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Business Insider recently published a list of the 50 richest people on earth with data provided by Wealth-X, a firm that conducts research on the super-wealthy.

Of these 50 billionaires, only four (8%) are women — Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs, Mars Inc. heiress Jacqueline Mars, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, and Walmart heiress Alice Walton — and each of these women inherited rather than built their fortunes.

Meanwhile, more than two-thirds... Читать дальше...

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Stocks are crashing, hedge funds are closing, and investors around world are moving into cash.

If you're confused and perplexed about the market we're in right now, this should bring some clarity to the situation.

In the third quarter of 2014, Dylan Grice, a portfolio manager at equity fund Aeris Capital, wrote a note that perfectly describes the market we're in right now.

Of course, back then stocks were riding high. The S&P 500 had closed the year up 11%... Читать дальше...

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Mark Zuckerberg had $1 million in the bank at the ripe age of 22, while Larry Ellison didn't reach millionaire status until age 42. Today, they're both billionaires.

Some successful entrepreneurs strike it rich early on. For others, it takes decades.

Using an infographic from UK-based web platform Fleximize, we've broken out the age at which Zuckerberg, Ellison, Cuban, and other self-made billionaires made their first million.

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HARLEM — Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders met with Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia's Restaurant Wednesday, the day after a big victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire Primary.

The pair talked for 20 minutes — sitting at the same table where Sharpton met with candidate Barack Obama in 2008 — before Sanders left without taking questions.

Whereas Obama chowed down on collard greens and fried chicken in 2008, Sharpton said he and... Читать дальше...

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Since Kobe Bryant announced his plan to retire at the end of the season, the NBA world has made a point to honor Bryant and remember his great career.

Complex talked to 18 media members who have covered Bryant during his career and asked them their favorite memories of him.

They are all excellent, but one in particular, from Mike Trudell, a beat reporter for Time Warner Cable SportsNet and former Lakers beat reporter, stands out as an illustration of Kobe's ridiculous competitiveness. Читать дальше...

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Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney was one of the most lethal snipers of the Vietnam War with 103 confirmed kills. In a particularly daring engagement, Mawhinney stopped a Viet Cong assault by hitting 16 headshots in 30 seconds at night in bad weather.

Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney. Photo: US Marine Corps Pfc. Garrett White

“Chuck was extremely aggressive,” retired Master Gunnery Sgt. Mark Limpic, Mawhinney’s squad leader, later told LA Times. “He could run a half-mile... Читать дальше...

On March 5, an asteroid about 100 feet across will fly close to Earth. But don't worry, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Objects Studies say there's no chance of the space rock impacting our planet.

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Two months ago, Jeremy Konner, a cocreator of the show "Drunk History," got a call from Funny or Die's editor-in-chief, Owen Burke.

Johnny Depp was attached to play Donald Trump for Funny or Die and wanted Konner to direct it. There was a catch, though: The whole 65-page script would be shot in just four days.

"Obviously, I had no choice," Konner told Business Insider of how the Donald Trump biopic parody that debuted Wednesday came about.

Titled "Funny or Die Presents... Читать дальше...

The match is tied 4-4. The winner of the next game wins it all.

My teammate and I are huddled in a corner as both enemies approach. My teammate takes a golden gun shot to the chest, which kills him instantly. Now it's just me, two enemies, and my trusty shotgun.

Here's how it all went down in the final sweaty moments of the match:

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This is Crimson Doubles. It's the centerpiece of Crimson Days, the week-long Valentine's Day event going on right now in "Destiny."

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"Life is simple," wrote Confucius, "but we insist on making it complicated."

Good advice … and timely.

In fact, Retired Navy SEAL officer and "Extreme Ownership" co-author Jocko Willink recently identified simplicity as the key to not just to effective leadership, but success itself.

The trouble is that we’re terrible at simplicity.

Nowhere is this more true than in the world of workflow. With so many conveniences at our digital fingertips, life should be getting easier. Читать дальше...

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Helping us remember the familiar, art director Federico Mauro has created renderings of some of the most amazing and recognizable blades from movies on a clean background. 

Mauro has created impressive visuals that remind us of our favorite films, TV shows, and video games — from Link's Master Sword in the "Legend of Zelda" games to William Wallace's claymore from "Braveheart," these hand weapons are as memorable as the characters that wield them. 

Below are our favorites from Mauro's collection. Читать дальше...

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We all work with someone who is unquestionably brilliant.

You know the type: the person who consistently comes up with great insights and ideas and who can cut to the quick far faster than anyone else in the organization. It's hard not to step back and admire how the person's brain works.

At the same time, such people can begin to think their gifts place them above everyone else in the organization. They tend to hog all the airtime at meetings by intimidating... Читать дальше...

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Have no doubt: Gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, are real and undulating across the universe at incredible speed — right through everyone and everything on Earth.

Scientists have known this since at least 1974, when two astronomers proved their existence using a bizarre object deep in space (more on that in a moment).

The problem is that no one has yet directly detected the elusive waves since Albert Einstein first predicted their existence 100 years ago. Читать дальше...

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For many oil gas workers both in the U.S. and around the world, the current oil price malaise may mean layoffs and struggling to find a new job.

A new report from the Hayes Group highlights the challenges in the sector. The report found that 93 percent of employers had already made some headcount reductions, and 32 percent of responding workers indicated they had been laid off or made redundant.

Of that group, fully 72 percent were considering work outside the oil sector. Читать дальше...

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In the clear-blue waters off the coast of Dubai lies a chain of islands known as "The Heart of Europe." It's a man-made reconstruction of actual European nations, just on a smaller scale — part of a larger archipelago known as "The World."

Richard Branson, fittingly, owns the island representing Great Britain. In the coming weeks, The Heart of Europe will get its first floating home, the aptly named "Floating Seahorse." It'll be the first of many in a giant fleet.

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If you have felt apprehensive upon approaching the fish counter—whether you don't have much experience cooking fish or you just made eye contact with a finned fellow lying there on the ice—you're not alone.

"I would say [people feel] terrified," Mark Usewicz, one of the founders of the Brooklyn seafood shop Mermaid's Garden, told me, for a few reasons:

They're worried about their house smelling fishy, or they don't know what to expect from a certain fish. Or they... Читать дальше...

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One way to figure out where the tech industry is going is to see what venture capitalists are investing in. Most startups fail, but the two or three that succeed can define the entire industry for an era.

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I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a "panda-fish." No, I'm not a supernatural, shape-shifting creature or a character in a children's storybook.

I've just been in a few relationships where cutesy, affectionate nicknames emerged as inside jokes.

These names stuck around for months, even years – to the point where hearing "Elizabeth" or "Liz" in certain contexts would suggest a truly serious situation, or that I was in trouble.

With Valentine's Day around the corner... Читать дальше...

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Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen testified on the economy before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday.

After her prepared remarks, Committee chair Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) kicked off the Q&A session with a question about whether the Fed's monetary policy approach is "traditional".

Hensarling was concerned that the interest on excess reserves (IOER) for banks' reserves is basically a subsidy for them. 

Yellen responded that the (IOER)... Читать дальше...

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The president of Princeton University is speaking out after a professor of African-American studies at the school was arrested during a traffic stop last week.

Professor Imani Perry, who is black, has claimed she was mistreated by police officers because of her race. She was patted down by a male officer and handcuffed to a desk after being arrested for over a 3-year-old parking ticket, she said on Twitter.

The president of Princeton, Christopher Eisgruber... Читать дальше...

A sinkhole opened up under a car in Peru last week, taking down the couple and daughter inside. When the people around saw what happened, they went over to help.

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February can be an expensive month.

According to a recent Bankrate study, the "traditional Valentine's Day" — including "a dozen red roses, chocolates, a nice dinner for two, jewelry, and champagne" — costs an average of $512.

That seems steep, but even if you don't partake in the classic date night, Valentine's Day shoppers shell out an average of $147 for flowers, trinkets, candy, romantic dinners, and tickets to movies and shows, according to the National Retail Federation. Читать дальше...

The new galaxies were blocked from view due to stars and dust. The Milky Way, along with hundreds of thousands of other galaxies, are being pulled towards a mysterious force, and these newly found galaxies may help in understanding it.

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South Korea suspended operations on Wednesday at a jointly run factory park just inside North Korea following the North's long-range rocket launch over the weekend. The decision cuts off an important source of revenue for the impoverished North — and ends the only significant daily interaction across the heavily fortified inter-Korean border.

The industrial park, which opened in 2005, is home to 124 South Korean companies, and had received over 1 trillion won, or $840 million in South Korean investment... Читать дальше...