Do you owe it to a future employer to follow through on taking a position if you are having second thoughts? Is backing out a career killer?
Everyone second-guesses a decision at some point. While some things like choosing a bad restaurant or getting stuck in traffic have very minor consequences on your life, other decisions, like choosing the wrong partner or the wrong job, can make your life miserable.
The controversial dating site charged users $19 to erase their profiles—and made nearly $2 million from the service last year.
As the fallout from the Ashley Madison data dump continues, it now appears that the controversial site made millions in 2014 by charging users to “fully delete” their profiles.
Beautiful Lego: Wild! is a journey from the smallest bacteria to sweeping natural vistas, all made from the colorful toy bricks.
Just as The Lego Movie taught us, creativity with the colored plastic blocks shouldn’t be limited to following set instructions to build preconceived scenes. The proof of the medium’s endless possibilities is in the work of Lego designers around the world, which curator Mike Doyle, a Lego artist himself, is collecting in the book series Beautiful Lego from San Francisco’s No Starch Press.
The jury’s still out.
I’m only seconds into a digital copy of T.S. Eliot’s famous ode to adolescence, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, when my ears prickle uncomfortably. As I read—”Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky, / Like a patient etherised upon a table”—a soft rock track reminiscent of James Taylor begins to crescendo in the background. Eliot’s arch observations are drowned out by the acoustic guitar and its upbeat melody.
To address the growing obesity crisis among its children, a rural Virginia school had to give itself a full redesign.
Some schools have banned junk food. Some have added longer gym classes, new nutrition classes, or even required standing desks. But childhood obesity rates are still about three times higher than they were in 1980. Now schools are adding another tool to the fight for fitter kids: Architecture.
The words you choose during an argument can destroy relationships or help create a more cooperative and productive workplace.
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” may have been true in an age when epithets were flung from children’s mouths on the playground, but in business—especially online—words pack a lot more punch.
The comedian, who is having her best year ever, opens up.
Like many comedians before her, Tig Notaro initially faced a lot of failure and rejection in the comedy world. In this story, she opens up about when she got her start in comedy, and the one lesson she learned that we can all benefit from. Watch this video to find out what you can do you when you are faced with a not-ideal situation. (Spoiler: You’ll be okay.)
Trick your tongue into thinking you’re having a much sweeter treat that isn’t nearly as bad for you.
Maybe you won’t actually have to give up your Twinkie habit to lose weight. New food technology makes ordinary sugar twice as sweet—so food tastes exactly the same with half the calories, and without the controversy of artificial sweeteners.
It even features the MagSafe of pens: a magnetic cap that automatically aligns with the Montblanc logo.
Now that he’s joined Apple, famed industrial designer Marc Newson seems like he’d be more likely to design an iPad stylus at this point than a pen. But there’s no rubber tip to be found on Marc Newson’s latest creation, the Montblanc M fountain pen; it looks designed to write a love letter to the flowing ink nibs that the computer age is leaving behind.
A Chinese video streaming company has set its sights on Tesla, hired 200 U.S. developers, and revealed the first concept for their EV.
LeTV is developing an electric car to take on Tesla. They’ve hired 600 people—including 200 stationed in the U.S.—to develop the car that they revealed for the first time this week.
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