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December 30, 2014
From 3-D Printed Fetuses To Vagina Kayaks: The Weirdest Design Of 2014
Innovation at its freakiest: presenting 12 of the most bizarre inventions of the year, from Kate Moss boob glasses to chairs resembling fat.
In 2014, it became possible to drink champagne out of a glass shaped like Kate Moss's boob while sitting on a chair designed to resemble a fat person's flesh in a restaurant decorated with hundreds of animal bones. If you wanted to, you could also paddle down a river in a kayak shaped like a vagina while biting into a pear shaped like a human baby and stroking a taxidermied pig encrusted with rhinestone Chanel logos. If that sounds too complicated, you could just 3-D print your unborn fetus and call it a day. These are designs that, as of this year, all actually exist in the world.
20 Videos We Couldn't Stop Watching In 2014
From science explainers to exploding spice bags to a David Lynch-directed nail polish commercial, these were the best videos made in 2014.
In the breakneck pace of digital culture today, our attention span has been whittled down to the length of a two-second GIF. Deciding to click play on a longer video often seems like too much of a commitment. But sometimes, you have to devote your full attention to a video, because it's just too damned good, whether it's a visual explanation of a woolly scientific concept, a history of video-game graphics, or plain old eye candy. What follows are the videos we couldn't take our eyeballs off of in 2014.
LinkedIn Proves the U.S. Has a STEM Problem
A new study shows engineers and scientists are less likely to flock to the U.S.—and also casts LinkedIn as a powerful research tool.
At first, the numbers appear reassuring—the U.S. remains the top destination for foreign science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. But lurking deeper in the data is a second, troubling statistic: Fewer of these bright workers are migrating to the U.S. each year. Instead, they're putting down roots in East Asia and other growing regions.
Turning Creative Ideas Into Successful Businesses: 13 Inspiring Stories From 2014
Teenage lingerie entrepreneurs, feminist coders, crossword-puzzle game changers, the engineer shaping the future of wearables, and more.
The common thread of almost every Fast Company story is a creative person who had a compelling idea and managed to spin it into a successful company or organization that continues to innovate.
The Trick To Actually Making Your Resolutions Stick This Year
If you're already preparing yourself for letdowns in resolutions before even beginning them, you might have "false hope syndrome."
Every year, around this time of year, I find myself making the same resolutions—to workout every day and write fiction for three hours each morning. Inevitably, I don't keep up and can't help feeling a little defeated having settled for some lesser version of what I'd hoped to achieve.
Why 90-Day Goals Are Better Than Year-Long Ones
Trade shorter goals for year-long ones, for greater success in keeping new habits.
Most people who set New Year's resolutions don't follow through on them.
December 29, 2014
A Top Ten List of The 2014 Lists We Liked
The highlights of the highlights.
The web itself was once famously described in a giant list (see right). That giant list became what we call Yahoo. The year will often be described in a giant list. Here, the list will be a list of the other lists, generally focused on media, science, and technology. This list is not algorithmically ranked. This list is not a listicle. 
Shake Shack Is Going Public
Insert "that's a lot of fries" joke here.
Get ready food courts of America: Shake Shack, Danny Meyer's hip burger hut, just filed an initial public offering for $100 million.
The 2014 Fast Company Year In Photos
The best images that we could take.
2014. It's been quite a year, filled with news both bad and good. For this look back, we sifted through hundreds of photos to come up with our favorites. From portrait photos of notable people like Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian to an exclusive look inside the Pixar brain trust, we hope you enjoy this slideshow as much as we did putting it together.
2014: The Year In Fast Company Celebrities
Both normal celebrities and Fast Company celebrities!
The average reader might not think that a publication focused on business, design, and innovation would have gorgeous profile pictures of well-known people. But that reader isn't paying attention to Fast Company! Here is a selection of our most vivid, interesting, contemplative, and fun exercises in portraiture from the past year.
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