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The rich and powerful are going crazy over these luxury SUVs with bathrooms and cable TV

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Power players are going crazy over Becker Automotive Design's luxury vehicles. The company transforms SUVs into mobile offices and media centers.

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There's a new bar in London that has found a way to get people drunk without actually drinking

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Alcoholic Architecture barThere's a new bar in London that has found a way to get people drunk without actually drinking.

Alcoholic Architecture is a pop-up bar in London that gets people drunk in a different way. Here, rather than sipping on a cocktail, people enter an alcoholic cloud and imbibe alcohol through their lungs and eyeballs.

The bar will be open for another six months.

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When guests walk in, they enter a walk-in cocktail "cloud," where the air is infused with various spirits and mixed drinks at a 1:3 ratio. Powerful humidifiers keep the humidity at 140%, ensuring that the cloud saturates the air, and thus that the alcohol enters guests' bloodstream through the body’s mucous membranes — primarily the lungs and eyeballs.



Breathing liquor means bypassing the liver, which in turn means that you will get drunk faster: apparently 40% less alcohol will cause the same effect. This also means consuming 40% fewer calories.



Guests are asked to don special protective gear that looks like a poncho so that they they don’t smell like, well, a boozy cloud.



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Business Insider is hiring a graphic designer

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Business Insider is looking for a Graphic Designer to join the newsroom's graphics team.

Projects would include maps, charts, data visualizations, and infographics — like these.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is super creative, a team player, and pays amazing attention to detail. Other desired skills include:

  • Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Mac proficiency
  • Experience with illustration, typography, GIFs, photo editing, layout design, and infographics
  • Specific experience with data visualization is a big plus
  • Social media savvy — you know what our audience wants to see and share and you have tons of ideas for every section of the site
  • 2+ years of professional design experience

To see the type of graphics work we do, check out our Twitter account and our Instagram.

The position is full-time in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

Apply herewith a résumé and cover letter if this sounds like your dream job, and specify why you're interested in working on our graphics team. 

Only applications with a web portfolio will be considered.

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APPLY NOW: Business Insider is hiring a lists editor

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Business Insider is looking for an editor to manage our Lists team.

This editor will direct the team's research and writing of big signature lists and features, like the Silicon Valley 100 and the 50 best companies to work for in America.

We're looking for someone who is smart, organized, and creative. This person should be comfortable pitching big ideas, and working across sections on all subject matters.

The ideal candidate will not only be meticulous with details and fact-checking, but will also be thoughtful regarding story framing. This includes structure, scope, and subjects to best tell each story. 

For this editor position we are looking for someone with several years of experience in online journalism and research experience. Copy-editing skills, light HTML knowledge, and a familiarity with Photoshop are also assets. Enthusiasm for social media is a plus.

If interested, APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter.

This job is full-time and based in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

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The 10 best new restaurants in America, according to Bon Appétit magazine

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Bon Appétit magazine has published its annual "Hot 10 list of America's Best New Restaurants," with recently opened eateries in California claiming four spots on the list. 

Editors Andrew Knowlton and Julia Kramer curated the initial list of 50 nominees after traveling around the country in search of the best restaurants, ranging from casual to upscale dining establishments. 

Keep scrolling to see the 10 new restaurants that Knowlton and Kramer applaud as the year's best. 

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10. Milktooth (Indianapolis, IN)

Open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Milktooth is a brunch-only restaurant serving unique dishes and 25 house cocktails.

Chef and owner Jonathan Brooks and his wife Ashley offer plates like a Dutch baby pancake with salted lemon curd and seasonal berries ($12), and a cranberry walnut and rocket grilled cheese on fresh bread with truffle honey and a sunny local duck egg ($16).

To learn more about Milktooth, click here »



9. Manolin (Seattle, WA)

Manolin is named after the young apprentice in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” and the nautical theme rings true throughout the ocean-centric menu and dining room décor. According to Bon Appétit, the star of Manolin’s menu is its seasonal grilled halibut with molé sauce, an exotic blend of 26 different ingredients. 

To learn more about Manolin, click here »



8. Rintaro (San Francisco, CA)

At Rintaro, rice is made every 45 minutes and dishes are served just as they would be in Eastern Japan. The izakaya was built by Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett’s father, with the bar crafted from 100-year-old cedar.

To learn more about Rintaro, click here »



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15 ways to boost self confidence and love the way you look, according to scientists

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Women in America are really unhappy with their weight.

About 84% want to lose weight and 34% say that what they eat or how much they weigh is interfering with their happiness, according to Happify— a website and app that uses games and tasks based on scientific studies in positive psychology to make you feel happier.

Achieving happiness starts with feeling good about yourself, which is impossible if you're busy body shaming all of the time. So, the producers at Happify have examined 16 scientific studies about what factors, like sexual attractiveness and physical condition, affect how women feel about their body and what they can do to improve their self confidence.

Check out these helpful tips to learn how to love your body: 

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A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships

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If you're fortunate enough to find someone you want to settle down with forever, the next question is: How do you achieve happily ever after?

According to mathematician Hannah Fry, it may come down to a simple formula.

Fry, who works at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, explains in her 2014 TED Talk and recently released book, "The Mathematics of Love," that the best predictor of long-lasting relationships is how positive and negative a couple can be to one another.

In her book, she discusses the groundbreaking work of psychologist John Gottman and his team. Over many years they observed hundreds of couples and noted their facial expressions, heart rates, blood pressure, skin conductivity, and the words they used in conversation with their partners.

They discovered low-risk couples have more positive interactions with each other, and high-risk couples tend to spiral into negativity.

Mathematics of Love TED Talk

As Fry puts it, "In relationships where both partners consider themselves as happy, bad behavior is dismissed as unusual." For example, a wife might assume her husband's grumpiness is due to stress at work or a bad night's sleep. 

"In negative relationships, however, the situation is reversed," writes Fry. "Bad behavior is considered the norm." A husband, for instance, might think his wife's grumpiness is "typical," due to her "selfishness" or other negative personality trait.

Gottman then teamed up with mathematician James Murray, and they began to understand how these spirals of negativity happen. They came up with the below equations, which predict how positive or negative a husband and wife will be at the next point in their conversation.

As Fry explains, the model is framed as husband and wife but also applies to same-sex spouses and unmarried couples in long-term relationships.

Mathematics of Love long-lasting formula

The wife's equation is the top line, the husband's the bottom, and it solves for how positive or negative the next thing they say will be.

In hers, w stands for her mood in general, rwWt represents her mood when she's with her husband, and IHW shows how the husband's actions influence her. The husband's follows the same pattern.

Mathematics of Love formulas

Gottman and Murray found that the influence a couple has on each other is the most important factor. If a husband says something positive, like agrees with his wife or makes a joke, the wife will likely react positively in turn. Meanwhile, if he does something negative, like interrupts her or dismisses something she's said, she will likely be negatively impacted.

The "negativity threshold" pinpoints when the wife becomes so frustrated by her husband that she responds very negatively.

Interestingly, Fry says she would have imagined that the best relationships would have a high negativity threshold, meaning they'd be focused on compromise and would bring up an issue only if it was "a really big deal." But in fact, the opposite is true.

"The most successful relationships are the ones with a really low negativity threshold," writes Fry. "In those relationships, couples allow each other to complain, and work together to constantly repair the tiny issues between them. In such a case, couples don't bottle up their feelings, and little things don't end up being blown completely out of proportion."

Happy couples, then, tend to have more positive interactions than negative ones, and thus are more likely to give each other the benefit of a doubt. When there is an issue, they're more likely to bring it up quickly, fix it, and move on.

"Mathematics leaves us with a positive message for our relationships," Fry says, "reinforcing the age-old wisdom that you really shouldn't let the sun go down on your anger."

Watch Fry's TED Talk on the mathematics of love below.

 

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The crazy story of why there are almost no Germans in New York's East Village anymore

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Little Germany

Once upon a time, what is known as New York City's East Village today was the world's third-largest German-speaking city — behind only Vienna and Berlin.

While New York is home to an abundance of unique ethnic enclaves, Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany, was literally a German town in the middle of New York, which retained its language and customs.

At its peak, around the mid-1800s, Little Germany was home to 60,000 Germans and encompassed 400 blocks, from Division Street to 14th Street, and from Avenue D to Bowery. It was one of New York's most heavily populated neighborhoods, and some estimate that 30% of New York City was made of German immigrants and their American-born children. 

Tompkins Square Park was at the heart of the neighborhood, and Avenue B its main commercial strip, known as "German Broadway." The area, especially around Bowery, was full of massive beer halls, as well as lager beer shops, theaters and grocery stores aplenty. Most were advertised in German signage, and the neighborhoodeven had its own German newspaper, the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung.

On June 15th, 1904, all of that changed when Little Germany — and nearly all of its inhabitants — were wiped out in the General Slocum Disaster.

What was supposed to be a day trip along the East River to Long Island, organized by the East Village branch of the St. Mark's Lutheran Church for their 17th annual picnic, turned into a disaster. The chartered boat (the General Slocum) that was supposed to take guests to Long Island caught fire, killing 1,000 Germans.

Being a Wednesday, most of those on the ship were women and children — and mostly from wealthy families. These families were Little Germany's social foundation, causing major repercussions for the parish. Almost every family lost a member and the suicide count rose dramatically after the disaster. 

Little Germany never recovered. The once tight-knit enclave slowly dissolved, and when WWI created anti-German sentiments, people distanced themselves from their language, customs, and from each other even more.

Today, all that reminds us of the tragedy is the Slocum Memorial Fountain in the middle of Tompkins Square Park. Donated by the Sympathy Society of German Ladies in 1906, it features a lion's head as well as two children looking out at the ocean.

However, remnants of the area once rife with Germans are still abundant in the East Village, if you know where to look.

There's the Ottendorfer Library on 135 Second Avenue, which bears the words "Freie Bibliothek und Lesehalle (free library and reading room) on its bright red brick facade. It opened in 1884 as New York's first public library, and was a gift from German immigrant Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the German newspaper. Half of its books were in German, the other half in English.

Little GermanyThe building next to it, on 137 Second Avenue, was the German dispensary — the words "Deutsches Dispensary" still gleam on the facade. It was a community hospital offering medical care to the poor.

Little GermanyAnother remnant of the once-thriving neighborhoods is at 12 St. Marks Place, where the words "Einigkeit macht stark" (unity makes strength) and "Deutsch-Amerikanische Schützen Gesellschaft" (German-American Shooting Society) are engraved over a door that now leads to a yoga studio and gym.

Germania Bank BuildingThe famous Germania Bank Building at 190 Bowery also has German roots. Built by a German architect, it was the third location of the German-American Bank, a chain founded by German businessmen.

Little Germany also spawned the Germania Life Insurance Company of America, which is now the Guardian Life Insurance Company.

 

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STANFORD VS. MIT: Which school is really the best?

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University are two of the most highly regarded universities in the world — after all, we ranked them No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on this year's best colleges in America ranking.

But is it possible to determine which one is better? We looked at everything from prestige and starting salary to dining and nightlife to settle the score between MIT and Stanford. 

Scroll through the graphic below to see how each school stacks up.

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You can buy the infamous house from 'Silence of the Lambs' right now for $300,000 — and it's actually quite charming

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The infamous serial killer den from the now-classic 1991 thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" is up for sale, and if you can get past the vision of its fictional resident, Buffalo Bill, dancing around in a skin suit, it's actually quite charming.

The house featured in the Academy Award-winning film is in a Pittsburgh suburb and listed for $300,000.

Silence of the Lambs

The movie is about how young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) works to track down a psychopathic criminal known as Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) with the help of a brilliantly insane cannibal, Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).

The three-story Victorian depicted in the film is spooky and moth-ridden, with a dungeon where Buffalo Bill keeps the young women he abducts and harvests moths to place in the throats of his dead victims.

In real life, the house is bright and cheery with flowery wallpaper and a swimming pool with an old train caboose serving as a pool house.

Silence of the Lambs House

It sits on 1.76 acres and has four bedrooms and one bath across three stories. But the big question on any potential buyer's mind has to be, What about that creepy dungeon? 

Happily, it doesn't exist. The homeowners informed the Tribune-Review that those creepy basement scenes were actually filmed on a sound stage.  

The current owners, Scott and Barbara Lloyd, have a lot of history in the house. They were married in the foyer in 1976 and have since raised a family there. Now looking to downsize, the Lloyds are building a small ranch in a nearby town. 

The Preferred Realty of Berkshire Hathaway has the listing. Keep scrolling for more photos of the famous home.

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How to get an upgrade in a hotel

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Getting a hotel upgrade is tough these days.

But it's not impossible.

In fact, if you go about it the right way, chances are you'll be able to score a better room for yourself without having to pay any extra money.

We talked to three industry insiders to find out the best way to get a complimentary hotel upgrade.

1. Join the hotel's rewards program.

Andrew Flack, vice president of global marketing for Hilton, recommends joining the hotel's rewards program.

For example, Flack points out that Hilton offers an honors program, and he says guests are more likely to receive an upgrade if they become a member.

"When space is available, we upgrade our HHonors gold and diamond members who book directly through Hilton," Flack says. "Members that already have booked stays can also use HHonors Points to upgrade to a premium room or suite."

2. Just ask.

Jennifer Goodman, manager of Independent Collection's Capitol Hill Hotel, says that engaging with hotel staff is key when hoping for an upgrade. "The front desk folks really want to help, they want to please our guests, they want people to feel welcome," Goodman says. "So if you just ask them, most of them will bend over backwards to be helpful."

According to Michael O'Shaughnessy, manager of the New Hampshire Marriott property Wentworth By The Sea Hotel and Spa, guests should waiting until the last minute to ask for an upgrade. He suggests simply asking at the front desk when checking in.

"I think then we have the best idea that day what kind of inventory we have and if it’s a possibility, that’s usually the only time that we would be able to do a complimentary upgrade," O'Shaughnessy says.

3. Be nice.

Brett Krafft, manager of the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, suggests simply being friendly when approaching the front desk. He says that a little bit of genuine interaction with hotel staff can go a long way. 

4. Mention if you're celebrating a birthday or anniversary.

Don't be shy if your hotel stay was inspired by a birthday, anniversary, honeymoon, or other special occasion. Krafft says to mention your special occasion upon check in.

"If there's a special celebration, an anniversary, someone's birthday, our team is trained to engage with customers," Krafft says. "And if there's something special about a specific stay, we're certainly empowered to allow our team members to offer an upgrade."

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The ultimate guide to tipping in almost any situation

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Knowing how much to tip can be a guessing game. It's more than just giving someone money for what you think they deserve — rather, it's fully completing a transaction.

The website Wait But Why broke down tipping norms based on conversations with over 100 service workers in New York City about their experiences, plus reader feedback from the site and industry research.

Below, find out how much customers usually tip, how much those tips contribute to peoples' salaries, and a few situational notes to keep in mind. 

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Starbucks is transforming coffee shops into bars — here's what it's like to go to one

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Starbucks may soon become a lot more boisterous after 4 p.m. 

The Seattle-based chain brought their Starbucks Evenings menu to their Williamsburg store on North 7th Street on Wednesday, making it the first New York location to offer wine, beer, and small dinner dishes.

The Evenings menu first began in Seattle in 2010 and has now spread to 76 locations.

While met with some opposition by local businesses over Starbucks' liquor license, they're hoping to become a local destination for the later crowd.

The company is looking for ways to expand its business beyond coffee, and it plans to roll out the new evening menu in 2,000 of its US locations within five years.

I hopped on the train to Williamsburg to see for myself if Starbucks has what it takes to be a nightly social hub. 

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This Williamsburg location at 154 N 7th Street opened in 2014 and has a Starbucks Reserve coffee bar as well, offering micro-lot coffees and fancy brewing techniques.



Only two hours into the evening menu offering and the place was pretty busy. A large group had reserved a table and seemed to be enjoying the wine selection.



The space boasts ample seating with large and small tables, a long communal bar, and comfy coffee tables and chairs.



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The wealthiest people in the world under 35

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elizabeth holmes theranosSome of the most successful people in the world didn't become millionaires, let alone billionaires, until after age 40. Some, however, experienced the opposite trajectory.

Our friends at Wealth-X, a firm that does research and net-worth valuations on ultra-high net worth individuals, compiled a list of the richest people in the world under 35.

From Norwegian and Chinese heirs to the self-made billionaire founders of Snapchat and Facebook, here are the 20 wealthiest people under 35. 

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20. Adrian Cheng

Net worth: $1.4 billion

Cheng, 34, is the executive vice chairman of New World Development, a property-development company based in Hong Kong that was founded by his grandfather in 1970. Cheng joined New World Development in 2006 after earning his bachelor's from Harvard. He also sits on the board of his family's Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group as well as Modern Media Holdings and Giordano International. 

Cheng is founder of K11 Art Foundation, a non-profit that aides young contemporary artists and promotes art education. 

Source: Wealth-X



19. Camilla Hagen Sørli

Net worth: $1.5 billion

Norwegian-born Sørli is the daughter of Stein Erik Hagen, cofounder of supermarket chain RIMI. Hagen went on to found Canica to oversee the family's expanding business portfolio. In 2006, Canica became the largest shareholder of Orkla, a Norway-based industrial conglomerate. 

Thirty-four-year-old Sørli and her two siblings are co-owners and directors of Canica, now one of the largest privately-owned investment companies in Norway. Sørli also serves as chairwoman of Centurie, a marketing and distribution company and entity of Canica.

Source: Wealth-X



18. Caroline Hagen Kjos

Net worth: $1.5 billion

Sørli's younger sister, Caroline, is the chairwoman of Canica, her family's private holding company that recently relocated from Norway to Switzerland. Virtually all of Kjos' fortune is family inheritance.

Kjos, 31, also serves as a board member of Komplett, the largest e-commerce firm in Scandinavia with a total of 13 webshops in the region.

Source: Wealth-X



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How to make Tagliatelle al Ragu like an Italian

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Tagliatelle al raguNo one does pasta better than Italy. 

In Bologna, the capital of the Italian food hub of Emilia-Romagna, Tagliatelle al Ragu—flat ribbons of past smothered in a delectable meat sauce—is an iconic dish.

This authentic recipe of the pasta dish is excerpted from Lonely Planet's new cookbook, "From the Source: Italy," and comes from Chef Mauro Fabbri, who has been serving it at Ristorante Diana in Bologna, Italy, for years.

Follow the steps below and you'll be able to make the mouthwatering dish in your very own kitchen.

Excerpted from "From the Source: Italy", written by Sarah Barrell and photographed by Susan Wright © Lonely Planet 2015.

Here's what you'll need:

For the pasta: 

  • 90 g (3 oz) per head of fresh tagliatelle or pappardelle 

For the sauce: 

  • 1 kg (2lbs) hanger or skirt steak (make sure to have it coarsely minced by a butcher so that the meat doesn't lose its shape during the long cooking time) 
  • 100 g (3.5 oz) fresh, unsmoked pancetta (finely chopped) 
  • soffritto (mixture of two onions, 2 carrots, and 3 sticks of celery, chopped very finely so you can taste but not see it) 
  • 200 ml (7 fl oz) red wine 
  • 150 g (5.5 oz) tomato puree
  • half a nutmeg (grated) 
  • salt and pepper 
  • Parmesan (to serve) 

Here's how to make it:

Gently fry the finely chopped onions, carrots, and celery in olive oil and add in the finely chopped pancetta, until slightly browned.

chopped onions, carrots, and celery in pot

Now add the steak. 

Stir gently and cook until browned, then cover the pan with a lid and let the mixture braise gently for 40 minutes.

Add the red wine and again let the mixture simmer gently until the liquid has evaporated.

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Now stir in the salt, pepper, and freshly grated nutmeg. The chef recommends using half but you might want to add to taste.

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Add the tomato puree and enough water to cover the sauce plus about 2.5 cm (1 inch) extra.

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Now half-cover the pan and simmer the sauce very gently (a bare simmer) for two hours, checking and stirring every so often.

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By the end, the sauce will have absorbed the liquid, leaving a fully flavored ragu. Check and adjust the seasoning. 

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Serve the ragu over the pasta with freshly grated Parmesan. 

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Tip: 

Reheat the meat: Like all good meat and wine sauces, the flavour of the ragu will be even better the next day. Bologna may be called La Grassa but you might not relish the same name (ie ‘the fat’!). So, for the weight-conscious, skim off the layer of fat that forms on top before reheating.

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Seeing these facts about the entering class of 2019 may make you feel incredibly old

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It's late August. 

In the coming weeks, fresh-faced youths across America will look up from their phones long enough to wish their crying parents goodbye — for it is the Time Of Moving Into College.

Like every class that has preceded them, the class of 2019 grew up in a unique time. 

To help professors (and the rest of us olds) understand these students, liberal arts school Beloit College has released its "Mindset" list to detail the facts about the world these whippersnappers grew up in.  

According to the list, since they've been alive: 

  • Google has always been there, in its founding words, “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.”
  • They have never licked a postage stamp.
  • Email has become the new “formal” communication, while texts and tweets remain enclaves for the casual.
  • They have grown up treating Wi-Fi as an entitlement.
  • The announcement of someone being the “first woman” to hold a position has only impressed their parents.
  • Their parents have gone from encouraging them to use the Internet to begging them to get off it.
  • When they were born, cell phone usage was so expensive that families only used their large phones, usually in cars, for emergencies.
  • TV has always been in such high definition that they could see the pores of actors and the grimaces of quarterbacks. 
  • At least Mom and Dad had their new Nintendo 64 to help them get through long nights sitting up with the baby.

It's hilarious, humbling, and a reminder of how growing up in any given decade shapes a person's perspective. 

"They text all day, they're on social media all day, they're a collaborative, sharing generation," list co-creator and English professor emeritus Tom McBride said in a video interview.

"Instant availability of information changes not only the way we teach and learn, but the way we live," he added.

First assembled in 2002, Beloit makes these annual lists not only to make college graduates feel old, but so teachers can better relate to their students. Watergate isn't going to be a very handy reference when you're talking with people who were born 25 years after the Washington Post brought down a president

Students learn from what they already know, McBride and his fellow list creators emphasize, so you've got to have an idea of the world that met them — and connect there.

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A chart made from the leaked Ashley Madison data reveals which states in the US like to cheat the most

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Since the leak of hacked data from extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, many revelations have come out about the world's cheating habits.

We learned that hundreds of Ashley Madison subscribers were probably U.S. government employees, and that a whopping 15,000 of the email addresses were linked to either the military or the government.

But some of the most interesting pieces of data come from examining the differences between regions. We already looked at what cities around the world had the most cheaters, but now data scientist Jake Popham has examined which states in the U.S. like to cheat the most.

This graph shows each U.S. state organized by how many dollars they spent on Ashley Madison per capita. Alabama leads the charge, along with Colorado and Washington D.C. (though it's not technically a state). At the bottom are West Virginia, Mississippi, and Idaho.

These are the most unfaithful states in America.

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MAPPED: The most popular curse words in America, according to Twitter

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Forensic Linguist Jack Grieve recently published a set of maps displaying the popularity of various curse words on Twitter in different parts of the country.

Grieve used roughly 9 billion geo-coded tweets collected by Diansheng Guo in 2013–14 and funded by Digging into Data to create the maps, according to the blog "Strong Language."

The blue-orange scale shows the frequency with which the word is used in tweets relative to the total number of words used in tweets in that county (which correlates strongly with population density). The more orange an area, the more frequently they use that curse word in comparison to other parts of the country. The scale goes 2.32 standard deviations above and below the national average for use of that curse word.

Here are the maps:DAMN_GI

SHIT_GI

FUCK_GI

BITCH_GI

ASSHOLE_GI

 FAGGOT_GI

DARN_GI

CUNT_GI MOTHERFUCKER_GI

GOSH_GI

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Ousted Men's Wearhouse founder George Zimmer is launching a new company at Salesforce's big conference

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Men's Warehouse founder George Zimmer is indeed launching a new company. And he'll do it at Dreamforce, the huge annual conference for cloud computing company Salesforce.

So said Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff during his quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts.

Benioff was talking about all the big name guests taking the stage during the Dreamforce show in San Francisco, September 15-18.

That's when he mentioned:  "George Zimmer will launching his new company zTux and zTailors."

Zimmer made headlines in 2013 when his board ousted him and grabbed control of the company he founded, Men's Warehouse. 

A year later, he appeared at Dreamforce to tease his new company, which he launched in March called zTailors. That's an app that lets you find a tailor and schedule that tailor to do a house call.

But he was also supposedly working on another business, alternatively called Generation Tux and zTux, reports Erin Griffin at Fortune. It lets you rent tuxedos with an app. Zimmer was trying to raise a $22 million Series A, Griffin reports and noted that  zTux sounded a lot like Black Tux, a company that Zimmer had reportedly tried to invest in but was turned down.

Looks like zTux will make its first formal appearance at Dreamforce.

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This startup delivers ugly produce to your door for one very good reason

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Pity the ugly vegetable. Over 6 billion pounds of fresh produce are left unharvested or unsold every year, and much of it is wasted for a ridiculous reason: the produce is blemished.

In this case, "blemished" does not mean bruised or otherwise unfit for eating. It's just a word for fruits and vegetables that are a little to small, big, curvy, or funny-looking. As a result, they're kept out of grocery stores and food service deliveries — and tossed in the landfill.

A startup called Imperfect is trying to change the common perception of ugly produce by delivering it to your door. The service, which just launched fruit and veggie box deliveries in Oakland and Berkeley, California, charges about half of what you'd pay for comparable produce at the grocery store. 

As you can see from these photos of Imperfect's "too ugly" for stores produce, these fruits and veggies aren't even that bad looking — they're just being held up to unreasonable beauty standards.

This is my personal box of Imperfect produce. As you can see, nothing looks immediately "off" about the items.



Separated out in the Imperfect warehouse, the so-called blemishes on the company's fruits and veggies become more clear. According to Imperfect, these peppers were kept out of stores due to their "smushed faces, extra appendages, and wrinkles."



These Pink Lady apples were rejected because they're smaller than the required minimum diameter of 2 inches.



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