BarkBox's refurbished New York City offices take pet-friendly to a completely new level. 

BarkBox is a startup that delivers monthly packages of dog treats and toys to users. A goodie-stocked kitchen, vertical lounge wall, and multiple breakout areas are just a few of the canine-centric features in the company's new headquarters, located on Canal Street in NYC's Chinatown neighborhood. 

According to Casey Debois, who designed the space for design startup Homepolish, creating a collaborative and natural atmosphere was an important consideration throughout the process. 

"BarkBox's last office was divided into many rooms, so it was important with this one that we shoot for a more open working environment. Not only does this make for a more collaborative space, but it creates a sense of community and made it easy to bring an outdoor feel in," Debois said to Business Insider. "Working at a startup can oftentimes be demanding, so it's important to have spaces for both relaxing and focusing, working and just enjoying yourself." 

The result is a space that's incredibly fun for both Barkbox employees and their canine friends. 

BarkBox's new offices are located on Canal Street in New York City. The office is set up on an open floor plan.

Employees are hard at work.

"Every day there are at the very least 5 dogs in the office. It's such a fun environment," Debois said.

The age of Internet ubiquity has arrived.

The world is moving beyond standalone devices into a new era where everything is connected.

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On May 20, 2013, Yahoo announced that it'd be buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Tumblr's founder, who still owned a large portion of the company, was only 26 years old.

How has David Karp spent his past year?

His Tumblr blog shows a lot of work, a lot of press tours, and a lot of traveling.

Right after the acquisition was announced, Karp celebrated with his investors. Here he is with Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet.

After that, there was a lot of press to tackle.

A lot of key Tumblr executives resigned shortly after the sale. Media Director Mark Coatney left; so did Creative Director Jacob Bijani.

If a video game is based on a movie, it's not uncommon for the character from the movie to do the voice for the same character in the game. But that's easy to figure out, and it might even be expected.

Games often use the voice and the likeness of a real-life actor.

Activision announced that Kevin Spacey would star in the next "Call of Duty" game, called "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare." It comes out Nov. 4. 

Sometimes, video game voices aren't expected, though, and recognizing the voice feels like finding an Easter egg. 

Ray Liotta — "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"

The "Grand Theft Auto" series is thought to be the pioneer in casting Hollywood actors in its video games. "Grand Theft Auto III" had a low budget and a relatively low profile at the time, but still had an all-star cast. 

The next game in the series, "Vice City," starred Ray Liotta as the protagonist Tommy Vercetti. Now, though, lesser-known actors voice the main characters, but celebrities are still used throughout the games to voice DJs, villains, and even to portray themselves.

Samuel L. Jackson — "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"

Samuel L. Jackson is no stranger to the video game world. In addition to playing Officer Frank Tenpenny in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," he also voiced characters in "Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars,""Iron Man 2,""Afro Samurai" and "The Incredibles."

Jackson isn't the only famous actor to lend his voice to the game. Other stars include: Ice-T, Andy Dick, Axl Rose, and James Woods.

Patrick Stewart — "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion"

Patrick Stewart might be best-known for his work as Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" series, as well as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." But he's also the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim in "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion."

Beginning on Aug. 8, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton led a crew of 27 Englishmen to Antarctica in an attempt to make the first land crossing.

The expedition almost didn't happen, as Shackleton offered his ships, stores, and services to his country the night before World War I began, but the Royal Navy and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill wanted the journey to proceed.

Australian photographer Frank Hurley brought 40 pounds of color-photo equipment on the onerous journey and would have to dive into three feet of icy seawater to salvage cases of glass negative plates from their wrecked ship.

Good thing he did, because the expedition became one of the earliest examples of color photography.

Shackleton's ship, Endurance, departed from Buenos Aires for Antarctica on Dec. 5, 1914.

Source: Cool Antarctica

It battled through a thousand miles of pack ice over the next six weeks.

Source: Cool Antarctica

On Jan. 15, Endurance came to a glacier that formed a bay which appeared to be a good landing place.

Source: Cool Antarctica

Storm chasing photographer Mike Hollingshead makes a living following the worst storms in America, from snarling tornadoes chewing up the Kansas farmland to supercell thunderstorms massing over the Dakotas.

A Nebraska-native, Hollingshead used to watch the Midwest's extreme weather from hills that overlooked his town. After seeing some "crazy storm photos" on the Internet, Hollingshead knew he had to track down the powerful storms. Armed with only a map and a video camera, Hollingshead drove his sedan out to Iowa, where he lucked into a tornado on his first day.

15 years later, Hollingshead is still chasing storms, often into danger. His style is to get right in the path of the storm. While he says it's less scary than you think — because most of the storm consists of heavy rain — it's still extremely stressful.

"Most storm chasers don't put themselves in the path [of the storm] ... but I like the view there the most," he says.

Hollingshead shared some of the most "beast" storms he's ever chased with us, but you can see more of his work at his blog, where he shares pictures and stories from the chases.

Hollingshead started chasing storms in 1999 as a hobby, before going full-time in 2004.

The storm chasing season begins in April, before dropping off quickly in July. He says the best months are May and June. This vivid double rainbow was captured in Kansas.

Hollingshead uses computer models to narrow down where storms, like this supercell in Nebraska, will be. Even with the models, its often impossible to know if a storm will be worth photographing before you get there.

In 2009, Tania Payne had just been rejected for a promotion and was floundering in her quest for a new career.

So she left the UK and used her savings to travel around the world with her boyfriend, Alex.

"It wouldn’t have been unreasonable to suggest that my big trip was just an escape from the fact that I had no idea what I was going to do with my life," Payne told Business Insider.

"I was scared of coming home to the same question."

She had four continents, 24 countries, 42 beaches and several mountains to find an answer. On a budget of £20,000 (excluding flights), the couple set out for two years and a few months with plans to see Africa, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and North, South, and Central America. She shared her photos from Africa with Business Insider, along with original captions.

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They spent two months in Kenya, where they visited Kibera, the continent's biggest slum.

"I wouldn’t recommend it as a tourist destination exactly," Payne told Business Insider. "But it is an awe-inspiring example of the will of the human spirit to survive in difficult conditions."

Then came safari in the Masaai Mara National Reserve, a volcanic landscape with abundant wildlife. After that, they hiked Mount Kenya.

The remaining time in Africa was split between Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. And while there were plenty of beautiful sights to behold, traveling had its annoyances.

"Alex and I drove each other nuts," Payne told Business Insider. "Photography is a solitary endeavor, and I have thousands of photos of him fuming."

In Africa and during most of her whole first year away from home, she couldn’t shake a huge nagging doubt that the trip was an extravagant and self-indulgent destruction of her employability and future prospects.

But when she returned to the UK, she felt a subtle but distinct difference.

"The personal profile in my CV had hardly changed but it didn’t feel like I was lying anymore," she told Business Insider. "I really am a passionate, committed, enthusiastic and hardworking professional, and at 35 years old, it was the first time I actually believed it."

Tania sent us photos from her trip, along with original captions, and we've republished them here. You can read more about her travels on her blog, Losing Luggage.

Have an amazing travel story and photos to share? Send an email to travel@businessinsider.com and we could feature your adventure next.

Escape the bustle of city life in Nairobi National Park, an ecological reserve just a few miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya's capital city. The light is golden at sunrise.

Kibera, a division of Nairobi, is Africa’s biggest urban slum. People live in small shacks and hang their laundry outside on washing lines.

Streets in Kibera offers all the facilities of any busy street.

They conceive the characters, write or co-write the scripts, set the pace and provide the vision for the TV programs you know and love.

They're called showrunners, and they are the designated auteurs of the boob-tube renaissance still in progress.

Writer-producers such as Joss Whedon, Shonda Rhimes, Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan, and the holy trinity of Davids — Chase, Milch and Simon — have earned profile pieces and graced magazine covers, becoming celebrities in their own right.

They are to modern television what film directors were to the New Hollywood of the 1970s: the rock stars of their medium.

While the aforementioned heavy hitters are still working in TV (or, in the case of Whedon and Chase, have turned their attention to movies), there are a number of newer artists who are taking advantage of the  freedoms that networks, basic-and premium-cable channels, and new streaming-content outlets like Netflix are offering. A few, like True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto, seemed to have attained small-screen stardom overnight. Most of the interesting and innovative serial storytellers — some veterans, others relative newbies — are doing the sort of work that may not have yet garnered them name recognition (yet) but, in a perfect world, would potentially earn them an invite to join the pantheon. Here are a dozen showrunners that you should being paying attention to ASAP.

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Joel Fields and Joe Weissberg bring authenticity to 'The Americans.'

Lots of spy shows can claim to have done due diligence on the drudgery of espionage skullduggery; hardly any of them, however, can claim to have an ex-CIA officer calling the shots.

As a former case officer, Joe Weissberg is able to bring a level of authenticity to his Reagan-era drama about KBG agents posing as married suburbanites in Washington D.C. None of the first-hand touches regarding the spy-vs.-spy activities, however, would matter if Weissberg and his showrunning partner Joel Fields weren't able to nail what lurks beneath all the intel and beaucoup wigs: It's really a drama about matrimony, and the lies we tell both our loved ones and ourselves.

Throw in some boundary-pushing sex scenes and just the right amount of period details, and you have one of the more compelling, complex shows on contemporary basic cable. A job well done, comrades.

Beau Willimon created a niche on Netflix with 'House of Cards.'

Out of all the people named on this list, playwright-turned-showrunner Beau Willimon may currently be the closest to actually breaching the A-list creator status.

Everyone initially referred to Netflix's revamp of a British TV drama-cum-surprising hit House of Cards as "the David Fincher show," thanks to the Fight Club director's involvement as an executive producer. But after two successful, binge-watched seasons, people have started to pay more attention to the Oscar-nominated 36-year-old who's responsible for every twist, turn and mustache-twirling Kevin Spacey aside in this political soap opera.

His attention to language and the nuances of the Washington grind (Willimon did time on Howard Dean's 2004 campaign) is no surprise, but the sheer joie de vivre he brings to the show's cutthroat power plays still has the power to shock. The show's cunning antihero may see his built-one-backstabbing-at-a-time empire come tumbling down. Willimon, however, seems to know where every card in the deck is stacked.

John Fawcett and Graeme Manson are behind the BBC America hit 'Orphan Black.'

Horror-movie fans might remember John Fawcett as the director and co-writer of the teen-girls-turn-werewolves cult flick Ginger Snaps (2000); hardcore sci-fi nerds would recognize Graeme Manson as the writer of the equally beloved existential headscratcher Cube (1997).

But with this BBC America hit about a young woman who discovers she's part of a set of clones — most of whom have been marked for extermination — has instantly, and deservedly, established the Canadian duo as unsung heroes of the Comic-Con nation. They have an ace up their sleeve in star Tatiana Maslany, a remarkably versatile actress who ends up juggling an average of five different roles per episode, yet it's Fawcett and Manson's deft ability to keep the various clones' plot strands moving along in sync that make this show so compelling.

This is smart sci-fi that knows when to get cerebral and when to kick ass; keep cloning that formula, gents, and we're yours.

Last year, we began ranking pre-IPO adtech companies by size and importance. Since then, the adtech IPO market has just gotten hotter.

Rubicon Project filed for an IPO, and its stock popped nicely on the first day — making adtech IPOs suddenly much more interesting than they used to be.

Tubemogul also filed for an IPO. DataXu confirmed it will do the same thing.

And, biggest of all, Pinterest looks like it is gearing up an adtech revenue model— always a pre-IPO sign.

In the last year or so we've seen IPOs from Millennial Media, which raised $130 million, Tremor Video ($75 million), YuMe ($46 million), Rocket Fuel ($116 million), Marin Software ($105 million) and Criteo ($190 million).

Click here for our ranking of the hottest companies subject to IPO rumors right now >

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It all started with an AquaDoodle mat and Mr. Potato Head glasses: The perfect outfit for a style-savvy little girl. 

Since that first dress-up session, a 4-year-old girl, nicknamed Mayhem, and her mother Angie have been using the Instagram hashtag #fashionbyMayhem for the last 14 months to feature the amazing dresses that the pair would create out of paper and other household supplies. 

It didn't take long before the adorable photos gathered a huge online following — Angie's Instagram, 2sisters_angie, now has 376,966 followers and photos sometimes get upward of 20,000 "likes."

That Instagram fame has now translated into a collaboration with Vogue. 

Angie, Mayhem and Vogue have teamed up to reimagine iconic looks from past years' Met Balls, paper-style. The Met Ball is an annual fundraising gala benefiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, which is run by Vogue's Editor in Chief Anna Wintour, and it's taking place tonight in New York City. 

Angie writes on her blog that, in general, dresses can take between five minutes and three hours to make, and that even if Mayham doesn't do everything herself, she always helps with the creations. 

So far, Vogue's Instagram has posted several amazing dress creations.

This dress is based on one that Lauren Santo Domingo, a Vogue contributing editor and co-founder of e-commerce site Moda Operandi, wore in 2012.

See the original here. 

J.Lo wore a dress like this to the Met Gala in 2011.

See the original here.

This dress is inspired by one created by designer Alexander McQueen.

See the original here. 

Like hundreds of other shopping malls across the U.S., Euclid Square Mall in Euclid, Ohio, is now a shadow of its former self.

Nearly four decades after the 700,000-square-foot mall opened, there are no longer any retailers left. The mall now houses a handful of churches and religious organizations, while the rest of the retail space remains vacant.

We have compiled some recent photos of the mall. The photos were taken by Nicholas Eckhart, who has photographed dozens of dying malls and runs the blog Dead and Dying Retail.

Lights are still on inside the mall but the fountain, pictured center, is no longer in use.

Many of the stores and restaurants, like this former hot dog shop, are covered by tarps.

The seats are torn and dusty inside this former Beef Corral, which was more recently an Arby's.

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we've pulled together the 11 best Mexican restaurants in New York City, based on Zagat food ratings. 

From small taquerias in Queens to Mexican institutions in Manhattan, here are the best Mexican restaurants in NYC.

#11 Toloache

Multiple locations

With locations on the Upper East Side, Midtown, and the Financial District, Toloache is the brainchild of well-known Mexican chef Julio Medina.

The food is upscale and the margaritas are killer at all three restaurants.

#10 Tacos Matamoros

4508 Fifth Ave., Queens

Authenticity rules in this Sunset Park taco joint, which offers a huge range of options at low prices. The New York Times called Matamoros' tacos some of the best in New York City.

Tacos Matamoros is BYOB, so pick up a six-pack of Pacifico before heading over.

#9 Pampano and Pampano Taqueria

209 E. 49th St., 805 3rd Ave.

Richard Sandoval is the culinary whiz behind nearly two dozen Mexican restaurants across the U.S. and abroad. At Pampano, he serves high-end contemporary Mexican cuisine at prices to match. Taqueria, a weekday lunch spot, is located in a "hidden" square in Midtown.

Whether someone's lying to you, hitting on you, or bossing you around, you can read their intent and emotional state in their body language — if you know what to pay attention to. 

According to UCLA professor Albert Mehrabian, 55% of what you convey comes from body language, 38% from the tone of your voice, and only 7% from the words you say. 

So how do read between the lines? We've compiled tips from Psychology Today, research journals, and other publications to help you understand what people are telling you, far beyond their words. 

Look for a lack of crinkles around the eyes to detect a fake smile.

Making a genuine smile — also known as a Duchenne smile — is nearly impossible to do on command. It's why family photos tend to look so awkward. 

The smile, it turns out, is all about the crow's-feet around your eyes. When you're smiling joyfully, they crinkle. When you're faking it, they don't. 

If someone's trying to look happy but really isn't, you won't see the wrinkles.

Raised eyebrows are often a sign of discomfort.

In the same way that real smiles shape the wrinkles around your eyes, University of Massachusetts professor Susan Krauss Whitbourne says worry, surprise, or fear can cause people to raise their eyebrows in discomfort. 

So if someone compliments your new hairstyle or outfit with their eyebrows raised, it may not be sincere.

If their voice goes up or down, they're likely interested.

Whether you know it or not, your vocal range shows your interest.

"Once a conversation begins, besotted women slip into sing-songy voices,"Psychology Today reports, "while men drop theirs an octave." 

A Hamptons property has just taken the title of "most expensive home ever sold in the U.S."

The 18-acre expanse in East Hampton just sold for $147 million to hedge-fund manager Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners, according to Curbed Hamptons.

Rosenstein's new neighbors on exclusive Further Lane include Jerry Seinfeld, hedge-fund manager Jim Chanos, and art dealer Larry Gagosian. 

The home was previously owned by the late Christopher H. Browne, the managing director of a New York investment firm who bought it in the late 1990s, according to a 2007 profile in The New York Times. Browne and his partner of 10 years, architect Andrew Gordon, spent much of their time renovating and landscaping the property.

According to Page Six, when Browne died of a heart attack in 2009 in Florida, he left his entire estate to Gordon. However, legal disputes between Gordon’s and Browne’s families raged on until 2012, when Gordon — then dying of cancer — was allowed via a secret settlement to live out the rest of his life in the home he had shared with Browne.

When Gordon passed away this past fall, Browne’s family began quietly shopping around the mansion, according to Page Six. Ultimately, they sold the estate without using a broker, avoiding some serious fees and commissions (which is also why there are no listing photos of the property). 

Sources told The New York Post that brokers in the area were “crestfallen” and “furious” that no broker was hired, with one broker saying that the Browne family “closed ranks. It was all very hush-hush.”

The sale easily beat out Connecticut’s 50-acre Copper Beach farm, which sold a month ago for $120 million, and the $132.5 million working Montana Ranch bought by Rams owner Stan Kroenke in 2012.

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One year after its launch, the Emirati royal family's Azzam retains its crown as the world largest superyacht.

At 590 feet in length, the German-built Azzam is actually twenty three feet longer than a U.S. Navy missile cruiser. 

How does Azzam stack up against the competition? Here are the 22 largest yachts in the world, according to Superyacht Times.

22. Roman Abramovich's "Luna"— 377.3 feet long (2010)

21. Roman Abramovich's "Pelorus"— 377.3 feet long (2003)

20. Saudi Royal Family's "Issham Al Baher"— 379.79 feet long (1973)

The Kentucky Derby is one event where celebrities get the urge to take a huge fashion gamble.

The bigger, more colorful, and more outlandish, the better.

But not everybody can pull it off. This goes for the many athletes, including some sharp looks and some sheer disasters.

BEST: It's not easy for a big guy to look great in a suit, but Ndamukong Suh pulls it off with a bow tie.

WORST: Jason Dufner always looks uncomfortable.

BEST: Bode Miller and his wife looked spectacular in off-white

Predicting the NFL Draft is an impossible task.

One whacky pick early in the draft, and the whole things becomes irrelevant.

So instead of making up our own mock draft, we combined the mock drafts of 10 other experts to get an consensus for all 32 first-round picks.

The experts: ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN's Todd McShay, NFL Network's Daniel Jeremiah, SI's Don Banks, NFL Network's Charley Casslery, NFL Media's Bucky Brooks, CBS's Rob Rang, Fox Sports's Pete Schrager, Rotoworld's Josh Norris, and the AP's Barry Wilner.

1. Houston Texans — Jadeveon Clowney, defensive end

Experts: 10 out of 10

School: South Carolina

Other possibilities: None.

2. St. Louis Rams — Greg Robinson, offensive tackle

Experts: 8 out of 10

School: Auburn

Other possibilities: Sammy Watkins (WR, Clemson), Khalil Mack (LB, Buffalo)

3. Jacksonville Jaguars — Khalil Mack, linebacker

Experts: 5 out of 10

School: Buffalo

Other possibilities: Sammy Watkins (WR, Clemson), Johnny Manziel (QB, Texas A&M)

The top of the U.S. luxury market has been on a tear. 

Last month, a Greenwich, Conn. estate sold for $120 million, making it one of the most expensive residential properties ever sold in the U.S. 

Then over the weekend, that record was smashed by the sale of a $147 million compound on Further Lane in East Hampton to hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein.

See how all these recent sales stack up.

#11 The penthouse of New York's (unfinished) One57 skyscraper sold for $90 million.

The penthouse at the top of the under-construction One57 sold in May of 2012, reportedly to a group led by hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman. The still-to-be-completed pad sounds incredible, with almost 11,000 square feet, over two floors and access to the building’s amenities, including a 65-foot pool with Central Park views, a library, theater, and gym.

Photo: Courtesy of Extell Development Company

#10 A historic Bel Air estate was scooped up for $94 million.

Way back in 2000, financier Gary Winnick bought this gorgeous 1930s mansion from tycoon David Murdoch for $94 million (around $129 million today). Winnick had previously purchased the estate in 1979 for $12.4 million. The main house is over 28,000 square feet, with seven bedrooms, a 15-car garage, full-sized basketball court, and a putting green.

Though the home is technically off the market, it’s rumored to be quietly for sale for $225 million.

Photo: Calisphere via UC Libraries

#9 Donald Trump's Palm Beach Estate sold for $95 million.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev scooped up Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate in 2008. The 69,000-square-foot home has a 50-car garage and 475 feet of oceanfront property. It is rumored that Rybolovlev has plans to level the home and rebuild despite having only entered the property a few times since his purchase.

Andy Ellison is an MRI technician at Boston University School of Medicine. In addition to scanning brains, he also creates stunning MRI scans of fruits and vegetables. 

The images show the cross-section everyday food items, such as an onion (seen on the right), a bell pepper, and a peach. All of the images can be found on Ellison's blog Inside Insides. 

Ellison initially scanned an orange as a way to test his machine's settings. Amazed by the resulting images, he began looking for more produce and plants to scan. 

We previously posted still images of Ellison's work, but he's also made some really cool animated GIFs by stitching those images together. 

Banana

Lettuce

Sunflower

See more on Inside Insides >

The Met Gala — also known as The Met Ball, Fashion Prom, or this year, Cinco de Met Ball — took place last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The annual fundraiser benefits the Met's Costume Institute and serves as an opening celebration for their annual fashion exhibit — this year featuring designer Charles James in a new show titled "Beyond Fashion." 

Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief and chair of the event since 1995, oversees both the benefit committee and the star-studded guest list.

Everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker to Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner made Wintour's list this year.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, chair of the event since 1995, arrived in a Chanel Haute Couture gown.

Anna followed as her daughter, Bee Shaffer, hit the red carpet in Alexander McQueen.

Sarah Jessica Parker was the first to arrive, accompanied by her date, Bravo network's Andy Cohen.