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November 13, 2014
VSCO Cam 4.0 Lands With DSLR-Friendly Features—And Finally Comes To The iPad
VSCO Cam grows up with new features that both amateurs and professionals can appreciate.
If you had to guess what the most popular branded hashtag on Instagram was, what would you say? Nike? Maybe Starbucks? Or, like, One Direction?
This Woman Is Changing Felons' Lives--And Her Own
Urban Stone is an eco-friendly business working to end poverty and provide opportunities to former felons.
Three seemingly unrelated events changed the course of Mary Cunningham's life—and has the potential to change the lives of men and women who have passed through the American prison system.
First, Cunningham decided it was time to pursue her dream to become a social entrepreneur. She began researching poverty to get a sense of a viable business idea. "I was appalled to learn about mass incarceration," she says. "It was even more appalling to learn that felons upon release are cut off from welfare, housing, Pell grants, federal student loans and most jobs. It became apparent why two-thirds re-offend within a year. To fix the broken system with a meaningful job was common sense. It was the fastest, most economical and humane way to address our annual $875 billion poverty and prison tax bill."
How A Murder Led To "The World's Most Advanced" Body-Scanning Technology
The technology could have important applications in fashion design.
In three to five years, we might all have highly accurate 3-D digital avatars of our own bodies, with potential uses ranging from plopping our digital selves into a videogame to shopping online for bespoke suits to visualizing what we'll look like in 30 years. At least, that's according to Bill O'Farrell, CEO of Body Labs, which bills itself as "the world's most advanced 3-D body modeling platform." Body Labs announced today that it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round of funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from New York Angels.
You could use it to compare body shapes with matches on Match.com, to make sure that guy is as athletic and fit as he says he is.
Listening To Your Body Clock Can Make You More Productive And Improve Your Well-Being
Chronobiology research suggests nothing less than a complete overturning of the notion that we should all be working from 9 to 5. Some people are just not built for that.
From an early age, we're taught that getting up early is good for us. Sayings like The early bird catches the worm and Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise are part of the culture and have a certain moralizing force. People who go to bed early and get up early are upstanding and productive. People who go to bed later and wake up later are degenerate and lazy.
How Listening To Our Body Clocks Can Improve Productivity And Raise Wellbeing
Chronobiology research suggests nothing less than a complete overturning of the notion that we should all be working from 9 to 5. Some people are just not built for that.
From an early age, we're taught that getting up early is good for us. Sayings like The early bird catches the worm and Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise are part of the culture and have a certain moralizing force. People who go to bed early and get up early are upstanding and productive. People who go to bed later and wake up later are degenerate and lazy.
The Author Of "Go The F*ck To Sleep" Tackles New Subject: Kids Who Won't F*cking Eat
In a delightfully profane interview, Adam Mansbach reveals his secrets for keeping your creative edge after a huge hit.
In 2011, a children's book parody took the Internet and bookshelves on a glorious joyride of profanity, driven by a nation of parents pulling their collective hair out over difficult bedtimes. Author Adam Mansbach introduced the world to Go the Fuck to Sleep, based on his then two-year-old daughter Vivien's inability to do just that. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide to date and was the subject of celebrity readings by the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Werner Herzog, and LeVar Burton. Go the Fuck to Sleep was an instant, honest, foul-mouthed classic.
4 Storytelling Tips From The Co-Creator Of Blockbuster Mystery Podcast "Serial"
Julie Snyder is the senior producer and co-creator of "Serial" podcast, which spun off of "This American Life" and quickly developed a devoted following. Here, Snyder offers some guidelines for telling a story the Serial way.
For the past several weeks, Thursday mornings have taken on a special meaning for hundreds of thousands of curious souls around the world. That's when the the makers of the podcast Serial release the latest installment of the weekly show. You'll know the new one has arrived when your Twitter timeline begins to look like a Serialword cloud. The true crime narrative show debuted earlier this fall to instant acclaim, and it has only gained in popularity each week—taking the top spot on iTunes, inspiring memes and Reddit sleuthing, and spawning bookshop listening parties and the like. While the subject of Serial is indeed a juicy whodunit, there's no mystery about just why people are mainlining episodes with such rabid intensity: this is seriously compelling storytelling.
The Man Who Convinced BMW To Rethink Social Media
BMW had a handle on traditional social media marketing, but it took a risk on a "drift mob" to reach new audiences. Here's how it paid off.
Steven Althaus's moment of digital truth came this past spring. BMW's global director of brand management stood in front of top management, telling them the automaker was about to use a drift mob to help market their new car, the M325i.
November 12, 2014
Relive Today's Comet Landing With This Awesome Simulation
One small step for a probe, one giant leap for probekind.
Today, humans successfully landed a probe on the surface of a comet 300 million miles from Earth, a scientific journey more than 10 years in the making.
Rescuers Break Glass Of 1 WTC To Save Trapped Window Washers
Unlike smaller buildings, skyscrapers generally don't have operable windows. Why not?
Two window washers got stuck on broken scaffolding outside 1 World Trade Center today, and spent hours dangling precipitously at a 65-degree angle. Emergency workers had to cut out a window from the just-opened skyscraper to rescue the workers, who got stuck near the 68th floor around 12:45 p.m. when one of the cables that holds up the scaffolding they were working on came loose, according to CBS News.
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