Lingerie company Dear Kate has a new approach to what type of support women need when it comes to intimate apparel.
Founder and CEO Julie Sygiel developed underwear with a "silky soft, patent-pending fabric" that is wicking, stain releasing and leak resistant. Sygiel says Dear Kate separates itself from competitors in that it designs for the "modern, ambitious woman. She may care about how she looks, but we really care about how she feels."
Trying to visualize that number is overwhelming, to say the least. But what if that number were reduced to a mere 100?
The project "100 People: A World Portrait" was created to help people conceptualize the world's staggering population. By using information from the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the census, the United Nations, and others, the project used the world's population statistics and scaled them to just 100 people.
Jack Hagely then designed this infographic to help visualize the data.
Here is what the world would look like if there were only 100 people:
Of 100 people, 70 would not have access to the internet; 48 live on less than $2 a day; 75 have cell phones; and 60 would live in Asia. The gender divide would be split 50/50.
The last statistics by "100 People" were taken in 2006, and there have been dramatic changes to the data since then. In 2006, only one person out of 100 would have obtained a college degree — and now there are seven.
As more high-salaried tech workers move into San Francisco, the face of the city continues to evolve.
Photos taken in the 1940s and 1950s by amateur photographer Charles Cushman show a beautiful and diverse city, one that's filled with gorgeous vistas, classic Victorian homes, and people from all walks of life.
The colorful photographs — among the first of their kind — are an amazing glimpse at a San Francisco of the not-so-distant past.
Cushman snapped this photo of his car on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1938, one year after the bridge was completed. Cushman was an early user of Kodachrome, a revolutionary color film developed by Kodak in the 1930s.
Cushman's photos have an extremely bright quality to them. Color film was still in its elementary phases during the majority of his career.
Researchers chose highly active healthy participants with similar lifestyles to try and control for lifestyle factors that may affect how people age (it's harder to control for genetic differences, though the researchers note that exercise helps prevent genetic damage in the first place).
Then they took a look at the physical profiles of their group — all were serious recreational cyclists, though not competitive athletes. They chose cyclists because bicycling is balance-intensive, and it requires and builds physical strength without putting too much stress on joints.
They looked at the group's cardiovascular systems, lung health, neuromuscular structure, metabolism, hormone levels, mental functions, bone strength, and general health. The question was if or how the group's age would show in these measures.
The results were surprising.
"If you gave this dataset to a clinician and asked him to predict the age" of any one of these individuals based on these test results, Dr. Stephen Harridge, senior author of the study, told the New York Times, "it would be impossible."
Age did have an impact on a couple of measures. The oldest members of the group had less muscle mass and less endurance than the younger ones. Even there, though, they were much closer to younger people than to people their own age.
But as for those other measures, including tests of balance, cognitive agility, reflex, and metabolism, Harridge told the Times that it seems "being physically active makes your body function on the inside more like a young person's."
They also noted that the group scored better on measures of mental health, including anxiety and depression, possibly due to the benefits of exercise.
It's worth noting that the group studied is a small sample size, and researchers want to confirm these results with more and different groups of people. Also, these participants were all cyclists who had stayed active and healthy for many years, which could influence results as well — and perhaps there's something particularly effective about cycling. More research is needed on all those questions.
But these results are still promising, and the researchers say that they'll follow up with this group in five and 10 years to see how things have changed.
Still, they think this provides important evidence that staying active is crucial to healthy aging.
Minneapolis school principal Nathan Ziegler has gained nationwide attention with his Minnesota Cold Weather Experiment series. In this video Nathan jumps on a trampoline covered with ice.
See more videos from the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiment series here.
A hilarious and slightly disturbing slice of life on Thursday night. We learned about this story via The Blaze.
A man and a woman were caught on "Kiss Cam" at a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. As soon as the woman saw they were on the big screen, she immediately started bugging her boyfriend (or at least, we're pretty sure that's who he is) to kiss her.
He wanted no part of it.
So in a panic, she decided to go for it. Her neighbor obliged.
That's a total stranger.
And of course the crowd went crazy.
“I was filming the kiss cam as it was the first time I’ve ever been live to see one,” Hugo Davies, who filmed the event, told TheBlaze. “Most people went along with it and kissed their partner. However, this event suddenly happened and I was shocked that she did that as I thought she was the girlfriend of the first guy.”
Needless to say, the boyfriend protested. And he was reportedly red-faced the rest of the game.
Of course, this could be a planned stunt, but that would require quite a large amount of planning with the camera guy - considering how many couples there are to choose from in MSG.
When the Dallas Cowboys face the Greenbay Packers in the NFL playoffs on Sunday, Tony Romo's Wisconsin hometown of Burlington will have a tough decision to make on which team they want to win.
Produced by Jason Gaines. Video courtesy of Associated Press.
Allie Caran, a coffee educator at a small batch roaster Toby's Estate Coffee, showed us the step-by-step guide to making "The God Shot" – the perfect shot of strong and tasty espresso.
Tonino Lamborghini is set to release a new $6,300 luxury smartphone called the 88 Tauri. The phone comes with a 5-inch 1080p screen, a 20-megapixel main camera and 8-megapixel front camera, and a giant 3,400 mAh battery. Senior Producer Will Wei sat down with Bob Hatefi, co-CEO of Lamborghini Mobile, to discuss the luxury phone.
Kelly Porter, a managing partner at investment bank Woodside Capital Partners, has sold his massive Los Altos Hills, California home to Nora Lacey, president of biotechnology company Cell Marque Corporation.
The sale price was a whopping $25 million, realtor Arthur Sharif, who represented Porter in the sale, confirmed with Business Insider exclusively.
"It's a historic home," Sharif told us. "It was never a question of whether we would get the price we wanted — it was about finding the right person. We wanted someone who would appreciate the architecture."
Porter originally listed the property for $45 million in 2008, then later chopped the price down to $36 million before listing it at $27 million.
Sharif added that they had received multiple offers on the home, including one from a couple who worked at Facebook and another from someone who had also wanted to buy the neighbor's property.
Known by some as the "Morgan Estate," the 30,000-square-foot house received landmark status when it was completed by former Stanford University trustee Percy Morgan in 1914. It has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, and decadent gold-leafed ceilings and marble statues can be found throughout the property.
There's even a speakeasy hidden behind a false shelf in the library.
The house sits on a 7.5-acre lot in Los Altos Hills, part of Silicon Valley.
It's a gated property, with an ultra-private driveway leading up to the front entry.
There are lots of classical details both inside and outside the home, including this statue by the entryway.
This footage is an except from Chasing Ice, an award winning documentary on climate change. On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event, breaking off of chunks of ice at the edge of a glacier, lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
Kolibree is demo-ing an updated version of its smart toothbrush at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The device is able to link up to a smartphone to tell you which areas of your mouth have been brushed through a mapping system.
Produced by Devan Joseph. Video courtesy of Associated Press.
Juicing is an expensive habit whether you buy your green juice at the store or make it at home. We compare the economics of these two options to determine the most cost-effective way to juice.
Knowing how to code has become a life skill, but it is also a skill in demand. Startups need talent, and are willing to pay top dollar for it — the average salary of a US programmer is now over $100,000. Likewise, if you’re thinking of going it alone in the world of business, being able to build your own product is invaluable.
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It can be daunting trying to pick out a single language to specialize in, so this bundle is great for beginners — it covers web design and development, native OSX, iOS and Android programming, and fresh multi-purpose languages like Python. Best of all, you pay whatever you like for Programming Java for Beginners and PSD to HTML5/CSS3, but beat the average price paid, and you get the other six courses, too.
Pretty much every major site and platform stores data in a relational database, so learning how to maintain a healthy one is a good idea. MySQL is a particularly popular database system, and this course shows you the ropes, from the basics of programming in SQL to building your own database from scratch. It also has 80% off via the link below.
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Although fewer young people are getting married today than ever before, research suggests that getting and staying married is one of the best things you can do for yourself.
As The New York Times recently concluded, "being married makes people happier and more satisfied with their lives than those who remain single — particularly during the most stressful periods, like midlife crises."
But how do you know if you should get hitched in the first place?
We asked Peter Pearson, couples therapist and cofounder of the Couples Institute of Menlo Park, California.
Chemistry was his first answer.
"Chemistry is not everything," he said, "but if the chemistry is not there, that's a tough thing to overcome. If the chemistry is more there for one person than the other, that's tough to overcome. It's hard to build passion if it's low at the beginning. If I could find a way to build passion where passion was low, I'd be richer than Bill Gates."
But it's not just sexual chemistry, Pearson said. What you might call social chemistry plays a crucial role — the way you feel when you're with the other person. In his experience, when people have affairs, it's more than simple lust — it's also about the way they feel when they're around the other person.
That sense of "how I feel" can be investigated further by looking at the work of Canadian psychologist Eric Berne. Back in the 1950s and '60s, Berne developed "transactional analysis," a model that tried to provide an account of how two people in a relationship interact, or transact.
His popular books about the model became bestsellers, namely "The Games People Play." Drawing somewhat on Sigmund Freud, his theory argued that every person has three "ego states":
• The parent: What you've been taught
• The child: What you have felt
• The adult: What you have learned
When two people are really compatible, they connect along each tier. Pearson gave us a few questions for figuring out compatibility at each level:
• The parent: Do you have similar values and beliefs about the world?
• The child: Do you have fun together? Can you be spontaneous? Do you think your partner's hot? Do you like to travel together?
• The adult: Does each person think the other is bright? Are you good at solving problems together?
While having symmetry across all three is ideal, Pearson said that people often "get together to balance each other." One person might identify as fun-loving and adventurous, while the other takes on the role of nurturing and responsible.
While that divvying-up of roles makes for good odd-couple romantic comedies, it's not ultimately sustainable.
"That works until someone gets tired," Pearson said — until one partner is shouting, "I'm tired of being the responsible person here!"
When that happens (or ideally, before that happens), a couple has to go through the "differentiation" process.
In another interview, Pearson's wife and Couples Institute cofounder Ellyn Bader described how the high-tension phase of differentiation works:
People have to come to terms with the reality that "we really are different people. You are different from who I thought you were or wanted you to be. We have different ideas, different feelings, different interests."
Differentiation has two components. There is self-differentiation: "This is who I am and what I want." This refers to the development of an independent sense of self: to know what I want, think, feel, desire...
The second involves differentiation from the other. When this is successful, the members of the couple have the capacity to be separate from each other and involved at the same time.
For couples to survive that differentiation process and maintain their compatibility, the real secret sauce is effort.
But despite all these theoretical models, Pearson said the clues about what predicts true compatibility are much more of a felt sense than something you reason out.
He provided a litmus test. "If you're living together and your partner is away for a couple days and you see a favorite scarf, a pair of shoes, or another article of clothing that's important to them, how do you feel?" Pearson asked. "Do you feel annoyed that you have to pick up the clutter, or does it bring up happy memories?"
The answer can tell you a lot about how your parent, child, and adult are getting along with theirs.
The moving spectacle comes in the wake of multiple acts of terror this week, including one on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attacks left 17 dead.
The march, known as the Marche Republicaine, drew countless French citizens, as well as over 40 foreign leaders.
"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," French President Francois Hollande told the Associated Press. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better."
Reuters called the solidarity march an "unprecedented tribute."
French President Francois Hollande (left) embraced Charlie Hebdo columnist Patrick Pelloux.
Hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in the city's squares.
Pedestrians passed a graffiti tag that reads "Je Suis Charlie," or, "I Am Charlie."
Marchers waved French flags and held up a poster that read, "Quick more democracy everywhere against barbarism."
A man raised a pencil as he took part in the solidarity march in Paris.
World leaders gathered in Paris in a show of unity. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left), Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (third from left), French President Francois Hollande (third from right), and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (second from right).
Demonstrators at the Place de la Bastille.
A woman's face adorned with "Je Suis Charlie," or "I am Charlie."
Parisians watched the march from their apartment.
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