Forget multi-floor mega clubs and velvet ropes: Teledisko is so VIP, it only fits around 3 people. The converted phone booth in Berlin is the world's smallest — and coolest — night club.
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A touching video of a boy waking up after a heart transplant is going viral. The video was posted by Philip Sullivan, father of 15-year-old Trevor, who was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. The Michigan family waited eight months for Trevor to have the transplant.
The video, which was posted January 19th, has more than 1 million views on Facebook.
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The US has no shortage of outstanding restaurants that serve everything from flavor-packed amuse-bouches to juicy steaks to hand-crafted desserts. To find the best one each state has to offer, we sifted through our list of the best restaurants in America, James Beard Award nominations, expert reviews, and local recommendations, paying particular attention to fine-dining establishments.
Read on to see which spot is a must-visit in your state:
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Location: Birmingham
Chef: Frank and Pardis Stitt
Though they use French techniques, chefs Frank and Pardis Stitt still infuse Southern comfort into every meal they make at Highlands Bar and Grill. The menu changes daily to incorporate seasonal ingredients, and the restaurant was a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant semifinalist as well as one of OpenTable's top 100 restaurants for 2015.
Location: Anchorage
Chef: Jack Amon (executive chef), Van Hale (cellar master)
Freshness is a priority at the Marx Bros. Cafe, where chef Jack Amon updates the menu nightly to reflect fresh seafood offerings. Enjoy creative dishes such as tea-smoked duck or Neapolitan seafood mousse, and be sure to pair each with a complementary glass of wine from the cafe's extensive list.
Location: Phoenix
Chef: Chris Bianco
At Pizzeria Bianco, James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Bianco uses only the freshest ingredients, including Sicilian oregano and homemade mozzarella, to concoct simple yet flavorful pies. More than just a neighborhood pizza joint, the restaurant is consistently called the best pizza in the US and typically draws an hours-long wait.
The wealthiest 50 people in the world control a staggering portion of the world economy: $1.46 trillion — more than the annual GDP of Australia, Spain, or Mexico.
That's according to new data provided to Business Insider by Wealth-X, which conducts research on the super-wealthy. Wealth-X maintains a database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, using a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency-exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.
Its latest ranking of the world's billionaires found that 29 of the top 50 hail from the US and nearly a quarter made their fortunes in tech. To crack this list, you'd need to have a net worth of at least $14.3 billion. And for the most part these people weren't born with a silver spoon. More than two-thirds are completely self-made, having built some of the most powerful companies, including Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, Nike, and Oracle.
From tech moguls and retail giants to heirs and heiresses, here are the billionaires with the deepest pockets around the globe.
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Net worth:$14.3 billion
Age: 58
Country: Nigeria
Industry: Diversified investments
Source of wealth: Self-made; Dangote Group
At 20, Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote borrowed money from his uncle to start a business that dealt in commodities trading, cement, and building materials. He quickly expanded to import cars during the country's economic boom. Four years later, in 1981, he formed Dangote Group, an international conglomerate that now holds diversified interests that include food and beverages, plastics manufacturing, real estate, logistics, telecommunications, steel, oil, and gas. At $14.3 billion, Dangote's fortune is the largest in Africa and equal to 2.5% of Nigeria's GDP.
The majority of Dangote's wealth stems from his stake in Dangote Cement, which is publicly traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He owns cement plants in Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa, and in 2011 invested $4 billion to build a facility on the Ivory Coast. Dangote bought back a majority stake in Dangote Flour Mills — which had grown unprofitable after he sold a large stake to South African food company Tiger Brands three years ago for $190 million — in December for just $1. He is also chairman of The Dangote Foundation, which focuses on education and health initiatives, including a $12,000-per-day feeding program.
Net worth:$14.3 billion
Age: 77
Country: US
Industry: Hedge funds
Source of wealth: Self-made; Renaissance Technologies
Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics-based approach, "Quant King" James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press. He chaired the math department at Stony Brook University for a decade until leaving in 1978 to start a quantitative-trading firm. That firm, now called Renaissance Technologies, has more than $65 billion in assets under management among its many funds.
Simons has always dreamed big. About 10 years ago, he announced that he was starting a fund that he claimed would be able to handle $100 billion, about 10% of all assets managed by hedge funds at the time. That fund, Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund, never quite reached his aspirations — it currently handles about $10.5 billion— but his flagship Medallion fund is among the best-performing ever: It has generated a nearly 80% annualized return before fees since its inception in 1988.
In October, Renaissance shut down a $1 billion fund — one of its smaller ones — "due to a lack of investor interest." The firm's other funds, however, have been up and climbing. Simons retired in 2009, but remains chairman of the company.
Net worth:$14.4 billion
Age: 52
Country: US
Industry: Media
Source of wealth: Inheritance; Disney
The widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs inherited his wealth and assets, which included 5.5 million shares of Apple stock and a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Co., upon his death. Jobs' stake in Disney — which has nearly tripled in value since her husband's death in 2011 and comprises more than $12 billion of her net worth — makes her the company's largest individual shareholder.
Though she's best recognized through her iconic husband, Jobs has had a career of her own. She worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs before earning her MBA at Stanford in 1991, after which she married her late husband and started organic-foods company Terravera. But she's been primarily preoccupied with philanthropic ventures, with a particular focus on education. In 1997, she founded College Track, an after-school program that helps low-income students prepare for and enroll in college, and in September she committed $50 million to a new project called XQ: The Super School Project, which aims to revamp the high-school curriculum and experience.
Last October, Jobs spoke out against "Steve Jobs," Aaron Sorkin's movie about her late husband that portrays him in a harsh light, calling it "fiction." Jobs had been against the project from the get-go, reportedly calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to ask them to decline roles in the film.
In 1930, a small team of men led British explorer Bertram Thomas on what became the first recorded crossing of Rub' al Khali, or "The Empty Quarter", the largest sand desert in the world.
For the first time since then, another team has taken on the same challenge with British explorer Mark Evans leading the charge across the fascinating yet dangerous landscape.
Their journey began in December, and as they scale more than 600 miles across the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula (in Oman, Qatar, and through Saudi Arabia), they've recorded their journey on their "Crossing The Empty Quarter" website and social media accounts.
We've put together a collection of photographs from the @crossingeq Instagram account that show what the perilous journey has been like for the group so far.
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The World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, a snowy ski town carved into the Alps.
So after a week of trudging through a few feet of snow back and forth to the conference and staring longingly at the mountains, I finally got my chance to ski.
On Saturday, Reuters sponsored an event for a few hundred WEF-goers to ski or snowboard for the day at Parsenn, a local resort.
Business Insider's executive editor Jay Yarow and I got to Ettinger Sport, the the ski rental place in Davos, at 9:3o AM. We got suited up and hit the lifts.
The morning conditions were a little rough, but by the end of the day it was awesome. With 300 kilometers of trails, I'd put the experience up there with (or better than) resorts out west in the US or Canada I've been lucky enough to ski, including Whistler, Keystone, Park City and Lake Tahoe. (Although to be honest, it's hard to compare after just one day on the slopes).
Here's what it's like to ski the Swiss Alps.
One of the biggest blizzards ever just hit the East Coast, and left a new viral trend in its wake: freezing your pants off.
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This weekend was an important one for all football fans, as four teams went head-to-head to see who will compete in Super Bowl 50.
On February 7, the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers will face off at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
The Super Bowl has been a huge part of American culture for decades. In 1970, the American Football League (AFL) and the NFL joined together to form one league. Since then, the Super Bowl has been the stage where the top teams from the AFC and the NFC fight for the championship.
Here are 16 historical images from past Super Bowl games to catch you up on your NFL knowledge for this year's 50th anniversary.
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The world of private jets has always been known for over-the-top designs.
Because it's one of the leading builders of high-end aircraft, we figured that Gulfstream Aerospace would be the perfect place to find out what the hottest new trend in the industry is.
According to Tray Crow, Gulfstream's director of interior design, that would be ... stone.
Yes: stone.
Granite flooring, to be specific.
It seems that the material most commonly associated with kitchen countertops, tile, and the facades of old churches has found its way into private jets.
Traditionally, flooring on Gulfstream's and other private jets has been carpet and, in some cases, wood.
But the trend these days is custom stone veneers.
For Gulfstream, the ultra-thin granite veneers are imported and installed in the aircraft's galley and bathrooms at one of the company's finishing facilities around the US.
Stone is just the latest addition to the designer's arsenal of offerings, needed to meet the needs of the company's highly discerning customers.
"Depending on the client, it can take as much as three to four months to define an interior," Crow said. "They have an intense of focus on the details. As far as interior options go, Gulfstream's customers tend to lean towards natural-looking materials."
"People want an environment that's calming and serene," Crow added. "So it's not really the place to do high contrast."
Gulfstream launched the stone-flooring option for its new G600 jet last November at the National Business Aviation Association show in Las Vegas. The G600 can seat up to 19 passengers with a range of more than 7,000 miles and can operate as high as 51,000 feet.
The G600 is expected to enter service in 2019 and will have a price tag of $54.5 million.
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You may have noticed your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus battery percentage is off. Some have complained that their iPhone dies even though the percentage displayed more juice. Apple recently acknowledged the problem and gave a possible solution. Apple iPhone expert/2 Dots enthusiast Joe Avella reviews the issue.
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Schott Bros. NYC is more than just a jacket-making company. It's a legacy — one that's been manufacturing jackets worn by some of the coolest people of the last century. The company, which was started in 1913 by Irving Schott on New York City's Lower East Side, invented the motorcycle jacket in 1928, and it's been hand-sewing the jackets in the same way ever since.
Everyone from Marlon Brando and James Dean to the Ramones and Bruce Springsteen have donned Schott's Perfecto jacket, or a slight modification of it. The company also manufactures other apparel, including peacoats, shirts, and shoes for men and women.
Schott gave us a peek into their factory in Union, New Jersey, to see how they've been able to do it for more than 100 years.
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When the winter hits, more and more travelers look for destinations that either allow them to enjoy the snow or escape it in a sun-soaked environment.
To determine where those looking to fly by private jet travel to the most in the winter, Victor — an online service for private jet charter — analyzed the typical flight patterns and itineraries from last year's trips to find the top six most popular routes.
From Aspen to Los Cabos, here are the six most popular flight routes for those flying privately in the US this winter:
1. New York City to Palm Beach, Florida
2. New York City to Aspen, Colorado
3. San Francisco to Los Cabos, Mexico
4. Los Angeles to Vail, Colorado
5. Houston to Aspen, Colorado
6. Los Angeles to Cancun, Mexico
The data reveals that people tend to split their winter leisure time flying between ski resorts and beach vacations, with Colorado and Mexico providing the top hotspots in each sector.
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The days of style "rules" are dwindling. As men's fashion continues to break out of its conservative past, we can throw a lot of these once-restrictions enforced by our parents out the window.
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MODE has made a video that takes a trip through a century of automobiles, from those thin-framed cars of the turn-of-the-century to the souped-up vehicles on the roads today.
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Noma — the brainchild of Danish mastermind chef René Redzepi — has been named the best restaurant in the world four times. For 10 weeks, starting today, Redzepi will be cooking his award-winning tasting menu at a pop-up version of his restaurant in Sydney, Australia.
More than 27,000 eager diners are currently on the wait list, each one of them willing to shell out the $339 per person that Noma is asking for its unique, bizarre, and otherworldly cuisine. When reservations opened, it sold out in 90 seconds, making nearly $2 million in just a few minutes.
Redzepi is known for whipping up dishes that are hyper-local, crafted to artistic perfection, and above all, surprising. His main restaurant is based in Copenhagen, but he did a pop-up in Japan last January as well. The menu for this Australian version has been carefully guarded up til opening, but we know that he is a fan of some unusual Australian ingredients: think crocodile fat and fire ants.
Lucky diners from Down Under have been sharing their experiences on Instagram. Let's all celebrate Australia Day with a look at Redzepi's latest concoctions.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn for the past 22 years, I have a knack for finding the best cheap eats that are not dingy, hole-in-the-wall restaurants. I love food, and there are plenty of restaurants throughout the city that offer it affordable and good. Living in New York City is expensive enough, but not every meal has to be.
Here are my favoriterestaurants to have a full meal, including a 15% tip — where it applies — for less than $20:
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For your dumpling needs, Vanessa's has an amazing selection of fried and steamed dumplings, along with sesame pancakes.
Their best-seller is the pork-and-chives dumplings — four for $1.25 — but you can't miss out on the sesame pancake with Peking duck. Not into pork? They also offer chicken, shrimp, and vegetarian dumplings.
118A Eldridge St.
New York, New York 10002
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When you're craving a slice that's not your average Margherita, look no further than Artichoke Basille's Pizza. My favorite is their $5 artichoke slice, but they also offer the Staten Island, crab, burnt anchovy, and more.
Though it might seem outrageous to pay $5 for a slice of pizza, this one is a meal in itself. You can find slices at one of three locations in Manhattan — I frequent the Chelsea one.
114 10th Ave.
New York, New York 10011
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Craving fresh pasta and authentic Italian food? Try not to get sucked into the Little Italy joints by eager hosts. Pay a visit to San Marzano instead. You will find fresh pasta made in-house for just $9 a dish. They also have pitchers of sangria for just $15.
117 Second Ave.
New York, NY 10003
Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, is the world's largest model train set and airport. Its eight sections are connected by eight miles of track, and it features over 4,000 buildings and 215,000 figurines.
So far it has cost over $13 million to build, and it isn't even done yet.
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Designer Karl Lagerfeld is known for having the most creative fashion shows, and Chanel's latest Haute Couture spectacle was no exception, as the brand created a life-size dollhouse for its runway show on Tuesday during Paris Fashion Week.
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Google's translation app has a new feature that will come in handy for travelers.
You point your smartphone's camera at a sign printed in a foreign language, and Google's translation technology changes the text to your native language.
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