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Portuguese designer Giestas has created a trilogy of books that visualize a year of his emotions as rainbows of feelings.

Even after years of therapy and mindfulness, many of us have difficulties mastering the full spectrum of our emotions. Portuguese designer Giestas decided to turn it into a data visualization problem, He recorded his emotions every hour for 300 days, then turned them into a trilogy of color-coded diaries, each page of which represents his emotional spectrum for a 24-hour period.

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Want superhero-like powers? You got them.

If you ever saw Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1996 movie and loved the gun-scope that could see through walls, then MIT has good news for you. That scope is now real.

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Just a few weeks after launching its Moments feature, Twitter is inviting advertisers to host their own channel for 24 hours.

Twitter is raring to monetize its new Moments feature, it seems: Starting this weekend, the company is introducing native advertising to the section, which curates tweets about newsworthy topics as they unfold. According to Bloomberg, Twitter will offer advertisers a dedicated Moments channel that will stay live for 24 hours.

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Could recruiting more female university faculty help close the gender gap in STEM? A look at one university’s attempt to change the ratio.

When Tara Glasgow was in graduate school to earn a masters in engineering, she was surrounded by male faculty and students.

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The crowdfunding site is relaunching Indiegogo Life, its personal fundraising platform, as a standalone site called Generosity.

Last December, crowdfunding site Indiegogo introduced a new section called Indiegogo Life, through which people could raise money for personal causes—say, medical bills for a cancer patient—without having to pay the fees that usually accompany listings on the platform. On Wednesday, Indiegogo said it was renaming the venture and devoting a separate site, Generosity.com, to its charity wing.

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City trees do amazing things: from sucking pollution out of the air to filtering stormwater. The more the better.

When New York City first set a goal to plant a million new trees in a decade, it was more ambitious than any city tree planting project that had ever been attempted before. Now they’ve finished two years ahead of schedule.

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Over the last few decades, Lego bricks have gotten a lot more diverse.

In what is perhaps the most literal chart you will read today, one member of the Lego fan site Brickset has graphed the last 52 years of Lego bricks sold, by color.

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The Edge may be the most connected—and greenest—office anywhere in the world. Is this the future of working?

When you pull up for work at Deloitte’s new office building in Amsterdam, the garage automatically recognizes your car or bike, opens the gate, and guides you to a parking spot and a free electric charger. The office app assigns you a desk, based on your schedule for the day and whether you’re in the mood for a standing desk or a place to concentrate. Once you start work, you can use the app to tweak the lighting or heat until it’s just right.

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Moth storytelling champ Margot Leitman has been hired by Facebook and others to help them learn how to spin a yarn. These are her rules.

Some years ago, writes Margot Leitman in her new book, Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need, when she was an aspiring actress in New York, she was preparing to rush to an audition when she burned her neck with a curling iron. “It looked like a giant hickey,” she writes. “There was no makeup that could cover it up; I had to go with it.” She entered the audition room and explained away the burn—not a hickey, she said; her dating history had been terrible lately. The casting director asked her to explain, and she responded with a story about a disastrous recent date where the guy actually balanced his checkbook at the table.

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Lacking healthy eating will power? Give it a nudge by changing how you display your food.

If you want to lose weight, eating healthily and exercising regularly are obviously important. But so is the design of your kitchen: depending on where you place food items like cereals and fruit, your diet could that much more or less effective.

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