Новости за 17.02.2016

Here's the ad that prompted Donald Trump to send Ted Cruz a cease and desist letter. 

A young girl named Kira went to Disneyland last month and rode a roller coaster for the first time. She went on the Gadget's Go Coaster — a "junior" ride for young visitors — but she still had a wild time.

Slack is a hot San Francisco startup that makes a chat app for the workplace.

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The last few weeks have been crazy for mosquito biologists like me.

We’ve been asked by reporters to make pronouncements about how the mosquito-borne Zika virus will affect human health in Latin America and around the world.

The attention on Zika may be justified. Or the threat posed to human health by Zika may turn out to have been overhyped.

Either way, there are other mosquito-borne viruses that should concern us — and that have largely been overlooked. Читать дальше...

Travel with Bender

In May 2012, Erin and Josh Bender — and their two children, Mia, now 6, and Caius, 5 — packed up their lives in Perth, Australia and hit the road.

Today, nearly four years later, they are still traveling nonstop around the world. They document their journey (and how they can afford it) on their blog, "Travel With Bender."

After traveling to over 60 countries as a family, booking about 40 flights along the way, and staying in hundreds of hotels, resorts, apartments... Читать дальше...

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The financial-technology, or fintech, industry has exploded, and big banks are sitting up and paying attention.

Often, fintech companies like robo-advisers and financial-planning startups are seen as "out to crush" their more traditional counterparts.

But there's one important goal that companies in both industries share, and it's motivating them to work together: Helping Americans save more money.

"Everybody benefits if a broad base of Americans... Читать дальше...

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McLaren Automotive is an apostle to the great goddesses of speed and performance — and is bringing some serious hardware to the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.

To accompany their now full line of supercars, including the 540c, 570s, and 650s, and 650s GT3 race car, McLaren Special Operations — their in-house customization shop — will show off bespoke versions of the hyper-exclusive P1 and 675LT.

This 675LT Spider is one of 500 produced. All have been sold.

The... Читать дальше...

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At the end of last year, the United Nations adopted the "Paris Agreement" to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, urging each nation to do its part to curb climate change.

Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan recently published a paper detailing ways in which every single American can contribute to cutting back on emissions.

Unsurprisingly, many of those ways involved the ways in which we get around. Читать дальше...

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Artist Scott Blake makes flip books without drawing a single line: instead, he uses a hole puncher. He makes patterns on a computer, prints them out, and then goes through the painstaking process of punching the holes and lining up the pages to make these awesome flip books.

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) is subtly making the case for why he believes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a better presidential pick than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).

In an interview with Business Insider on Tuesday, Booker, a Clinton supporter, pointed out that although he respects Sanders, none of their colleagues have endorsed him. In contrast, Clinton has been endorsed by almost every Senate Democrat.

"I have a lot of love for Bernie. Читать дальше...

The Brooklyn bagel store that produces rainbow bagels has "closed indefinitely" for renovations, Gothamist reports.

Kay Pike, 28, started painting herself on Twitch, a live streaming video platform, in December 2015. Her amazing artwork has helped her videos and photos reach over 20 million views across her social media platforms. 

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This post by Alex Liang originally appear on Quora as an answer to the question "How do you build core confidence?"

Confidence is fleeting. One minute you feel unstoppable, then your girlfriend or boyfriend breaks up with you and you’re reaching for a tub of rocky road ice cream and a warm spoon.

Why?

It seems like some people just have an unlimited supply of confidence, like they won it off some scratch-off lottery ticket. But it’s not luck.

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The US embassy wanted the DEA and their Bolivian Leopardos to raid a finca, a ranch, out in the remote northern part of the country, and they wanted a rush put on it. 

DEA Agent Larry Leveron and Navy SEAL Hershal Davis rode on Bolivian UH-1 Huey helicopters with the Bolivian police, flying toward the finca, when Larry spotted a small, twin-engine aircraft taking off from a dirt airstrip while they were still five miles out.

They knew that the... Читать дальше...

British artist Jason deCaires Taylor created a new sculpture that pays tribute to Europe's many migrants. The catch? The only way you can see it is to go under the ocean, as the piece is part of an underwater museum off the coast of Spain's Canary Islands.

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This year, LEGO will release 25 new "Star Wars" sets. I checked out a large collection of them recently at New York Toy Fair. 

Not only will the new sets reimagine scenes from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"; however, a few of the sets will also bring a few iconic scenes from the original "Star Wars" trilogy to life. 

One of the coolest — and most expensive — sets that will be released May 1 will be a giant recreation of the snowy Hoth Hoth Echo Base from "Star Wars... Читать дальше...

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President Barack Obama does plan to sign a North Korea sanctions bill, the White House said on Wednesday.

The bill was approved by Congress on Friday, but the White House had given no previous indication that it would support further and more stringent sanctions against the hermit kingdom. 

The sanctions come in response to Pyongyang's continued development of its nuclear weapons program. North Korea claims that it detonated a hydrogen bomb in December 2015. Читать дальше...

On the list of things you hate, somewhere in there is probably learning that something you didn't think you had to pay tax on, you do.

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Nike released a statement on Wednesday announcing that they had terminated their contract with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he compared gay people to animals during a recent television appearance.

"We find Manny Pacquiao’s comments abhorrent. Nike strongly opposes discrimination of any kind and has a long history of supporting and standing up for the rights of the LGBT community," the company wrote. "We no longer have a relationship with Manny Pacquiao."

Pacquiao... Читать дальше...

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Things keep heating up.

Right after 2015 claimed the dubious title of being the hottest year ever, January 2016 is now officially ranked as the hottest January ever recorded.

Not only was January the hottest ever, the new temperature was the biggest increase over the previous record in more than a century of records, according to figures released by NASA. NASA's climate records go back to 1880.

The global average... Читать дальше...

Hollis Johnson

Fast food is America's treat of choice — it's quick, cheap, and easily accessible in most regions of the country. 

We've created a survey asking you about your favorite fast food chains.

Big Mac or Whopper?

Shake Shack or In-N-Out?

We want to know your favorites. 

Thanks in advance for your time and cooperation. We'll publish the results in a few weeks. 

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The Federal Reserve has communication issues it is trying to deal with.

Minutes of the January meeting released Wednesday showed that FOMC members considered adding so-called "fan charts" to future economic projections, which are published quarterly.

The fan charts would show the full range of data possibilities the Fed's considering in a single visualization, while including the central forecast.

According to the Fed, these charts would convey... Читать дальше...

The Malibu Rocky Oaks is a vineyard in Malibu, that, with an elevation of 2,000 feet, is literally above the clouds.

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There are many organizations that help pediatric cancer patients in various ways, but there is nothing quite like Anything Can Be — a photography studio, started by Jonathan Diaz, that creates images depicting the patient in a scenario where their wildest dreams have come true. 

"I wanted to tell stories that mattered [and] that could inspire, and help other people," Diaz told Business Insider. "I am fascinated with children's imaginations — they tend to believe that anything is possible... Читать дальше...