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Here Are The Silicon Valley Restaurants Where Techies Will Splurge On Valentine's Day

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Though Silicon Valley would usually remind you of bytes, not bites, the tech hub is arguably going through a bit of a dining renaissance

And when it comes to Valentine's Day dinner, some restaurants around the valley are likely to be packed with techies looking for a romantic and tasty meal. 

We asked veteran Silicon Valley matchmaker Amy Andersen which restaurants were getting a lot of buzz from her clients. These restaurants are bound to be a hot ticket this Valentine's Day. 

Manresa, Los Gatos

Manresa is one of only two restaurants in the Silicon Valley to earn two Michelin stars, which it's now earned for five years in a row. Chef David Kinch uses unique ingredients like pine needles and flowering cactus he forages from the California coastline, and the lighting is low and romantic. 

Tamarine, Palo Alto

This Vietnamese fusion place tends to be packed with venture capitalists and techie types (Robert Scoble posted a picture of himself here, and he's obviously wearing Google Glass), so reservations should be made far ahead of time. According to Forbes, shaking beef is a top dish here, and they sell 1,800 orders a month. 

Sundance, Palo Alto

This is one of the most popular steakhouses in town, and the low lighting and booth seating are conducive for a romantic dinner. Among the restaurant's highlights are a cozy fireplace lounge and a wine list with 450 selections from around the world. 

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According to Oprah, this is Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's favorite restaurant and thus was a natural choice for when they met face-to-face in 2011. This intimate restaurant is known for its innovative farm-to-table menu in addition to being popular among the tech sector — Sandberg also dined here with Mark Zuckerberg in 2008 before she left Google for Facebook.  

La Fondue, Saratoga

Techies will enjoy the laid-back but romantic atmosphere at La Fondue, where they can choose from more than 50 different types of cheese and chocolate to dip bread, meat, and fruit into. 

The Village Pub, Woodside

This Michelin-starred restaurant is cozy and romantic, perfect for a special occasion. Silicon Valley elite have been known to make deals over steaks and fish here (SpaceX investor Steve Jurvetson has been spotted), but it's sure to be busy on Valentine's Day. 

Evvia, Palo Alto

Getting a reservation at this 18-year-old Greek eatery is practically impossible, but the top-notch cuisine and rustic setting are well worth planning ahead. 

Quattro, Palo Alto

The Four Seasons Silicon Valley's formal dining room is known for its outstanding tasting menus. A special four-course Valentine's dinner will go for a steep $150 per couple. 

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Fuki Sushi, Palo Alto 

Sushi is huge with the Silicon Valley crowd, and Fuki's decor and cuisine delivers. Many tech figureheads are regulars here, including Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CEO T.J. Rogers, who says Fuki "has been my Saturday night spot for almost 20 years," according to the restaurant's web site. Facebook even opened a branch of the restaurant on their campus. 

 

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The Brand-New Airbus Jetliner Has Made Its Public Debut, And It Looks Awesome

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Airbus, Boeing's chief rival in the aerospace industry, brought its new jet to the Singapore Air Show this week.

We've been seeing photos of the A350 XWB for months, and it did a special fly-over during the Paris Air Show in June.

But this is the first time the public had the chance to go near the thing.

The A350 XWB, in the works for nearly a decade, is an effort to push the envelope in passenger comfort, aerodynamics, and fuel efficiency.

One of the first commercial jets to be made primarily of composite materials instead of metal, the A350 will come in three variants, the 800, 900, and 1000. They will carry between 276 and 369 people.

The variants of Boeing's Dreamliner, another composite jet, seat between 242 and 323 passengers (though airlines can make special arrangements for more or fewer seats).

Boeing had the jump on Airbus, delivering the first Dreamliner in September 2011. But two battery malfunctions a week apart in January 2013 led to a federally mandated grounding, hurting the planemaker's reputation and bottom line.

Eager to avoid such a costly debacle, Airbus has been careful rolling out the A350. But it's now moving through the testing phase at a rapid clip — roughly twice the rate it used on its last new plane, according to Aviation Week.

Here's the first completed A350 XWB, sporting a fresh paint job in Toulouse, France.



The development of the A350 was approved in December 2004.

[Source: BBC]



Like Boeing's Dreamliner, the A350 is made mostly from composite materials, not metal. That makes the whole plane lighter and more fuel-efficient.



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Here Are More Than 177,000 Ways To Tie A Tie

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A group of mathematicians and hackers have discovered that there are more than 177,000 ways to tie a tie.

In a preprint posted on the math and science repository arXiv.org, they built off of an earlier work that identified 85 distinct tie knots. Those knots, however, are variations on a normal tie knot with a flat facade, tied with the broader end of the tie.

The expanded group of tie knots was inspired by more complicated knots, like the Trinity knot and the Elderidge knot, that have more elaborate facades, and are tied using the thinner end of a tie. 

The process of tying a tie is essentially just a series of moves. The tie wearer's shirt is broken up into three regions — left, right, and center. At each step, the blade of the tie starts in one of those regions and moves into one of the other regions, alternating between going over and under the existing knot.

At certain points, it is also possible to tuck the blade of the tie under a fold of cloth in the knot. For conventional tie knots, this is only done at the end to secure the knot. For the expanded universe of knots developed in the paper, tucks are possible throughout the process, leading to more complex textures.

The mathematicians, led by Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, made a rigorous formal language to describe the moves involved in tying a knot. The letter "T" represents a "turnwise" move — taking the tie blade and moving it to the region clockwise in the mirror of its current region. If the tie end is in the center region, near the wearer's neck, a turnwise move sends it to the right. If the end is on the right, it goes over or under the knot to the left.

"W" means "widdershins" — a counterclockwise move going in the opposite direction. These moves can be seen in the image below, taken from the paper:

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The formal alphabet is completed with "U" is for tucking the tie "under" some previous bow, or fold, in the knot.

With this alphabet in place, a tie knot can be described by a sequence of these symbols. The authors of the paper introduce a few rules for making knots — because of practical considerations, only sequences of up to eleven T and W winding moves are allowed. They also observe that a tuck needs to have two moves in the same direction (either TT or WW) immediately before it, so that there is a fold of cloth to tuck the blade into.

One of the advantages of using these notations to describe the knot-tying process is that it lends itself well to mathematical analysis. Counting sequences like this is a fairly straightforward process. The authors found 2046 valid sequences of T and W winding moves, and by including optional tucks, a total of 177,147 possible ways to knot a tie.

Another advantage is that it is possible for a computer program to actually write out all of these tie knots. The authors made such a program, in the form of a random tie knot generator that includes a knot sequence chosen from the 177,147 possibilities, along with pictures to help guide the process.

The majority of these knots, like the Trinity and Elderidge knots that inspired them, are tied using the thin blade as the active blade. Many of the knots look pretty strange.

We took a few of the random knots from the generator and tried them out:

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And here's how it turned out:

tie 1Here's another one:

random tie knot 3And the result:

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Why People In Alaska Can't Watch Netflix Without Fearing A $100 Surcharge

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The most expensive movie my sister  – KC D’Onfro – ever watched cost $100 and she slept through half of it.

KC lives in Bethel, a small city in western Alaska, one of many rural villages and cities dealing with something that most people in the contiguous U.S. will be hard-pressed to imagine: Internet data caps.

When people in Bethel pay their monthly broadband bill, they’re paying for a fixed amount of Internet data–generally, 25 GB per household. And the overcharge fees are outrageous.

It was that fee that slammed KC. She pays $100 a month for 25 GB of data. One fateful night, she and her roommate decided to watch a movie on Netflix. Both of them fell asleep halfway through, but the movie played 'til the end, eating up two GBs of data too many and consequently doubling their bill for that month. (One hour of HD video on Netflix can use up to 2.3 GB of data.) 

“Now, I don’t even consider Netflix until near the very end of the month, and I have to be sure that I’m no more than three-fourths of the way into my total data, at the absolute most,” KC says. “So it’s a very serious business – I have to poll people to figure out what that one very special movie should be.”

This notion seems crazy to anyone with unlimited Internet, anyone used to binge-watching entire seasons of their favorite TV show without thinking twice. In New York City, for example, you can pay as low as $30 a month to Time Warner Cable to have unbounded wireless Internet. You probably have no concept of how much 25 GB of data really is. Unfortunately, many people in Alaska don’t either.

“The average customer doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing,” John Wallace, a self-described technology advocate, told Business Insider. “I hate to say it, but they just don’t.”

John Wallace has lived in Bethel nearly his whole life, and he owns and runs Alaska Technologies, a company which works with small businesses and nonprofits that can’t afford their own tech departments. Normal people also come to him with their Internet woes, and he has collected a lot of horror stories.

There were the two girls who had unwittingly allowed Dropbox to continuously sync to their computers: They racked up a $3,500 overcharge in two weeks. One user’s virus protection got stuck on and it cost him $600. Wallace has heard people say, “I was gaming and I got a little out of hand and I had to pay $2,800." Once, two six-year-old girls accidentally spent $2,000 playing an online preschool game. Their Mom was totally unaware what was going on: Until she got the bill. 

The huge slip-ups happen, but, as Wallace explains it, when you’re living with a data cap, you notice that the little things add up, too. Say you pick a news video that you want to watch on CNN. The segment might only be five minutes long, but you have to watch a 20 second commercial beforehand. That commercial might cost you $0.50 worth of your total data. 

“Nobody likes to talk about it,” he says, “But porn drives the nation and that kind of stuff puts people over the roof. Entertainment data always costs more than business data.”

Data caps completely change the way that people use the Internet. You could send countless emails on 25 GB of data, but any sort of streaming or video gobbles it up. 

Sounds terrible, right? In rural Alaska, there’s no avoiding the capped data or astronomical overcharge fees: One communications company, GCI, has a monopoly and costs don’t look likely to change anytime soon (though Wallace says that they have lowered in the last year–his city no longer has the highest Internet rates in the country). Bethel's prices aren't even the worst. You can see all the plan prices on GCI's website (check out the prices in the tiny hamlet of Atka): GCI

The history of how Alaska came to rely on this broadband monopoly is long, complicated, and fraught with questionable decisions on the behalf of lawmakers, but, a data-capped future isn’t as far-fetched or distant as the average Internet user might like to think.

Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner have all experimented with data caps in the last several years.

“It’s like boiling a frog,” Karl Bode, editor of DSLReports, told TechHive. “Carriers are slowly expanding trials and experiments — first voluntary — in order to make meters, caps, and overages standard for everyone. Unless you’re willing to pay significantly, significantly more.”

Rural Alaska might be setting an example that we're all doomed to follow. If Comcast acquires Time Warner Cable, it may push for more data caps.

For now, though, John Wallace, will be continuing to try to educate people in Bethel about how much Internet they should buy and how to avoid going over their purchased limits. But even though he can provide people with a rough formula, he doesn't know how to solve the real problem. 

Because rural Alaska's data cap is about so much more than watching movies or the latest viral YouTube video. It’s about equal access and opportunity. The Internet was meant to improve the lives of people in rural Alaska, but – because of the data caps and the sky-high overage fees – it ends up costing them huge amounts of money.

“We have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and some of the highest rates of suicide, sexual assault, and drug abuse,” Wallace says. “The people that can’t afford it are the ones that are getting victimized.  It was supposed to bring access – true availability of goods and services – but it really just brought a huge bill that many can't afford.

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I Had My Face 'Morphed' By A Plastic Surgeon And Was Shocked By The Results

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Side view BEFORE and AFTER Megan Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery can be a daunting process.

In addition to risks from anesthesia and botched procedures, patients are taking a major gamble that they will share the same aesthetic ideal with their plastic surgeon.

Enter visual surgery, or "morphing" — the use of technology during the consultation process so that the patient and doctor can agree ahead of time on the surgical end results.

I visited the plastic surgery office of Dr. Douglas Steinbrech in New York City, whose practice has been using morphing technology for the past seven years. I went to learn about the technology he uses to consult with patients -- I did not have any cosmetic procedures myself.

What Is "Morphing"?

In short, morphing is the use of image manipulation software to give patients an idea of what they will look like once their surgery is complete.

The surgery visualization has a few upsides, Dr. Steinbrech explained. First, patients can get an idea of what they will look like after the surgery, and decide if they want to go more or less extreme than they had originally planned.

"Patients tend to be more conservative," said Patient Coordinator Bernadette Mahoney. "I think a lot of it comes from anxiety, and not wanting to take it too far. But we've actually found that when patients don't go as extreme as they want, they often regret it."

The process also helps Dr. Steinbrech determine whether a potential patient is ready for cosmetic surgery. If a patient has unrealistic expectations, it can raise a red flag. He said he might then choose to provide the patient with information on body dysmorphic disorder (an illness in which individuals are excessively concerned with body image, specifically "defects" they perceive in their own personal appearance), or simply tell them that working together wouldn't be a good fit.

But the biggest upside of all, according to Dr. Steinbrech, is that he can use the "morphed" before and after photos to make sure the results are exactly what the patient wants.

"On the day of surgery, we review these images during prep with the patient, and that has helped me nail my results as I continue to check back with the technology during surgery," he said.

The strategy has been highly effective for his practice. "A normal conversion rate [from consult to surgery] for a plastic surgery office — and this is a good number — is about 30%," Dr. Steinbrech told us. "Our conversion rate is between 80 and 85%, which is extraordinary."

What that number tells Dr. Steinbrech and his team is that when patients see their potential end result, it encourages them to proceed with the surgery.

"From a business perspective, I'm surprised more offices don't use it," he said.

I Had My Face "Morphed," And It Was Pretty Stunning

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In the GIF above, Dr. Steinbrech's alterations to my face are subtle yet transformational.

After I spoke with Dr. Steinbrech and his staff about the morphing, I had to see what it was like for myself.

The first step of the process was photographing my face. I sat in a chair, and Dr. Steinbrech's assistant Kelly took pictures of my relaxed face from virtually every angle, occasionally having me feign looks of surprise, anger, and happiness.

She transferred the photographs into the system, and then I met with the doctor himself (though a real patient would next meet with a patient coordinator and Dr. Steinbrech would do the final retouching on the images at a later consultation).

I was amazed at how small his tweaks were — a little pinch here, a little pull there. But when he showed me the before and after images of my face, I was stunned.

"Patients often tell me that I'm not making enough of a change," Dr. Steinbrech told me during the faux consultation. "But then I show them the 'before' and 'after' images on the screen, and they can't believe it. They start to envision themselves as the 'after' version as we go through the process."

Even as a mock patient, I can attest that this was true. I found myself thinking the changes weren't that major, but what I didn't realize was that my internal view of my face slowly changed as I watched the doctor slim down my neck and make my jawline more square. Then I would suddenly be jolted back when I saw the 'before' versions of my images, where my cheekbones weren't quite as pronounced or my jaw as defined.

My immediate reaction to my actual, un-retouched face was shock: "That's not me; that's not what I look like."

I was already self-identifying with the "after" version of my face, which was extremely unnerving. Psychologically speaking, the high conversion rate of Dr. Steinbrech's office started to make sense — his patients may have been ready to go under the knife after watching their pictures transform because in their minds, they already looked like the "after."

My visual surgery process took roughly 45 minutes, though the average morphing consultation can take much longer, and a real patient's face would be tweaked multiple times by both the patient coordinator and the doctor.

All in all, it was fascinating to watch Dr. Steinbrech at work. It was like watching an image of myself get worked over in Photoshop, except that this man had the power to change me in real life, too.

"I always under-promise and over-deliver," Dr. Steinbrech told me at the end of the day. "I would never show a patient something on the screen that couldn't be duplicated in real life. We have bones there for a reason!"

Note: I asked Dr. Steinbrech to show me what the following procedures would look like on my face. These are not representative of the procedures he would choose to do, and should not be taken as such.

"MODEL JAWLINE"Cheek and jaw Megan Plastic Surgery

Dr. Steinbrech is well-known for this procedure. He does a little supplemental liposuction on the neck and adds Juvederm (a hyaluronic acid) into the jaw and chin to make it more angular. He also gave me cheek augmentations using Juvederm to provide more definition.

Recovery time: Less than 24 hours for Juvederm, roughly a week for liposuction.

Cost: $2,300-$3,800

RHINOPLASTYCheek jaw nose Megan Plastic Surgery

The next procedure I asked to have virtually done was a nose job. Dr. Steinbrech gave me a "Heidi Klum" nose, which was slightly more narrow than my own.

Recovery time: Short-term recovery is roughly two weeks, but it may be several months before all swelling has subsided.

Cost: $7,500-$12,000

BROW LIFTCheek jaw nose brow Megan Plastic Surgery

Next, he showed me what I would look like with a very minor brow lift. "You don't want to go overboard here and look too surprised," he said.

Recovery time: One to two weeks, depending on the type of procedure (classic versus endoscopic) and personal healing time.

Cost: $5,000-$9,000

LIP INJECTIONSCheek jaw nose brow lips Megan Plastic Surgery

My upper lip is rather thin, so this procedure was more difficult for the doctor to show me on the computer. He made both lips slightly more plump, adding that it was important to keep the bottom lip fuller.

Recovery time: 10-14 days before swelling and bruising goes down.

Cost: $700-$2,300

JUVEDERM FILLERFinal slide with injections Megan Plastic Surgery

For the final product, Dr. Steinbrech added fillers to my under-eye area and laugh lines to make my skin more even.

Recovery time: Less than 24 hours.

Cost: $1,500

THE FINAL RESULTSBEFORE and AFTER Megan Plastic Surgery

All those minor tweaks really added up. Here are my before and after pictures. Total cost for all this surgery? Between $17,000 and $27,600.

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37 Awesome Photos From Sony's World Photography Awards

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Sony and World Photography Organization have announced the shortlist for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards in the Professional and Open Categories.

The Open competition saw 65,512 entries this year, while a total of nearly 140,000 entries for the entire competition made it the most successful year yet in the Awards' seven year history. Photographs entered in the Professional competition must be part of a body of work and first published in 2013.

The winners of this year’s awards will be revealed in April at the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Gala. 

OPEN: A woman covered in mud from a mud bath jumps into a lake in Turkey.



Vakil Bath is a popular historic spot in Shiraz, Iran.



A deserted Canary Wharf tube station in London's business district.



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The Surprising Truth About Cousins And Marriage

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In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad idea if you want children.

However, first cousin marriage is far more common, and far less dangerous, than many of us have been led to believe, as you’ll soon see. Further, if you include second cousins in the mix, according to the Clinical Genetics Handbook, the increased risks with regards to having children are nearly non-existent in this case compared with non-cousin marriage.

Banning Cousin Marriages

While there have been instances of the banning of marriage between cousins at various points through history, such as the Roman Catholics banning the practice for a time starting with the Council of Agde in 506 AD, for the most part marriage among cousins has been popular as long as people have been getting married.  In fact, it is estimated that as many as 80% of the marriages in human history have been between first or second cousins.

This switch in cousin-marriage’s acceptance began in earnest in some parts of the Western world in the mid-19th century. Specifically, until the 1860s or so, first cousins commonly married in Europe and the U.S. In fact, Charles Darwin, Mr. Natural Selection himself, was married to his first cousin Emma Wedgwood.

Nonetheless, the practice soon fell out of fashion in the United States. Although never outlawed in England, during the second half of the 19th century, many states began to ban marriages between first cousins, as part of a larger movement after the Civil War for greater state involvement in a variety of areas, including education, health and safety.

Researchers note that the distinction in marriage bans between England and the U.S. may be explained by the fact that, in the United States, the practice “was associated not with the aristocracy and upper middle class [Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were second cousins] but with much easier targets: immigrants and the rural poor.”

Regardless, cousin marriage bans began popping up across the states, with the first in Kansas (1858). Ohio, NH, NV, ND, SD, WA and WY banned the practice in the 1860s, and many more had enacted bans by the 1920s. The most recent state to ban cousin marriage was Texas in 2005.

Today, first cousins may not marry in AR, DE, IA, ID, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, WA and WV. First cousin marriage is allowed without restriction in 19 states, and with some restrictions in AZ, IL, IN, ME, UT, WI and NC (in North Carolina, while first cousins may marry, “double cousins” may not- more on this one in a bit.)

The distinction lies in the debate about whether or not there is an increased risk that the partners’ shared genes will produce an increased chance that their offspring will have recessive, undesirable traits. A recent report on births in a British-Pakistani community (where first cousin marriage is very common) demonstrated that first cousin children there were twice as likely to be born with “potentially life threatening birth defects” as compared with the children of unrelated parents.

Advocates on the other side point out that this resulted in only a 6% chance for the children in the study, as compared with a 3% chance for the population as a whole. For your reference, this increase in birth defect rate is about the same as the increased risk of a woman having a baby when she is 40 vs. when she is 30.  Proponents here point out that few would advocate banning a 40 year old woman from having children.

They also point to recent testing that placed the increased risk of spina bifida and cystic fibrosis at only 1.7% -2.8% higher than for children of unrelated parents. Further, researchers point out that “the widely accepted scare stories – even within academia – and the belief that cousin marriage is inevitably harmful have declined in the face of some of the data we’ve been producing.”

Double Cousins

Some reconcile the two findings by noting that the children born with defects in the recent British study may, in fact, have been double cousins (best explained by an example):

If a girl and her sister . . . meet two brothers, they pair off . . and each couple produces a baby . . . those kids [would be double cousins]

A community nurse who works among the Pakistani community in the British study opined:

A first cousin marries a first cousin and the couple’s own grandparents are cousins, too. I have heard of first-cousin marriages going back generation after generation in some families.

Cross-Cousins vs. Parallel Cousins 

In some societies, first cousin marriage is traditional and well-accepted, although many make a distinction between “cross-cousins” and “parallel cousins.”

Cross cousins have parents who are siblings, but of the opposite sex. The parents of parallel cousins are also siblings but are of the same sex (this chart may help explain).

In cultures where cross cousins are encouraged and parallel discouraged, it is often an inherited taboo, passed down from when there was greater inter-marriage and inter-mingling among the members of an extended family – with a greater chance that first cousins could also be half-siblings:

Fathers who are also brothers may overtly or covertly share sexual relations with the wife of one or the other . . . . Likewise, mothers who are also sisters may overtly or covertly share sexual access to the husband of one or the other, raising the possibility that apparent parallel cousins are actually half-siblings, sired by the same father . . . .[With] cross cousins, because in the absence of full-sibling incest, it is unlikely [they] . . . can share a father . . . [unless a] mother had a brother whose wife was impregnated by [mother's husband].

This is not very likely to happen in modern societies that practice first-cousin marriage. In fact, in a number of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Yemen and in the Palestinian Territories, paternal parallel cousin marriage is the preferred form of consanguineous marriage.

Cousin Marriages Today

Globally, cousin marriages are still going strong, with an estimated 10% of all marriages in the world being between cousins, and has high as 50% in some regions of the world. In addition to those countries mentioned above, the “overwhelming majority of cross-cousin marriages appear among the Islamic cultures of North Africa, and those of West and Central Asia.”

However, cousin marriage is making a comeback in the U.S., as well, as more and more studies continue to debunk the overblown risks once commonly touted.

First cousins marrying in 21st century America discover that many states no longer regulate the practice. Likewise, most sects of Christianity do not forbid it, which would be hard to do given cases like Isaac and Rebekah in the Book of Genesis. For instance, the Methodist Church, has “no official position on marriage between cousins.”

Nonetheless, it’s not easy being in a first cousin marriage in some regions of the world. As one man in such a relationship recently discussed, some members of the couple’s immediate family no longer speak to them and have never met the couple’s children. On top of that, he stated,

We don’t typically tell folks. We told our daughters, “It’s not something to be ashamed of, but [don't] tell your friends . . . people are fickle, and preteens and teens can be downright cruel.”

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Bonus Facts:

  • Some famous individuals who married their first cousins include: Albert Einstein (with his second wife Elsa), H.G. Wells (with Isabel Mary Wells), Saddam Hussein (with Sajida Talfah), Christopher Robin Miln and his wife Leslie (the former being of Winnie the Pooh fame), and Edgar Allen Poe with Virginia Clemm, among many, many more.
  • Edgar Allen Poe married Virginia Clemm  when he was 26 and she 13. She died just 11 years later, inspiring some of his more famous poems, such as “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”. A friend of Poe’s, Charles Burr, wrote, “Many times, after the death of his beloved wife, was he found at the dead hour of a winter night, sitting beside her tomb almost frozen in the snow.”
  • A recent famous example of a second cousin marriage was between Rudy Giuliani and (his now ex-wife) Regina Peruggi.

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REVIEW: Confide App – The 'Snapchat For Business' – Is Awesome

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Confide is a private messaging app being touted as the "Snapchat For Business." It launched in January with a lot of hype, even though it only sends text messages and not pictures like Snapchat.

Here's a look at how to make Confide work for you, and why it does it so well. 

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From Brick To ETFE, Here's How New Materials Have Revolutionized Architecture

We Tried The New Facebook App That Everyone's Hyperventilating About — It's Fantastic

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After years of the same-old Facebook mobile experience, the company has taken a bold step into the future.

A couple weeks ago they released their new app for iPhone called "Paper." They're touting it as a news reader product similar to an experience like Flipboard or Feedly, but it actually does a lot more.

In fact, Paper can do pretty much everything that your normal Facebook app can do. Messages, notifications, News Feed, it's all there. You could even make an argument for ditching the old app altogether if you were that big a fan of the new app.

After spending a couple weeks with it, that's exactly what I did, and I'm not turning back.

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Here's An Early Look At McLaren's New Supercar

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The 2014 Geneva Motor Show is coming up in early March, and automakers are already showing us the new goods they'll be debuting in Switzerland.

The latest news comes from McLaren, which brings us a brand new supercar: the 650S. 

The British automaker has been on a roll in recent years, and says the new ride "learns from" its two most recent products.

That's great news. The P1 is a strong contender for best car on the planet. The 12C is a less hyperbolic but still excellent supercar

The name comes from the 650 metric horsepower (PS) produced by the twin-turbo V8 engine, the equivalent of 641 brake horsepower. (The equivalent of a huge amount of power). We don't have top speed or acceleration figures yet, but expect to be impressed.

Naturally, the 650S is built with aerodynamics in mind, along with downforce, so the car doesn't take to the air when cruising at triple-digit speeds. 

No word on pricing yet, but the 12C started at $229,000, so don't expect to spend less than that if you really want one. For now, enjoy the photos. We'll have more when the car is shown in Geneva:

McLaren 650S Coupe

McLaren 650S Coupe

McLaren 650S Coupe

McLaren 650S Coupe

McLaren 650S Coupe steering wheel

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Why New York City Foodies Hate Restaurant Week

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New York Restaurant Week officially kicks off today— much to the chagrin of NYC foodies.

For the uninitiated, Restaurant Week is when hundreds of establishments, from fine dining standbys to hip new eateries, offer special prix fixe lunches and dinners for $25 and $38, respectively. The event actually runs three Weeks, through March 7.

Restaurant Week was started in 1992 by Tim Zagat and Joe Baum, and has become a massive hit in the past 21 years. Nearly 300 restaurants across the city are participating this winter.

There are a few places out there where the special prix fixe is as good a deal as the regular menu. But by and large, foodies groan when the bi-annual event rolls around.

It's Bad For Customers

At first glance, Restaurant Week seems like a win-win for both restaurants and guests. Customers pay a fixed (and ostensibly lower) price while getting to try a new restaurant and its specialties.

But here's the thing: There are a ton of people who turn out for Restaurant Week. "Amateur eaters" are seduced by the seemingly low prices and a desire to experience a high-end or new NYC restaurant. Thanks to them, wait times can stretch on, and service may lag due to the sheer volume of orders and tables.

The quality of food often drops, too. Cheaper types of fish like salmon, or meats like chicken breast, that may not appear on the standard menu show up on the prix fixe as a way for owners to save money with the "special" Restaurant Week menus.

For example, none of the Restaurant Week entrées offered at Le Cirque this year — like Confit of Salmon and Lamb Navarin — are on either the regular lunch or dinner menus. 

Portions are often smaller as well. A common complaint I've heard from friends who go out during Restaurant Week (and experienced myself) is that salads or entrées are reduced to half their size at their favorite spot.

Taking all of this into consideration, those $25 and $38 prix fixe costs suddenly don't seem like the best deal. Since drinks, tax, and tip aren't included in those "flat" fees either, diners looking for cheap eats would be better off turning to Groupon, LivingSocial, or OpenTable's Spotlight to get a better deal with items that are actually on the regular menu.

It's (Sometimes) Bad For Restaurants

Restaurant Week can certainly be great for restaurants — it amps up exposure and brings in new customers during winter and late summer, two of the slowest times of the year.

"NYC Restaurant Week is a good opportunity to showcase your restaurant to people who may have otherwise not dined with you," Chris Leahy of Midtown's Lexington Brass told us.

But it can also have the opposite affect. Crowds and long wait times annoy a restaurant's best customers, and those deal-seeking diners are not necessarily going to come back. Which is really bad, given that increasing repeat business for restaurants is one of the main goals of a publicity program such as Restaurant Week.

It can also be rough on the servers who schlep for unappreciative diners throughout the three-week event: "In some restaurants, servers aren't so happy," Anthony Mardach, the Director of Operations for Porter House (which offers a similarly-priced prix fixe year-round), told us. "It can lower the check average, and servers can make less money."

Once tax and drinks are factored in, guests realize they're spending as much as $50 for that "$25 lunch." With cheap eaters, it's the servers' tips that take the hit.

Ultimately, Restaurant Week can be a pain. But if you do decide to go, here are some tips for doing it right:

  • Do your research— some menus might be dumbed down, especially the ones that are usually $100+ a person. Try to find restaurants that stick as close to their main menu as possible (check out what this year's Restaurant Week menus look like here).

  • Make a reservation, especially at your favorite spot. Restaurant Week is always busy, and you might not be able to get in.

  • Don't be afraid to call if a restaurant is booked. Sometimes, restaurants will extend their promotions after Restaurant Week (or offer the prix fixe year round). Plus, it never hurts to make sure there are no cancellations!

SEE ALSO: The Best New York City Restaurant For Every Kind Of Cuisine

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Business Insider Is Seeking A Project Manager For BI Studios

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Do you consider yourself both a left-brain and a right-brain person? Do you geek out over Excel? Is your DVD or books collection alphabetized — or better yet, alphabetized and organized by genre and time period?

Business Insider is looking for an experienced Project Manager with strong organizational skills to help manage the details of many multi-faceted campaigns simultaneously. This position will be part of BI Studios, which works with marketers on custom components of their advertising campaigns — everything from sponsor content and editorial sponsorships to custom ad units and other creative executions.

The successful candidate will have about 3 years of project management experience at an agency, publisher, or other online media studio, have top-notch organizational skills (we can’t mention that enough), and know Excel, Basecamp, and other project management tools inside and out.

The Project Manager will assemble content timelines; stay on top of deadlines; communicate with clients, vendors, and freelancers; process contracts and other paperwork; and make sure we are always on track to meet our goals in a timely and effective way.

If you’re hyper-organized (there it is again), able to keep track of a million details at once, and an ace communicator, this is the job for you. There will also be ample opportunity to write, edit, and contribute ideas as part of the growing BI Studios team, so editorial experience and creative thinking are major pluses.

To apply, please send your resume and a brief paragraph about why you should be considered for the Project Manager position to studiojobs@businessinsider.com. Thanks in advance for your interest.

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10 Vintage Cereal Boxes That Will Fill You With Nostalgia

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After seeing a 4% decline in sales in its flagship U.S. breakfast unit, Kellogg CEO John Bryant said in a call with analysts earlier this month that the company is moving away from cereal toward other options like eggs, toast, peanut butter, and yogurt.

It's sad news for cereal lovers everywhere, but these 10 nostalgic cereal boxes from the '70s and earlier will remind us what we love about our favorite childhood breakfast.

Like Cocoa Pebbles, Cocoa Krispies also used a caveman spokesperson to champion its chocolate milk-making cereal.

Vintage Cereal Boxes, Cocoa Krispies

Lucky Charms used to come with only four types of marshmallows — hearts, moons, stars, and clovers — but Lucky the Leprechaun was still the magical mascot.Lucky Charms vintage

Before it was known as Honey Smacks, Sugar Smacks cereal went through a number of major changes, from the name to sugar content to the mascot. This creepy-looking clown was found on boxes in the '50s...Sugar Smacks vintage

...and the Smackin' Brothers in the '60s, before finally being replaced by Dig'em the Honey Smacks frog in the '70s.Sugar Smacks vintage

Toucan Sam was a little two-dimensional back in the day, and there was less variety in the colors of loops in your bowl.Froot Loops vintage

You probably know Sugar Pops as Corn Pops today, but the ingredients are basically the same as they are now.Sugar Pops vintage

Similar to Froot Loops, Trix was also limited in the colors it originally introduced before adding its beloved grape, lime, wildberry, and watermelon flavors. From round spheres to fun shapes, the cereal went back to spheres in 2006. Trix vintage

Kix is probably the most consistent cereal around, keeping the distinctive ear of corn on the box and the slogan, "kid tested, mother approved."

Kix vintage

Cap'n Crunch has seen over a dozen iterations of his sweet, crunchy cereal. Pamela Low, the cereal's creator, aimed to capture "want-more-ishness" in making the popular breakfast choice.

Cap'n Crunch vintage

Frosted Flakes dropped "Sugar" from its name around 1984, but still relies on Tony the Tiger to advocate for a balanced breakfast. The cereal is now available in a reduced-sugar variety as well.

Frosted Flakes vintage

SEE ALSO: 21 Sad Photos Of Dead And Dying Kmart Stores

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Incredible Photos Show How Qatar Has Transformed Over 40 Years

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The tiny Middle Eastern state of Qatar has come a long way since it gained independence in 1971.

Qatar's capital, Doha, was a sleepy pearl fishing community until the '90s, when it began tapping into its vast offshore natural gas reserves. After investing heavily in liquefied natural-gas technology, Qatar is now one of the leading exporters in the world, with a sovereign wealth fund (known as the Qatar Investment Authority) worth over $85 billion, according to CNN Money.

Today, it is home to the headquarters of the country's largest oil and gas companies, and a population of almost 600,000.

And the city is not done growing. As a result of Qatar's increasing corporate and commercial activity, 47 new skyscrapers are currently being built in Doha, according to Emporis. New hotels will also be joining Qatar's skyline to attract even more tourists to its spa villages, huge malls, and scenic artificial islands. In 2022, Doha will even host the FIFA World Cup in its brand-new (questionable-looking) stadium.

To see how far the country has come since it gained its independence from the United Kingdom just over four decades ago, we compiled some photos of Doha then and now.

THEN: Here's what the skyline of the Qatari capital of looked like in 1977.



NOW: Here's the Doha skyline today. There are currently 47 buildings under construction in the city, according to Emporis.

Source: Emporis



THEN: Here's what the heart of Doha's commercial center looked like back in 1968.



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Florida Artist Smashes $1 Million Vase By Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei

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A Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1m vase at Miami’s new art museum in what appears to be a form of protest.

Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief after Sunday’s incident at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). According to a Miami Police Department arrest affidavit, a security guard told officers that Caminero picked up a colored vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. When told to put it down, the security guard said Caminero smashed it on the floor.

A police affidavit says Caminero told officers he broke the vase to protest the museum’s lack of local artist displays. Caminero, a painter who lives in Miami, declined comment when reached by telephone Monday. He said he will have an afternoon news conference Tuesday.

“I’m going to answer all the questions,” he said.

The police affidavit lists the value of the vase as $1m, quoting the museum’s security officials. Criminal mischief can be a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison when the property damaged is worth more than $1,000.

Caminero had a recent showing at the JF Gallery in West Palm Beach that offered patrons a chance to meet him and “view a sampling of the work from his 30-year career as an artist”.

According to PAMM’s web site, the vase is one of more than a dozen that are part of a floor installation. Each vase is partially painted in bright colors.

Behind the installation are a series of three black-and-white photos showing Ai holding a vase and then letting it drop to the ground, smashing into pieces.

The Ai Weiwei: According to What? exhibit runs through 16 March at the museum. Museum officials did not immediately respond Monday to emails seeking comment.

A sculptor, designer and documentary-maker, Ai has irked Beijing by using his art and online profile to draw attention to injustices in China and the need for greater transparency and rule of law. He was detained for 81 days in 2011 during crackdown on dissent,

After his release in June 2011, Ai’s design firm was slapped with a $2.4m tax bill, which he fought unsuccessfully in the Chinese courts.

This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk

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The Swimsuit Issue Is 50 Years Old Today — Guess How Much Money It Makes

Here's What You Learn If You Follow Eight Young Bankers Around For Two Years

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Think of it like 'Real World, Wall Street': One journalist followed around eight young strangers in their first years of banking. Then the journalist, New York Magazine's Kevin Roose, put it all together in a book.

The book is called "Young Money, Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post Crash Recruits," and it's out today.

Roose spent years interviewing his subjects, crashing parties and recruiting events, even taking an Excel modeling classes. The work shows. His book is an honest portrait of young kids who, like everyone else, are engaged in the arduous business of growing up. They just happen to have a weird environment in which to do it.

It's clear from Roose's writing that you don't watch this sort of evolution without evolving yourself. That's why Business Insider caught up with him to get some answers about what he found — what is it that desensitizes kids when they get to The Street, how he found eight (eight!) young bankers who weren't too scared to talk to him, and more.

Here's what he learned:

Business Insider: What did you think about Wall Street before you started this project and how has that changed?

Kevin Roose: To be honest, I don't think my opinions of "Wall Street," as an entity, have changed that much. I still think banks are too big; I still think greed and insufficient regulation are a problem; I still think the financial crisis was a terrible, preventable thing.

What changed is how I think about bankers. I don't judge the young ones as a group anymore. There are good ones, and bad ones, and you kind of have to evaluate them on their individual merits, rather than writing them all off at once.

BI: How could you tell when you found someone who would make a good subject?

KR: I wanted to get a good cross-section of young Wall Street, so I had to make sure that in the group I chose, women would be represented, people of color would be represented, and they'd be spread out across Wall Street in terms of their firms and their job functions. Of course, the most important consideration was whether they were willing to be honest and real with me. If they just wanted to brag about how many beers they crushed last night or how many models they'd slept with, I wasn't that interested.

BI: Now that you've done this, why do you actually think people go to Wall Street?

KR: I think some people, especially people who come out of college with student debt, or whose parents are working-class, do it for the money. But other people do it because it's easy. If you go to Yale or Princeton, all your friends are going into banking, it pays well and gives you a prestigious launching pad and all you have to do is drop your résumé into a box to apply — a lot of kids say, why not?

BI: What do all these kids have in common after their experience on the Street?

KR: Gray hair.

BI: In a sentence, what does Wall Street do to your brain?

KR: Can I do it in a GIF?

BI:  Do you think these kids got paid too much?

KR: I mean, it's a lot of money. Most of them were making somewhere between $90,000 and $130,000 their first year, and more after that. I heard some of them say that if you calculate it hourly, based on how much they work, it's like $16 an hour. That's a good job! But it isn't as amazing as most people think.

BI: Have any of the kids you followed who left Wall Street shed the habits that they picked up there, or are they forever changed?

KR: I think a lot of the day-to-day habits are sheddable, especially if you get out within two years. But even the bankers who left finance told me that working on Wall Street had changed the way they thought about the world. It's a very strong belief system. I don't know if you can ever really leave it behind.

BI: Did you ever for any moment during your research wish you had become a banker? Even a little bit? Why? Why not?

KR: Nope! I'd be a terrible banker. I took an Excel boot camp, to learn how to make Excel models and stuff, and I think I came in last in the class on every exercise. And seeing how miserable my sources were at their jobs wasn't exactly a glowing testimonial. Also, I'm pretty sure I'm blackballed now, even if I did have a change of heart.

BI: The bottom line is that a lot of the kids you wrote about weren't happy. How should schools or recruiting programs change so that kids who won't be happy on Wall Street don't end up there?

KR: I think it's happening naturally as the industry's prestige wears off. It used to be that the kid at Yale who majored in archaeology would go into banking, just because that was the popular and cool thing to do. Now, that kid has more options, like going to Teach For America or Google. More of the students who are interested in Wall Street now are the ones who actually want to be bankers. There are fewer unhappy dilettantes who just do it because it's the next step on the path.

BI: Did you ever get mad or frustrated at your subjects? And if so, why?

KR: Once, I remember prodding a guy who was feeling sorry for himself. This guy was making something like $200,000 a year as a 24-year-old in private equity and he still wasn't happy, and he was pouring out his woes to me, and I kind of stopped him short. Like, do you know how lucky you are compared to the rest of the world? Most of the time, though, the bankers I followed had a good perspective on the relative size of their problems.

BI: What was the most obnoxious thing you saw in your research?

KR: I went to a Fashion Meets Finance dating mixer, which is where they put a bunch of Wall Street dudes in a room with a bunch of women who work in fashion. That was an atrocious party, just horrible. I actually heard a guy use the phrase "PJ," as in "private jet."

BI: What is it about Wall Street that desensitizes people?

KR: I think it's the pace. When you're 22 and working at a bank, you don't have much time to be sensitive and introspective. It's all about getting things done, avoiding mistakes, and impressing the boss.

BI: Did any banks seem to have a better culture than others or were they all the same?

KR: You know, I actually didn't see much of a difference between banks. I certainly think there are tendencies within the divisions of a firm — the stereotypical oil trader is a little more jock-like and macho than the investment banker at the same firm. But all the bankers I followed tended to have a fairly common set of experiences, no matter where they worked.

BI: Do you know any adults who made it through Wall Street well adjusted? How do you think they did it?

KR: I think it has to do with avoiding social isolation. If everyone you interact with all day is a millionaire or billionaire and works in finance, it warps your perspective. The people I know who work in finance and are the best-adjusted are the people who have diverse groups of friends — you know, they play pick-up basketball with cops, or they volunteer at a school one day a week. Their lives are bigger than just banking.

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Qatar Airways Made An All-Business Class Plane For Flights To London

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Qatar Airways is launching a new flight between its hub in Doha and London's Heathrow Airport, and there's no curtain dividing the haves from the have-nots.

The entire Airbus A319 jet is dedicated to business class, with just 40 seats.

Each seat, in rows of four, will fully recline and offer a big-screen entertainment system with more than 900 movies, TV shows, and video games to choose from.

The airline already operates five daily flights between the cities, this service will bring its weekly frequency from 35 to 42 flights. The A319 already in use by Qatar seats 102 economy and 8 first class passengers, according to SeatGuru.com.

Qatar Airways is young but growing fast, covering 134 destinations with 129 planes, and with nearly 300 more on order. In a press release, it said its "aggressive expansion programme" including new routes to Philadelphia, Istanbul, Edinburgh, Miami, and Dallas/Fort Worth.

All-business class planes are not unheard of. British Airways offers service between New York and London with just 32 seats onboard. Until it cancelled the service in November 2013, Singapore Airlines operated the world's longest flight, from Newark to Singapore, on an all-business Airbus A340.

Here's a look at the interior of the all-business class A319 that will run between Qatar and London:

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qatar airways business class airbus a319

qatar airways business class airbus a319

And the airport lounge in Heathrow's Terminal 4 is pretty swanky:

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qatar london heathrow premium lounge airport

qatar london heathrow premium lounge airport

SEE ALSO: The Brand-New Airbus Jetliner Has Made Its Public Debut, And It Looks Awesome

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Artists Keep Some Strange Objects In Their Studios

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In 2009, New York-based photographer Sarah Trigg embarked on a three-year journey that would take her from San Francisco to the Wisconsin peninsula to Houston, Tex.

"If I had known exactly how long it was going to take, I'd never have had the guts to do it," Trigg told Business Insider.    

What she ended up with was a book, "Studio Life," which came out toward the end of last year. It's about the ways artists behave in their studios, and the strange objects they sometimes keep, from a vial of soy sauce made of human hair to a warehouse full of plastic toys. 

Trigg began thinking of the importance of the studio to an artistic life in 2008, when she had to move out of a studio that she'd occupied for a decade. For her book, she photographed the studios of artists at different career stages, in different locations, and who were making different types of art. 100 made it into the book; the rest of of her photos will eventually make their way onto her website Goldminer

"I specifically didn't shoot the art or the artist," Trigg said. "There's a lot of documentation of that elsewhere. I wanted to show the hidden things in an artist's studio and what artists talk about when they visit each other."

Check out some of the unexpected things Trigg found.

Toys in the warehouse

Trenton Doyle HancockTrenton Doyle Hancock has a warehouse-sized studio in Houston, Tex. that's full of toys. He said it helps him reconnect to a time when he was more open and receptive to things, like in childhood. Hancock at first thought he would become a comic book artist and that reconstruction of childhood has stayed with him in his large-scale prints and drawings.

A goddess lamp to ward off thieves

Lauren LuloffBrooklyn-based artist Lauren Luloff keeps this Asian goddess lamp lit in her studio 24/7. She started this habit after her space got broken into the one night she turned the lamp off. Leaving the lamp on became a ritual to protect her studio.

A money tree

Mindy Rose SchwartzThis money tree was a gag gift for Mindy Rose Schwartz's father on his 40th birthday. The Chicago-based artist took it for her studio, which is chock-full of objects from home and flea markets (her art deals largely with representations of domestic space). Schwartz joked to Trigg that whenever she's annoyed with her father, she trims a few dollars from the plant.  

Bees in a trailer

Rob KellerRob Keller's work involves constructing dollhouses and letting different species of bees loose in them. The northern California-based artist then studies how they interact with the dollhouse and documents the bees' strengths. He bridges the gap between art and science, according to Trigg. Keller keeps his bees in a separate trailer and hosts workshops there. With the bee population dwindling, Keller likes to contribute to that discussion.  

A secret room

Daniel ArshamWhen artist Daniel Arsham was living in Miami, a bunny showed up at his door. He named it Oliver and kept it in his studio. His resident bunny stayed with him when he moved to New York City. When Trigg visited his space, she crawled up a tiny shaft and discovered this secret room, which reminded her of a bunny's nest in a rabbit hole. Arsham doesn't live in the space anymore because it's a fire hazard, but he keeps it made up as a burrow for storage and meditation.

Soy sauce made from human hair

Nicolas LoboMiami-based artist Nicolas Lobo works with unusual things in pop culture. He heard about an urban legend that some restaurants in China were selling soy sauce made of human hair, so he wanted to figure out how to produce his own. He poured acid over some strands of his own hair that breaks it down to amino acids. Lobo tried it on sushi and said it was good, just a little oily, according to Trigg. 

A television screen that lit a chair on fire

Tony OurslerTony Oursler is obsessed with how the camera entered culture. He has a lot of things collected in his studio like a 19th century smoke machine used in early films, as well as dozens of chairs and foot stools. He likes to play with smoke and mirror methods in his video projection work. On the day Trigg visited, Oursler had an old lens — one that used to cover an early television to magnify the image — set up behind a chair. With the way the light was coming through the lens, it pinpointed an area of the chair and started lighting a fire.

SEE ALSO: Artists Share How They Make Money While Doing What They Love

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