Lio Malca is a renowned art collector, gallery owner, and hotelier with properties in New York City, Ibiza, and Tulum.

He recently hoisted his full-floor SoHo loft onto the market for a steep $6 million. The two-bedroom loft is chock-full of famous art, including pieces by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and KAWS. He's constantly rotating the pieces that are on display in his apartment, making it an endlessly fresh art experience. 

Oren and Tal Alexander and Ian Slater of Douglas Elliman have the listing. They recently invited us to a private listing event so that we could check out Malca's pad for ourselves. We were blown away by what we saw. 

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As we walked in, we were greeted by two massive pieces of art. Hanging on the wall is Holton Rower's "Lets Make a Baby." The tall sculpture is Will Hyman's "Security guard," and the flower sculpture is "Untitled (Rose 46)," by the same artist.

Sushi chefs from Tomoe were busy making rolls fresh, ready to serve to guests.

Above the kitchen counter, a TV was projecting images of other pieces from Malca's collection. An enormous wine refrigerator has room for storing some 600 bottles.

Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States. Located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, Barrow sits within the North Slope Borough — a 89,000 square-mile stretch of land that begins at the foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range to the coast. It's remote (more than 700 miles away from Anchorage), and in the winter months, it's extremely cold.

While photographer Eirik Johnson was on assignment near Barrow, documenting the clean up process of a shuttered Naval Camp, he heard rumors of a nearby hunting camp from the locals. With long summer days — the sun can set as late at 1am in August — Johnson was left with plenty of time to work on his own personal project.

He began documenting the makeshift hunting cabins, seasonally inhabited by the Iñupiat Eskimos, and decided to return the following winter to document the same cabins in freezing -30 ferinheight temperatures. We talked to Johnson about his experience in Barrow, and the little hunting cabins that are so far north.  

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Nearly 7,000 people live within Alaska's North Slope Borough — and a majority of them are Iñupiat Eskimos.

The Iñupiat's are dependent on the land, the sea, and the animals that inhabit it to remain sustainable.

During the summer months, they hunt for bearded seals and caribou. The bearded seal skin is used to help build umiaq boats, and caribou meat is a valuable resource throughout the year to North Slope communities.

Growing a beard isn't easy for everyone. Patchy spots and stubborn growth can thwart even the most stalwart of beard-growers.

But some men have the opposite problem: too much growth in the wrong places — also known as the "neck beard." It's gross. This kind of beard is best exemplified by the unkempt Shia Lebouf in his newest art project, "#allmymovies," where he watched all his movies back to back in one sitting in a movie theater in New York City.

It looks like this:

Lebouf's unkempt beard is a classic example of one in need of a serious trim, and some extra help around the neckline. While it doesn't affect all men who grow their beards out, it does affect the vast majority.

There's an easy way to tell. Ask yourself this question: Does your beard hair extend further down your neck than the imaginary line that separates your neck and underchin?

If the answer to the question is yes, you're in dire need of a neckline trim. Luckily, this problem is easily rectified with the help of your preferred shaving implement, and some knowledge. Here's how you should tackle it:

• First, imagine a line that extends from the bottom of your ear down, following the imaginary crook between your jaw and your underchin, and your neck. That line should be about an inch and a half above your Adam's apple, but of course it's different for everyone based on your proportions.
• Then, simply shave off everything below the line, using shaving cream and going against the grain. Try to keep that line as neat as possible, as it is the new "edge" of your beard. (If you're using an electric shaver, use the edging attachment.)

Here's a visual representation:

Unless you're superparticular, there's no need to make the line absolutely perfect. It is underneath your chin after all, so you shouldn't obsess about it too much.

It does get a bit tricky around the line where your beard turns from being perpendicular to your ear to pointing towards your Adam's apple. Here you have two options: either square the edge, which is a more masculine look, or round it out. If you have a rounder face you might want to make the edge square, and if you have a squarer face, a rounder edge might give your face some more depth.

And that's all there is to it! Follow these steps and you'll never have to worry about the dreaded neck beard again. Make sure to follow my simple shaving guide as well, so you the shaving doesn't irritate your skin and cause you break out underneath your neck.

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Will Smith has a very different parenting style… and it has produced some very interesting results.

Jaden and Willow Smith, two of his three kids (one is from a previous marriage), have a reputation for being deeply philosophical in their interviews, known to talk about quantum physics and energy in the air.

They're both home schooled, and Jaden calls it the "Mystery School." The two help set their own curriculum, from learning how to build pyramids to making records. While Willow did go to a regular school for a year, she said it was depressing.

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New York City is not the most forgiving of places, with its egregious rent prices, competitive job market, and overall density.

Sometimes after a day in the city, all you need is a bit of good old-fashioned motherly advice — or simply, mom-time.

For those not lucky enough to be a subway ride away from home, 63-year-old Nina Keneally — a Bushwick-based mom of two grown sons, and founder of NeedAMom— will provide just that, for $40 an hour.

"It's an evolving process of what the business is really going to be," Keneally tells Business Insider, but she's quick to clarify that it will not translate into cleaning your bathroom or doing your laundry: "As any mother says, I'm not your maid."

She'll do just about everything else, from tweaking your résumé and keeping you company at your doctor's appointment, to simply listening to you over a cup of coffee. "I'm not going to cook for you, but I'll go to the supermarket with you and talk you through making your first big meal," she explains.

The idea for NeedAMom emerged as she met more and more young people in her millennial-filled Brooklyn neighborhood, Bushwick, where she and her husband moved to from Connecticut two years ago.

"I started to interact with young people in yoga, and met a lot of neighbors just walking my dog," she says. "After a while, they started talking to me about things that were going on in their lives. They approached me in a vaguely maternal way. It looked like there was room for someone to be a personal mentor for these people — as opposed to a professional mentor — and just offer them some hard-earned wisdom and perspective."

Her wisdom and perspective officially became a business in late October. The fee is $40 an hour, but new clients pay $30 for their first session.

While the company is still very much in its nascent stage, Keneally's already been asked when she's going to franchise it — others have asked if they can work for her.

"I need to take it a step at a time and make sure it's a sound idea," she explains. "And if this works in New York City and I decide to expand it, I would need to make sure I have a sound business plan and advisory team on hand."

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For many Russians living in remote communities, life couldn't exist without the railroad. 

In the impossibly small village of Kalach in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, only a dozen or so residents call the forested town home and their numbers are dwindling.

Kalach is the terminus of the local narrow-gauge railway, the line literally stops there. The town used to house several hundred citizens, mostly in the forestry trade, at its peak during the height of the Soviet Union's power. But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, with it tumbled the country's economy.

Now, life there is slow and uneventful as the village has become self-sustaining; trains only come a few times a week for supplies. Keep scrolling to see coverage from Reuters photographer Maxim Zmeyev, who captured how life continues in this minute village nestled in the thick forests of the Urals.

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Kalach is at the end of a roughly 180 mile long railway extension built in 1898 to transport lumber from the region's dense forests.

Source: Forestry Railways in Russia

The train line – itself an extension added onto Russia's larger rail network – begins in Alapayevsk, the nearest large city. Here, the engine driver's assistant walks past Soviet–era engines at the depot.

This is the office of the railroad depot – Nina Vysotina has worked for the railroad for 42 years.

Avril Lavigne may be old news in America, but she still fills stadiums in Japan.

Last year, her self-titled album hit No. 2 on Japan's Billboard chart. Its lead single, "Hello Kitty," is about her love for the country. While American critics thought it was cultural appropriation, Japan didn't seem to care.

The country has the world's second-largest music market, after the United States. In Japan, albums cost around $30, which is a lot more than in the US, yet piracy is uncommon.

The album also topped charts in China and Taiwan.

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Thanks to social networking apps, it's never been easier to keep in contact with your friends.

Many of the best social networking apps out there have been around for a while, but as smartphones get smarter, so do the apps, and you can now do more than ever.

From fan favorites like Instagram and Facebook to newcomers like live-streaming Periscope, there's never been a better time to find a social network that's tailored to your tastes.

Facebook Messenger is becoming the one app to rule them all.

Facebook’s decision to break Messenger out of its main app in 2014 turned out to be a very smart move. Messenger now has 700 million users worldwide, and it’s become much more than a way to send text messages to friends.

Messenger can now send money, make video and phone calls over the internet, and send stickers and animated GIFs with ease. When Facebook’s virtual assistant “M” becomes available outside of San Francisco, Messenger will be able to do anything from order a pair of shoes to call your cable company for you.

If the future is one app that does everything, Messenger is poised to be a big winner.

Price: Free
Available on: iOS, Android, web

Timehop will make you feel nostalgic.

The premise of Timehop is simple: connect your social media accounts, and the app shows you what you shared online a year ago, two years ago, and even further back.

It's like getting a window into your past life on social media every day.

Earlier this year, Timehop told Business Insider that the app could eventually show you more than posts on social media, like rides with Uber, the songs you listened to on Spotify, your heath tracker data, and even your text messages. The end goal is to be come the ultimate digital archive of your life.

Price: Free
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Periscope is revolutionizing live broadcasts.

What Twitter did for making micro-status updates, Periscope could do for live video broadcasts. That may explain why Twitter bought the app and its small team in February before it even launched. 

If you’ve never used Periscope before, here’s how it works: download the app to your phone, log in, and start a live video stream with your phone’s camera. Your friends on Periscope and Twitter will be notified to tune in, and viewers can interact with broadcasts by commenting and leaving virtual hearts.

You can choose to save your broadcast for people to view on Periscope later, but every video shared on the service expires after 24 hours.

Periscope was born out of its CEO’s frustration with the media’s coverage of the Gezi protests in Turkey, and as it grows in popularity, people around the world are discovering how powerful it can be for sharing a unique perspective of what’s happening.

Reporter Paul Ronzheimer recently used Periscope to document his journey with a group of Syrian refugees from Greece to Germany. “In Germany we have been having a big discussion about the intensity of media coverage of this story. But on Periscope, everybody could see it was live,” he told The Guardian. “It happened. No one was cutting it, no one was putting a two- or three-minute piece together after we filmed it. And for Germans, it was really good to understand the problems the refugees have been facing.”

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It's no secret that people love lists. They're organized, require minimal effort to read, and can make complicated information easy to digest. 

Lists appeal to our innate tendency to categorize information, as well as help us feel less stressed, according to The New Yorker. Seeing information as a list makes you feel less overwhelmed by a task so it's easier to complete, which in turn makes you happier, Maria Konnikova writes.

Here are 24 list ideas to get you started. 

Are there any other lists we're forgetting? Let us know in the comments. 

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Recipes you want to try

Pull this out the next time you're stuck on what to make for dinner for instant inspiration.

Movies you want to see

You'll never have to sit through the "I don't care, what to do you want to watch?" scenario again.

Books you want to read

Next time you're reaching for another predictable beach read, look up that acclaimed novel-of-the-year, Oprah-recommended one instead.

It's easy to put an electronic device in front of children to distract them. But Dan Siegel, founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, advocates caution. Don't allow devices to stunt important development.

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Take note, Listerine.

In the near future, the cause of our stinky morning breath could be the thing that helps us beat it.

Our body is filled with trillions microorganisms. Some of those microbes hang out in our mouth, which is nice and humid. While we sleep, our mouths sometimes dry out, which can kill off some good bacteria and cause gas-emitting bacteria to thrive. That's the reason you sometimes wake up with a putrid-smelling mouth.

But, there's a solution, and its name is Streptococcous salivarius K12. Researchers think the bacteria strain could soon be put into a lozenge or spray and used as a probiotic, or beneficial mix of bacteria, to knock out the bad bacteria that causes bad breath. 

The delicate balance of microbes living inside each one of us, collectively called our microbiome, help keep our body running. Unfortunately, things we do — like taking antibiotics, for example — can wipe out many of these beneficial microbes, throwing off the balance.

Susan Perkins, one of the curators of a recent exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History focused on the microbiome, told Business Insider she wouldn't be surprised if we started using bacteria to treat morning breath within the year.

A 2006 study of 23 people with halitosis, or bad breath, found that those given S. salivarius K12 lozenges had lower levels of smelly breath. The participants started by using an antimicrobial mouthwash followed by either a placebo lozenge or one with S. salivarius K12. They found that the addition of the bacteria reduced the levels of smelly breath better than the mouthwash on its own. 

Ideally, this probiotic could be used in addition to mouth washes like Listerine, which kill all the bacteria — good and bad — in your mouth. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, the director of the University of North Carolina's Microbiome Research Core, told Business Insider that antibacterial solutions like mouthwash and hand sanitizer are being overused to the point where they could be doing more harm than good.

"We are just too clean," she said.

But probiotics aren't a perfect solution either. At least not yet. We still don't know everything about the bacteria in our bodies, and not every probiotic works for every person. Plus, probiotics still aren't regulated by the FDA, so it's a little tricky to know if the supplements people are taking are actually doing what they say they are. 

Even so, the probiotics industry is expanding. The hope is to eventually use these probiotics to treat everything from cancer to bad body odor, said Perkins.

In the meantime, keep your eye out for S. salivarius K12. 

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Go vegan. Eat orange food Monday and yellow food Tuesday. Survive on baby food.

No matter which diet we pick, the problem remains the same: Eventually, it ends. And when it does, researchshows that we often go back to where we started.

So is the concept of healthy eating a farce? Are we forever doomed to swing between extremes of meticulous, measured nibbling and glutinous overindulgence?

Thankfully, the answer is no.

Here's a list of some of the most popular celebrity eating plans, which we've evaluated based on the research, so you can distinguish hype from help.

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Beyoncé reportedly used the "Master Cleanse" to lose weight before "Dreamgirls."

The scoop: Beyoncé reportedly did the Master Cleanse, which involves subsisting on nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, before staring in the movie "Dreamgirls" — the idea being that it detoxes your system and accelerates weight loss.

Should you do it? You never need to do a detox. Our bodies do it for us. While our kidneys filter our blood and remove waste from our diet, our liver processes medications and detoxifies any chemicals we ingest. Paired together, these organs make our bodies natural cleansing powerhouses. So stop eyeing that lemon squeezer. It's not worth it.

Reese Witherspoon did the "Baby Food Diet."

The scoop: The Baby Food Diet has been traced to celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, who's since denied supporting it. It involves eating 14 jars of baby food, with the option of adding in one actual low-calorie meal, each day.

Should you do it? Nope. The jars of baby food are 80 calories. Eat 14 and you end up with roughly 1,000 calories each day plus one real meal. So long as the meal you allow yourself is about 400 calories — think a small piece of grilled fish or lean meat and some sautéed veggies — you'll definitely lose weight. But it'll be because you're not eating food, not because mushed-up fruit is a miracle diet product.

Snooki went on the "Cookie Diet."

The scoop: Snooki reportedly lost weight in 2010 with a diet of cookies. For three weeks, she ate six of the 90-calorie treats a day and one small meal. Alarmingly, the Cookie Diet is not Snooki's creation: Now-retired Dr. Sanford "The Cookie Doctor" Siegal trademarked the plan.

Should you do it? Probably not. Cookie Diet cookies are no Girl Scout Samoas. The recipe's first three ingredients are glycerin (used to add sweetness and moisture), whole-wheat powder (for fiber), and beef protein. They've also got rice crisps (ostensibly for crunch), egg whites (for more protein), wheat bran (for fiber), and a smattering of B vitamins.

If there's one thing all New Yorkers love, it's brunch.

As part of its 2016 restaurant-survey results, Zagat compiled a list of the best brunch spots in New York City.

Zagat reviewed restaurants in downtown, midtown, and uptown Manhattan, as well as in Brooklyn. Food ratings are out of 30 on the Zagat scale. For reference, scores between 26 and 30 are generally reserved for restaurants that are "extraordinary to perfection." 

So whether you're a born-and-bred New Yorker or just passing through town for the weekend, here are the best places to get a leisurely start to your day. 

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44&X

622 10th Avenue

Food: 23

As the name alludes, new American restaurant 44 & X sits at the corner of 44th Street and 10th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. Customers rave about the brunch menu, naming the hazelnut brioche French toast, fluffy herbed omelets, and silver dollar pancakes as some of their favorites.

It wouldn't be an NYC brunch without a few drinks: the Bloody Mary with stuffed olives and pomegranate mimosa shine as well.

ABC Kitchen

35 East 18th Street

Food: 26

With rustic decor and a huge, airy space, ABC Kitchen in Union Square serves as the perfect backdrop for a casual, yet chic brunch. The restaurant is committed to serving fresh, local, sustainable produce, and sources many of its ingredients from the nearby Union Square Greenmarket.

The menu changes based on what's available, but brunch options can include housemade yogurt, scrambled eggs with crispy oysters in a hot butter sauce, or buttermilk pancakes topped with lemon curd.

Aita

132 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn

Food: 24

Wooden floors, low lighting, and slight decorative touches make Aita an adorable and unfussy brunch spot in Clinton Hill.

The simple menu features traditional brunch dishes, such as eggs Benedict and French toast, that have unique touches like jalapeno Bearnaise sauce, homemade cashew butter, and smoked Canadian bacon.

RyanAir might be the "world's favorite airline" based on the number of passengers it carries per year, but it's still notorious for being unpleasant to fly on.

One index rated RyanAir the second-worst brand in the world for customer service last year. The Dublin-based airline has drawn so much ire from passengers that one set up a website with the URL "ihateryanair.co.uk" and was later forced to forfeit the web address to the company.

RyanAir's bad reputation isn't very surprising considering it once announced plans to charge passengers to use the bathroom (which the company later dropped).

Flying with RyanAir is predictably frustrating in many ways, but the service wasn't so bad that it deterred me from booking flights with the airline while I was living in Europe. The rock-bottom prices keep customers coming back, and I don't know of any airline in the US that lets you fly to another country (or another state) for $20.

I flew with RyanAir several times over the past year, and I did notice some differences from more traditional airlines.

Hands-down the most frustrating thing about flying with RyanAir as an American is having to go to bag drop to get your boarding pass stamped.

Even if you're not checking anything, non-EU citizens have to get a "visa check," which means waiting in the long line for bag drop to have an airline employee behind the desk check your passport.

You also can't get a mobile boarding pass if you're not an EU citizen, which means you have to remember to print out a paper boarding pass before you head to the airport.

Sometimes, when you are planning a vacation, where to go isn't the most important part of the equation.

For me, any number of factors can determine the destination: Is it relaxing? Is it interesting? Is it exotic? Have I been there before? If a destination hits any of those factors, I could be interested — as long as airfare is the right price. 

While planning a recent vacation with no concrete destination in mind, I hit upon one of the best secrets in travel.

For those in the know, SkyScanner is one of the best travel booking sites on the planet. It searches through hundreds of different booking and airline sites to find you the best deals, but somehow it always seems to find cheaper international flights than other travel sites like Expedia or Kayak. In addition it has great features like airfare graphs to let you know whether you should buy now or wait for prices to drop.

SkyScanner's best secret, however, is for people who aren't too picky about the destination: It lets you search for flights all over the world to find the cheapest destination to fly into. 

To search for flights all over the world, simply go to the SkyScanner flight search page and enter the city you are flying out of in the "From" box and then type in "Everywhere" in the "To" box. Next, put in your desired dates and hit "Search." SkyScanner will then search all the available flights on those dates and give you every option ordered by price.  

Just in the quick search above, I found sub-$400 airfare to hot travel destinations like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, and St. Maarten. Cheap US flights on those dates include Florida (Orlando, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale), Chicago, and Texas. If your dates are flexible, try out a few different searches.

There are also great last-minute deals. In August, I found a $350 round-trip ticket to Stockholm, Sweden, for just two weeks later. It's usually impossible to fly round-trip to Europe for anything less than $800.

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Upon hearing word of the November 13 attacks on Paris, which killed 127 and wounded about 200 more, people and countries around the world began showing solidarity to Paris using everything from peace signs to popular hashtags.

In honor of the French flag, many famous landmarks around the world were lit up in red, white, and blue. From the United States all the way to Sydney, Australia, the photos colorful photos make a strong statement of support.

Here's what some of the world's most famous landmarks looked like after the attacks in Paris.

As was the Senate building in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City was also lit up for Paris.

Check out the Calgary Tower in Canada.

Scientists are developing a pill for people who are ill or injured and cannot exercise. The drug is currently being tested on mice and tricks the body into thinking it has exercised. 

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As a flying passenger we have to deal with the typical stresses of checkin in, getting through security, and waiting for boarding. But what are the pilots doing before takeoff? Virgin Atlantic pilot Ian Worthington takes us through his process of preparing before a flight.  

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Despite all of the horror, fear, and loss in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris, people have responded with bravery.

The attacks on November 13 killed 127 people and injured 200 more (99 of those are serious injuries).

We've found the tweets, images, and stories that document some of the amazing responses to the tragedy.

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Parisians opened up their doors.

Soon after news about Friday's attacks throughout Paris reached the internet, people began tweeting with the hashtag #PorteOuverte, which means open door.

The hashtag was intended to link people who are stranded in Paris with a safe place to wait out the ongoing threats in Paris.

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10 of us at mine in the 6th, DM or tweet me if you need #PorteOuverte

A Porte Ouverte website that was apparently created last night as well to help people offer and find shelter.

World landmarks showed their solidarity.

The world's most famous monuments are lit in blue, white, and red in solidarity with France >

Evacuees sang the national anthem.

Two explosions happened around halftime during an exhibition soccer match between France and Germany at the Stade de France stadium. The game continued until the end, but as people evacuating after they began hearing about the terror attacks, and spontaneously started singing the French national anthem "Le Marsailles" on their way out of the stadium.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by Karl Olive:

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