the river to overflow.

Let's take a look at some of the famed landmarks in our nation's capital. 

At roughly $3 million, the Bugatti Chiron is one of the most expensive production cars to ever reach showrooms, so the words "affordable" and "Bugatti" rarely, if ever, occupy real estate in the same sentence. However, that's what happened over the weekend.

On Saturday, Rolls-Royce unveiled a one-off custom build called the Sweptail. At a reported price of nearly $13 million, it is believed to be the most expensive new car ever commissioned, The Telegraph reported.

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Every successful relationship requires compromise, even if you're heiress, DJ, and entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman. 

Bronfman recently enlisted the help of interior design startup Homepolish to makeover the triplex apartment she shares with her new husband, Brendan Fallis. Bronfman, daughter of billionaire investor Edgar Bronfman Jr., married Fallis in a lavish ceremony in Morocco in May. 

Homepolish designer Michelle Zacks helped the couple to get the den, bedroom, and outdoor space in their dream home ready. 

"Brendan told me early on when I first started working with them that they realized they had slightly different taste when it came to designing their home — he is much more minimal and into neutrals, and she prefers some color," Zacks said. "I think in the case of Hannah and Brendan, what you see is a true reflection of both their combined styles. They both have a sophisticated point of view and prefer a few really great, key pieces instead of an excessive amount of stuff everywhere."

Let's take a look around their new home in New York City's East Village.

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The apartment is laid out over three stories, and the furniture was sourced by Design Within Reach. The couch is the brand's Jonas sectional.

Source: Design Within Reach

The den is located on the second floor, while the first floor is home to a living and dining area. Zacks said that the den was one area where the pair's tastes are simultaneously represented. "The furniture is all minimal modern, but then there is a large piece of artwork behind the sofa in a brilliant blue color," she said.

Upstairs on the third floor, the bedroom was designed to be completely white.

When it comes to real estate, location is almost everything. But in cities like New York, San Francisco, and Miami, buyers will also pay a premium for another feature: the view.

In Manhattan, the most coveted and costly view is of Central Park. With a median listing price of $3.79 million, homes with a view of the park carry a premium of 39.9%, according to Realtor.com.

Mike Tauber has been exploring these sights for 15 years as an interior and architecture photographer in New York City. He's photographed tens of thousands of homes and their views, and he recently collected them in a book called "Vista Manhattan: Views from New York City's Finest Residences."

Below, see nine stunning views captured by Tauber from penthouses across New York City. 

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Tauber is usually hired by real estate agents, architects, interior designers, or homeowners to photograph these spaces.

One of Tauber's favorite views comes from a $57 million penthouse at The Pierre. "It has a great perspective on Central Park where you can see people hanging out in Sheep Meadow in the foreground and then across the Upper West Side into New Jersey," Tauber said.

Source: StreetEasy

Tauber photographs luxury buildings that range in price. While this penthouse at 50 Sutton Place sold for $4.36 million in 2016 ...

Source: Streeteasy

I spent almost two years researching a new audio setup for my house. By way of background, I don't own any TVs and although we pay for a variety of video-steaming services, I don't watch them all that much (everybody else does, on laptops, tablets, and iPhones).

However, I do listen to a lot of music. Before I moved from Los Angeles a couple of years ago, I had a kind of evolving hybrid old-school/new-school audio setup. At any given time, there was a component hi-fi stereo plus a Wi-Fi streaming rig and of course the car radio. There were CDs and even some survivors from my once-vast vinyl record collection. There were cassette tapes. There were iTunes libraries and a stray iPod or two.

When I came back to New York, I decided to commit to a simple Bluetooth setup. So for a while, it was iPhone + Bluetooth speaker. But it wasn't a very good Bluetooth speaker. I missed the old component configuration I had lugged around for two decades, in the 1980s and 1990s. I realized that I wanted to listen to music and have it sound good.

So began the quest. Fortunately, I wasn't in a hurry. And I had reference points. It boiled down to whether I had in mind a static or dynamic listening experience. Or perhaps better stated as stationary or ambient. 

A key point of reference was my father-in-law's budget audiophile arrangement, with NAD components mated to a pair of excellent Ohm speakers. Good sounds!

But to really enjoy that setup — which I was familiar with from my own systems — you have to commit to sitting in a chair or on a couch, figuring out how to best position the speakers, and in this day and age go for an amplifier-turntable-speakers rig and start rebuilding the vinyl. It's also a wired system, so there are, you know ... wires.

The listening experience is unparalleled, of course. But as I worked through my options, I realized that I don't listen to music that way anymore — unless I'm in a car, where I get to sample no end of multi-speaker, high-end audio systems.

We listen to music holistically, and we want to fill our house with it. So you can probably guess where I'm heading here.

Yep, we took the Sonos plunge. But what an odyssey it was before we finally made that decision!

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We have a kind of medium-sized, three-story house, with small and medium-sized rooms. Acoustically, the living room or family room is quite good, but it's also not an ideal place in which to locate an elaborate audio system.

We had been making do with a group of Bluetooth speakers. We had some old component systems and some refugee speakers, but they weren't going to work as the main rig.

I used to own about 500 vinyl records. But I sold them and made the switch to digital, not always with great results, audio-wise. So I explored setting up a new, vinyl-centric system.

One thing that's tough about dieting: You always want to stop.

The easiest solution to this problem is changing your lifestyle instead of adopting a temporarily strict eating regimen.

Nichola Whitehead, a registered dietitian and nutritionist with a practice in the UK, fully supports the latter option. In either case, however, she says it's perfectly fine to go off your healthy eating plan every once in a while.

"It’s alright to overeat occasionally," Whitehead tells Business Insider. "It’s overeating consistently day in and day out over the long term that causes weight gain."

If you've managed to switch from a diet heavy in red meat and processed carbohydrates like white bread and white rice to an eating plan based mainly around vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins, you've already done the majority of the work, says Whitehead.

Still, cravings, birthdays, and bake sales come and go. It's okay to indulge every once in a while.

Another thing you have working in your favor once you've started eating healthier overall is that your body wants to regulate itself, Whitehead says. This is where something Whitehead calls "listening to your body" becomes a key asset.

"If you overeat one night you'll probably be less hungry the following day. So it’s really important to listen to your body," says Whitehead.

Our body has a natural tendency to lean towards homeostasis, or internal stability. When you overindulge on a pint of ice cream one day, your appetite on the next day will likely be reduced. If you've started eating better, you may need to start paying better attention to what your body is telling you it needs. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Do you want to eat or snack for an emotional reason? Do certain situations trigger you to eat certain foods? All of these cues are important to ensure you're eating a balanced diet and not overdoing it when you don't need to, Whitehead says.

Once you begin to notice these cues and follow them regularly, it's ok to override them every once in a while. After all, a balanced diet is all about balance, right?

Perhaps you know you don't need to get dessert after dinner with your friend. But she's celebrating her birthday, and you know you'd really enjoy sharing a piece of chocolate cake with her. Go for it.

What's more important isn't what you do when you have a slip-up — it's what you do over the next few days, weeks, and months, says Whitehead. If in the days after an indulgent evening you find yourself consistently craving sweets after meals, try having a piece of fresh fruit, drinking more water, or going for a walk instead.

"It's what you're doing over the long term that's really going to make a difference," says Whitehead.

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Like paintings and sculptures, buildings can be beautiful works of art.

We asked architects to tell us the one building that's a design game-changer, that inspired them to become architects, or that they find stunning.

Here are 22 of the most breathtaking buildings in the world, according to people who build them for a living.

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The Parthenon in Athens, Greece

"It's the quintessential beautiful architectural form," Tara Imani said. "The Doric order, the use of entasis [a slight curve in columns] to make sure the columns didn't look spindly from a distance ... the siting on a hilltop — it gave us our initial ABCs of architecture that we keep trying to use and improve upon today."

Imani is the founding architect of Tara Imani Designs.

The National Congress of Brazil in Brasilia

"In 1974, my father, a scientist, took our family to see the new city of Brasilia. It captured the imagination of the world," Julia Donoho said. "Planned in the shape of an airplane, Corbusian [the modern architectural style of Le Corbusier] housing blocks lined the wings like feathers. The body was filled with embassies, government buildings, cultural institutions, and a house of God."

Donoho is the principal and project lead at Equinox Design and Development.

The Sao Paulo Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil

"It is daring," Damaris Hollingsworth said. "Designed in 1968, it is made of concrete and glass. The main body is hung from the two beams, and it barely touches the columns on the side. I also love the fact that it was designed by a woman."

Hollingsworth is the project manager for DLR Group.

It's National Donut Day, so of course you are thinking about where to buy donuts.  

Thankfully, Business Insider has teamed up with city-guide app Foursquare to find the top-rated doughnut shops across America.

Foursquare based its ranking on ratings, as well as the number of times users have either "liked" or "saved" the donut shops.

Keep scrolling to find out if your local donut shop made it to the list.

Emma Rechenberg contributed to an earlier version of this post.

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15. Sugar Shack Donuts — Richmond, VA

1001 North Lombardy Street

Check out the artistic beauty in these doughnuts. Every pastry is hand-rolled, hand-cut, and handcrafted at Sugar Shack. 

Too pretty to eat? Nope. But definitely worth an Instagram post. 

14. The Holy Donut – Portland, ME

7 Exchange Street

The secret to the Holy Donut's success is its signature ingredient, Maine potatoes – the mashed up vegetable gives the donut a moist texture. If you visit the store, make sure to try out some of its more quirky flavors: Maple Bacon and Chai Glazed. 

13. Mr T's Delicate Donut Shop – Modesto, CA

3507 Tully Road

This donut shop is open round the clock but still manages to have queues of people waiting for its gourmet donuts. Prices are reasonable and there is plenty of styles to choose from, including cronuts, their version of the croissant-donut combo. 

We spent the day with actor Jonathan Goldsmith in March 2014, who became a pop-culture icon through his role as "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for Dos Equis beer.

Goldsmith invited us to his country home in Vermont to reveal how he got the role and talk about his long career as a journeyman actor in Hollywood.

After the interview, Goldsmith gave us a tour of his beautiful, rustic property. This is when we really got to see the real man behind "The Most Interesting Man in the World."

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Despite surging home prices across the US, it's still possible to snag something affordable in a great city.

As evidenced by U.S. News & World Report's latest ranking of the best places to live in America, the top cities for settling down tout a strong job market, low cost of living, high quality of life, and affordable housing to boot.

To find out which of the top-50 best places to live have home costs on par with the national median listing price, we filtered the ranking for cities where the median home costs $250,000 or less.

Below, check out the top-25 cities and their median home prices.

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25. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Population: 1,318,408

Median home price: $149,646

Quality of life: 6.1

Value: 7.5

Oklahoma City's warm weather and low housing prices make it an up-and-coming place to live. Due to a recent inundation of millennials, the city now brims with energy, creativity, and new ideas, according to a local expert.

"The community's greatest asset is its people," he said. "The community is tight-knit, willing to offer a friendly hello, and ever aware that their city is really a small town at heart."

24. Tampa, Florida

Population: 2,888,458

Median home price: $170,495

Quality of life: 6.6

Value: 5

Tampa's laid-back atmosphere, warm weather, and barrage of entertainment options make it feel like a trip to paradise. "Living in the Tampa Bay is like being on vacation all year," said a local expert.

Tampa hasn't been overtaken by tourists, however. It retains several niche communities, including a strong Cuban influence in historic Ybor City, formerly known as the "cigar capital of the world."

23. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Population: 558,198

Median home price: $83,500

Quality of life: 7.1

Value: 7.5

Located on the banks of the Susquehanna River and the foothills of the Appalachian Trail, Harrisburg offers residents unlimited access to the outdoors. Many are employed by the state and federal government in Harrisburg, but there's also several large private-sector companies that are top employers, including Hershey's, Rite Aid, and D&H Distributing.

Before fidget spinners took the world by storm, there was the Fidget Cube. The original became one of the highest grossing products on Kickstarter, raising nearly $6.5 million, and kicked off the current trend of small plastic toys designed entirely for your restless fingers to play with. 

I found out about the Fidget Cube in late 2016, after the Kickstarter fundraising period was already over. I knew I would have to wait at least a month or two to receive my cube, but I didn't want one of the knockoff versions that were flooding Amazon. I ponied up the $22 that Antsy Labs demanded on its website, and got ready for a long wait. When it finally came in late April — after months of delays — I couldn't wait to explore the wonders that awaited me with the six unique sides of the cube.

However, I soon learned that not all sides of a fidget cube are created equal. Some facets of the fidget's blocky physique are clearly superior to others, and after months of testing I have determined exactly which is the best of all. 

Here are all six sides of the Fidget Cube, ranked from worst to best. 

*This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.

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6. Breathe

This side of the cube — which is meant to mimic the feel of a worry stone — makes me want 1/6th of my money back. It's supposed to be relaxing to run your thumb back and forth along the groove, but I just find myself noticing how much of my hand sweat collects on the vinyl surface of the cube. 

5. Flip

This is the Andrew Bynum of Fidget Cube sides. There's so much promise and all the tools are there, but it never lived up to its potential. There's barely any give when you press down on it, and it feels weak and hollow.

I want this side of the cube to succeed, I really do. In a perfect world, I'd be clicking this all day long. But as it stands, I'd rather just flick a light switch. 

4. Glide

If it weren't for the clicker squandering away its potential, Glide would be the second-worst Fidget Cube side. It feels a lot like the analog stick on the Nintendo 3DS, which is to say that it's pretty underwhelming. It turns out that analog sticks aren't very fun to push around when they aren't controlling a digital character on a screen. 

Who knew?

File-sharing service Dropbox has four offices across the US, including New York City, San Fransisco, and Seattle — but nothing is quite like the Austin, Texas location.

With cowhide rugs and antler chandeliers, the design team from lauckgroup created a special office environment that Austin Dropboxers, as they call themselves, could call their second home. A full-service cafe, gym, music room, and the dog-friendly policy also helps create a unique work environment. 

We recently chatted with Rusty Pierce, the office manager, and Aaron Limonthas, account manager and diversity lead, of the Austin location to hear more about what it's like to work there. A tour of the space, below.

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The Austin offices opened in 2015, when the company had reported $400 million in revenue. This year, the company announced that it's on a $1 billion revenue run rate.

Source: CNBC, Business Insider

The Austin offices are located in the heart of downtown, and take up two and half floors, or 29,500 square feet.

However they're currently expanding — adding a whole new floor to the space as more people are hired within the sales and operations teams.

Strollers are great fun for kids, but not as much for the parents that need to push them. To solve this, the JogAlong stroller has been designed to help parents be more active while pushing their children. It has an innovative design that makes it possible to turn walking with your baby into a full workout.

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The sun is shining, the days are longer, and it's finally warm enough that the bold among us are starting to bust out those cargo shorts. That can only mean one thing: Beach season is coming. 

But as fun as excursions to the Hamptons and Nantucket can be, these ritzy summer enclaves can also sap your entire vacation fund in a hot minute if you're not careful. 

And perhaps you're looking for a permanent fix for your ocean-air addiction? If you're not palling around with millionaires and billionaires, you might as well forget about buying property in those exclusive destinations.

But if you look beyond the traditional summer hot spots, your dream of owning a sun-drenched cottage within spitting distance of the ocean spray may not be so far-fetched. 

Realtor.com dug through its database to find some scenic beachfront locales that are far more affordable for the average American and that won't have you ruing the fact that you never amassed a fortune on Wall Street.

They limited their scope to beach cities with populations between 1,000 to 100,000 and that had at least 30 properties on the market. And to ensure some geographic diversity, Realtor.com capped its list to two towns per state separated by at least 30 miles. 

Read on for the 10 most affordable beach towns to buy a home in — each of which has a median home price below $250,000.

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10. North Bend, Oregon

Population: 9,543

Median home price: $239,000

9. Ocean Shores, Washington

Population: 5,628

Median home price: $232,500

8. Daytona Beach, Florida

Population: 63,011

Median home price: $199,900

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times writer, former Google data scientist, and author of "Everybody Lies" reveals the common language used on successful first dates. Following is a transcript of the video.

We used to think of data as surveys, very structured answers, right? A checkbox, yes, no, or a number you put in, 101, 102, 103, whatever. And now data is kind of the wild unstructured world on the internet and one of the big types of data is text.

So, scientists followed daters around on speed dates and they had recorders with them and then at the end of the date they said whether they wanted to go on a second date. So the scientists could measure what words used on a first date suggest that people are going to want a second date.

A man can increase his odds of getting a second date if he shows support. If he says things like, “that must be tough,” or, “that sounds hard.” He can also increase the odds of a second date if he laughs at a woman’s jokes and doesn’t interrupt her constantly, which probably isn’t rocket science.

The most beautiful word to a heterosexual man’s ears on a first date is the word “I.” When a woman talks about herself more, it’s actually a sign that she likes him, she feels comfortable opening up. And actually, women I think frequently think that they should not talk too much about themselves, but that’s also wrong in the data. Men like women talking, opening up, telling stories about their own lives. They’re more likely to like the woman and agree to a second date.

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Since 2007, Google Street View has taken panoramic shots of over 5 million miles of roads, covering 45 countries and about 3,000 cities around the world.

Canadian artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman has spent many hours culling through these images. He takes screenshots of the best ones and displays them on his blog. (Though, he never reveals their location.) Called "9-Eyes," his Tumblr is named after the nine cameras that Google's Street View cars use.

The photos portray how weird and beautiful the world looks. Take a look at some of our favorites.

Caroline Moss contributed to a previous version of this article.

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Rafman searches through Google Street View's archives for hours, he told The New York Times.

Source: The New York Times

In order to find the most interesting images, he's been mining through Google's footage for years. He says he enjoys being a "virtual explorer."

The photos he collects are taken all over the world.

Last Sunday, the legendary McLaren F1 supercar turned 25. 

For most, it's hard to believe the iconic marvel of engineering is a full quarter century old. 

To this day, the F1's modern design and speed demon performance stand up to the test of time.

"The F1 is a technological tour de force and a real triumph in terms of packaging and design," Former McLaren Automotive executive chairman Ron Dennis said in a statement in 2010. "Whether endurance racing or on road, it is supremely fast, agile, and yet comfortable. Its styling is enduring and will never fade."

Over a period of six years, including race cars, only 106 McLaren F1s were ever built. The rarity and iconic status of the model mean they command a king's ransom these days. A couple of years ago, comedian Jay Leno told Business Insider that someone once offered $11 million cash for his F1. The comedy legend and car collector politely declined that offer. 

In 2015, a McLaren F1 belonging to comedian Rowan Atkinson sold for $12 million even though it had been destroyed and rebuilt on two separate occasions. Later that year, a converted LM spec F1 sold for $13.75 million at auction in Monterey, California. 

Here's a closer look at the automotive marvel that is the McLaren F1.

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Here's a closer look at the amazing McLaren F1.

The McLaren F1 was born from the racing team founded by legendary driver Bruce McLaren.

The team has dominated Formula One racing — winning 182 races and eight World Championships.

The coauthor of "The Art of Manliness" Brett Mckay explains what kind of haircut you should get when you're losing your hair. Following is a transcript of the video.

I think one of the — with balding, you just got to own it. If you're realizing you are losing your hair, the safest bet is just go clean shaven, buzz cut is the best way to go.

Anything you try to do to hide that you are losing your hair, people will obviously notice that you are trying to cover that you are losing your hair so I say just own it is the best thing to do.

Shave it — it's a nice, clean look, it's super masculine. A lot of really tough guys have bald heads so go for that.

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