Harvard Students Epically Pranked Yale By Giving Prospective Yalies A...
The annual Harvard-Yale football game — known simply as "The Game"— is one of the most eagerly anticipated events each year for students at both Ivy League universities.In anticipation of this year's...
View ArticleBaby Found Alive At Chinese Funeral Home 2 Days After Being Pronounced Dead
BEIJING (AP) — A funeral home discovered a baby was alive two days after he was pronounced dead at a hospital in eastern China.Authorities revoked the license of the doctor who mistakenly declared the...
View ArticleDavid Einhorn Mentions Micron Technology At Big Hedge Fund Conference And The...
Closely-followed hedge fund manager David Einhorn mentioned Micron Technology at the inaugural Robin Hood Investors Conference, according to folks on Twitter. This conference is closed to press. The...
View ArticleDavid Droga Admits Advertising Is About Laziness That Subtracts Value For Users
With annoying pop-up ads assaulting desktops and smartphones, it's easy for advertisers to become as jaded as the people avoiding their work.David Droga, founder of the New York agency Droga5, wrote an...
View ArticleChevy Is Going Back Into A Forgotten Market With A Stylish New Truck
In 1986, Americans bought 1.4 million midsize pickup trucks. Last year, that number was less than 300,000, according to The Detroit News. Those numbers don't make a compelling case for building a new...
View ArticleHARRY REID PREPARES TO GO NUCLEAR
The Senate is preparing to "go nuclear."Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a proposal on the Senate floor that would change Senate rules by requiring only a simple majority vote to approve...
View ArticleDNA Test Links Jameis Winston To Accuser In Sexual Assault Case But Questions...
The Jameis Winston sexual assault case has taken a couple of ugly turns this week. The biggest news is that DNA taken from the underwear of the woman claiming a sexual assault occurred matches the DNA...
View ArticleMentoring Someone For An Hour Could Be The Best Part Of Your Week
This post is sponsored by Chivas.Edmund Lewis, the 27-year-old founder of the Detroit-based non-profit Minority Males for Higher Education, has a message: Being a mentor can make an extraordinary man...
View ArticleQuip, The Word Processing App From Facebook's Ex-CTO, Is Releasing A Bunch of...
When Bret Taylor, former CTO of Facebook, launched Quip with co-founder Kevin Gibbs back in July, he wanted to reinvent document creation and tailor it to mobile world.Basically, Quip is like Google...
View ArticleWatch The 'Gravity' Short About The Stranger Sandra Bullock Radioed From Space
Remember the scene in "Gravity" when Sandra Bullock is locked inside the Russian space capsule about to give up all hope but finally finds faith when reaching someone on the radio — only to find there...
View ArticleThe 15 Most Overused Business Words Of 2013
Moving forward, we plan to utilize robust social media content, big data, and the cloud to literally provide transparency and seamlessly impact sustainability.Sound familiar? How many of the year's...
View Article13 Awesome Gifts For Beer Nuts
There's no better way to enjoy the holidays than with great food, great friends and, perhaps most importantly, great beer.If you're looking to surprise the beer lovers in your life with a holiday gift,...
View ArticleKanye West Paid A Visit To Fancy, And Said He Wants DONDA To Become A...
Shortly before Kanye West performed his first "Yeezus" show in Brooklyn Tuesday night, he dropped by e-commerce startup Fancy. In speaking with the staff for about 45 minutes, West spoke about his...
View ArticleROSENBERG: Get Ready For A Lot Of Spending This Holiday Season
Total retail sales jumped 0.4% in October, quadrupling expectations for 0.1% advance.And in a new note to clients, Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg says the figures bode well for the holiday season.When...
View ArticleWe Are Totally Creeped Out By A New Portrait Of The Danish Royal Family
This new portrait of the Danish royal family to celebrate the 150th anniversary of The House Glücksburg is absolutely horrifying.The painting is by artist Thomas Kluge, and depicts Queen Margrethe II...
View Article15 Of The Most Intense People In The World
Some people get ahead by being smarter, more analytical, or more strategic than everyone around them. But many of the most successful people combine some or all of those traits with a signature...
View ArticleCome On, Snapchat, Here's What Your Ousted Co-Founder Deserves — Settle This...
The founders of a red-hot messaging company called Snapchat are suing each other over ownership of the company.One of the co-founders, Reggie Brown, says two of his former frat brothers at Stanford,...
View ArticleFlorida Man Arrested Dozens Of Times For 'Trespassing' At Convenience Store...
The Miami Herald has a disturbing story about a Quickstop in Miami Gardens, Fla., where the mostly poor, black employees and customers are routinely arrested and harassed by local police.One of those...
View ArticleThis Widely Praised Film Takes A Brutal Look At Life In Modern China — But...
In August, as his controversial film "A Touch Of Sin" was receiving plaudits from around the world, Chinese director Jia Zhangke seemed confident that his countrymen would see the film. “The film has...
View ArticleThe 25 Most Segregated Cities In America
Racial segregation in America is lasting longer than anyone expected. The average black person lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent black, even though blacks represent only 13 percent of the...
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