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January 2, 2014
11 Amazing Vintage Herman Miller Offices
Plus some gorgeous mid-century modern homes, all from the furniture giant's addictive Instagram account.
If you haven't discovered the lush Instagram account of American furniture giant Herman Miller, consider yourself lucky. I wasted an unseasonably glorious Sunday afternoon combing through images of secretaries with bouffant hairdos in prim little offices, and it made me long for eras I never lived through (and ones that, frankly, aren't worth longing for).
How To Discourage Unhealthy Eating: Make It Expensive And Make People Feel Bad About It
A lab experiment shows that some public health food policies, from healthy food subsidies to anti-obesity advertisements, may only have a small effect on eating habits. Taxes, though, work pretty well.
We don't really know how to encourage healthy eating. Calorie counts on menus are a popular idea among health experts (and a requirement under the Affordable Care Act). But the evidence that they work is shaky at best. Research into other policy options, such as calorie taxes, subsidies for better food, and healthy food advertising, is limited. The work has tended to be second-hand or at 30,000 feet. It hasn't involved actual people in randomized trials.
With New Funding, Nest Is Reportedly Valued At More Than $2 Billion
The home tech startup bringing us smart thermostats and smoke detectors is raising more than $150 million.
Nest, one of the firms at the vanguard of building a brain for your home with its smart thermostat, is close to raising more than $150 million, according to Kara Swisher--whose new site, Re/code launched yesterday. The funding, from Yuri Milner's DST Global investment body, will value Nest at over $2 billion. If completed, Nest's value will have almost tripled in less than a year.
Walt Mossberg And Kara Swisher's New Abode Is Re/Code
The AllThingsD duo announced details of their new site, which is backed by NBCUniversal News Group and Windsor Media.
Two of the tech world's most respected commentators announced details of their new venture yesterday. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the journalists behind AllThingsD, launched Revere Digital, with financial backing from NBCUniversal News Group and Windsor Media, which is owned by former Warner Bros. head Terry Semel.
Hackers Attack Snapchat To "Raise Awareness" About Security
"Security matters as much as user experience," say the white-hatted hackers, who are hoping their actions will force Snapchat to fix the hole.
Snapchat was 
A Kid-Friendly Circuit Board Turns Everything Into A Musical Instrument
This musical device lets you play music on a plant.
Media artist Yuri Suzuki specializes in making creations that bring music to everyone. Just look at his last invention, a robot train that lets you write music with magic markers and makes music notation more accessible to children, the illiterate, and dyslexics.
A Photo Tour Of U.S. Military Bases Around The World
Thank Google and Microsoft for the view.
Over at Empire.is, I'm looking at a map of America, covered in friendly red locational markers. Seen out of context, I'd assume they pointed to something fun, like all of the Big Boy locations around our country. In reality, these are our military bases. And there are so many red balloons tethered to our country, it looks like North America could float right into the sky.
Bill Gates Says These Are The Best Things That Happened In 2013
The big-league philanthropist helps us all enter the new year with an optimistic perspective on the direction the world is headed in 2014.
Like every year, 2013 was filled with both disaster (Typhoon Haiyan) and heartwarming events (Batkid). Just in case you're feeling like the bad outweighed the good, Bill Gates has popped in to remind us that humanity made great strides in 2013.
How Design Thinking Could Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
Introducing Design for Living, an advice column in which we apply design thinking to everyday problems. In the debut column, Clear app designer Phill Ryu tackles New Year's resolutions.
If design isn't just "how it looks, but how it works," then we should be able to apply it anywhere--even to the mundane but important problems that come up in the course of living our everyday lives. As Charles Eames once cheekily put it: "I have never been forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints." He wasn't just talking about the design of a chair or a film. Exercising creativity while accepting constraints to enable meaningful outcomes--and zeroing in on the constraints that matter, while avoiding getting trapped in ones that don't--is the essence of design, and, it could be argued, living well.
3 Ways To Create A Magnetic Brand
Customers are bombarded with thousands of marketing messages every day. Here's how to make your brand stand out.
More than 5,000 a day.
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