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January 2, 2014
11 Expert Tips To Help You Be More Productive In 2014
Who doesn't want to figure out how to get more done? Or get things done more efficiently? We asked some of the most productive people we know how you can tackle the New Year's work.
Last year I used a kitchen timer to force myself to focus; I blocked the Internet and email so I couldn't get distracted; I set an auto-response on my email; I wrote a lot of to-do lists. I even started getting up earlier.
December 31, 2013
The Top 9 Energy Stories Of 2013
Changing how we power our world is not as difficult as we think, as these stories from the last year show.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Top 14 Transportation Stories Of 2013
From the electric-car charging highway of the future to the Hyperloop, take a look at how the year shook out in cars, cycling, air travel, and the quest for a cheap, non-polluting fuel source.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Top 11 Buildings Of 2013
The most amazing ways we kept a roof over our head in the last year: The greenest office building in the world, a city on wheels, a new take on the college dorm, and more.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Only Breathalyzer You'll Need Tonight
The Lapka Breath Alcohol Monitor looks like it could have been designed by Jony Ive after some binge drinking. But the truly genius part is this: the drunker you get, the easier it is to use. Happy New Year's Eve!
There's no shortage of cheap breathalyzers out there. In fact, if your holidays were anything like mine, you were probably blowing 0.09 into a cheap $10 model on Christmas morning, courtesy of Santa, who picked it up at a local gas station and slipped it into your stocking.
How To Be A Gigantic Success On New Year's Eve
The science of hangovers! How to make friends with people! Words to that song everybody likes to sing!
While we're not usually partial to romantic comedies, there's something romantic and comedic about New Year's, between the disinhibition on New Year's Eve to the focus of resolutions on January 1st right down to the song played at midnight--"Auld Lang Syne,"--that nobody knows what to do with.
December 30, 2013
The Top 17 Health Stories Of 2013
Getting better and staying healthy: from a portable tricorder that instantly diagnoses disease to regulating the suddenly-legal pot industry, and much more.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Top 8 Robot Stories Of 2013
Will the robots be our friends or our overlords? With robots learning how to love and imagine, the day of reckoning is getting closer.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Top 11 Crowdfunding Stories Of 2013
Our favorite things that you helped pay for last year.
Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories:
• Top Stories Of The Year
• Infographics
• Photography
• Maps
• Buildings
• Design
• Cities
• Food
• Transportation
• Innovative Workplaces
• Bikes
• Collaborative Consumption
• Energy
• Crowdfunding
• Robots
• Environment
• Health
• Education
The Best Startup Offices From 2013
As this year's crop of startups start to scale, we reveal which ones grew into the best digs.
These new offices of 2013 are the foundations for dreams. If you're someone whose work environment dictates their productivity, these offices will put you into overdrive.
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