2 concierges at New York’s most iconic hotel share the craziest requests they ever received from guests
By Sarah Jacobs From Business Insider New York City’s Waldorf Astoria is one of the most famous hotels in the world. Over 85 years of operation, its suites have hosted every US president since Herbert Hoover, and its towers have…
Wealthiest private colleges
The 20 wealthiest private colleges in America By Emmie Martin, Tanza Loudenback and Alexa Pipia From Business Insider The wealthiest private colleges in America eclipse many corporate giants as financial powerhouses. The endowment for Yale University, for instance, is worth…
The Arctic is now missing enough ice to cover 23 US states
By Rafi Letzte From Business Insider Look at the map above. Go to the upper right-hand corner, start with Maine, and start counting. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North…
Richard Branson shares the first question he asks every entrepreneur who comes to him for advice
By Richard Feloni From Business Insider In many ways, Richard Branson is the prototypical entrepreneur. Since starting the Virgin Group 46 years ago, he’s overseen hundreds of companies around the world, in a wide range of industries, bearing the Virgin…
This powerful essay about a painful childhood memory got a student into 14 colleges including Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton
By Abby Jackson From Business Insider We all have memories from our childhood that we’d likely rather forget. Sometimes it’s those very same painful life lessons that have the most lasting impact on your world view. Recent Harvard University graduate…
You’ve been breathing all wrong
By Erin Brodwin from Business Insider It’s literally the most boring thing you do every day. And thank goodness — if breathing weren’t completely rote, we’d all be dead. But if you’re like me, your inhales and exhales seem to be…
Cocaine prices in the US have barely moved in decades — here’s how cartels distort the market
By Christopher Woody From Business Insider Efforts to staunch the flow of cocaine in recent years have focused on the source — ripping coca plants out of the ground or dousing them with herbicide. And attacking cocaine production at the…
Yahoo hack could have affected billions of accounts, former exec claims
BY KERRY FLYNN From Mashable The Yahoo breach could have affected more accounts than previously reported. Yahoo confirmed last week that data from at least 500 million user accounts had been stolen in the company’s network from late 2014. However,…
Mexico’s ‘Hot Land’ is teeming with gangs, and violence there may be about to get worse
By Christopher Woody From Business Insider On Tuesday [Sep 6], unidentified gunmen reportedly shot down a Mexican government helicopter in the restive southwest state of Michoacan. The downing came amid a series of gun battles between Mexican security forces and members of…
North Korea is on its ‘way to an arsenal of perhaps dozens’ of nuclear warheads
By Amanda Macias From Business Insider WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, a panel of experts discussed the possible implications of a nuclear weapons “no-first-use” policy on global security at the Heritage Foundation on Thursday….
