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This Instagram shows a side of Paris you probably haven't seen before

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Parisian Floors

Turns out, Paris' best-kept secret is right below your feet. 

Photographer Sebastian Erras documents the colorful floors of The City of Light on his popular Instagram (@parisianfloors).

The series started outside of Paris, while Erras was traveling through Morocco. The vibrant country and its elaborate tile floors inspired him to start looking down no matter where he traveled. 

Keep scrolling to see some of our favorite images from the series, along with their locations.

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Rue de Rivoli



Rue Falguiere



Rue des Abbesses



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The simple secret to getting a Pumpkin Spice Latte before everyone else

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Starbucks isn't offering Pumpkin Spice Lattes to the general public until Tuesday, Sept. 8 — the day after Labor Day and the unofficial start of fall.

But if you want to spend your Labor Day Weekend sipping PSLs instead of fitting in one last round of summery margaritas, it's as simple as going online, as first pointed out by Cosmopolitan and Us Weekly.

Scroll down for the directions.

1. Go to PSLfanpass.com.

Click here to get there.



2. Enter the password, which is... drum roll, please... "pumpkin."

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3. Under the exquisitely spinning latte, enter your phone number so Starbucks can send you your PSL coupon.

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19 types of tapas you should eat in Spain

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Gambas al AjilloSmall in size but full of flavor, tapas offer diners the chance to explore myriad dishes without feeling stuffed.

There's a huge variety of savory, sweet, and spicy tapas to taste across Spain. 

From succulent prawns cooked in garlic and chili peppers to a refreshing serving of gazpacho, here are 19 mouthwatering tapas to try on your next trip to Spain.

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Patatas bravas are served across Spain, though how they are served can vary depending on the region. Potatoes are cut and fried in oil before being served with either a spicy tomato-based sauce (like in Burgos) or alongside aioli (like in Valencia and Catalonia).



Croquetas are fried balls of deliciousness that are served across bars and restaurants in Spain. They can come with a variety of meat, fish, and vegetable fillings with some of the most popular including ham and cod.



Gambas al ajillo are fresh prawns that are cooked in sizzling olive oil with garlic and chili peppers, packing a flavorful punch.



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Here are the real best things to do in Los Angeles, according to locals

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Los Angeles offers visitors much more than tourist traps like the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

To help you experience the best of the city, we've put together a list of favorites from Angelinos.

From Korean BBQ joints to iconic music venues, here are the real best things to do in Los Angeles, according to locals. 

 

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Grab a drink at Bar Marmont, located inside the legendary Chateau Marmont. The hotel has hosted an array of famous guests like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mick Jagger, and Robert De Niro.

Click here to learn more about Chateau Marmont >



Cruise the iconic Sunset Strip...



And stop in the world-famous Whisky a Go Go, an epicenter for the Los Angeles rock scene since its opening in 1964. The venue, which hosted shows from top bands like Led Zeppelin and The Doors, still holds concerts today.

Click here to learn more about Whisky A Go-Go >



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A Zuckerberg may have just bought this New York City townhouse for $22.3 million

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A townhouse in New York City's West Village has just sold for a whopping $22.3 million, and rumors are swirling that the mysterious buyer is either billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg or his sister, Randi Zuckerberg. 

According to property records first spotted by the New York Observer, the sale was closed under the title "12th Street Townhouse LLC," and the deed was signed by Tom van Loben Sels, a partner at San Francisco-based Apercen Partners LLC.

Van Loben Sels has worked with the Zuckerbergs on several occasions.

He registered a separate LLC when Mark purchased his Palo Alto home in 2011, and he worked on the sale of Randi's Los Altos home earlier this year, according to the Observer. 

He also helped Mark refinance his mortgage in 2012. 

It seems more likely that Randi is the buyer behind the LLC, given that her Silicon Valley home just sold for $6.55 million, and she had been rumored to be mulling a move to New York. 

Mark, who recently announced he and his wife Priscilla are expecting their first child, could certainly afford that steep price tag, too. It's also entirely possible that van Loben Sels is working with another high-profile client in this instance. 

There aren't too many details available about the house itself, as it was never publicly listed. It has 3,200 square feet of space situated over three levels. It was built in 1899 and previously belonged to Michael Stewart of UBS. Stewart purchased the townhouse for $3.4 million in 2004. 

Van Loben Sels did not immediately return a request for comment. 

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Stunning aerial photos show the collision of man-made waterways and mines with actual nature

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Aerial and landscape photographer Alexander Heilner has always been interested in how the artificial and the natural coexist.

For the past 25 years he's explored this concept on large and small scales. 

"I’m really interested in the idea that all the things we build are actually mark-making across the earth, and it's artistic in some way, but not initially," he told Business Insider.

His mission to document railroads, housing developments, and potash mines that have altered the landscape has made for some georgous and thought-provoking work.

Keep scrolling for the photos, the stories, and more about the man behind the lens.

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Heilner discovered mesmerizing potash mines in Utah while on a cross-country commercial flight. They immediately caught his eye and he knew he had to come back to photograph them.



Potash is a high potassium compound that's a major ingredient in fertilizers used by farmers across North America. "If you ate any vegetables today, and they were grown in America, there’s a decent chance that potash from this mine helped grow it," says Heilner.



Potash is produced in desert regions where inland seas or lakes have dried out. As the water evaporates, it leaves behind potassium salt deposits. Over time, sediment buries these deposits and they become potash ore, which is soluble. These mines pump the potash all the way to the surface of the water held in these "evaporation pools."



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Tinder isn’t the only reason the dating scene is terrible for women right now

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There's been a lot of talk lately about how dating apps like Tinder are ruining romance.

A recent Vanity Fair story claims these apps are responsible for a growing hookup culture, where anonymous sex has replaced traditional romance, because they give straight young men the impression that there's a surplus of available women.

But Tinder and its ilk (apps like OkCupid and Hinge) aren't entirely to blame, argues freelance journalist and former Fortune reporter Jon Birger in The Washington Post.

The Vanity Fair article quotes a psychologist who says that apps like Tinder contribute to "a perceived surplus of women" among straight men, which promotes more hookups and fewer traditional relationships.

However, "This surplus of women is not just 'perceived' but very, very real," Birger writes.

In his book "DATE-ONOMICS: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game," Birger argues that the college and post-college hookup scene is a result of the gender gap in college enrollment.

About 34% more women than men graduated from American colleges in 2012, and the US Department of Education predicts this number will reach 47% by 2023. Among college-educated adults in the US aged 22 to 29, there are about 5.5 million women and 4.1 million men, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

"In other words, the dating pool for straight, millennial, college graduates has four women for every three men," Birger says.

Some research suggests that the gender ratio has a big influence on dating and marriage — women on campuses with more women and fewer men say they go on fewer dates but have more sex, for example. A 2010 study of 986 unmarried, straight college women surveyed in 2001 found that women on campuses with more female than male students said they went on fewer conventional dates, were less likely to say they have had a college boyfriend, and were more likely to say they were sexually active than women from male-dominated campuses were.

The findings build on work by social psychologist Marcia Guttentag, whose book, "Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question," describes how the balance of men and women has had a profound effect on society, from sexual norms to economic power.

When there's an excess of marriage-eligible men, research suggests, the dating culture — in which men are traditionally the active ones seeking partners, rather than the other way around — involves more romance, because men must compete for the attention of fewer women. But when the ratio is skewed toward women, as with the college grads in this study, romantic interaction becomes more about sex, because men are in high demand and don't feel pressured to settle down.

Birger says this can lead to women being more sexually objectified, while men "play the field."

A possible solution?

Another factor that makes dating difficult is that college-educated women today are less likely than ever before to marry men with less education than them, research suggests. (In the past, difference in education level was a less important factor in marriage.)

As Berger puts it, "New York City women looking for a match would be better off, statistically at least, at a fireman's bar in Staten Island than a wine bar on the Upper East Side." In other words, if women with a college education were more open to dating men without one, it would improve their odds of finding a date.

Of course, the same statistics that Berger cites regarding the uneven ratio of educated men to women in the dating world suggest that this is likely not going to happen anytime soon.

There's another reason working against the dating odds of straight, urban women: In LGBT-friendly cities like New York, Washington, and Miami, a considerable fraction of the men are gay. Birger estimates that in Manhattan's straight, college-grad, under-30 dating pool, there are roughly three women for every two men.

Birger says the picture gets worse with age, because as people get older and get married, the ratio of available women to men gets even more skewed. For example, if you start out with a pool of 140 women and 100 men (all of whom are straight and monogamous), and half the women get married, the ratio of single women to single men rises from 1.4:1 to more than 2:1.

To solve that problem, Birger suggests that women seeking love in Manhattan leave New York, "which is one of the worst dating markets in the country for educated young women." If you are one of these women, his advice is, "Go West, Young Woman."

The odds are slightly better in the Western states of California and Colorado, which each have 20% more college-educated women aged 22 to 29 than men. By comparison, Illinois and North Carolina have 36% and 41% more such women, respectively.

In Silicon Valley, which is notoriously male-dominated, women have much better chances of snagging a man. Santa Clara County, for example, is the only populated area in the country where there are more male college graduates than female ones.

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The 24 best public colleges in America

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Cornell University fans

We recently released our seventh annual list of the best colleges in America, which included schools from every corner of the US.

Here, we've narrowed down our results to look at the best public schools in the country.

To determine the rankings, we asked over 1,000 Business Insider readers to choose the colleges that best prepare their students for success after graduation. We then combined those results with each school's average SAT score from the college-data website College Board and the median starting salary from the employer-information website PayScale to come up with the final ranking. You can read the full methodology here.

Please note that this list drew from our original survey on the best colleges in the US, where survey respondents chose from a limited pool of what we perceived to be the top 100 schools in the US.

Did your school make the cut this year? Read on to find out.

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24. University of Connecticut

Average SAT score: 1885

Median starting salary: $51,700

UConn has a built-out career services office, with resources both on campus and online. The online portal features a number of internship, co-op, and full-time job opportunities with companies like Pepperidge Farm, JetBlue, Unilever, and UBS, as well as a number of resources to help students apply and place there.



23. University of California at Irvine

Average SAT score: 1740

Median starting salary: $49,300

Part of the prestigious University of California system, UCI is known for its top-rated research programs, which provide opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students alike to participate in research projects. And although it's a large school, the student to faculty ratio remains low — only 19:1 — and 50% of classes have 20 or fewer students



22. University of California at Davis

Average SAT score: 1815

Median starting salary: $50,800

UC Davis graduates enter a network of over 200,000 living alumni when they complete their degrees. While still in school, students have access to 104 major choices, preparing them for careers in everything from landscape architecture to microbiology to nutrition science.



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The 30 best places to travel alone

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While traveling alone might seem scary, it doesn't have to be.

In fact, there are many reasons to travel alone. Solo travel allows for more self-reflection, and chances are, you'll take in more of the culture.

We've put together a list of 30 places that are ideal for traveling alone, from an adventure in New Zealand to a relaxing getaway in Cinque Terre, Italy.

Because the majority of the US is safe for solo travel, we decided to focus more on international destinations.

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New Zealand offers plenty of adventure for the single traveler. There's everything from bungee jumping and boat cruises to bike rides and hikes to take up your travel time — chances are you won't even think about the fact that you're solo.



Norway's fjords make for beautiful sightseeing. Plus, the country is very safe for solo travelers — the OECD Better Life Index gave Norway a particularly high safety rating and reported that the country has low crime and homicide rates.

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Switzerland's landscapes are breathtaking, and the country is small and public transportation is incredibly clean and efficient, making it an easy and accessible place to explore on your own. Charming cities such as Zurich and Lucerne are both on the water and great for walking around, shopping, and enjoying some delicious food.

To learn more about Switzerland, click here >



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These are the 5 trendiest sneakers guys can wear to the office

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Sneakers at the office — all the cool kids are doing it. But for one reason or another, you still haven't taken the leap. We're here to give you a push. 

Basically, if other people at the office are wearing sneakers, you can, too. But the presence of sneakers at your workplace does not give you carte blanche to wear any old thing. 

Keep it simple and look for a classic silhouette with a solid color and understated design. High- and mid-tops are easier to wear around the office, but low-cut shoes are great for summer. 

Here are some of the trendiest choices that tick all of our work-appropriate boxes and can be had for as little as $60.

Leather

 

New Balance 574

Most leather shoes have a place at work, and leather sneakers are no different. Subtle, cool, and comfortable, these all-leather, stark white New Balance 574's are great for just about any office.

Solid Color

Common Projects

Simple is the name of the game. These Common Projects Tournament shoes are like a high-end Converse All-Star, only more minimalist and presented in luxe suede. In a bright tan, these sneakers might even get confused for a pair of cupsole chukka boots — a serious plus.

Low-Profile

Stan Smiths

Adidas' Stan Smiths might get played out, but that's only because they're so versatile. In a pristine white interrupted only by a strip of leather on the heel and a graphic on the tongue, this shoe is perfect for casual summer Fridays. Pair them with cuffed denim and you're good to go. 

 Canvas

Vans

Leather may be the office favorite, but canvas is still in the game. A plain blue canvas shoe like this Vans x J Crew collaboration is more than work appropriate. Though it loses points for the offensive branding, it makes up for it with its skater-kid-goes-yachting-for-the-day vibe.  

Not-So-Sporty

Nike Internationalist

A sportier look can be worn to work, but only if it has a retro lean. This Nike Internationalist is a far cry from the running shoes that have elbowed their way into the realm of casual attire. It's a casual sneaker with a hint of sportiness. After all, you're not literally running from meeting to meeting.

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An elegant solution to the problem in every young banker's fridge

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If you've ever opened a young Wall Streeter's fridge, you'll notice that it's filled with the following:

  • Condiments
  • Alcohol
  • Leftover takeout
  • More condiments

Young bankers, you see, do not have time to grocery shop. And even if they have their groceries delivered, they don't really cook.

So takeout and condiments it is. This is generally unimpressive. Sometimes it's a little sad.

Enter Hatchery — an online marketplace for independent farmers and small-batch food makers who create condiments, cocktail mixers, and the like. 

Founder Max Friedman thinks of it as an "opportunity to create a powerful platform for independent food makers, a platform that enables them to easily share their unique products with a national audience."

It's also an opportunity for young bankers to make their entire food game more sophisticated.

There are a couple of ways to do Hatchery. Customers can search the site and get to know about its products and stories — California olive-oil makers; Alabama spice makers; a banker turned snack maker — and purchase their wares.

Or they can do it the way any Wall Streeter would do it, and get the Tasting Box. For $20 the company will send a box of items once a month that even the most precious foodies will respect.

Hatchery will also hook customers up with a personal shopper who can help them get what they want before they know they want it.

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