On Friday, construction topped out at 432 Park, a luxury condominium that's now arguably the tallest building in New York City. It even has the new One World Trade Center beat, not counting that building's spire.

At 1,396 feet, 432 Park towers above a row of super-tall buildings rising on the southern end of Central Park, an area that's already earned its "Billionaires' Belt" nickname. These skyscrapers are so tall they needed approval from the Federal Aviation Administration before construction could start.  

“It’s almost like the Mona Lisa,” developer Harry B. Macklowe said Friday, The New York Times reported. “Except instead of it looking at you, you’re looking at it wherever you are. You can’t escape it.” 

The building, which cost $1.3 billion to construct, has two penthouses, one on the 96th floor that sold for $95 million and another on the 95th, currently priced at $85 million. 

The building's architect Rafael Viñoly made news back in September 2013 when his Walkie Talkie building wreaked havoc on London's streets, emitting a reflection so hot it melted cars and literally fried eggs on the sidewalk. But if these renderings are any indication, this building should be more of a success. 

We recently saw renderings of the apartment building's interiors, and the designs are magnificent.

Designer Deborah Berke says her focus was to make the most of the apartments' perch above the city. Double-height ceilings and beautiful oak flooring are highlights, while huge square windows provide an unparalleled view.  

432 Park contains 104 apartments, which start at $7 million.

From the outside, rows of six 100-square-foot windows give the building the square look of a waffle iron. 

Inside, Berke's design is just as geometric. The huge windows are in a straight line from the front door, making the most of the apartment's perch above the city. 

According to Berke, the oak herringbone floors are a take on Park Avenue's more traditional apartment buildings.

The kitchens will be outfitted with sleek marble countertops and stainless steel appliances. 

But the kitchen's best feature has to be this 10-foot-long marble breakfast bar framed against the window. Just imagine enjoying your morning coffee here, with all of Manhattan sprawled out below you. 

The master suite's floor plan was designed so that the bed would be perfectly aligned with the window, offering the best views possible first thing in the morning. 

The master suite has separated his and hers bathrooms. Looking north from the marble-covered shower, you'll get a peek of Central Park and the Upper East Side. And to the south, views of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and the Freedom Tower can all be enjoyed from this free-standing tub. 

432 Park will dramatically change the skyline around Central Park once it's completed in 2015. 

Listen to designer Deborah Berke discuss her renderings and concept below.

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Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah can officially say he lives in Chicago.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Noah bought a new home in Lincoln Park for $2.85 million. The house is fancy and combines both modern and classical looks into the 7-bedroom, 7,500 square-foot home.

It's a fairly new home, built in 2009, and has custom millwork, a finely trimmed backyard and a rooftop patio above the garage.

The outside of the house is gated and shows off lovely brick and stone.

The neatly trimmed backyard has a small patio and grill.

The backyard leads up to a lounge-y rooftop patio (which won't get much use in Chicago's frigid winters).

Silicon Valley tech companies are known for showering their employees with all kinds of amazing perks, from free gourmet food to futuristic nap pods.

At LinkedIn, employees are encouraged to jam out like rock stars in rooms that are stocked with high-end music equipment. 

The company's music program got its start in 2010, during a monthly community-building event the company calls InDays. One week after engineering director Michael Olivier joined the company, he caught the finals of a LinkedIn Idol singing contest, the InDay activity for the month. 

One of the finalists was Caitlin Crump, a data scientist who had also recently joined LinkedIn.

"I was taken by her singing," Olivier told Business Insider. "I wanted to play music in Mountain View, so I followed up with her to see if she would be interested."

After they found a drummer during another all-hands event, when new hires were asked to demonstrate a special skill, they decided to form a band together. 

They named themselves "NextPlay" in honor of CEO Jeff Weiner's business philosophy. Legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski yells out "next play" whenever the team completes a play, regardless of how it went. That refusal to dwell on failure informs Weiner's approach to leadership, and it's a big catchphrase around the office. 

 Once they had three people committed to NextPlay, the band contacted the company for funding. 

"It was right around the time of the IPO, so obviously it was a good time to do it, but they've always been supportive of the idea," Olivier said. "It turns out there are a lot of musicians here." 

Not unlike your classic garage band, NextPlay got their start practicing in a loading dock that had been converted into a makeshift studio. They set up their equipment in a dusty corner with exposed rafters and packed file cabinets. 

On November 18, 2011, NextPlay put on their first show. A few dozen people showed up to watch the band perform during their lunch break. 

Three years later, the music room has improved a great deal. When the weather's nice, they can open the garage door and play to the neighborhood. The room has state-of-the-art AV equipment, drums, guitars, keyboards, microphone stands, and stage lighting. 

LinkedIn's music program includes well-developed facilities at their Mountain View headquarters, as well as at their offices in San Francisco and Dublin. Soon there will be music rooms at their Sunnyvale and New York City outposts as well. 

And now there are two other bands in town: MYMK (or Musicians You May Know, a twist on LinkedIn's connection recommendation feature) and Colonel Panic, a geeky pun that's a play on Kernel Panic, the name for what happens when a computer freezes.

But none of that would have happened without NextPlay. The original band hosts jam sessions every Friday, which anyone can join, and their performances are a key feature of the tour the company gives to executives and interviewers who visit campus. 

The band has changed quite a bit, too, as some members have changed offices, while others have left the company altogether. 

The current team includes Olivier on keys and vocals, senior systems engineer Andrey Bibik on guitar, senior product marketing manager Andrew Kaplan also on guitar, senior systems engineer Levi Doucette on bass, and senior videographer and AV technical engineer Phil Jackson on drums. Crump still fronts the band.

Olivier describes their sound as "an eclectic mix of rock, pop, blues, and funk" that mixes songs from the '70s and '80s with today's radio hits. They've also played a few original songs written by Olivier and Crump. 

This past May, as part of the company's Cinco de LinkedIn anniversary celebration, NextPlay took the stage at the Shoreline Amphitheater, an enormous 22,500-capacity venue in Mountain View. It was their biggest show yet. 

"We all saw that the Jumbotron was behind us when we were practicing, but we were glad we couldn't see it when we were actually playing," Olivier said with a laugh. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for us to be able to play on that stage where so many world-class musicians have played."

NextPlay usually practices for an hour during lunch twice a week, but anyone with an interest in music can access the facility after they've completed the proper training. Employees can even take lessons on the acoustic guitar, piano, and drums. 

And according to Olivier, it's not only amateurs goofing around on the drum set.

"It's hard to make money in the music industry," Olivier said. "These are people who are amazing musicians but also happen to work at a tech company." 

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Twenty years ago, an off-duty officer from the New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service stumbled upon a grove of trees that were thought to be extinct in Wollemi National Park, northwest of Sydney. Now scientists are rushing in to protect the trees.

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Customers of high-end leather goods peddler Hermès are returning their expensive leather bags because they have a distinct skunk or marijuana smell. 

Iconic bags such as the Birkin and Kelly — which can cost up to $20,000 and have numerous celebrity admirers like Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham — are supposedly emitting the smell whenever exposed to warmer temperatures or direct sunlight, The New York Post's Page Six is reporting.

The smelly problem seems to stem from a large batch of poorly tanned leather supplied to Hermès, a source told Page Six. It doesn't affect all Hermés bags and colors or specialty leathers like crocodile.

Hermès only offers its bags in limited quantities and the painstaking process to acquire one often calls for a wait time of months to years, so the stinky defect must be widespread.

Unhappy customers are taking to the messaging boards of websites like PurseBlog.com to voice their frustrations with claims of what they call the "Skunk Stinky Syndrome" stretching all the way back to late last year.

Other purse-buyers are using Yelp to vent, leaving bad reviews on the company's ritzy individual boutique locations. 

Customers report that Hermès is taking steps to remedy the situation by taking the bags back and sending them off to Paris to be rebuilt and have the offensive leather panels removed. 

Considering how expensive these handbags are, hopefully the problem will be solved soon.

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Why did Apple think different? 

Because, Steve Jobs said while introducing the iPad, the Mac maker was never just a tech company. 

"The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts," he said.

Jobs' lifelong interest in the humanities gave Apple a human touch.

By combining tech and the liberal arts, Jobs said that Apple was able to "to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but also have them be intuitive, easy-to-use, fun-to-use, so that they really fit the users." 

Jobs arrived at that perspective through a lifetime of reading, as reviewed in Walter Isaacson's biography and other places. We've put together a list of the books that most affected him. 

'King Lear' by William Shakespeare

Jobs really began his literary bent in the last two years of high school. 

"I started to listen to music a whole lot," he tells Isaacson, "and I started to read more outside of just science and technology — Shakespeare, Plato. I loved 'King Lear.'" 

The tragedy may have provided a cautionary tale to a young Jobs, since it's the story of an aged monarch going crazy trying to divide up his kingdom. 

"'King Lear' offers a vivid depiction of what can go wrong if you lose your grip on your empire, a story surely fascinating to any aspiring CEO," says Daniel Smith, author of "How to Think Like Steve Jobs." 

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'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville

Another epic story colored Jobs' outlook in his adolescence: "Moby Dick," the deeply American novel by Herman Melville. 

Isaacson draws a connection between Captain Ahab, who's one of the most driven and willful characters in literature, and Jobs. 

Ahab, like Jobs, did lots of his learning from direct experience, rather than relying on institutions. 

"I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling," the captain writes early in the story, "for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

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'The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas' by Dylan Thomas

But the intellectual flowering that Jobs had in late high school wasn't confined to hard-charging megalomaniacs — he also discovered a love for verse, particularly Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. 

"How To Think Like Steve Jobs" author Daniel Smith says that Thomas' poems "drew him in with its striking new forms and unerringly popular touch."

"Do not go gentle" became a reported favorite:  

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

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Apple is a brand that's known for its high-quality design and attention to detail.

Luckily for Apple employees, that commitment to quality extends to on-campus food offerings as well. 

Employees can take advantage of some amazing dishes at the company's main cafeteria, Caffè Macs, at its Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California. From paella to ramen burgers, there's a huge variety of food to be had here every single day. 

There are a few smaller Apple cafeterias in Cupertino as well, including a stunning new building that was designed by Foster + Partners, the firm behind the company's future "spaceship" headquarters.

The food is also pretty cheap, though ironically enough employees can get fresh apples for free.  

There are plenty of options for breakfast, like this amazing looking $4 French toast with strawberries.

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Or for $3.75, try this breakfast scramble with cheese, eggs, bacon, and potatoes.

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Or there's a poached egg served with a quinoa hash.

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Hedge-fund manager Scott Bommer (who is known for flipping homes in the Hamptons) has finally sold his historic oceanfront estate in Southampton for $16 million, according to Curbed Hamptons. 

Bommer originally put the house on the market in September of 2013 for $25 million, but has since had to lower the price multiple times. According to Southampton Village Real Estate, the final price was $16 million — a staggering $9 million and 20% below Bommer's asking price.

The historic beach house, known as the Halcyon Lodge, was once a part of the Henry Ford estate.

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II commissioned the famous architect Phillip Johnson — known for building The Glass House— to build a one story glass wing addition to the estate.

The home sits on 1.5 acres of land with 142 feet of oceanfront. Inside there are eight bedrooms, six baths, a heated pool, and even has a three-bedroom carriage house for guests. 

Built in the early 1900s, this historic beach house is one of Southampton’s original cottage colony homes.

It has beautiful hardwood floors and a fireplace for cozy lounging.

The oceanfront home also has beautiful artwork on the walls.

From Sept. 4 to Oct. 7, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explored the deep-sea ecosystems off the U.S. Atlantic Coast with its ship Okeanos Explorer. By deploying remotely operated underwater vehicles, or ROVs, NOAA researchers were able to plumb the ocean's depths, collecting baseline data and mapping the mysterious seafloor.

Equipped with lights, cameras, and an array of sensors, the ROVs were able to collect data on their surroundings while capturing a stream of stunning images from their explorations. Along the way, the vehicles encountered a variety of fascinating deep-sea creatures.

Here are a few of the amazing animals the NOAA researchers spotted during their trip.

Whiplash Squid

This small, deep-sea squid — a member of the family Mastigoteuthidae— is rarely observed in its natural habitat. It gets its name from its extra-long, whip-like tentacles, which are covered in tiny suckers to help it hang on to prey.

Dandelion Siphonophore

This might look like a single animal, but a siphonophore is actually a colony of many tiny individuals all working together in one group. Like other siphonophores, the Dandelion feeds and absorbs nutrients as one collective mass.

Like this one, many siphonophores are bioluminescent, meaning chemical reactions in their bodies enable them to glow.

Vampire Squid

The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is one strange customer. It gets its name from its unusual, cape-like arms, which are all connected by a flap of tissue. It's best known for its defensive ability to turn itself "inside out" by stretching its arms upward and folding its skin-flap over its body, turning itself into a little floating ball — much less appealing to hungry predators. He's hanging out to the right of this image:

Squat Lobster

This little guy might look like a lobster, but he's actually more closely related to the hermit crab. Squat lobsters have a penchant for hiding out under rocks or squeezing into crevices, using their sharp claws to sift through the sand for buried snacks. They're known for their long arms, which can grow to be several times their body length.

Hermit Crabs

A relative of the squat lobster, hermit crabs are beloved for their habit of walking around wearing other animals' shells. Hermit crabs can range in size from a few millimeters wide to more than three feet from leg to leg. The largest species is the coconut crab, which doesn't even bother wearing someone else's shell.

Sea Star

The sea star belongs to a class of animals closely related to sea urchins and sand dollars. There are about 2,000 species in all — the most common varieties have five arms, but others can have dozens and can grow to be several feet in diameter. Sea stars are best known for their ability to regenerate lost limbs, which means this little guy should be back to normal soon.

Sea Cucumber

For many people, the phrase "sea cucumber" may evoke images of a shapeless, colorless blob at the bottom of the ocean. But, in fact, sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors and shapes, like this spiky specimen below. Members of the same phylum as sea stars and sea urchins, sea cucumbers can range from a few millimeters to a few feet long. They feed by catching particles that drift by in the ocean current, or by sifting through sand at the bottom of the sea.

Polychaete

Polychaetes, like the little purple one below, are marine worms. Their name, which means "having much hair," comes from the bristly protrusions that form a kind of fringe around their bodies. These "parapodia," as they're called, help the worms move around.

Chimaera

Chimaeras, sometimes referred to as "ghost sharks," have skeletons made of cartilage, just like sharks and rays. They inhabit all kinds of water systems, from rivers and estuaries to the deep sea, where this one was photographed.

Xenophyophore

That large, colorless lump in the photo below isn't a rock or a coral — it's a xenophyphore, the largest single-celled organism in the world. Resting on top of it is a brittle star, an organism easily recognized by its slender, spiky arms and small, round body.

Sponge

This sea sponge might look kind of like a coral, or even an underwater plant, but it's actually an animal. Sea sponges have no brains, and they don't move around. Instead, their bodies are full of pores, which allow water to flow in and out and deliver food and oxygen to the body. This one has several feathery marine animals called crinoids resting on top of it.

Sea Spider

Sea spiders are arthropods, just like insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. Although they bear a striking resemblance to the eight-legged critters you see building webs outside your window (or maybe under your bed), sea spiders belong to an entirely separate class of animals. They eat a variety of organisms and feed vampire-style — sucking out their prey's body fluids through their straw-like mouthparts.

Blue Hake

Blue hake is well known as a favorite dish around the world — but before it gets to the table, it spends its time swimming around the southwest Pacific waters. It goes by a handful of different names, including hoki, blue grenadier, and whiptail hake.

Octocoral

Octocorals are so named because each polyp — the tiny animals that, grouped together, make up a coral — has eight feathery tentacles. This one happens to be growing in a smooth spiral, but octocorals come in a variety of shapes and colors.

Sun Star

This sun star is a species of sea star. This one has nine arms, but they can have fewer or or more, depending on the individual.

King Crab

King crabs, sometimes called stone crabs, comprise the family Lithodidae. They're a prized seafood, particularly the red king crab, which is found along the coast of Alaska and Canada.

Nudibranchs

For a nudibranch, this little guy has subdued style — nudibranchs are famous for their dazzling colors and patterns. These soft-bodied mollusks feed on other sea animals, including coral, sponges, and anemones, and some are able to retain the poisons they ingest while eating these toxic creatures, becoming poisonous, themselves.

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London's canal ways are a little more artistic with the recent opening of the Merchant Square footbridge.

Stretching over the Paddington Basin and located in the district of the same name, the bridge is designed by Knight Architects as a part of the Merchant Square redevelopment.

Six days out of the week, the footbridge is merely that, allowing pedestrians to cross the murky canal ways without so much as getting their Wellingtons wet.

Every Friday afternoon, however, the bridge reveals its structure and the five steel beams lift upwards toward the sky to create a stunning fan-like effect. The opening also creates plenty of room for boats to pass under and turn around in the basin.

The bridge was designed to be sculptural as well as low maintenance. The beams open in sequence, with the first one opening up to a 70 degree angle. They range in weight from six to seven tons and are balanced out by a 40-ton counterweight made of concrete and steel to ensure the bridge opens and closes smoothly.

The counterweight also provides assistance for the hydraulic mechanism by lessening the amount of energy required to lift the structure.

Knight Architects, the firm behind the bridge, call it a "kinetic sculpture." They won a limited contest to design the bridge in 2012, which called on them to create the bridge at the spot to replace the old one as well as create "visual drama."

It joins another artsy bridge in the neighborhood called the Rolling Bridge that can curl up on itself, creating a mini sculpture park along the basin.

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Monaco may be the world's second smallest country in area, but it hosts the world's largest annual yacht trade show.

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The world's very first Porsche was uncovered in remarkably good condition — in a shed in Austria (via The Atlantic Cities). 

The act of automotive archaeology took place in January.

A little over a year later, in September 1899, Porsche demonstrated the power of his new model with a first-place finish at the International Motor Vehicle Exhibition in Berlin. His new car finished 18 minutes ahead of the second-best competitor, with half of the vehicles failing to complete the race due to technical difficulties. 

According to USA Today, the P1 was stored in an old shed in 1902. 

Though it may look a lot like a horse-drawn carriage, the P1 was an electric car.  Its "octagon" motor could travel up to 50 miles at a time, hitting a maximum speed of about 22 miles per hour. According to Porsche, the engine could deliver 3 horsepower during usual performance with bursts of up to 5 horsepower as it reached its maximum speed. 

The entire vehicle weighed some 3,000 pounds and relied on more than 1,000 pounds of battery. 

The original wood and metal frame remains, which includes the steering wheel and a dashboard measuring voltage and amperage. 

Porsche engraved "P1" (Porsche number 1) on all of the vehicle's essential parts, subtly taking credit for the design and giving it its unofficial name. You can just make out a P1 in the center of the axle below. 

The P1 is now be on display at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Blue translucent plastic was inserted to give visitors a better idea of what the car's original seating would have looked like, though the bright color may be a bit deceiving. 

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Prolific architect Frank Gehry is known for his impressive portfolio, and now he has added to it with a new museum in France.

The cultural institute, Fondation Louis Vuitton, was commissioned by LVMH Group CEO Bernard Arnault and designed by Gehry himself. 

It's located in the Jardin d’Acclimatation at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, which was once a royal hunting ground and is now a public park and zoological garden. 

The glass building will house 11 galleries, and was designed to look like a sailboat opening up in the wind. 

The center will open with an exhibit called "Voyage of Creation," which will be dedicated to understanding the architecture of the building, according to the press release.

The exhibit will be presented at the same time as an exhibition of Gehry’s work that will be on display at the Centre Pompidou. The Fondation will also have an auditorium to host musical guests, the first being the famous pianist Lang Lang. 

The new museum will host two temporary exhibits every year, with the next one being planned for December 2014. 

Construction for the 126,000-square-foot building began in March 2008. It took a team of 5,000 to construct the building. 

The glass "sails" are made of 3,600 glass panels, each uniquely designed by the star architect. 

The building is entirely transparent and plays with notions of inside and outside, according to the website. 

15,000 tons of steel form the building’s main structure — twice the amount used for the Eiffel Tower.

“I simply look at what is in front of my eyes. Then all I do is react. Drawing makes me happy,"Frank Gehry said of his creation via Fondation Louis Vuitton. 

The center for contemporary art and culture will officially open to the public on Monday October 27. 

For more information visit the Fondation Louis Vuitton's website here. 

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At $65 million, the Gulfstream G650 is the biggest, fastest, and overall best private jet money can buy.

It also takes a lot of patience to get your hands on one. If you want one, you'll have to wait years for delivery after you place an order.

But once you're on board, you can fly around the planet faster and higher than on any commercial jet, in a cabin flooded with natural light and filled with air that is actually richer than what you breathe in cheaper planes.

With the G650, Gulfstream "established a new market segment for the whole industry," communications head Steve Cass said in an interview at the 2013 Paris Air Show. And there won't be any real competitors until 2016/2017, when Bombardier's Global 7000/8000 is scheduled to go into service.

Until then,the G650 will remain the gold standard, and it's easy to see why.

[An earlier version of this post was written by Alex Davies.]

The G650 is the largest purpose-built private jet on the market, and has the tallest, longest, and widest cabin in its class.

At its maximum takeoff weight, it can climb to 41,000 feet (above bad weather and crowded commercial jet routes) in just 22 minutes.

Its range is more than 8,000 miles. Flying from London at near its top speed, it can reach New York and Beijing. At a slower, more fuel-efficient rate, it can get to Buenos Aires and Los Angeles.

Every year, the Society of Biology holds two competitions for amateur photographers, one for those over the age of 18 and one for those under. Each year, the impressive photographs and photographers are awarded prizes, including around $1,200 for over-18 and around $600 for those shooters under 18.

For this year's competition, the judges decided on the theme of "Home, Habitat, and Shelter," and all the photos play on that concept of where nature seeks haven.

After receiving over 800 submissions, the judges have whittled them down to a short list of 12 photographs, which we share with you here.

One of the judges, Tim Harris of the Nature Picture Library, said, "It was refreshing to see some unusual and imaginative interpretations of this year’s theme, and especially some which related the theme to man as well as animals."

Winners will be announced Oct. 14, as part of Biology Week. For more information, check out the Society of Biology's website.

This photo, taken by Lukas Gawenda, shows two Bison near the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National park. Grand Prismatic is the largest colorful hot spring in the United States.

This spider, photographed by Krasimir Matarov in Bulgaria, builds his own home.

The first concept of shelter, the womb, is depicted here by Robert Cabagnot in this photo of a chick embryo inside a hardened eggshell.

New York-based creative agency Barbarian Group has unveiled a brand new "superdesk" in their office. Made out of 4,400 square feet of plywood, the desk is so large that the entire company — all 125 employees — can share it. 

Gothamist points out the desk is as big, if not bigger, than Gwyneth Paltrow's former NYC apartment. 

Their goal was to make their work environment as collaborative as possible. They turned to architect Clive Wilkinson to create this space filled with nooks and crannies. 

“We really wanted everyone sitting under a desk, but we also wanted to create spaces where people could escape to,” Barbarian Group CEO Sophie Kelly said in a video announcing the creation. 

The result was this undulating wavelike structure, which has flat writing space on top and plenty of seating and group work areas underneath. 

Watch this video of the company introducing their crazy new office space.

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The modern gentleman doesn't just know where to go and how to dress — he knows how to think.

The only way to do that, to learn how to make sense of the world with your mind, is to consider a lot of different thoughts. By and large, the best of those thoughts can be found in books that have stood the test of time.

We have compiled a list of classics that can teach you how to think — about politics, love, philosophy, bravery — everything a man should know to face the world.

All these books were written before 1980. You'll have to wait for another list for more recent reads. In the meantime, check these out.

'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig

Pirsig's novel addresses the fundamental question of how to live life. Pirsig suggests that no matter what a person is doing, he should do it with care and without external distractions.

You can buy the book here.

'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli boldly asserts that it is better to be feared than loved in his 16th-century text.

Whether a leader should be feared or loved is a question that has yet to be solved — which makes this work an extremely modern and relevant read for anyone holding (or looking to hold) a leadership position.

You can buy the book here.

'To Kill a Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's only novel is a heavy hitter. The book explores the moral nature of human beings — how we all have good and bad in us — and addresses the prejudices associated with social classes.

You can buy the book here.

Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has purchased a 750-acre property on the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Forbes confirms.

The purchase includes two separate parcels: the Kahu'aina Plantation, a 357-acre former sugarcane plantation, and Pila'a Beach, a 393-acre property with a white-sand beach.

Zuckerberg paid a reported $100 million for both properties, though a source tells Forbes that he plans to build just one home. 

The Kahu’aina Plantation is located on 357 acres of land in Kilauea, Hawaii.

It includes 2,500 feet of white-sand beach.

Source: Kahu’aina Plantation

It also has a working organic farm with a variety of crops, including ginger, turmeric, and papaya.

Source: Kahu’aina Plantation

Chipotle's Pizzeria Locale has a new crust made with Edison wheat. 

Cofounder Bobby Stuckey tells Nation's Restaurant News that while traditional double-zero flour has been used by the industry since World War II, it lacks flavor and is unhealthy. 

During the war, flour "became a commodity that was stripped of nutrients to give it a longer shelf life and making it easier to ship around the world," writes Bret Thorne at NRN. 

Edison wheat "offers a richness of flavor not found in commoditized wheat," and is healthier, Stuckey says. The taste is described as "nutty." 

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Pizzeria Locale has two locations in the Denver area and will open a third soon. 

The new flour will be more high-maintenance than its traditional counterpart, according to NRN. 

Edison wheat doesn't stay fresh as long and has to be hydrated and fermented before use. 

Despite these limitations, Edison wheat is popular with bakers because of its flavor and texture, according to GrowNorthwest.com. 

Chipotle has been changing the fast-food landscape for two decades. 

The burrito chain posted a 9.3% sales gain in 2013. Meanwhile, former parent company McDonald's saw sales fall by 1.4%. 

Fast-food chains continue to be plagued with a perception their food is heavily processed and full of additives. Meanwhile, Chipotle touts grilled meats and vegetables without antibiotics or GMOs. 

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