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Photographer Tod Seelie is a chronicler of the weird, extreme, and outsized parts of New York life, the parts you don’t see in Midtown or Times Square. He has sailed down the Hudson River on rafts made of junk, partied...

Forecasting market behavior is akin to predicting the future. This is no easy task. Most forecasts use history in order to predict what will happen and then adjust that prediction up or down with "market intelligence" in...

CNN's Richard Quest speaks with author and economist Vicky Pryce about what she learned during her time in jail.

A group at The University Of Wisconsin has compiled Census migration data from the 1950s to the 2000s into a bunch of highly informative maps. Two maps stuck out to us showing that, compared with the 1950s, Americans at ...

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The world's oldest profession has been legal in parts of Nevada since 1971, but is unambiguously illegal everywhere else. I wanted to see how this little oasis of legal vice works. So Sheri's Ranch, a legal brothel in Ne...

Idaho Farm Bureau Intermountain Grain and Livestock Report for Monday, November 4.

The L.A. Galaxy beat Real Salt Lake 1-0 in the first leg of their MLS playoff series thanks to a spectacular goal from defender Sean Franklin. In the 48th minute Franklin ran on to a botched cross from Robbie Keane and s...

Common wisdom holds that it’s better to buy a house rather than rent whenever possible, but in some markets that have runaway home prices it makes more financial sense to rent. In yet other markets, it’s also good to...

In theory, an entrepreneurial CEO is a dream. What executive wouldn't want a boss who gets excited about good new ideas and is willing to back them? But in reality, an entrepreneurial CEO can be a nightmare, especially a...

An improving service sector in China helps stocks in Shanghai -- and the Australian dollar -- move higher Monday, as much of Asia starts the week with small gains.

On Friday night's episode of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," Harrison Ford stopped by the promote his new film "Ender's Game" and ... to pierce the host's left ear. Ford, who has an iconic left earring himself, donned a ...

It is not at all clear that the interface decisions Marissa Mayer has made as chief of Yahoo are paying off.     

The feds struck a deal with SAC Capital and its famous founder Steve Cohen. It calls for SAC Capital Advisors and related entities to plead guilty to criminal insider trading charges and pay $1.2 billion in new fines and...

The smartphone patent wars get most of the ink. Last week, for instance, Rockstar, the holding company formed when Apple, Microsoft and others bought out of bankruptcy Nortel's considerable patent portfolio for $4.3 bill...

People usually think it's best to be the first to hit the market with a disruptive innovation. But more often than not, the advantages don't pan out. The career of the late Lou Reed reveals the dark side of the innovatio...

So IBM is an amazing company - it takes something special to survive multiple technology revolutions - founded over 100 years ago to make tabulating machines, IBM has navigated more technology shifts than I've had hot di...

Congressional negotiators are trying to craft a budget deal by mid-December. Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square asked 12 experts what they hoped that deal would include. My suggestion: it's time to fix the budget proc...

A lawsuit over gambling cash seized at the Atlanta airport morphs into a debate over Internet law.

When delivering presentations to a general audience, senior management in your company, or even a venture capitalist, a successful presentation isn't about the PowerPoint slides you create - it's about much more than tha...

theSkimm raises $1M round led by Homebrew

Is it criminal not to tell your employer your passwords if asked? It could be.