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More and more celebrity chefs are sharing their favorite foods on this restaurant recommendation app

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Picking a restaurant can be tough. 

There are lots of apps and sites that want to make the process easier for us, from Yelp's user-generated ratings to the Infatuation's expert, yet funny, reviews.

ChefsFeed is an app that generates dining recommendations from yet another perspective: the chefs themselves. 

Star chefs can use the app to recommend a few of their favorite dishes from other restaurants. 

Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud, for example, recommends the oysters and pearls from Per Se. 

"This is definitely a date-night dish. It tastes of heaven and it's beautifully elegant," he writes. "It's a powerhouse dish that makes working hard worthwhile."

You can find recommendations for any kind of food you might be in the mood for, whether that's an extensive omakase meal or just a classic cheeseburger. 

Chefs Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar, for example, recommends the Jon Jon Deragon hot dog from Please Don't Tell in New York City. 

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Chefs have to be referred by a friend and approved before they can write reviews on ChefsFeed. Chefs typically recommend about two to three other chefs they admire, so it stays exclusive. There are currently about 1,200 chefs sharing their recommendations on ChefsFeed. 

In a way, the app becomes a social network for chefs that the rest of us foodies can spy on. Users can search the app using their current location, a particular dish they want, or by their favorite chef's recommendations. 

ChefsFeed currently has more than 1 million active users in 57 cities. 

"These chefs have more followers on ChefsFeed than they do on Twitter or Instagram. It's a built-in, targeted audience," CEO Rich Maggiotto told Business Insider. Magiotto worked at AOL in the '90s before going on to cofound digital magazine publishing platform Zinio, which sold to Gilvest in 2007.

"It's a way to talk to all of the experts at once."

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ChefsFeed was started in 2012 by brothers Jared and Steve Rivera, whose PR firm was purchased by Wagstaff Worldwide later that year. Maggiotto joined in 2014. 

ChefsFeed has raised a total of $16.9 million in venture funding to date, including a $5 million round led by Artis Ventures in February.

The app recently unveiled a brand-new look, which Maggiotto describes as "more taco truck than white linen." ChefsFeed's former logo showed a chef's whites on an orange background.

"A lot of chefs don't wear white linens anymore. Plus they make it a lot harder to show off your tattoos," Maggiotto said. chefsfeed

They've also announced a host of new content, including behind-the-scenes videos and columns from industry experts. 

There's also an added incentive for chefs to share their favorite dishes — for each review posted, ChefsFeed will make a donation to No Kid Hungry. 

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We're getting less and less of a critical ingredient that our bodies need to function

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sleep texting1Over the last 50 years, Americans have lost about an hour and a half of sleep — and our beloved phones, e-readers, computers, and televisions are largely to blame, Maria Konnikova writes in a three-part series on sleep for The New Yorker.

Of course, genetics, eating and exercise habits, and consumption of alcohol and nicotine influences our ability to fall asleep. Regardless, 69% of Americans reporting insufficient sleep, according to The New Yorker.

But one of the most important elements that affect our ability to fall asleep is light.

Photoreceptors in our eyes respond to changes in light and regulate our circadian rhythms. Research suggests that by pumping up our exposure to devices that emit blue light, like smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc., we've been disrupting our sleep cycles.

Blue light in particular is so important because our bodies interpret it as daylight. Blue light essentially tells our body that it's not time for sleep yet.

In one study, the author and his colleagues tested the effects of blue light on sleep by asking people to read either an e-book or a printed book four hours before bed for five evenings in a row.The 12 participants in the 2014 study who had read an e-book showed later releases in melatonin, an important sleep hormone, compared with those who had read a printed book.

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Many studies have emerged over the years that suggest our bodies need darkness to function properly. So being exposed to too much light could disrupt our circadian rhythm, the internal clock that helps guide when we fall asleep and when we wake up. Some research also suggests messing with this clock can also increase our risk of developing obesity, diabetes, and breast cancer.

While many people turn to sleep aids to counteract difficulties at night, The New Yorker notes that other, natural ways to facilitate sleep include yoga, meditation, or tai chi and that adopting good sleep hygiene (avoiding alcohol and nicotine, exercising regularly, going to bed at the same time every day) is key.

Many blue-light filters are also now available for most devices, as well as special glasses designed to block the blue light emanating from devices.

There are even special apps for smartphones that adjust the color of your screen depending on the time of the day. In the morning, for example, the light will be the normal 'blue' light, but as the day goes on, the colors will start to change and become warmer.  

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The second languages of every part of the world in one incredible infographic

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The website MoveHub.com, experts in international moving, is a resource for people looking to move abroad.

They have released this eye-opening infographic that shows the second language of every region across the globe. Some are rather predictable, like Canada's knowledge of French. 

But others are very telling about the histories of certain regions and how our global story has played out over hundreds of years.

Take a look at what the website compiled:

 

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The 10 greatest Ferraris of all time

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With Ferrari's upcoming IPO in October, fans of the prancing horse will finally be able to own a piece of the Italian automaker without forking over hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

But for many, there's no substitute to the raw power and emotion of a living, breathing Ferrari. Since the company launched its road car business in 1947, it's reputation has grown from that of a respected racing team to a creator of automotive legends. 

In fact, the company has managed to maintain a waiting list for many of its models without engaging in any forms of traditional advertising. 

Other the years, Ferrari has been responsible for a long line of fast, powerful, and evocative sports cars and supercars. Anyone who has ever encountered a Ferrari has his or her personal favorite. Which is why Business Insider compiled a list of the 10 best Ferraris in the world. 

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166 Inter: Built from 1948 to 1950, the Ferrari 166 Inter was based on the company's successful 166 race cars. The model was Ferrari's first international sales success.



The 166 was powered by a 2.0-liter, 90-horsepower V12 engine.



250 TR Testarossa: The 1957 250 TR was one of the first Ferraris to carry the iconic Testarossa badge. Testarossa, or "red head," is a reference to the car's red painted engine head covers.



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This map shows which US states are in the most economic distress

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The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) recently looked at which states had the highest percentage of their population living in economic distress, and a clear trend appeared.

The Southeast of the US, which has always struggled with poverty, still has the highest concentration of people living in economic distress. 

To assess economic distress, the study examined these seven variables in over 25,000 ZIP codes: educational attainment, housing-vacancy rates, unemployment rates, poverty levels, median-income ratios, percent changes in employment, and percent change in establishments.

The study is based on data from the American Community Survey from the 2009-2013 period.

Based upon those criteria, EIG then ranks the states according to the percentage of population who lives in a ZIP code that falls into the top 15% of distressed ZIP codes in the US. 

A high concentration of states with 15% and more of the population living in distress is clearly visible in the Southeast.

Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia all have at 15% of their population living in economic distress, with Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina all topping the list at 25%.

states economic distressThe northern states generally do better than the South with only Michigan topping the 15% threshold.

The state with the highest percentage of people living in distress is Nevada, where a third of the population is in that situation. Wyoming, on the other hand, has 0% of its almost 600,000 inhabitants living in economic distress.

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Scientists discovered that having more sex will not make you happier, but that's not the most surprising part

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In the first study of its kind, a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have upended the common notion that having more sex will make you happier.

More surprising is that more sex might even generate unhappiness, George Leowenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon, and his colleagues report in their recent paper.

Several studies over the last decade have found evidence to suggest that sex is directly linked with happiness, so that more sex means greater happiness. One study even found that changing the amount of sex you had from once a month to once a week would give you the same amount of happiness as receiving an extra $50,000.

However, what these studies missed and what's causing some misconceptions about sexual frequency and joy, Leowenstein recently told the New York Times, was to determine which element — sex or happiness — was the cause and which was the effect. Not only that, other factors besides sex, such as income, location, or age, could be better gauges of what makes us happy.

"Although it seems plausible that sex could have beneficial effects on happiness, it is equally plausible that happiness affects sex," the team wrote in their paper. " ... or that some third variable, such as health, affects both."

To help settle this riddle, the team carefully designed an experiment that would clearly determine, once and for all, if more sex causes greater happiness.

A straightforward experiment to solve a confusing riddle

The experiment was straightforward: Measure how happy couples were with their current sex schedules. Then, split them into two groups and ask one group to have more sex (twice as much, to be exact) and ask the other group to change nothing about their sex live. Finally, compare their how happy they were afterward. (As part of the experiment, for example, couples having sex three times a week had sex six times a week; those having sex once a month had it twice a month).

Couple Almost KissingA total of 64 adult couples volunteered. Each pair was legally married and heterosexual, and all volunteers were between the ages of 35 and 65.

The team asked half of the couples to double the amount of sex they were having while the other half of couples kept their normal sex schedule.

Throughout the duration of the experiment, which lasted 90 days, both sets of couples completed the same online questionnaire at the end of each day. This questionnaire helped the researchers measure each couple's mood as well as how satisfied they were with each sexual episode — the quality of the sex.

What they found surprised them:

"Contrary to what one would expect if the causal story running from sexual frequency to happiness were true," the team wrote in their paper, "we observed a weak negative impact of inducing people to have more sex on mood."

In general, the researchers found that the couples who doubled the amount of sex didn't enjoy the sex as much and were less happy overall. Although the team can only speculate as to why this was, they did answer their question: More sex does not make us happier.

Moreover, the researchers stipulate that by being forced to have more sex, the selected couples actually developed, over time, less motivation to have sex. That, in turn, is what might have led to an overall downturn in the quality of their sex as well as their overall mood.

What you want to take away from this, Leowenstein told the Times, is that when it comes to sex, concentrate on quality and not quantity if you want to be happy.

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17 stupendous works of art by mysterious French artist JR

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French artist JR works anonymously, but the giant images he pastes on buildings, streets, and bridges around the world are meant to put faces on often-ignored slices of society, from victims of crime to the elderly.

The "photograffeur" — that's a combination of photographer and graffiti artist — prints humongous versions of the portraits he takes, often in black and white, and "flyposts" them where he chooses. The exhibits span whole cities and continents.

JR, who has received a TED Prize for his work, sees the streets as his stage and says he "owns the biggest art gallery in the world."

Keep scrolling to see some of the artist's most visually arresting works.

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In early 2014, JR took portraits of dozens of people, and turned them into a collage around the dome of the Pantheon in Paris while it was under construction. The installation depicted "the diversity of the contemporary world."



More of the artist's portraits displayed under the dome of the Pantheon in Paris.



For another exhibit, JR created an upside-down portrait of paper strips. It covered the facade of the French National Library in Paris in November 2013.



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Meet the wild card Trump daughter that no one's talking about

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Donald Trump's other beautiful blonde daughter, Tiffany, is all over Manhattan's social scene, but no one seems to be noticing. 

Despite partying with the "Rich Kids of Instagram," interning at Vogue, dropping a pop single, and just being a Trump heir, the 21-year-old doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet. 

The reason she's been able to fly so low under the radar is because, up until recently, much of the media had forgotten she even existed. 

Tiffany grew up in California with mother Marla Maples, Donald Trump's second wife, and went to Calabasas$31,205-a-year Viewpoint School. Maples has said that Donald helped with school and other financials, but that she raised Tiffany as a single parent.

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Recently, Tiffany swapped coasts and moved closer to her dad to attend his alma mater, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she's currently a senior. Although she put out a synthy pop song in 2011, she told interviewers from Oprah Winfrey's network that she really loves fashion design. 

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In the spring of 2013, the Daily Mail reported that Ivanka Trump helped her half-sister score an internship at Vogue, and that Tiffany was going to work as early as 5:30 a.m. and "even got to have lunch with Anna Wintour." The New York Post's Page Six got wind of the youngest Trump daughter shortly after that, when she stepped out for a Halloween party at Manhattan's Boom Boom Room.

ej johnson tiffany trumpIn the few press clips you can find on Tiffany, she's often spotted with a group of wealthy young socialites called the "Rich Kids of Instagram." Some of her friends are Andrew Warren (son of a New York real-estate investor) Harry Brant and Peter Brant, Jr. (sons of media mogul Peter Brant), Gaia Matisse (great-great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse), and EJ Johnson (son of Magic Johnson), most of whom attended Tiffany's 21st birthday bash at Trump Soho and a dance club called Up & Down in New York's Meatpacking District. 

GettyImages 170829515This summer she's been hanging out in the Hamptons with Warren, attending his fashion-line debut at an upscale East Hampton boutique and following him to Du Jour magazine CEO Jason Binn's annual Memorial Day soirée.  

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It doesn't appear that her society friends and active social life have gotten in the way of her studies, though. According to her Instagram, she's juggling a new internship with Aeffe — the Italian fashion group that owns Alberta Ferretti, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Moschino, and Pollini — and spending a lot of time in the library. The below photo was taken at Aeffa USA's Manhattan office and was tagged #internlife. 

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Given that Wharton School grad Ivanka had a brief career as a runway model before getting down to business at The Trump Organization with her dad, Tiffany could very well follow the same trajectory, possibly even working for Ivanka's rapidly growing fashion and lifestyle brand.

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Or perhaps she'll keep working on her music and make a bid for pop stardom. Either way, it'll be interesting to watch. 

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The absolute best cosplay photos from San Diego Comic-Con 2015

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Fans in cosplay, or role-playing costumes, invaded San Diego Comic-Con.

At this year's annual celebration of comics, TV, movies, anime, and gaming, we've seen screen-accurate Stormtroopers, superheroes, and "Frozen's" Anna and Elsa dressed for battle on the Fury Road.

We went ahead and rounded up photos of the best cosplays. And we will continue to update this post as the Con unfolds.

See any great cosplay? Email us at mrobinson@businessinsider.com and kacuna@businessinsider.com.

Additional photo contribution by Kirsten Acuna.

Jared Leto's Joker in the upcoming "Suicide Squad" has nothing on this glam Clown Prince of Crime.



Batman better watch out for this Joker-Penguin hybrid.



What would Joker be without his main squeeze, Harley Quinn (who we'll see in the new "Suicide Squad" movie)? She's joined by a flirtatious Poison Ivy.



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Women are photoshopping male nipples over their own to combat Instagram's double standard

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Not all nipples are created equal — at least, not according to Instagram. The photo-sharing app is known for removing photos that feature female nipples. Male nipples, however, are fair game.

Now, to combat this double standard, people have found a work-around: pasting male nipples over female ones in photos, according to Esquire. It's a loophole that allows them to show Instagram just how ridiculous they think this policy is. Artist Micol Hebron even created a "digital pasty" male nipple template for other Instagram users to voice their displeasure.

Hebron has posted photos using the template to her own Instagram, and many others have followed suit (please note that these photos may NSFW). Even celebrities like Perez Hilton, Courtney Love, and Sarah Silverman are on board.

"We don’t allow nudity on Instagram," Instagram's community guidelines state. "This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed."

The dichotemy between male-and-female nipples was especially highlighted when comedian Chelsea Handler tried to recreate Vladimir Putin's famous photo shirtless atop a horse. Instagram promptly removed Handler's post.

"Why?" Handler questioned. "He’s topless. Is it because I have nipples? Is it because they’re bigger?"

Those advocating, like Handler, to #freethenipple are trying to desexualize the female nipple in the same manner as the male nipple. No luck so far, but at least for now the male nipple template seems to be doing the trick in keeping Instagram at bay.

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17 mouthwatering pasta dishes from around Italy

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No one does pasta better than Italy.

And although most pasta varieties are available around the world, there are some more traditional dishes that are best when tasted in the region they're originally from.

From gnocchi baked in tomato sauce and mozzarella to pappardelle cooked with wild boar ragu, we rounded up 17 authentic pasta dishes from all over Italy.

 

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You can find spaghetti alla carbonara pretty much anywhere today, but it's originally from Rome. The creamy dish is made with egg yolks, parmigiano reggiano, pecorino romano, and guanciale — not bacon.



Pizzoccheri are short tagliatelle noodles that come from the town of Valtellina in Italy's northern Lombardy region. The noodles are traditionally served with greens and cubed potatoes.



Hailing from the stunning region of Tuscany, pici all'aglione is a relatively simple dish made with noodles similar to spaghetti noodles — although thicker — and a tomato sauce with garlic.



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100 years of American men's fashion, in pictures

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Turns out, men's fashion isn't all that cyclical.

Mode Studios, the YouTube content arm of web curator Mode.com, has created the perfect menswear retrospective in its "100 Years of Men’s Fashion in 3 Minutes" video.

From leather jackets to double-breasted suits, all of the 20th Century's best looks are here, as are the not-so-flattering 21st Century ones (read: ill-fitting jeans and puka shell necklaces).  

Keep scrolling to see how much men's fashion has really changed in the last century.

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We start in 1915, the dawn automobile age, when driving coats and flat caps were popular.



By 1925, we enter the Roaring Twenties. The so-called Jazz Age heavily influenced the styles of the time, including straw hats and striped blazers.



In 1935, we return to a more conservative style: double-breasted suit jackets.



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