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This one quote reveals the ridiculous reason why your office is so cold in the summer

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If you work in an office building, chances are you're cold most of time.

It's not your imagination — the modern luxury of air conditioning has been taken to ridiculous extremes.

Around the world, from the US to Australia to the Middle East, people are suffering through frigid work days at the hand of over air-conditioned offices, whether or not the climate calls for it.

You'd think enough complaints would get building managers noticing. But as Richard de Dear, director of the Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory at the University of Sydney, Australia, recently told The New York Times, reputation overshadows rationality.

"Being able to make people feel cold in the summer is a sign of power and prestige," he said. 

Customer and employee comfort is irrelevant, de Dear said.

Many of the world's largest corporations specify in their lease agreements to keep the indoor climate well below standard room temperature — for the simple reason that they want people to know they can.

Not that any of that showboating necessarily makes people happier or more productive.

According to some research, working in a colder climate can decrease work performance on certain tasks.

SEE ALSO: How to build an air conditioner in under 15 minutes

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Thousands of women are burning their hair with candles as part of a trendy but bizarre beauty treatment

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A Brazilian beauty treatment known as velaterapia is gaining popularity thanks to Victoria’s Secret models like Alessandra Ambrosia and Barbara Fialho.

Ambrosia was the latest to Instagram the hair treatment, spotted by BuzzFeed, but Fialho was the first to popularize the hair burning trend online back in 2014 when it was covered by everyone from The Daily Mail to Fashionista.

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The idea behind velaterapia is that it burns off split ends and makes hair look smooth and shiny. One Brazilian spa called Laces describes the treatment as “cauteriz[ing]” the hair:

It is a process where a flame cauterizes the hair, leaving behinda passage of nutrients to its interior, removes split ends and the impermeability of the hair caused by brushing and other chemicals.

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First, the hair stylist divides and twists the hair into small sections. Then, they take a lit candle to the hair, carefully moving it up and down the twisted section.

The process looks something like this:

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Velaterapia takes between two to three hours and can be done on any type of hair, from dyed to straightened, according to Laces salon. It's said to be especially effective for “dry and damaged hair that combats the stress caused by chemical treatment, dying, and constant styling,” according to Elle magazine.

The treatment has been popular in South America since the 1960s, according to The Daily Mail, where women frequently try to do the dangerous hair treatment by themselves at home. 

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Of course, not everyone is a fan of the bizarre trend. 

"While burning split ends might remove the split in the hair, you are also creating a potential vulnerability to the fiber itself, which results in weaker strands," Elizabeth Cunnane-Phillips, a trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic in NYC, told Refinery 29. "There are a lot more effective ways to remove split ends than to burn it off. I would say, don't take the risk."

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But if you do want to give this Brazilian beauty treatment a try, all sources said that it's best to do velaterapia in a salon with an expert.

And for those worried about the smell of burning hair or lighting themselves on fire, it’s best to stick with a trim. 

SEE ALSO: 13 hair products to try if you're worried about hair loss

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This man will pay you $10,000 to find him a girlfriend

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This Alabama man has been on 30 unsuccessful dates in the past the past ten months — to remedy this situation, he created a website offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can find him a girlfriend. 

Ren Lu You is a 29-year-old living in Birmingham, Alabama. 

He's a recent Harvard Business School graduate and works full-time as a private equity associate. 

There's just one problem: He can't seem to find the right woman.

 To remedy this situation, You created his own dating website, dateren.com, where people can submit female friends who might like to date You.

As an incentive, if You and a woman submitted to the site wind up dating for more than six months, You says he will pay $10,000 to the person who helped set them up (unless You's future girlfriend submits herself, in which case she would not be eligible for the cash reward).  

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(It's worth mentioning here that we were initially suspicious about the possible word play here. His last name is You ... he says "I'll pay you" ... could he mean ... he'll pay himself? That would be smart and kind of funny! But then we got out of our own heads.)

Finding the woman of his dreams is worth at least $10,000 to You. He compares finding a potential partner to purchasing other "big-ticket items" such as a car or a house. 

"I would argue that all these things pale in importance to finding somebody you get along with and you may end up marrying," You told BI. "So $10,000 seemed pretty reasonable."

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Before starting his own dating site, You was disappointed by his experiences with standard dating techniques.

"I’ve been on a bunch of dates and gone through all the usual methods: friends of friends, introductions through coworkers, OkCupid, Match.com, Tinder, everything," You told Business Insider of his failed dating efforts. 

Even though he was going on plenty of dates, he wasn't meeting the kinds of women he envisioned potentially spending the rest of his life with.

"With online dating you have this problem of adverse selection," You explained. "Only the people who self-select into a particular dating website are the people you have access to." 

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Unlike other dating websites, women can be involuntarily submitted to You's website. 

"With this site I have access to basically everybody," You noted to BI. "You don't have to see the site or know who I am, you just have to know somebody who has seen the site." 

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You made sure to let his family and friends know what he was up to before starting this new dating adventure.

"I understand there's always the potential hazard of people thinking you're an a------ and the internet deciding it doesn't like what you're doing," You said of his concerns in starting the website. 

For now, You is just trying to streamline the process of finding a woman who he can call his girlfriend, and maybe someday, his wife. "I'm trying to make dating as efficient as possible," he said.

If you're interesting in submitting yourself or a friend, check out You's dating site here.

[H/T BuzzFeed]

SEE ALSO: Transgender people are reportedly being banned from Tinder

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America's top colleges assigned these books to freshmen

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Every summer, top colleges around the US ask incoming freshman to read books the schools have deemed important and noteworthy.

The book choices this year range from personal essays to classic fiction, hitting topics that include race, climate change, and sexuality.

While students will get to enjoy the books over the summer, at most colleges they're expected to come to campus ready to debate and analyze the book alongside their new classmates.

Check out what they're reading below:

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Princeton University: "Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do," by Claude Steele

From Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber:

"'Whistling Vivaldi' presents some of the most important social science work done in the last quarter-century, and speaks directly to issues that are important to our nation and our campus community. Professor Steele describes a series of inventive experiments — including some involving Princeton students — that enabled him to develop and test his hypothesis about how negative stereotypes affect us in times of stress. All of us, no matter what our backgrounds may be, will recognize ourselves in some of Professor Steele's examples."

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Duke University: "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," by Alison Bechdel

From Duke Summer Reading Committee Member Ibanca Anand:

"'Fun Home' is a book like no other. The author uses the unique graphic medium to tell a story that sheds a lot of light on important and weighted issues like mental health, interpersonal relationships and human rights, all critical issues that students will become acquainted with in college ... The book is a quick read but not an easy one; it made me uncomfortable at times, which I think is one of the most telling reasons why it's so important for students to read."

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Stanford University: "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution," by Walter Isaacson, "This Boy's Life," by Tobias Wolff, and "Cane River," by Lalita Tademy.

From Stanford President John Hennessy:

"I spent a long time pondering what sort of books to choose when I was asked to lead the program this year, and I chose three books about people: a biography (actually a collection of short biographies), a memoir, and what we might call a book of biographical fiction ... They are stories about people, the challenges they face, and how they deal with adversity."

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24 incredible new UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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UNESCO, the United Nation's cultural organization, recently added 24 new World Heritage Sites to its collection, which now includes over 1,000 cultural, historical, and natural sites around the world. 

The new additions include well-known tourist attractions like France's Champagne wine region, as well as lesser-known historic gems like Jordan's baptist site.

From the 18th-century missions of San Antonio, Texas, to Turkey's ancient city of Ephesus, here are the newest UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

 

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The hillsides, houses and cellars in Champagne, France, include historic vineyards, wineries, underground cellars, and Épernay's famous street, the Avenue de Champagne.

Learn more about the Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars.



The Ancient City of Ephesus in Turkey stands as an example of a Roman Port City, comprising Hellenistic and Roman settlements, ancient Roman monuments like the Great Theatre, and some remains of the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World).

Learn more about Ephesus.



Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus, located in Hamburg, Germany, are densely built urban areas. Speicherstadt is home to one of the largest historic ensembles of port warehouses in the world, and Kontorhaus is home to office complexes that were built in the 1920s to the 1940s when international trade was booming in the area.

Learn more about the Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus.



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How to be interesting (in 12 simple steps)

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It's easy to be boring. It's harder to be interesting. Want to learn how? Jessica Hagy offers the following advice, excerpted from her book "How To Be Interesting."

Go exploring.

Explore ideas, places, and opinions.

The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out.

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Expose yourself.

To embarrassment. To ridicule. To risk. To strange events and conditions. To wild ideas. To things that make you cringe. To strange vistas and new sounds. Trust me. It'll be fun.

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Become a spy.

People watch. Eavesdrop. Lurk. Loiter. Listen. And you'll learn the secret codes of others. Every day can be an interesting recon mission.

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Tweak the schedule.

Wake up before the alarm. Steal moments between stoplights to compose poems. Sneak off to a moonlit spot when you'd otherwise be watching something on a glowing screen. Work at night and play in the daytime. Carve out hours for the dreams you've been putting off. There's always time to explore. You get to decide when it is. 

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Keep asking why.

Parents hate it when kids do it.

Why? Because.

Why? Because.

Why? Because.

And on and on. But try it. You'll be surprised at how quickly a simple Why? can turn into a fascinating Because.

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Share what you discover.

And be generous when you do. Not everybody went exploring with you.

Let them live vicariously through your adventures.

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Instigate.

Do not wait until tomorrow. Say, do, or make it now. Go where you need to be. Do not wait to be invited places. Host your own parties. Do not sit by the phone. Pick it up. Spread the word. Press the buttons. Buy the tickets and enjoy the show.

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State the obvious.

What's known to you is often a mystery to others. Your old fact is someone else's new lesson. Your simple task is someone else's impossible chore. Your mind is full of treasures that no one else has seen. Pass them on. An idea shared is not diminished: It's multiplied. 

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Do something. Anything.

Dance. Talk. Build. Network. Play. Help. Create. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're doing it. Sitting around and complaining is not an acceptable form of "something," in case you were wondering. 

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Sign up.

Join a club. Take a class. Volunteer. Have a party. Take a meeting. What we do shapes who we are. Be someone who's been there, done that, and wants to do new things tomorrow.

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Earnestly enjoy yourself.

Irony gets in the way of experience. Drop the pretense, and you'll have room to carry the day.

Sing along to cheesy pop music. Enjoy things that are out of style. Make silly faces. Stop stifling your giggles.

Give yourself permission to enjoy yourself. 

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Tinker.

Start with a wonder. How does this work? What makes that happen? Then poke. Take things apart and put them back together. Push buttons. Change settings. See how the pieces fit. See what powers the engine. See how interesting it all is. 

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Here are 6 surprising things we learned at last year's IGNITION

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You never know what you'll hear next at IGNITION, Business Insider's premier annual conference on digital business.

At the 2014 event, big-name speakers like Jeff Bezos, David Karp, and Barry Diller kept crowds riveted with their insight, advice, and behind-the-scenes stories.

What will people be talking about at this year's IGNITION? We can't wait to find out—but in the meantime, here are some of the biggest things we learned from last year's event:

1. Books are too expensive. According to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, publishers need to "draw the box big" and realize that books no longer just compete with other books for attention. They're going up against content that's free or costs far less.

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2. Outer space isn't so far away. During a panel session with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget, Bezos said he wants to seepeople living in space. It won't be anytime soon, but he already has his own private company, Blue Origin, working on building a new liquid rocket engine to send autonomous vehicles into space.

3. Big media shouldn't be threatened by upstart content creators. Emerging creators—brought to life by platforms like Kickstarter—are creating niche content that is "making the world richer and more diverse," according to Tumblr CEO David Karp. But there's plenty of room for content produced by big-budget networks like HBO. "There's only so many new episodes of 'Game of Thrones,'" Karp explained, "and there's still hundreds of hours a week to enjoy new content."

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4. A futuristic floating park will launch in NYC's Hudson River in four years. For that you can thank IAC chairman Barry Diller, who feels lucky to contribute some of his billions toward a public performance place that will host "every kind of discipline of music."

5. YouTube stars don't secretly want to be TV stars. Being on TV isn't better than being on YouTube, says Bethany Mota, the 19-year old YouTube sensation. She enjoys being her own director and producer, since online she can "have an idea and just go with it" without having to check with someone for approval.

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6. Meet the next social platform: virtual reality. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said that partnering with a company like Microsoft or Sony, which have their own platforms, would have been too limiting for virtual reality. But VR's huge social potential led him to make a deal with Facebook, which could help VR make you "feel like you're there with other people."

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Curious about what will be said at IGNITION 2015? Be one of the first to know: Take advantage of our early-bird pricing and grab your ticket to IGNITION now.

IGNITION will take place December 8–9 at the Time Warner Center in New York City. Over the next few months we'll be releasing the names of more speakers and panels, so stay tuned for all the updates.

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We went to 'Action Park' in New Jersey — once the deadliest amusement park in America

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If you grew up anywhere near Northern New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s, you knew Action Park. The park was known for its incredibly dangerous rides and lengthy list of death-related urban legends.

Those legends were actually based in fact — there were multiple deaths at the park, and there was a steady stream of ambulances going to and from the park every day for all sorts of injuries. Commonly called "Class Action Park" and "Traction Park," you generally didn't leave without a few bruises — at the very least.

Now with improved safety standards and under new management, I took a trip out to Vernon, New Jersey to see if the park is still as thrilling — and dangerous — as it when I first went more than 20 years ago. Spoiler alert: I had a great time. 

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We asked an exercise scientist for his definition of someone who is 'in shape'

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It's a strange, vague goal that many of us strive for: getting "in shape."

But what does that actually mean? And how do you get there?

It may be the most popular phrase in the world of exercise, but it's hard to pin down a clear definition, or know how to reach that ideal in practice.

We spoke recently to Shawn Arent, an exercise scientist at Rutgers University, and asked him about this. He was pretty clear: The answer is different for everyone.

But that doesn't mean we don't have a number of common markers for people who consider themselves "in shape."

Here's what he told us:

"There is no one definition. It can be everything from having low body fat to having good cardiovascular endurance to having muscular strength — to be pain free, to be stress free, all these things ... and I really think it depends on what the person’s goals are.

"It depends on what you’re trying to do. If you’re trying to run a marathon, your version of in shape might be something very different than someone competing in a body building contest or someone that plays flag football on the weekend.

"Generally the way we define it is that your cardiovascular endurance— your cardiorespiratory endurance — is good enough that you don’t easily get winded. So your VO2 max is above average, in terms of oxygen consumption.

"[Being in shape can also mean] having a good level of body fat — I don’t want to say low — because obviously you don’t want to go too low with body fat (there’s other problems there), but a healthy [level of] body fat is probably the best way to look at it. Where you’re considered lean, most people consider that “in shape.” So like I said it really depends on what your goals are ...

"... It just depends on what you want your shape to be."

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Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld has put his massive Sun Valley compound up for auction

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Screen Shot 2015 07 07 at 11.41.46 AMFormer Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld is putting his gorgeous Sun Valley, Idaho compound up for auction, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The 71.3-acre Big Wood River Estate was originally offered for $59.5 million. Concierge Auctions estimates that the property could fetch anywhere from $30 to $50 million when it hits the auction block on August 19th. It's listed "without reserve" meaning it will go the highest bidder. 

The listing says the property is owned by Fuld through a trust.

Before its demise in 2008, Lehman Brothers was the fourth largest Wall Street bank. Fuld had been the CEO since 1994. Since the bankruptcy, Fuld has kept a relatively low profile. He recently reemerged at a small-cap conference this spring.

Now, let's take a tour of his compound.  

The Sun Valley estate sits on 71.3 acres, offering seclusion and privacy.



The property, which is located at the foot of Bald Mountain, is just a short drive from ski resorts and hiking/biking trails.



Here's a shot of the main house.



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The 10 top international airlines, according to travelers

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Travel + Leisure just released the 2015 winners for its annual World's Best Awards

Top Airlines in the World was one of the big awards. To determine the winner, Travel + Leisure surveyed its readers and collected data on a host of parameters including cabin comfort, in-flight service, customer service, value, food, and loyalty programs.

The long-running travel magazine also handed out awards for  best airports, cities to visit, hotels, and even best islands to checkout.

Pacific Rim airlines fared particularly well, making up 7 of the 10 award-getters. Here are the winners.

SEE ALSO: Emirates is attacking its competitors by evoking the Golden Age of air travel

10. Qantas Airways



9. All Nippon Airways (ANA)



8. Korean Air



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17 outrageously expensive summer camps where kids have the time of their lives

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Camp SkylemarWell-to-do families in the northeast start thinking about summer camp long before the final school bell rings. And well they should: not only do exclusive sleep-away camps fill up fast, they also cost a pretty penny. 

Here, we've put together a list of the most expensive sleep-away camps across New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Most are in Maine, near a lake, and offer everything from waterskiing to polo.

For some perspective, the costs of these camps are roughly equivalent to a semester at a state college. Not a single camp checks in under $11,000.

Meredith Galante contributed to an earlier version of this story.

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Camp Winaukee is a boys' camp on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. It costs $11,100 for the summer.

Camp Winaukee prides itself on being one of the country's preeminent sports and adventure camps.

With 2.5 miles of shoreline surrounding the largest lake in New England, there’s plenty of room for water sports. Activities at the camp include canoeing, kayaking, outdoor adventure, ropes, arts and crafts, and theater.



Camp Wildwood is a boys' camp in Bridgton, Maine on the shores of Woods Pond. It costs $11,200 for the summer.

At Camp Wildwood, activities include archery, beach volleyball, swimming lessons, polo, and more. Kids are split up into groups based on age to make for an even playing field. 

Campers can also look forward to canoe trips, white-water rafting, and pizza parties for those with the cleanest bunks.

 



Lake Bryn Mawr Camp is a girls' camp on the side of the Bryn Mawr mountain in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. It costs $11,250 for the summer.

Lake Bryn Mawr campers adhere to a strict "Angel Code," which supposedly governs their actions at camp as they swim, play tennis, tumble in the gymnasium, make arts and crafts, and learn cooking.

Special events at the camp include the "Miss Firecracker Contest," a camp-wide Olympics, and a week-long event called the "Color War."

 



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18 rare color photographs of the Russian Empire from over 100 years ago

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2048px Prokudin Gorskii 31Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the first to use color photography in the early 20th century in Russia. 

In 1907, the photographer decided to systematically document the Russian Empire and was given a specially-equipped railroad car darkroom by Tsar Nicholas II for the project.

To create his images, he used an oblong glass plate through three different color filters of red, green, and blue, projecting them in slides on top of one another to create a full color image.

Today, more than 2,000 of his images are preserved by the Library of CongressWe’ve put together a collection of some of his most striking images.

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Prokudin-Gorskii took this photograph of Emir Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the last emir representative to rule the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia, in 1911.

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Here, we get an early 20th-century view of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, which was previously known as Tiflis in Russian. Located on a plain formed by the Kura River, the city was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1801 before becoming the capital of an independent Georgia in 1991.

Source: Library of Congress, World Digital Library

 



By the time World War I arrived, Russia was in a stage of rapid industrialization. Prokudin-Gorskii was interested in documenting the economic life of the empire, capturing photographs like this one, taken in 1910, of a family mining-operation in the Ural Mountain region.

Source: Library of Congress 



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Business Insider is hiring a syndication intern

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Business Insider is looking for a paid intern to join Business Insider’s Syndication team. This team manages BI’s network of 500+ syndication partnerships, and also takes the lead on exciting special projects that help the site grow.

This internship will teach you the ins and outs of how a digital news site operates, from selecting stories to forming strategic editorial partnerships. You will also build your editing, communication, and management skills—all valuable tools that will serve you well no matter where you work.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized person who gets details right the first time. They also must be able to juggle a variety of tasks on a daily basis and have a good instinct for what readers will find interesting.

Among other things, this intern’s responsibilities would be to:

  • Assist the Syndication editor with managing special projects, including book distribution to editors in the newsroom 
  • Review and select stories from our partners and rewrite headlines to fit Business Insider style (piques your curiosity without overselling)
  • Become familiar with all verticals and search for potential syndication partners

A background in journalism or experience with managing a blog is a huge plus. Copy-editing skills and light HTML will come in handy, too. We’re looking for a voracious news reader who is eager to learn more about the digital media world.

APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter if interested. 

Please note that this internship is paid hourly and requires that you work in our Manhattan office. The internship term runs for approximately six months, with some flexibility on start and end dates.

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77% of people in relationships think men should pay on the first date

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Quick: Who should pay on a first date?

If you said "the guy," you're in the majority. In a NerdWallet study of people in relationships who had been living together for at least six months, 77% of respondents said that men should pay on the first date. It's worth noting, however, that whether these respondents are in hetero or homosexual relationships isn't specified.

Apparently, this doesn't change as time goes on. When asked who pays on "date night," 56% of men said they pay, along with 0% of women (yes, zero). There are a good number of couples splitting the bill, though: 40% of men and 41% of women say they split the check on date night.

Check out the infographic below to see what else the study uncovered:

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Scientists have found how memories physically affect your brain

11 examples of China making large-scale knock-offs of world-famous buildings

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China's construction boom has been one of the biggest drivers of economic growth in the past few years.

And although most of that has been original infrastructure, China also focused its attention on building replicas of world-famous tourist destinations.

Many of the original "world wonders" are considered cultural status symbols that reflected an empire's soft power. Consequently, some analysts believe that it's about more than just pretty tourist spots for China.

"The ancient parallels for these copycat projects suggest that they are not mere follies, but monumental assertions of China’s global primacy," Oxford University scholar and archaeologist Jack Carlson wrote a few years back.

A nearly full-scale copy of the Great Sphinx of Giza, which was built by the ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom circa 2500 BC, is now standing at an unfinished theme park in Chuzhou, Anhui province in China.

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In the Beijing World Park, there are replicas of the Washington DC's White House and Lincoln Memorial, as well as New York's Statue of Liberty.

Source: China Guide



Other fun things you can find in the Beijing World Park include the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In total, there are over 100 world famous attractions in the park.



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The 18 most gorgeous classic cars we saw on the streets of Havana

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Perhaps the strongest reminder of the hardened US-Cuban relationship is the 60,000 retrofitted metal relics clunking around the streets of the stagnant island nation.

Havana's stunning 1950s-era "coches Americanos" — or "máquinas" —are often referred to as the "Galápagos of the car industry" since they have been meticulously preserved by their owners during the 55-year-long trade embargo.

Branded in Cuba's surreal time-warp image, these cars provide crucial income for locals while servicing the island's tourists. Here are a few of the most beautiful vintage cars we saw on our recent trip to Havana. You can read more about Business Insider's week in Cuba here.

SEE ALSO: We sent 3 reporters to Cuba for a week, and it was a wild adventure from the moment they arrived

In 1955, Cuba was the top importer of North American-manufactured cars, with nearly 125,000 Detroit-made automobiles bustling around the island nation.

 



That all changed in 1959, when Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over the country.

 



"The Cadillac does not provide jobs for anyone," Castro said during a speech to the Cuban people in July 1959. "The Cadillac does not increase the wealth of the country. It diminishes it."

Source: On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture.



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Surprising science-backed ways to boost your mood

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We all have a remarkable capacity to make ourselves happier.

Each of the little things we do to boost our mood — from reading an adventure story to keeping a gratitude journal or even gazing up at the stars on a clear night — can add up to greater overall satisfaction.

But happiness doesn't come easy. We have to work at it. 

Here are some of the things that psychologists and social science researchers have found that have the power to lift your spirits and keep them high. Take a look:

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Write down 3 things you're grateful for.

Keeping tabs on the things you feel lucky to have in your life is a great way to boost your mood.

In a recent study from psychologists at UC Davis, researchers had 3 groups of volunteers keep weekly journals focused on a single topic. While one group wrote about major events that had happened that week, the second group wrote about hassles they'd experienced, and the last group wrote about things they were grateful for.

Ten weeks later, those in the gratitude-journal group reported feeling more optimistic and more satisfied with their lives than those in any of the other groups and reported fewer physical symptoms of discomfort, from runny noses to headaches.



Go on a hike or gaze up at the stars on a clear night.

Awe is a powerful — even awesome, you might say — human emotion. And a handful of recent studies have found a link between experiencing a sense of awe — that feeling you get when you look up at a starry sky or out across a wide open valley — with feeling less stressed and more satisfied.

People who've recently had an awe-inspiring experience are also more likely to say they feel more curious about the world around them and to act more generously toward others.



Move to Switzerland.

Ok, moving to Switzerland might not make you happy, but people who live there are some of the happiest in the world, according to the 2015 World Happiness Report, a ranking compiled by an international team of economists, neuroscientists, and statisticians to measure global well-being.

One of the report's key findings, based on decades of neuroscientific and psychological research, suggests that keeping the brain happy relies on 4 main factors, which include staying positive, recovering from negative feelings, spending time with loved ones, and being mindful.

"These findings highlight the view that happiness and well-being are best regarded as skills that can be enhanced through training," the researchers write in their report.



See the rest of the story at Business Insider








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