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Nicola Ókin Frioli’s award winning series of photographs documenting “Muxes”, Mexico’s transgendered community that is celebrated as a symbol of good luck. “They drink beer, they are part of local governement and they are symbol of good luck for their…

Mostly considered for the way they might make you feel, it is less common to consider what a drug might look like.  Artist Sarah Schoenfeld had this thought while working at a Berlin nightclub.  She converted her photography studio into…

The internet is full of gorgeous, thought-out recipes, and we like to feature as many bloggers and ideas as we can on our Delicious Links section of the site. These daily recipes inspire us to cook, and challenge our own…

There is tight competition this year, time to get your vote in. Monsanto is a tough act to follow. When it comes to despised companies, it’s set the bar pretty high. Last year the company claimed the top prize in…

What made Andersen particularly enchanting was his singular gift for capturing not only the whimsical, but also the wistful. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings…

From Thomas Friedman, to Richard Cohen to Peggy Noonan and more. Here is Alex Pareene’s worst of the worst. Salon’s Alex Pareene skewers some of the most notorious media hacks and some that you don’t quite expect, in his annual run…

"If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and…

Class-rigidity is most extreme in the South, according to leading Harvard and Berkeley economists. The website Equality-Of-Opportunity.org was established this year by four leading economists from Harvard and Berkeley, and it now headlines their major findings, “Mobility in the 100 Largest Commuting Zones.”…

In the past, artist Mark Khaisman has used his signature style of translucent packing tape, acrylic paint/film panels and lightboxes to create an extension of drawing which focused on decorative objects (such as rugs, chairs and fabric patterns), luxury items (handbags) and…

You know the feeling: it’s late at night, you have the place to yourself, and you just want something sweet. But just a little something. You don’t want to make an entire cake, or a dozen cookies, or anything that…

Want to know the orbital paths where different spacecraft have traveled and where they are now? A great new infographic put together by Kevin Gill is a visualization of where 21 different unmanned spacecraft have traveled through the Solar System.…

Goodwill CEOs make over $400,000 a year. But some of its disabled employees are paid less than $3 an hour. Spreading Christmas ‘goodwill’ during the holidays is what Goodwill donation centers claim to be all about. The company sells thousands…

Premiere website builder Made With Color and Beautiful/Decay team up each week to bring you some of the best contemporary artists and designers using Made With Color to build their sleek websites. Website builder Made With Color helps artists create well-designed and…

Judging by the number of start-ups that are around these days, having an idea is nothing if you do not know how to code it into existence, or at least know of some people with the technical knowledge to do…

Want to easily control which records get imported from a text file into Excel? It’s easy to do when you write the macro that handles the importing. Read this ExcelTip: Selectively Importing Records Microsoft Excel Tips – Learn Excel Faster!…

On Monday I asked what will happen to the 1.3 million workers whose unemployment benefits will vanish on Dec. 28 if Congress doesn’t renew its emergency aid program. These people won’t all be able to find jobs right away, so what…

It’s December, which means it’s about time for recaps of the year that was! Let’s start with the market for initial public offerings, since we can basically see through to the end of 2013 — barring last-minute entrants and any…