This one quote reveals the ridiculous reason why your office is so cold in...
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...
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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...
View ArticleThis man will pay you $10,000 to find him a girlfriend
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....
View ArticleAmerica's top colleges assigned these books to freshmen
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,...
View Article24 incredible new UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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....
View ArticleHow to be interesting (in 12 simple steps)
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,...
View ArticleHere are 6 surprising things we learned at last year's IGNITION
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...
View ArticleWe went to 'Action Park' in New Jersey — once the deadliest amusement park in...
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...
View ArticleSubway made 2 mistakes that are destroying its business
Business Insider reporters discuss the two main mistakes Subway has made that really hurt their business.Produced by Joe AvellaFollow BI Video: On Facebook Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleWe asked an exercise scientist for his definition of someone who is 'in shape'
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...
View ArticleFormer Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld has put his massive Sun Valley compound...
Former 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...
View ArticleThe 10 top international airlines, according to travelers
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...
View Article17 outrageously expensive summer camps where kids have the time of their lives
Well-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...
View Article18 rare color photographs of the Russian Empire from over 100 years ago
Russian 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...
View ArticleBusiness Insider is hiring a syndication intern
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...
View Article77% of people in relationships think men should pay on the first date
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...
View ArticleScientists have found how memories physically affect your brain
Eric Kandel explains how research from his lab at Columbia University Medical Center can help explain the way the brain physically holds onto longterm memories.Video courtesy of Columbia University...
View Article11 examples of China making large-scale knock-offs of world-famous buildings
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...
View ArticleThe 18 most gorgeous classic cars we saw on the streets of Havana
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...
View ArticleSurprising science-backed ways to boost your mood
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...
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