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The purpose of this post is simple: to teach you how to get a $1 million business idea off the ground in one weekend, full of specific tools and tricks that Noah has used himself.

Easter eggs are great. They make any game or movie or TV show infinitely better just by being there -- and often you never notice! But guess what? Media isn't the only thing with easter eggs. It turns out stuff you use every day has little hidden features that make them more brilliant than you initially thought.

An innovative tour de force in the jazz world, Miles Davis was a man as mercurial as his music, a case study in the duality of creative genius. Living life in the fast lane, he was a connoisseur of escapism, and exotic automobiles were a favorite addiction.

People have been eating the spicy, zesty condiment since biblical times. (Literally.) Here's what you need to know about it.

You don't have to wait until you have a degree to get a job and start paying off your college debt.

So how can you never be frustrated again? Let's break it down.

At the risk of severe hyperbole, I believe these three questions can help solve any problem. Don’t take my word for it. Try it yourself.  Think of any problem you are dealing with right now — a difficult colleague, changes to your business wrought by the digital revolution, or even, say, the struggle to get into better physical shape —and honestly ask yourself these three questions:

Find yourself on the receiving end of a barbed remark? Try these retorts to win the war of linguistic acrobatics.

Sure, your job would never physically put you in harm's way by trapping you in a coal mine or holding your hand near a lathe, but that doesn't mean that your job isn't abusing you in other ways.

It’s a question Coke and Pepsi drinkers have been asking for decades. In the prolonged marketing battle that began in the '70s and saw the beloved major brands duke it out via celebrity endorsements, rewards promotions (Pepsi Stuff, anyone?), an onslaught of advertisements, and even a race into space, RC Cola remained on the sidelines, a quiet blue and red can that seemed content to simply be.

They created a sample résumé for Musk to prove "even a highly successful career like his can be presented in a one page résumé," cofounder Andrei Kurtuy tells Business Insider.

Mullender gave a crash course in "life-or-death listening" at Advertising Week Europe in London on Monday and revealed the four most important words you need to use if you want to negotiate with someone.

A scientific study conducted a few years ago found that the sorts of architecture once typical of “museums, churches, and libraries” has measurable effects on brain function that are similar in some ways to traditional forms of meditation.

Ever wonder where your favorite fast food chain first popped up? Look no further.

Most of the self-help books that I personally read and recommend are what might be considered “golden oldies.” As I see it, some of the greats, such as The Power of Positive Thinking and Alcoholics Anonymous, contain most of the wisdom that underlies the overall self-help field.

The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired brain.

The secret to working more efficiently isn’t about working more or less, but smarter. So we asked 12 successful people how they do it.

How even shy people can master the art of schmoozing.

Wolfram Alpha is a great search engine for data geeks, but it has plenty of computation tricks up its sleeve that are useful for the rest of us too. Here are some of the most useful.

There are many deadly pitfalls of success and self-doubt is a biggie! Too many people frequently doubt their abilities, talents, self-worth, and what they deserve in life. These people also remain stuck in unfulfilling careers, relationships, financial situations, negative living environments, and have difficulties in other areas of life.

Since nobody knew how to mix art with commerce better than Andy Warhol did, here are his rules, straight from his own mouth, about how you can become an artist of business.

The worlds that filmmakers build are pretty amazing -- from the design to the population, they pretty much have to be in order to keep the audience fully immersed in the movie experience. But, more often than not, those worlds are built from actual places you can visit. And, more often than not, those places end up being a lot cooler than the movie universes they're featured in. We're talking about places like ...

If you want to be the founder of a billion-dollar empire, study these mental tricks.

One of Isaac Newton's 17th-century alchemy manuscripts, buried in a private collection for decades, reveals his recipe for a material thought to be a step toward concocting the magical philosopher's stone.

So why is this important to you? Why should you set up a Facebook group for your business NOW?

Of the 36 rules Descartes planned to write, he only penned 21, the first twelve of which outlined the principles of the scientific method. (The latter nine were specific to mathematics and thus rather esoteric.)

Wanna know a secret? A “classic” car is anything 25 years or older—which means all those under-loved rides of the ’70s and ’80s are officially up for consideration. And if you liked gawking at them as a kid, imagine how much more you’d enjoy driving one right now. Herewith, our nominees for a New Generation of Classics, and how to go about scoring one of your own.

Everyone dreams of staking a claim to a deserted island, but few pull it off. Former British Army Maj. Paddy Roy Bates was a bit more proactive; he created his own country back in 1967, and the tiny state is still going strong.

For the many fans of the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries TV series one of the joys of the show are the amazing costumes designed by Marion Boyce (who was the award winning costume designer for the recent film starring Kate Winslet, The Dressmaker).

“Not-to-do” lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.

And it's way more than a metaphor about insects and bad weather. No, it turns out the butterfly effect is a very real and slightly freaky thing. Don't believe us? Well, then how do you explain ...

Have you ever been to a library and seen a cat lounging in the stacks, on the book return cart, or maybe warming itself on a computer tower?

Should you brand yourself or your business? The short answer is both. The better question is what should you brand first — your business or yourself?

The quiet night scene of Edward Hopper’s most renowned painting sticks in the mind of anyone who sees it and feels familiar to anyone who’s taken an art history class. It may seem straightforward, but this deceptively simple piece holds a lot of secrets.

Famed turn-of-the-century Tenor Enrico Caruso could purportedly shatter Champagne glasses by belting out high notes. And Ella Fitzgerald did it herself in a 1972 Memorex commercial (although she had a little help from two speakers).

Herb garden FTW.

So what is it about productivity that’s having such a positive impact on the ability of individuals to achieve their goals?

Susan Brind Morrow has developed a new translation of the world’s oldest sacred texts.

The comfort zone and outside of it is tricky. This what you need to know.

Critic Harold Bloom called Titus “an exploitative parody” of the very popular revenge tragedies of the time—its murders, maimings, rapes, and mutilations pile up, scene upon scene, and leave characters and readers/audiences reeling in grief and disbelief from the shocking body count.

Listed below are a few common, self-defeating thoughts, and how to transform them into more helpful, positive affirmations.

Chagall painted this picture in 1911, one year after he first saw the Eiffel Tower during his travels to Paris from Russia, his native country.

You can teach yourself how to improve your memory without putting in too much effort.

Nailing the introduction will break the ice and improve your chances of moving to the next steps.

But while it’s true that I can speak in 20 different languages, including English, it took me a while to understand that there’s more to language than bartering over kebabs in Arabic or ordering from a menu in Hindi. Fluency is another craft altogether.

For me, five movies stand above all the others. They made me the leader I am today and pop up when I'm in a moment of professional doubt. Check them out, and maybe they'll do the same for you:

Pranayama teaches us the proper way to breathe. We are so used to breathing with our chest that we don’t take advantage of our total lung capacity. By breathing to our full lung capacity we actually increase the amount of oxygen that goes to our brain and our tissues and organs.

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

In Japan was filmed by Vincent Urban, Alex Schiller and Alex Tank over the course of a 3 week railway journey through the amazing country of Japan.