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In her book “Primates of Park Avenue,” out Tuesday, New York writer Wednesday Martin sensationally reveals the trend for bankers’ wives to receive so-called “wife bonuses” — a percentage of their husband’s company bonus in return for managing the household and supporting him in his career. Here Polly Phillips, 32, who gets a five-figure sum…
Yesterday, Gawker Media announced that we will be holding an election next week to vote on whether our editorial staffers want to form a union. The purpose of this post is to allow our writers to discuss how they’re voting, and why. The vote next week is to decide whether we want to agree to…
Six legendary game designers. Six dream projects that were never meant to be. 1. Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims) “In the late ’90s, I started working on a game called Wild Geography Excitement. The object of the game was to steal bars of soap from fancy hotels and feed them to a dog. Each time…
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it ricocheted…
Work is getting in the way of much-needed vacations, according to the latest executive survey by recruitment and HR consulting firm Korn Ferry. Two-thirds (67%) of the more than 400 U.S. executives surveyed online earlier this month said they had postponed or canceled vacation plans in the past year due to demands at work. While 83%…
What’s, like, the biggest thing on Earth? Well, Godzilla is big. And it’s a scientific fact that his femur is 33 meters long. Bucket wheel excavators used in mining operations, those are crazy giant too. The biggest man-made building (by volume) is Boeing’s plant in Everett, Washington. That’s totally ginormous. Let’s call it the biggest…
Chances are you’ve heard the phrase, Steal like an Artist (it’s a book by Austin Kleon) and chance are you’ve heard the Picasso quote, Good artists copy, great artists steal. But do you understand them? Seems there are a great many people who don’t. Earlier in the month Todd Lockwood discovered portions of his paintings…
Start Article Post Content Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report.Indeed, Netflix boosted its share of downstream bandwidth usage…
[if lte IE 9]>< ![endif] Google Publisher Tags Google Analytics End Google Analytics /.off-canvas TEMPLATE T1 BODY The Blackstone Group LP, the biggest landlord in the country with tens of thousands of residential units, is investing in Oakland, becoming the largest real estate player yet to arrive in the burgeoning city. New York-based Blackstone (NYSE:BX)…
A great article about tea as a symbol of nationalism in England and how it might reflect an attempt to grasp a nationalistic identity that might be better left behind. Though this article isn’t too long it is pretty deep, and the problem of tea for Briton-\-\as a cultural touchstone for a culture that grew…