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Headspace

For the past eight months, I've been using the guided-meditation app Headspace every day, and it's had a noticeably positive effect on my mood.

I first heard about Headspace late last year on Tim Ferriss' podcast. Its proponents include Wall Streeters, Olympic athletes, and celebrity executives like Arianna Huffington and Richard Branson. The company reports it has 8.5 million active users.

The Headspace app is a hub of meditation exercises tailored to a specific topic, like creativity or stress. Читать дальше...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla./JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Space Communication said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site.

Officials of the Israeli company said in a conference call with reporters Sunday that Spacecom also could collect $205 million from Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the AMOS-6 satellite. Читать дальше...

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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - The global economy is being threatened by rising protectionism and risks from highly leveraged financial markets, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the open of a two-day summit of leaders from G20 nations. 

His warning on Sunday followed bilateral talks with Barack Obama that the U.S. president described as "extremely productive", but which failed to bring both sides closer on thornier topics such as tensions in the South China Sea. Читать дальше...

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Getting along with your boss can be great, especially when it makes the daily grind that much more enjoyable.

You may even feel so close with your boss that you hang out after work or invite them to your wedding.

But at the end of the day, it's important to remember that your buddy is still your superior, and there's a line you probably shouldn't cross.

Aside from the obvious — like profanity and insults — here are some words and phrases you should never utter to your boss... Читать дальше...

The most mysterious structure on Ceres is a giant pyramid-shaped mound called Ahuna Mons. Scientists may now know what created it.

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Next time you enter an elevator, walk in and keep facing the back wall. If you stay that way, in my experience, people will laugh or ask if you’re okay. (That’s an opportunity, if you want, to say you would love for someone to define “okay.”)

Standing this way breaks unstated rules of how we’re supposed to behave in elevators. Detaching from expectations gives people an excuse to talk, to acknowledge one another’s humanity. Absent a break in the order, the expectation is silence. Читать дальше...

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On December 2, 1993, Pablo Escobar, the wealthiest drug kingpin the world has ever seen, attempted to flee from a hideout in his home base of Medellín, Colombia, by scrambling across a neighboring rooftop.

Instead, he was cut down by gunfire, and the resulting image has been seared into the public memory — the bloody corpse of the world’s most powerful drug lord splayed across a tile roof in the city that was once his safest redoubt. (WARNING: Next photo is graphic.)

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The other men in that image... Читать дальше...

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It's great to be a consumer of media these days.

You get more access to content and have the ability to see it across different platforms at different times.

It's not necessarily great to be a producer of media, however. Traditional cable companies have seen a huge amount of value shift to tech companies, which are distributing their content and in many cases taking their ad dollars. 

Goldman Sachs' latest podcast takes a look at this tension, with Michael Ronen and Dave Dase... Читать дальше...

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The worst Walmarts are located in low-income, minority communities.

That's according to a study published in May by Contexts, a quarterly publication of the American Sociological Association.

A Walmart store's location is closely related to how good or bad the store's customer service is, the study found.

The study, which was recently highlighted by The Atlantic's CityLab, evaluated customer service by analyzing the Yelp reviews of 2,840 Walmart locations across the US. Читать дальше...

Beer might be one of the most popular beverages in the world, and one of the best times to drink it is on a hot summer day.

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Tesla is getting closer to its ultimate goal of producing its first mass-market electric car, the Model 3. But there is one glaring problem: Consumers aren’t buying sedans. They’re buying crossovers and SUVs.

Passenger-car sales fell over 12% in August, while truck and SUV sales rose 2%, according to the firm Autodata. As a whole, though, passenger-car sales have been on the decline for a while.

As Business Insider’s Matt DeBord recently pointed out, the value of used small cars is cratering... Читать дальше...

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It seems weird to think that, at some point in recent human history, you had to call your partner's work phone to talk to them during the day — and only if something was really important.

Today, you can shoot off a quick kissy face to let them know that, hey, you're thinking of them, and how great they are, and that's it.

But alas, love is complicated. I recently wrote an article on ways to ruin your relationship and discovered that — you guessed it ... Читать дальше...

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Margrethe Vestager is a corporation's worst nightmare.

The antitrust enforcer recently ordered Apple to pay up to 13 billion euros in taxes as part of a broader crackdown on tax avoidance in the eurozone. Past campaigns include Starbucks in the Netherlands and Amazon in Luxembourg.

"Europe is open for business, if you want to do business, but maybe not so open if you want to come for tax avoidance," she said on Bloomberg TV on Tuesday.

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The EpiPen is the latest drug facing drug-pricing pressure.

But it wasn't always this way. 

The injectable delivers a dose of epinephrine, otherwise known as adrenaline, to treat extreme allergic reactions.

It's been around for more than a century. And the pen that delivers the medication has been around since the 1970s, when it was first developed for the military.

Since 2007, the price for a two-pack has gone up from $93.88 to $608.61, an increase of more than 500%. Читать дальше...

Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, continued throughout August, as strikes hit ISIS infrastructure and fighting positions in northern Iraq.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — It's been the driving issue of Donald Trump's campaign. Build a wall along the southern border. Make Mexico pay for it. And expel everyone living in the U.S. illegally with the help of a "deportation force."

Ten weeks before the election, however, buffeted by conflicting advice from aides and advisers, Trump has seemed to be in full indecision mode.

At a Fox News town hall tall taping last week, in the face of pressing questions... Читать дальше...

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Few spend time analyzing the breakdown of a plane ticket.

Our modus operandi is to compare ticket prices, usually through a website like Expedia or Kayak, pick whichever deal we can manage to glean, and jet away.

But those willing to take a closer look will see that, for international flights, there is a fee tacked on that inflates the end cost by a few hundred dollars. Often labeled as a "carrier fee" or "carrier-imposed fee," there is no clarity... Читать дальше...

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Summer is drawing to a close.

Although the mornings are getting chillier, the evenings darker, and the days shorter, there's something about September that seems to signify a fresh start.

If you want to know what's on the minds of Goldman Sachs' business leaders as we head into the fall season, consider the firm's book suggestions.

The banking giant has compiled a back-to-school reading list with book recommendations from leaders across the globe and across the firm. Читать дальше...

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For some victims of crime, coming face to face with the perpetrator can be a cathartic experience.

Now, a new report from British MPs on the Justice Select Committee proposes that everybody in the UK should have a right to what’s called “restorative justice” – the chance for victims and offenders to meet or communicate.

Until now, the MPs argue, access to such a process, which can be requested by either the victim or the offender, has been somewhat of a “postcode lottery”. Читать дальше...

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Apart from a couple of swimming pools turning an unfortunate shade of green and men’s tennis silver medalist, Argentina’s Juan Martín del Potro, being stuck in an elevator for 40 minutes before his first-round match against world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro went off pretty much seamlessly. Only weeks before, however, with preparations for the world’s biggest sporting showcase behind schedule and over budget, the situation looked far less rosy. Читать дальше...