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October 3, 2014
Your Moleskine Notebook Can Now Backup To Evernote
Take a photo of the page, and your Moleskine sketches and reminders are cataloged in Evernote.
With 100 million users, Evernote is one of the most popular digital productivity apps around. But it was never designed to play nice with real paper--and the company has admitted that was a mistake. Today, Moleskine is introducing a new Evernote line of notebooks.
New York City's Subway Stations Need $5 Billion In Repairs
A new report reveals that 417 of the city's 468 subway stations need fixing. It's time to invest in infrastructure!
In addition to being hellishly hot, smelly, and full of rats, New York City's subway stations have structural flaws--a whole lot of them, according to a new report.
Prioritizing Tricks, The Busy Lie, & Timing Breaks: September's Most Popular Leadership Stories
Work got personal in September, looking at our spouse's personalities, the illusion of our downtime, and childhood memories from teachers.
Last month, we daydreamed about adult summer camp, learned the best times to post our social media quips, and tried (and sort of failed) to break our days down into a science.
5 Illegal Photos Of London's Abandoned Underworld, Captured By Daring Place-Hackers
A new book showcases the work of 12 anonymous photographers obsessed with spelunking London's forgotten tunnels.
Aboveground, London is an exceptionally clean and well-groomed city, but its streets hide an dystopian-looking underworld, blocked off from the vast majority of the public for decades. There are networks of dank hidden sewers, cable conduits, road and utility tunnels, old catacombs, and abandoned train tubes. Now, a daring group of self-identified "place hackers" is using photography to bring this chthonic region to light, however forbidden their explorations may be.
This Is Why The Enormous JPMorgan Chase Hack Is So Scary
Banks are supposed to be among our safest institutions.
An enormous privacy breach has compromised the bank accounts of 83 million JPMorgan Chase customers, including 76 million households, spilling out customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
The Story Behind The Web's Weirdest, Hardest Riddle
David Münnich, Notpron's 32-year-old creator, says it's almost impossible to solve alone--and he had help building it along the way.
In 2004 a small website appeared that contained a browser-based game called Notpron, which has since been hailed as "the hardest riddle on the Internet." It consists of a series of 140 puzzles and riddles that get progressively more complex. Completing the game requires knowledge in a diverse range of fields including HTML programming, sound and graphics editing, music apprehension, research skills, and even remote viewing.
The Most Hated Design Trend Is Back
Like other smartwatches, Apple's Watch is embracing skeuomorphism. But that's okay: It needs to.
Whatever the Apple Watch is, it's not a watch. Not really. Nor is any smartwatch: the Moto 360, the Pebble, or the Samsung Gear Live. It's an entirely new class of device. But it doesn't look like a new device. It mostly resembles a watch. That's because Apple (and other gadget makers) are turning to an old frenemy to help wrap their heads around these things: skeuomorphic design.
Productivity Hack Of The Week: Trick Yourself Into Accomplishing Your Goals
This tactic usually reserved for tricky marketing schemes can actually remind you to accomplish your goals.
Marketers have been using visual triggers forever. Ad campaigns like "Got Milk" make us associate certain environmental cues with their products--now every time we see a giant chocolate chip cookie we think, that would go great with some milk.
October 2, 2014
Why Some Coffee Lovers Have Problems Showing Emotion
A new study links a penchant for caffeine with a personality trait that stunts emotional expression.
People who suffer from alexithymia, a Greek word for "no words for feelings," have difficultly identifying and describing emotions. According to a new study, alexithymic people may also crave and consume more coffee than others.
What American Pop Songs Sound Like After Google Translate Butchers Them
Miley Cyrus lyrics no one ever predicted: "I like the ball in the sink."
Something interesting happens when you try to re-translate phrases in Google Translate--if by "interesting," you mean "hilariously inaccurate." When you plug in a sentence or paragraph in one language, translate to another, and then translate it back to the language you started with, you see just how much can get lost in translation.
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