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35 GIFs That Explain How To Survive A New York City Winter

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Nathan W. Pyle's quest to explain the basics of living in New York City started with a GIF.

After teaching high-school theology classes in Ohio for two years, Pyle decided to move to New York City to pursue creative work. He got here in 2008 for an unpaid TV-production internship and noticed it was a different world than the one he left.

"The most important thing I learned was to stay out of everyone's way," the 31-year-old told Business Insider last year. "Assume everyone's trying to get somewhere important and have spatial awareness." 

Pyle noticed that New Yorkers are constantly thinking about 10,000 things as they navigate their daily lives. He wanted to create a guidebook of easy tips, covering everything from how to tell the difference between the East and West villages to the acceptable food to eat on the subway. And, most important, where to never, ever stop on the sidewalk. 

"I knew GIFs would create viral attention," said Pyle. "Viral art doesn't usually sell well, but I knew I had a really deep well of resources that would be useful for people." 

He said one of the most under-used tips he offers city dwellers is to always have cash, especially if you want to avoid that awkward moment at a group dinner when you have to split the bill seven ways on credit cards. 

His 136-tip book, "NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette," offers tons of great advice. Pyle has shared some GIFs that are particularly relevant as New Yorkers head into winter (and to any tourists visiting the city as well). You can buy the printed book at Amazon, or the animated e-book through iTunes.

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Click here to buy the book at Amazon.

Paige Cooperstein wrote an earlier version of this post. Edited by Julie Zeveloff.

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Take A Tour Of Billionaire Richard Branson's Ski Chalet, Which You Can Rent For $180,000 A Week

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If you're looking to make a trip to the Swiss Alps this winter, consider a stay at Richard Branson's ski chalet.

A property in the the Virgin Limited Edition collection, the Lodge is a nine-bedroom mansion that can be rented for between $88,000 and $180,000 a week, depending on the season.

Amazing features include an on-site masseuse, Michelin-trained chef, and indoor and outdoor pools. 

The Lodge is located in Verbier, one of the most iconic villages in the Swiss Alps.



You can ski into the property, and there's a place to store all of your equipment.



This lodge is massive — it can accommodate up to 18 adults and 6 children.



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Trulia's Beautiful New San Francisco Headquarters Was Inspired By A Tree

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Online real estate platform Trulia has unveiled its swanky new headquarters in San Francisco.

Occupying six floors and 80,000 square feet of space in the swanky high rise at 535 Mission Street in SoMa, Trulia's new offices are a sight to behold. 

Some of its best features include a beer and coffee bar, game rooms, and a full kitchen on every floor.

The space was designed by Rapt Studio, who also did offices for Google, Adobe, and Eventbrite.

When you enter the office, a plant wall behind the reception desk might be the first thing you notice.



The plants are meant to give visitors the feeling that they're entering someone's home.



And since Trulia's primary focus is to help users find the perfect house, there are plenty of design details inspired by the home.



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How To Get Yourself Out Of A Slump In 8 Simple Steps

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James Altucher is a successful hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author. But there was a point, he writes in his book "The Power of No," where he just felt "stuck."

Many mornings he'd show up to work hours late and then fill his day with breaks and computer chess.

It got to a point where he became sharply aware of how unhappy he was, and he decided to do something about it.

If you're in a rut long enough, you may find yourself not only drifting through your days but cutting corners and acting maliciously, Altucher says. But you can lift yourself out of this.

Here's the eight-step routine Altucher developed, which he says helped take him from the bottom and put him on a path to success.

1. List out every aspect of your routine.

"When you are stuck it means you have a rigid routine," Altucher writes. Write down absolutely everything you've been doing in your day, down to moments spent gossiping or taking a coffee break.

Altucher says that he had 50 things on his list.

2. Change one thing in the routine each day.

You're going to have to get out of your toxic and mind-numbing routine, but it should be a gradual process.

Just make it one easy thing each day. Wake up an hour early to read a novel. Get lunch with a coworker you don't know well. Go for a jog after work.

3. Write a list of things accomplished at the end of the day.

If you're in a slump, you're probably not flying through to-do lists. Try a things-I-did list instead.

"The things-I-did list is much better than the standard mainstream tool of productivity: the things-to-do list. Things-to-do is all about stress. I felt like a failure if I didn't check every item on the list," Altucher says.

4. Spend an hour researching something you were passionate about as a kid.

This is an exercise in tapping into what you actually want from life.

"Each thing you find out about is something new you learn now. And you might discover things you are still passionate about," Altucher writes.

5. Network.

Each day find one person you haven't spoken to in awhile, like an old college friend or coworker, and reach out to them. Give them a call or shoot them a text or email, and see how that person's been. Arrange to grab lunch or a drink.

By catching up, you'll get exposure to different industries and may even set in motion a new, more favorable career opportunity.

6. Create something.

The act of expressing yourself through art can help snap you out of that feeling of being a robot whose life revolves around repetitive work. Write a four-line poem on your smartphone as you ride the subway, or buy an inexpensive watercolor set. Have fun.

As we explain in our "21-day plan for radical self-improvement," research shows that journaling, creative writing, and creating visual art can reduce anxiety and other negative emotions.

7. Start healthy habits.

Altucher says that he keeps himself focused and satisfied through a four-tiered program:

Physical: Get enough sleep and exercise, and go easy on your vices.

Emotional: Only associate with the people who love you and inspire you.

Mental: Always be reading and learning, and write down any good ideas that come to you.

Spiritual: Whether you're religious or not, gain peace of mind by being grateful for the good things in your life and accepting what you cannot change.

8. Determine what you're afraid of.

"There's excuse after excuse for not breaking your routine, and often excuses are based in fear. You break the routine by being aware of the fears," Altucher says.

List out all the excuses you've been making in your life for why you're not happy. Then think about either why these excuses are based on a false premise or how you can stop complaining and actually do something to better your situation.

After sticking to these eight steps, Altucher says, you'll find that you have the power to break out of a constricting routine and actually start living life the way you want.

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Instantly Expand Your MacBook's Storage With HyperDrive [25% Off]

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One of the most common problems with all laptops is storage. You buy one that you think will have enough space to last a lifetime, and then you take a bunch of photos and videos, and all of a sudden you're out of room and faced with having to delete something. 

One solution is an external hard drive, but they can be inconvenient to carry around when you're on the go. HyperDrive is a great solution for MacBooks. It's a plug and play microSD adaptor that sits flush, blends right in thanks to its aluminum finish, and is easy to remove if needed.

HyperDrive comes with a free 8GB microSD card, but works with any standard microSD, so you can upgrade the size.

You can grab it here with a discount thanks to Insider Picks and our friends at Stack Commerce.

Get 25% off the HyperDrive MacBook Storage Expander ($29.99+Free Shipping).

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Here's What It Feels Like To Drink The Hallucinogenic Amazonian Brew Ayahuasca

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Chris Kilham makes his living as a so-called "Medicine Hunter." He travels the globe in search of exotic plants and herbal remedies. His adventures are often funded by pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies looking for natural treasures that could potentially enhance their products.

Kilham also hunts psychoactive plants, which cause hallucinations and other psychedelic effects. His forthcoming book details the psychoactive  brew known as Ayahuasca, which is native to the  Amazon Rainforest. 

Kilham describes what it's like to drink the bitter brew and describes how it can possibly act as a spiritually healing substance, when taken correctly in the proper environment.

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Researchers Finally Figured Out Why Your Doctor's Waiting Room Only Has Crappy Old Magazines

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When waiting for the receptionist to call your name in the doctor's office, you are powerless.

You can't go anywhere. You don't know how long it will take. There isn't much to do.

Some people play Candy Crush or Threes on their iPhone. Others tweet things tagged #waitingroom. And some of us read.

At least, in a good-faith effort, there's usually a thick pile of magazines.

But when you go over to pick through the stacks, there's another problem.

Most of the magazines are crappy and old.

Why? After all, your doctor and the rest of the people working in the office are smart and presumably just as interested in good reading material as you are. So what's up with the subpar selection?

Researchers wanted to know too. And they've answered the question in a study published in the Dec. 11 issue of the BMJ — the medical journal's light-hearted "Christmas issue," which uses science to tackle important and underaddressed questions like "seriously, are men really idiots?"

In theory, the lack-of-certain magazines problem could be the fault of doctors not buying them or patients stealing them.

To test what happens to current magazines in an office, Bruce Arroll, a doctor and professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand (apparently this is a global problem) gathered up 87 new and old magazines (a number determined by "how many magazines the investigators could rustle up from family and friends") covering a variety of topics and placed them in the waiting room of his practice.

It turns out that if there are current magazines around, people steal them.

Jerks.

Within a month, 41 magazines — almost half — been taken.

To make sure staff didn't take any magazines, they were told that doing so would invoke "the death penalty," for which Arroll would seek retrospective approval from an ethics committee.

Current magazines (less than two months old) were taken more than older magazines. Of the 47 magazines in that category, 60% disappeared, while only 29% of older magazines disappeared.

But it turns out some magazines are stolen even more frequently than current ones. What the researchers termed "gossipy" magazines, which they didn't name but defined as having at least five celebrities on the cover (with 10 celebrities, they earned the term "most gossipy"), were stolen most of all.

Patients took 26 of the 27 "gossipy" and "most gossipy" magazines.

They also took National Geographic, BBC History, and the Australian Women's Weekly, just less frequently.

No one stole any of the four Time magazines or 15 Economist issues.

Arroll says they considered testing what happened if they limited the magazine options to only "non-gossipy" titles like Time and the Economist, but that was rejected by the "methods advice design team" — four office receptionists.

Cheaper magazines were taken most, which may help explain some of the discrepancy here.

There are some limitations to the study. Although approximately 3,000 people passed through the waiting room during these 31 days, this is still just one medical practice in New Zealand. A different population may have different results (if any New York doctors want to repeat the study, I can arrange plenty of old magazines for the test).

But Arroll et al. say that for now, if doctors want to keep up their magazine supply without having to buy too many more, they'd recommend older issues, especially of Time and the Economist.

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The Price On Steve Cohen's Unbelievable NYC Upper East Side Penthouse Has Been Chopped ... Again

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Billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven A. Cohen still can't find a buyer for his NYC penthouse.

The duplex penthouse at One Beacon Court just had its price reduced to $82 million, Curbed reports.

The apartment has been on the market since 2013. It was originally listed for $115 million and then dropped to $98 million.

Cohen, who now runs Point72 Asset Management (formerly SAC Capital), purchased the apartment in 2005 for $24 million. He hired the late architect Charles Gwathmey to transform the space.

We've included the details of the 9,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom apartment at One Beacon Court in the slides that follow. It's definitely impressive. Look and see for yourself.

The apartment features a stunning living room with 24-foot ceilings.



Here's another angle of the living room.



There's a chef’s kitchen with stainless-steel appliances.



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The 30 Most Successful UPenn Alumni Of All Time

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Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania remains among the top colleges in the world. 

The Philadelphia Ivy has produced 25 billionaires — more than any other school in the world — as well as numerous CEOs, politicians, and actors. 

From billionaire Warren Buffett to "Hunger Games" actress Elizabeth Banks, these are UPenn's most successful alumni. 

American civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred earned her Bachelor of Arts in English at UPenn in the early 1960s. Her senior honors thesis on Armenian writers opened the door to her civil rights work.

Source: Gloria Allred.com



Indian business magnate Anil Ambani got his MBA from UPenn's Wharton School of Business in 1983. The former Reliance Group CEO was the first recipient of the Wharton Indian Alumni Award and serves on Wharton’s Board of Overseers.

Source: Wharton Alumni Magazine



In the early 1990s Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk was offered a full scholarship to the Wharton School of Business. Musk completed bachelor's degrees in economics and physics.

Source: Evan Carmichael, Wharton



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19 Clever Gift Ideas For New Parents

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The single best gift you can get for a new parent is the offer to give them a break — whether it's babysitting while they nap, cooking, cleaning, or just hanging out and having some adult conversation.

But if you can't physically be there, here are 19 great gifts every new parent will appreciate.

Let them view all of their favorite pictures in one frame.

New parents love to see pictures of their babies.

But instead of just seeing one picture, this digital photo frame will let them view a rotating cast of their favorite digital pics.

Price:$50



A membership to Amazon Mom will give them discounts on diapers and other baby essentials.

The cost of diapers and wipes can really rack up. Amazon Mom offers discounts on diapers, wipes, and other baby essentials. Plus, it allows new parents to get discounts on their Amazon baby registry items.

Members also get all the benefits of an Amazon Prime membership, including free shipping, and access to Prime video and books, as well as Amazon's new exclusive brand of diapers, which is only available to Prime members.

Price:$99/year

 



A chic diaper bag that looks like a purse — or, for dads, a messenger bag.

Often the only bag new moms find themselves carrying is a diaper bag. So why not get her a stylish diaper bag that looks like a purse? The Skip Hop Versa diaper bag looks like a pocket book but is roomy and filled with tons of pockets to stash diapers, wipes, and more.

New dads, however, might appreciate a manly-looking diaper bag from Diaper Dude.

Price:$60



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Glam Up Your Holiday Party Style With This Season's Trends

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dancing couple romance drunk dress new year's christmasEveryone loves a good holiday party — the champagne, the eggnog, the sugar cookies.

But if you're going to one of these shindigs, you're going to want to look sharp.

This season the classic holiday trends are back: sparkles, deep reds, and bauble-like jewelry. 

If the event's a little on the fancy side, you'll definitely want to go for a cocktail dress and heels combo.

But if it's more low-key, a few great holiday-styled accessories are the way to go.

Happy holidays.


The Cocktail Dress

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Lace is still having a moment, so you can't go wrong with that. The dress on the far left is a great option for a early evening party since the white lace gives off a certain sweetness. The dress in the middle is your classic red holiday dress — this works great for a fancy work party, or a holiday party later in the evening. And if you're out with a group of friends — the dress on the right is the way to go.

Tadashi Shoji Belted Guipure Lace Dress — Price: $328.00 $131.20

Halston Heritage One-Shoulder Ruched Dress— Price: $375.00 $225.00

Milly Lace Bustier Dress— Price: $350.00$210.00

The Evening Clutch

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For the holidays, you're best off going with a sparkly clutch. Stick with neutrals that will complement your look and that can be reused for going out, or even dressing up your basic jeans.

Nina Glitter Clutch  Price: $48.00

Berry 'Swirl' Beaded Clutch — Price: $58.00

Natasha Couture Crystal Clutch— Price: $128.00

The Party Shoe

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The strappy sandal trend is still going strong this year. If your calves are really slim, you should go with the black shoes on the left— the thicker strap balances out your legs better. Otherwise, the nude shoes in the middle are a great option because they'll give the illusion of longer, slimmer legs. Additionally, flats are really having a moment right now, so if you're a fan go for the shoes on the right. (Bonus points, your podiatry bill won't be as high.)

Pelle Moda "Kacey" Sandal— Price: $159.95

Ivanka Trump "Loire" d'Orsay Flat— Price: $99.95

Steve Madden "Stecy" Sandal — Price: $79.95


The Statement Necklace

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Add some sparkle around your face with a statement necklace. We recommend picking one up that has a neutral sparkly front with a bow that ties in the back (it's like the gift-wrapped present of necklaces.)

Pro-tip: After the holiday season ends, you can dress up your basic white t-shirt with one of these.

Tasha Crystal Collar Necklace— Price: $72.00

Tasha "Pretty Pearl" Ribbon Collar Necklace — Price: $68.00

Tasha Ribbon Collar Necklace — Price: $68.00


Sparkly Earrings

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If your style is on the conservative end, the basic sparkly studs are a great option. However, if you're on the bolder end, try some drop earrings in a deep red, or sparkly chandelier earrings. 

Additionally, if you're planning on wearing your hair in an up-do or ponytail, the chandelier and drop earrings are a great way to frame your face.

Boxed Round Cubic Zirconia Earrings — Price: $46.00

Kendra Scott "Elle" Drop Earrings— Price: $52.00

Cubic Zirconia Chandelier Earrings — Price: $165.00


 

The Loud Cocktail Ring

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When it comes to cocktail rings, go big or go home. If you want to dive into the holiday vibe, a jewel tone color — like a deep indigo or red — is the way to go. But you want to try something a bit more fashion forward, check out this black cocktail ring.

Judith Jack "Bold Bijoux" Cocktail Ring— Price: $148.00

Ariella Collection Boxed Oval Cocktail Ring — Price: $58.00

Natasha Couture "Ottoman" Statement Ring— Price: $36.00 

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Striking Photographs Of People Who Are Allergic To Everything

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In 2003, photographer Thilde Jensen was living in the hectic urban environment of New York City when she began to suffer from chronic sinus and ear infections that only kept getting worse.

One day while waiting in traffic, she noticed a car ahead of her spewing out exhaust and simultaneously felt her throat become sore and a fever come on. It was then she knew that the pollution and chemicals around her were making her ill.

"The urban life I so carelessly had enjoyed now turned into a toxic war-zone," she tells Business Insider.

Soon after, she was diagnosed with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, or Environmental Illness (EI), a condition where patients suffer chronic symptoms when in the presence of low-grade chemical exposure. Jensen joined a small group of people whose lives had become completely debilitated by the toxins present in everyday life.

As a photographer, Jensen's immediate response to her situation was to document it with her camera. She met other MCS suffers and set out to tell their stories. Her acclaimed book of this work, titled "The Canaries," was released this year. 

Jensen shared a selection of images and her story with us.

After the initial incident with the car exhaust, Jensen's symptoms continued to get worse while she lived in the city. "There seemed to be new triggers every day," she says. "Soon, the ink from a newspaper would make my head go spinning, perfume and cleaning products felt like breathing paint stripper and gave me strange tingling sensations."



Like many sufferers of EI, Jensen was forced to abandon her job and life and move away from the city. She lived in the woods of upstate New York in an open tent. She soon began to experience sensitivity to electrical objects as well, and was no longer able to use computers or phones. The scenario "felt like a prison sentence," Jensen says.



"For the following seven years, I would wear a respirator whenever I re-entered the man-made world," she explains. Many others with EI shared that necessity.



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Amazing Animation Shows All Flights Over The World's Busiest Airport In 24 Hours

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This amazing visualization provides a guided tour of a day in UK airspace. 

Each year NATS - a UK air traffic control service -  manages around 2.2 million movements, peaking at over 8,000 a day (although there are around 7,000 on this particular day), with only 5.5 seconds delay per flight attributable to NATS.

Produced by Devan Joseph. Video courtesy of NATS.

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'Men Are Idiots,' Says Study In Prestigious Medical Journal

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After a night of apres-ski drinking on Feb. 2, 2008, a 46-year-old British man named David and his three friends decided they wanted to go sledding.

Not having a sled on hand, the inventive group decided to make its own. David and his friends grabbed a foam pad that some kids had pulled off of one of the crash barriers at the bottom of the slope, and made their way to the top.

They were a few guys doing the sort of dumb thing that men do all the time — because, based on the available evidence, we men are idiots.

They careened down the same slope and smashed right into the metal poles of the same barrier that that the safety mat had been removed from.

David hit his head and died.

He won a Darwin Award for that moment. The Darwin Awards are given to people who improve the human gene pool by removing their own stupid genes from it.

But here's the thing.

Some Darwin Award winners engage in truly idiotic behavior. But in this case, things just went wrong for David, don't you think? What happened to him could have happened to anyone, male or female ... right?

As we all know from personal experience, most guys do dumb things all the time (especially when friends and beer are involved). They do things that cause distress to some of the more rational people around, like swimming across a lake in the middle of the night just because earlier in the day they saw alligators in it (oops).

There's even a show about it.

So is it just a guy thing?

A study published in the Dec. 11 issue of the BMJ — the medical journal's lighthearted "Christmas issue," which uses science to tackle important and under-addressed questions — says yes.

According to the available evidence, men are much more likely to be idiots (or at leas engage in idiotic behavior).

Researchers realized that even though we know men die, end up in emergency rooms, and engage in "risk-seeking" behavior much more frequently than women, scientists had never tackled "idiotic risk-taking behaviour" specifically.

They defined "idiotic" risk as senseless, "where the apparent payoff is negligible or non-existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final."

So they took a look at the data on Darwin Award winners over the past 20 years, from 1995 to 2014.

This is excellent data to work with. The winning event must be verified, winners must "show an astounding misapplication of common sense," the winners must be capable of making good decisions — and they must be the cause of their own death. Exactly the kind of "idiotic" risk-taking the researchers were looking for.

The researchers excluded honorable mentions, urban legends, and anything unverified.

They also didn't include men who didn't successfully eliminate themselves from the gene pool, like the man who "slipped when using a belt sander as an auto-erotic device and lost a testicle." He was able to repair his scrotum using a staple gun and save the other testicle, so he was still able to procreate.

Of the 332 verified and confirmed Darwin Award nominees, 14 were shared by a man and a woman. These 14 were excluded to eliminate statistical confusion.

Of the remaining 318 cases, 282 "winners" were men.

There are confounding factors, like the effect of alcohol. As the researchers write, "anecdotal data support the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel 'bulletproof' after a few drinks, and it would be naïve to rule this out."

As an example, they cite three dudes who "played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine. (Spoiler alert: the mine eventually exploded, demolishing the bar and killing all three men.)"

There wasn't an easy way to adjust the data to see alcohol's role and whether it explains some difference between the sexes.

Plus, correlation doesn't equal causation, and there's always the possibility that men are more likely to be nominated or more likely to have a news article written about their demise.

But 282 out of 318 represents almost 90% of Darwin Award winners. It's a very statistically significant indication that men are probably idiots.

As for why the Y chromosome works the way it does, we aren't sure. "Presumably, idiotic behaviour confers some, as yet unidentified, selective advantage on those who do not become its casualties," write the authors.

The team plans to follow up its research with observational studies of men and women with and without alcohol in Christmas-party settings.

That's science, folks, and as Business Insider's only male science reporter, I'd say you can't argue with science.

 

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Step Inside A Billionaire's Incredible Sky-High Manhattan Penthouse

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This ultra-luxurious penthouse in Manhattan is the home of an extremely private billionaire.

So private, in fact, we can't even tell you his name.

But we can show you inside the 18,000-square-foot apartment, located a whopping 90 stories in the air with 360 degree views of New York City. It was recently redesigned by ODA Architecture, and the pictures are incredible.

The luxurious penthouse contains nearly every amenity you can think of, including a sculpture garden with a 30-foot water wall and reflection pool, a game room, a day spa, and a recording studio, according to ODA.

The penthouse's extensive renovations reportedly took ODA four years to complete.

Jill Comoletti contributed to an earlier version of this post.

Welcome to the elegant ODA penthouse, located in Manhattan's Midtown East neighborhood.



The lobby really sets the tone for the rest of the apartment.



The high ceilings in the living room make the area feel extra spacious.



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45 Color Photos Of Manhattan In The 1940s

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nyc, 1940s, charles cushmanAmateur photographer Charles W. Cushman traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad capturing daily life from 1938 to 1969.

His works have been donated to and maintained by Cushman's alma mater Indiana University, which has kindly given us permission to publish his gallery of New York City photos taken in 1941 and 1942.

They give a great impression of what Chinatown, the Financial District, and Midtown looked like 70 years ago.

The old Fulton Market, Manhattan's Lower East Side, Saturday afternoon (1941)

 Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives



South Street teems with trucks along East River, New York City (1941)

 Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives



East River below Brooklyn Bridge (1941)

Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives



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Leather 101—A Gentleman's Guide To Buying Leather

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Usually on the underside of a belt or inside a leather good, the leather quality will be stamped one of three things: genuine leathertop-grain leather, or full-grain leather.

But what exactly do these mean? When you're buying your fancy leather briefcase, jacket, or shoes, you should know exactly what to look for in your leather.

Genuine leather doesn't just mean that the product is made of real leather (which it is), but it also means it is the lowest quality of all products made out of real leather. 

Genuine leather generally doesn't last as long or look as nice as higher-quality leather. You'll typically find it in belts from mall stores, shoes from lower-priced department stores, and bags or other goods in the lower-leather price range.

Goods marked as genuine leather will be several layers of low quality leather bonded together with glue and then painted to look like a better-quality leather. It's what is left over when the other, higher grades are stripped away.

This grade of leather is acceptable if you're just buying something cheaply and don't care too much about its quality. It won't last very long, so it probably shouldn't be something you use every day.

Top-grain leather is the grade of leather you'll find in "fine" leather goods and is the middle-of-the-road quality of leather. It's used in the vast majority of purses for women as well as small leather goods for men like wallets that are sold by well-known designer brands.

It's made by splitting a piece of full-grain leather and sanding away any imperfections in the hide and stamping a fake grain on it. Usually, it's then treated and colored to provide a completely uniform look. 

The finished product ends up being a bit plastic-y, and not nearly as durable as the best quality leather — full grain. It will not age well with use, and will end up looking old and worn after a time.

This finish of leather is great, however, if you don't care as much about durability and more about the color of your leather item, or its resistance to stain.

fullgrainleatherFull-grain leather takes the entire grain of hide, with all the imperfections and inherent toughness of the material. 

It's often used for heavy-duty leather items, like weapon holsters and utility belts. But it can also be used (with great success) for dress belts, briefcases, dress shoes, work boots, and numerous other leather goods.

This type of leather is naturally marked with imperfections from the animal, like a brand or a scar, but products from pricier companies won't use these flawed hides.

Full-grain is hard-as-nails leather that will develop a rich patina as it ages, looking more and more beautiful as you use it. It's widely recognized as the best and highest-quality leather money can buy.

Often much more expensive, full-grain pays dividends with its durability. If you invest in an item made with full-grain leather, you will probably have that item for the rest of your life if you take care of it properly.

If you can you should avoid leathers like bonded leather (scraps of leather glued together to form one piece), patent leather (leather treated with a glossy plastic finish), and corrected grain leather (lower quality leather printed with a fake grain). 

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