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March 14, 2014
A Clever Hack Makes Any Receipt Printer Spit Out The U.S. Constitution
No more shall you print 20-feet-long receipts when I buy AA batteries! Now you will print our nation's founding document!
Swiss artist Thibault Brevet apparently has an affinity for America's most treasured document: the Constitution. He created a hack that can produce a brand-new paper copy of it from any receipt printer.
The Price Of Ignoring Climate Change Is Far Higher Than We Think
In the future, society will have to pay for each puff of carbon emissions emitted today. And the bill from the damages--from rising seas and the spread of diseases--is going to cause sticker shock.
Critics of strong national climate change policies often talk about how much taking action costs the economy. What they usually don't mention is the cost of doing nothing.
Even When Drivers Don't Have Passengers, Lyft's New Insurance Policy Has Them Covered
Looking to clarify when, exactly, their drivers are insured in case of an accident, ride share services are expanding coverage.
Modern ride share platforms like Lyft and Uber have made it easier than ever to get around. But the big, messy challenge has been figuring out who, exactly, is responsible for accidents when they happen.
The Real Star Of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel"? Graphic Design
How the film's prop designer created the fictional State of Zubrowka through the clever use of graphic design.
Wes Anderson's latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, takes place in an imagined, Eastern European-ish land, called Zubrowka. That posed a design challenge: even a fictional world, if it's to be convincing, needs things like money and government documents. To bring this fake world to life Anderson brought on graphic designer Annie Atkins, who formerly worked as an art director for ad firm McCann Erickson's Reykjavik, Iceland, office, but is relatively new to graphic design for films. Atkins designed more or less every artifact in the movie bearing type or lettering--newspapers, police reports, passports, you name it. And she did it all by hand.
Searching The World For The Perfect Pizza Box Design
Scott Wiener's giant collection of pizza delivery boxes includes a reusable container that can be returned for cleaning and a box that turns into a set of disposable plates.
Stashed inside closets in his Brooklyn apartment, Scott Wiener has exactly 652 pizza boxes. It's the Guinness World Record for pizza box collections, and proof of Wiener's bigger pizza obsession--he also runs a company that takes people on pizzeria tours of New York, writes a blog on pizza, and recently published a book about pizza boxes. "Everything I do is pizza-related," Wiener says.
Need A Little Serenity In The Workplace? Try These 7 Simple Steps
Is your day consumed by impossible demands and stressful situations? Here's your essential guide to chill out and reclaim some calm.
The alarm went off late, traffic was a nightmare, and you have four long meetings today on top of a major deadline. On the way to work, you heard a tragic news story you can't get out of your head. Add some money problems and an argument with your significant other and the stress can feel unbearable at times. How can you focus and get things done when you're under so much pressure from all sides?
Meeting Etiquette 101: Fist Bumps, Going Topless, And Picking Up Tabs
Don't forget these rules of thumb on how best to behave when faced with sticky business situations.
With networking technology like LinkedIn's "Who's Viewed Your Profile" feature at our fingertips, we sometimes forget the importance of face-to-face interactions. We stumble when it comes to business meetings, tweeting from under a cafe table or fist bumping when a handshake would do just fine--making little mistakes that could cost us big business.
5 Quick Tips For Lasting Customer Service
Stay a step ahead of the competition--and your customers--with these tips.
"Build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
-Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com
How Chipotle Changed American Fast Food Forever
Chipotle set out to challenge fast food trends and be better than the competition--in the end, they launched a new industry. Here's how they rose to the top of the fast-food chain.
In 1991, Steve Ells couldn't afford to eat regularly at the legendary Stars restaurant where he was working as a $12-an-hour line cook. Instead, he was more frequently found gorging himself on giant burritos at a taquería in San Francisco's Mission District called Zona Rosa. It was there, over a carnitas burrito, that Ells had the insight that would change his life--and American fast food--forever.
March 13, 2014
Taco Innovator Roy Choi Explores A Culinary Mashup With Google Glass
Chef Roy Choi demonstrates the recipe-conjuring power of Glass in this new video.
When it comes to kitchen companions, the butter-smeared screen has all but replaced the butter-stained printed page of the note card or cookbook. Sure, some cookbook collections still sell, and every now and then a Jessica Seinfeld tome might take off like a (questionable) rocket, but mostly people are content to source recipes online and prop a screen near their cooking station. It's just a matter of convenience. With the rise of Google Glass, however, we may be on the cusp of the next level of convenience and shareability for aspiring gourmets.
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