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A Billion Dollar Company With No Bosses? Yes, It Exists
Imagine being a part of a company with no bosses, upper-level management, or HR where bonuses, hirings, and firings were all determined by peer consensus. Imagine a company like this going on to become one of the most successful in its space. This isn't a joke: It's the real story of video game developer and publisher, Valve Corporation.
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Hot New Home Trends For 2014
There must be a million trends out there for every coming year. (It’s no wonder that making New Year’s Resolutions is so popular – a new year equals change
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Butt Slapping: New, Nonexistent 'Trend' In Schools Makes Nobody Panic
Recently, a few 8th grade boys threatened to slap a girl's butt at a Florida middle school. The victim's enraged mother, Land O'Lakes resident Tonya Thompson, heard that this sort of clownishness happens in other school districts. Everybody panic, because those two facts are the basis of a new "trend" that's dismantling our schools from the inside out: Butt slapping.
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Proof the Segway Isn't Dead
We may not often see Segways on our streets, but have you checked our AstroTurf? Meet Segway polo, a sport dreamed up by Silicon Valley techies and promoted by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (known to many as "The Woz").
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How To Do Movember Without Looking Like the Office Tool
It’s that time of year again when your Facebook and Instagram are overrun by photos of guys begging you to check out their facial hair. If you’re participating this year, here are my suggestions for how to support the cause without sacrificing your dignity.
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In Belgium, a Housewares Designer Finds Transcendence in Simplicity
Using basic geometries and the most elemental of materials, the Belgian designer Michael Verheyden creates objects of sublime beauty and remarkable spiritual power.
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The most popular girls names in the USA over the past six decades
This is pretty awesome – a chronological look at the most popular girls names by state from 1960 to 2012. Amazing to see trends in naming sweep the nation, from a near total embrace of Mary in the early 60s to Lisa dominating in the mid 60s, to Jennifer’s supremacy throughout the 70s, to the rise of Ashley, Emily, and Emma in more recent years.
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Vaping Is the Fanboy-Charged Future of Cigarettes and Weed
The nucleus of the vape community is ex-smokers eager to spread the good word, or ”ANTZ” as the jargon goes—Anti-Nicotine and Tobacco Zealots. Others are just plain seduced by the technology.
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Top 40 Looks From London Fashion Week
The London collections were a display of embellishment, pastel hues and 90s street in effortless silhouettes creating an anarchic femininity suitable to the new wave of no rules fashion.
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The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World Today
Old trends: Soaring US carbon dioxide emissions, skyrocketing medical costs, out-of-control deficits. New trends: Tumbling emissions, creeping medical costs, falling deficits.
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Goat Meat, a Hot Product
The demand for goat meat is strong, said Adams, president of the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Meat Goat Producers Association.
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The rise of the text tattoo
It probably wasn't on Shakespeare's radar that his work would one day unite Megan Fox, Danielle Lineker and Lindsay Lohan. But it has - they all have Shakespeare quotations tattooed on their bodies. Why are more people getting such high-brow inkings?
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Are Smartphones Emasculating? The Marketing of Google Glass
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is using masculinity as a metaphor for power to appeal to the elite.
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Do Blues Musicians Need to be Really, Really Old?
It seems that to be a famous blues musician you have to be over 65—or dead. Ted Gioia goes in search of the youth movement in blues with five artists to listen to now.
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Are E-Cigarettes a Boon or a Menace?
A new study says electronic cigarettes could help people quit smoking. But doctors worry that the battery-operated nicotine inhalers carry major risks.
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Taste the Trend: Make a ‘Spaghetti’ Sundae
Have ice cream and a Ziploc bag? You can try New York’s newest dessert craze: the Spaghetti Sundae.
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The 7 Most Baffling Porn Trends Across the United States
In an effort to answer the burning question that nobody asked, PornHub recently released the top three most searched for words state to state in the U.S. The results have been enlightening, yet horrifying.
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Whose is Putting Coke and Pepsi Out of Business?
Brace yourself for one of the biggest wealth booms ever as early investors ride this healthy beverage explosion that’s capturing billions from the $74.3 billion dollar soda industry.
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Is 'Unicorning' The New Planking?
Internet geeks have entertained themselves by planking, Tebowing, owling and Vadering, but a new meme is horning in on the action literally. It's called "unicorning," and it basically requires people to wear rubber unicorn masks in inappropriate settings, which is essentially everywhere.
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Gangnam Style Is One Year Old, And Music Is Forever Different
Gangnam Style came out a year ago today. I still remember exactly where I was the first time I heard (and saw) Gangnam Style...
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