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Being an angry person, negative thoughts come in out of nowhere and ruins my day. I’ve been working on it and I realized how they are like to come in certain forms and shapes.

Serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban explains a very common social-media error--and what his company is doing about it.

I was watching an episode of “Band of Brothers” in which the brave soldiers of Easy Company were storming a town in Normandy. While they were scrambling for cover from Nazi machine gunfire, they ran past an upright piano that happened to be sitting in the middle of the street. No one was playing it, no one was lying dead beside it, and it appeared to be undamaged. Had it just been abandoned by some French pianist during a desperate attempt to escape with it? It really bugged me. What the hell was that piano doing in the middle of the street? Then I realized that such peculiar piano placement should neither bewilder nor amaze me, for I have personally seen equivalent ridiculousness within many estates.

The Bugatti Veyron is no more. Whether you loved it as a technological marvel or hated it as a passionless robot with equally passionless drivers (and popular opinion seems to be the latter), you cannot deny it as one of the most advanced cars ever made. Here are eight things you didn’t know about the Bugatti Veyron.

Steve Wozniak, Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk all predict a future in which human beings will be replaced by computers. It’s happening now and many of us have already witnessed parts of it in varying degrees. For example, I haven’t set foot in a financial institution in 25 years. All of my banking is automated. Is the computer takeover really such bad news and will it really ever become a reality?

We’re focusing on being mindful of our thoughts and how our thoughts impact our lives. In this first week, we are being mindful just by becoming aware of that mental chatter.

If you have an office job that involves sitting at a desk for eight hours a day (raises hand), you know what tight hips and lower back pain feels like. We found a few yoga poses that target both spots, consider them your two-for-one, feel-good stretches.

The problem is that it’s not always easy to simplify things. You could have a thousand ideas in your head, or you could keep imagining new scenarios that need to be accounted for, or you could want your plan to be a success so badly that you throw everything you can think of into it. But at some point, you’ll need to stop, evaluate your position and make an active effort to make your plan simpler. Here’s how you can get the job done:

General relativity says that energy (in the form of mass, light, and whatever other forms it comes in) tells spacetime how to bend, and the bending of spacetime tells that energy how to move. The concept of "gravity" is then that objects are falling along the bending of spacetime. The path that objects follow is called a "geodesic". Let's begin by looking at the bending side of things, and then we'll come back to look at geodesics.

I conducted a month-long experiment (on myself), and found out firsthand about the effects of abstaining from social media. Here’s what you’re in for:

Paris is best explored on foot - so we asked the experts at Localers walking tours to come up with a list of the most unmissable streets in the French capital. See how many you have walked along. (No, the Champs Elysées is not one of them).

Are you up to date with our constantly evolving language? You can find out by seeing how many of Merriam-Webster's new words you already know. Every year, M-W adds thousands of new entries to its site, adding examples, updating words, providing words with added definitions and adding words to the dictionary that were never there before.

Have you ever had a discussion with someone who posed this question: “If you could invite any five people, living or dead, to dinner, who would they be?”

These books provide a roadmap and a compass that will forever change the way you look at entrepreneurism, innovation, marketing, and change.

Laurie Pickard publicly chronicled her pursuit of a business education entirely out of free or low-cost online courses. Her gamble is paying off.

With all the talk of an Absolutely Fabulous film of late, Flavorwire has been relishing the opportunity to revisit one of the most consistently hilarious comedies of the last 20 years or so. (It’s not like we really need any excuse, to be honest.) There are many, many things to love about Ab Fab, but somewhere near the top of the list is the, ahem, unique fashion sense of Bubble, Edina’s gloriously ditzy assistant. And so, here is a labor of love: every single outfit Bubble has worn on the show, ranked in definitive order, from awesome to even more awesome.

Books have always been a great source material for Hollywood, with some of the most popular and beloved being adapted into feature-length films. Granted, not all of them are good, but they definitely affirm the strength of the written word. Plus, being able to say, “the book was better” seems to be a rite of passage nowadays (especially for the Game of Thrones folks). If you want to be ahead of the game you better get reading because each of the below 13 books have adaptations primed to hit theaters in 2015. Arranged in order of release date, this list has sweeping romance, murder mysteries, Irish Mob godfathers, mermaids, and an astronaut stranded on Mars.

The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s.  While we can’t be sure who was the first to price fuel this way, it seems to have become relatively commonplace across the United States all the sudden around the same time. So what happened?

Jobs turned the product launch into an art form. He also leaves a legacy by which entrepreneurs can learn to dazzle their audiences. The following five keynotes will help anyone give the presentation of a lifetime.

It wasn't until I submitted my first pitch for a Cracked article on a total drunken whim back on Thanksgiving Day of 2007 that I realized I might have some other options in life. I immediately set about trying to turn being published on Cracked into something more, and by 2010, I'd quit my day job entirely and was writing full-time.

Over the past few decades, Seattle has changed from a small, relatively ignored Pacific Northwestern city into a bustling metropolis filled with gourmet restaurants, top-quality culture, and a plethora of high-quality, high-end things to do.

Here on earth we’re thankful to have the pull of gravity to keep us and our favorite objects grounded to the ground. When you head a couple hundred miles up, all of that changes.

The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The magic material that was so appropriate for the purpose was the form of pure carbon that we call graphite. It was first discovered in Europe, in Bavaria at the start of the fifteenth century; although the Aztecs had used it as a marker several hundred years earlier.

Have you heard this quote by Life Coach Tony Robbins? "Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life." It’s been said a number of different ways (“I dream, therefore I become,” “You will what you imagine”). Here are some words of wisdom that were shared with me on how to use the practice of visualization to take action, make change, and turn life’s desires into realities:

When your small business outgrows your original vision or your target market shifts, rebranding may be in order. But updating your image and messaging can be risky. So, how do you alter your approach without damaging your reputation or losing customers?

The habit of getting up early has been the most life changing thing I have ever done. A little over a year ago, I wrote this post about how to build a killer morning routine. Today, I’m still getting up several hours before I have to and I want to reveal how I did it and what happened to me.

A droplet bouncing on the surface of a liquid has been found to exhibit many quantum-like properties, including double-slit interference, tunneling and energy quantization.

If I never own a fast car (or any car at all!), if I never have a home with my name on the door, if I never buy myself a solitaire ring – I’ll be okay with my life. When all my cards are played, and all my hair is grey, I’ll sit in my rocking chair and not regret any of those things. But if I don’t visit these places and do these things, I’ll be one cranky old lady. Here’s my secret travel bucket list, out in public for the first time, for you to steal.

Here’s some thespians you never realised journeyed to that galaxy far, far away.

Here are three habits that haven't changed much over centuries that will positively affect you as an entrepreneur today.

What has made Buffett the most successful investor of all time? Many things.

He was a man of peace who became Afghanistan’s most brilliant military leader. He was America’s best Afghan ally who warned about the attacks of 9-11. He fought for democracy until he was assassinated by Osama bin Laden. He was…Ahmed Shah Massoud.

This is 天鉄刀 (Tentetsutou, The Sword Of Heaven), a traditional Japanese katana forged entirely from an iron-alloy meteorite. Obviously, it's the perfect weapon for a space ninja like myself. "You are not a space ninja." Then how am I writing this FROM THE MOON? "You aren't." I could be. "But you aren't." Man, I hate playing pretend with grownups.

You've tried every ab exercise in existence. Now do the workout with proven results, powered by the diet that'll have you looking sexy by Spring.

Disneyland set the bar high for other amusement parks that followed, and it (and Walt Disney World, and the other Disney parks around the world) just seem to get better every year. Today Disneyland began festivities in the run up to its 60th anniversary on July 17, and I suspect there will be many more anniversaries in the future.

I turned 40 last year. It was not celebrated in quite the same way as when I turned 18, or 21, but it's a milestone nonetheless. And it got me to thinking…what should I be learning now that I have hit this major landmark? What can any of us who are in our 40s learn to make life even better, and prepare for the next 40 years? Here are eight of the best life skills you can embrace once you reach the big 40.

1989 Porsche turbo, the 930, 5-speed gearbox. 160mph, 5.0sec 0-60.

Dickinson College Commencement – Address to Graduates; May 17, 2015; by Ian McEwan, award-winning author

In short, Manhattanhenge is when the sunset aligns perfectly with the city's grid. This happens twice a year with a full sun, and twice a year with a half sun—all four times the sun illuminates both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough's grid. It is our Stonehenge, and deGrasse Tyson has declared it to be "a unique urban phenomenon in the world, if not the universe."

Hosted by Tom Nicoli, the "Dateline Hypnotist" and founder of World Hypnosis Day.

We are pleased to provide our readers an excerpt from the newly published book Investing Psychology: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias by Tim Richards.* The area of investor decision making is a rich one and Tim takes a deep dive into the many ways in which investors unwittingly sabotage their best laid plans. In the book Richards lays out a number of lessons on investing from behavioral finance, the first of which appears below.

The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope -- it's an official language in seventy-nine countriesand territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness -- it's just one fantastic mishmash of borrowings, inventions, corruptions, misinterpretations, misspellings, alterations, words you'll never need, and words you never even knew you'll never need.

I’ve spent two years meeting with a class of people I call “Invisibles” — highly skilled professionals whose work is critical to whatever enterprise they’re a part of, yet who go largely unnoticed by the public. I wanted to know, in a culture where recognition is so prized that fame is often an end unto itself, what kind of person thrives — both professionally and personally — behind the scenes?

But in the 50s, flying was something different. It was something magical and marvelous. Air travel exploded into its Golden Age, and airplane trips weren't just a means of getting to your vacation -- they were a vacation in themselves. Passengersdressed in their finest to fly. They lined up for group photos before boarding. Riding an airplane made them feel like a movie star because it pretty much took the salary of a movie star to do so.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said that, “talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”  Lots of people of people are smart, but true genius has always had an element of mystery to it.

Charm is a social skill that can be learned. Here’s how to be likeable.

Dr. Arjan Khalsa shows us how to make an amazing healing recipe with turmeric,  one of her favorite all-time, multi-talented remedies for many different ailments.

What is the first step you should take in order to trademarking your business?

NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured several amazing videos of thunderstorms breaking out across the planet this week. Virts caught flashing lightning above Mexico and the Ozarks from his post on the International Space Station, and shared the amazing footage via Vine.