So many startups have made their home in New York City's Flatiron District that it's considered an unofficial hub of Silicon Alley: Tumblr, Yipit, and Quartz are based here, as is Business Insider.

So where do these techies meet investors for lunch? And what are the hottest places to have drinks after work?

We've found the best restaurants and bars in the Flatiron district. For the purpose of this list, we're considering the boundaries of this area to be 6th Avenue to the west, Park Avenue to the east, 26th Street to the north, and 17th Street to the south. 

Best Farm-To-Table Cuisine: ABC Kitchen

35 E. 18th St.

Helmed by Michelin star Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, ABC Kitchen has been one of the most buzzed-about restaurants in the Flatiron since it opened in 2010.

The restaurant serves a menu that is "free of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, insecticides, antibiotics, hormones," and more. The menu changes but always features fresh, local, and organic ingredients.

Best Pizza: Trattoria Zero Otto Nove

15 W. 21st St.

Dining at Zero Otto Nove, with its faux stone facades and weathered Italian posters, feels as if you're eating al fresco in an Italian city. 

The restaurant serves specialties from the southern Italian town of Salerno, like Rigatoni Salernitana (baked rigatoni with meatballs, cheese, and tomato sauce) and Ragu Salernitano (meat slowly cooked in tomato sauce). But it is most renowned for its wood-fired pizzas, made with fresh ingredients and homemade tomato sauce that uses tomatoes from Italy's San Marzano Region.

Best Burger: Shake Shack

Madison Square Park

The original Shake Shack location still stands in Madison Park, with lines of people eagerly waiting to try the Shack Burger.

Before heading over to the burger joint, check the "shack cam" to see when the line is shortest.

The Upperville, Virginia estate of late heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon recently hit the market for $70 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Called Oak Spring Farm, the 2,000-acre property includes a 10,000-square-foot Georgian mansion, a mile-long airstrip, a working dairy, two stables with 43 stalls, barns, more than 20 cottages, and extensive gardens.

Mellon, an heiress to the Listerine mouthwash fortune, died in March at age 103. She was the wife of the late Paul Mellon, son of financier Andrew Mellon, who acquired the estate is the 1930s.

Thomas B. Anderson of Washington Fine Properties is listing the property.  

Welcome to Oak Spring Farm, a 2,000-acre Virginia estate that belonged to the powerful Mellon family.

There are around 40 structures on the property.

The main home included in the sale is called "Brick House." According to The Wall Street Journal, Paul Mellon used the 10,000-square-foot home to display the couple's art collection and for office space. The couple only briefly used it as a residence.

More than 1 million adults attend camp each year, looking to relive their childhood memories or experience a summertime tradition for the first time.

While kids' camp attendance has declined, forcing many organizations to shutter their cabins and sell off their land, the number of camps for grown-ups has swelled faster than a mosquito bite, totaling 800 in all. That's an estimated 10% increase a year over the past 10 years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

And when campfire s'mores and sing-alongs are mixed with "flip cup" tournaments and a bunch of singles cavorting to DJ music, the result is a rowdy sleepaway camp experience unlike the one you may remember from childhood.

I recently attended Club Getaway in Kent, Connecticut, which hosts 10,000 adult campers annually, to see what all the buzz is about.

I never went to sleepaway camp as a child. Every June, my lucky classmates left for northern New England and returned two months later with macramé bracelets, tanned skin, and endless stories about “camp friends.” I felt like I was missing out on this whole other world.

I recently had the opportunity to attend summer camp for adults, which was a lot like how I imagine kids' summer camp is — except with booze, sex, and gossip.

I spent the weekend at Club Getaway, an all-inclusive sports and adventure resort nestled in the Berkshire Mountains of Kent, Connecticut. While the camp hosts corporate retreats, school groups, and children’s camps during the work week, weekends are reserved for adult programming. Over 10,000 grown-ups come every year.

The 2014 Range Rover Sport is truly a one-of-a-kind vehicle. Its combination of off-road prowess and sports-sedan style handling is unrivaled.

Since its launch in 2005, the SUV has become one of the most successful products in Jaguar Land Rover's long and storied history. In fact, in 2011 and 2012, all by itself the Range Rover Sport outsold the entire Jaguar brand. 

Business Insider recently spent a week putting a 2014 Range Rover Sport V8 Supercharged through its paces in the urban jungle of New York City and the winding hills of upstate New York. With an as-tested price of $92,480, our fully loaded Sport, in a stoic scotia grey, ticked virtually every box on Range Rover's long option sheet. (The base model starts at about $62,000.)

With a Range Rover-style body mounted on a Land Rover Discovery/LR4 chassis, the first-generation Sport was a highly successful bit of sleight of hand. However, the new Sport is built on a 100% Range Rover platform. 

Here are the takeaways from our adventures. 

The new Range Rover Sport looks incredible. The swanky new design is stylish in New York City, but it doesn't prevent the SUV from negotiating the jungles of South America.

The Sport isn't just a creature of Fifth Avenue or the Amazon. A modified version blitzed Germany's legendary Nürburgring course in just 8 minutes, 14 seconds, setting the track record for fastest production SUV.

The RR Sport also set the record for fastest production SUV at the treacherous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 2013.

We're all trying to find the next productivity hack. 

But did you know that the key to getting more done might be in your browser?

Google's Chrome Web Store is chock-full of cool ad-ons for your browser.

But as Chrome has become more popular, the Chrome Web Store has become like Apple's App Store: bloated and hard to navigate.

So to save you the trouble, we've found some extensions guaranteed to keep you focused and productive during working hours.

AdBlock

AdBlock may be the most popular Google Chrome extension out there.

The extension removes the annoyance of banner advertisements from your web experience. That may seem like a slight difference, but visiting some sites that tend to be bogged down with such ads can really improve your experience.

AdBlock also works with Safari, Opera, and Firefox if you don't have Chrome.

Chrome Remote Desktop

Chrome Remote Desktop isn't technically an extension, but it gives you the magical ability to access other computers from your own and vice versa. 

Left a file at work? Connect up via Remote Desk and grab it. It's also an easy way to share your screen with someone else if there's a problem.

Delicious Bookmark Extension

The Delicious Bookmark Extension makes sharing links quick and easy. 

No longer will you have to copy and paste a link into an email, spawning a chain that will earn you the resentment of your colleagues.

We think sharing links is an integral part of the work experience. Delicious makes that task quick and easy, freeing you up to focus on other things.

FactSet is out with its quarterly report on which 50 stocks are most widely held by the 50 largest hedge funds.

According to their research, FactSet found that these funds increased their equity exposure by 9.8% in the second quarter. And following M&A activity in the Health Care sector, four health care stocks involved in merger discussions were among the top ten equity additions this quarter.

By comparison, in the first quarter hedge funds increased their equity exposure by 1.9%.

Hedge funds sold large interests in International Paper and Micron Technology. Additionally, the report adds that "several media companies and 'systemically important' financial institutions" were also sold by large hedge funds.

We've put together a list of the 50 most widely held stocks by the 50 largest hedge funds.

50. Federal-Mogul Holdings is held by 8 funds

Sector: Consumer Discretionary

Market value held by funds (in millions): $2,464

Weight of stock in Top 50's aggregated portfolio: 0.3%

% of shares outstanding: 81.2%

Recent news: Federal-Mogul saw a steep decline in earnings per share in Q2, compared to the same period last year. The company also made several large leadership changes in July.

Source: FactSet

49. ThyssenKrupp is held by 3 funds

Sector: Materials

Market value held by funds (in millions): $2,488

Weight of stock in Top 50's aggregated portfolio: 0.3%

% of shares outstanding: 15.1%

Recent news: ThyssenKrupp recently raised its earnings outlook for the year, and expects to break even or return a profit in September.

Source: FactSet

48. LyondellBasell Industries is held by 19 funds

Sector: Materials

Market value held by funds (in millions): $2,498

Weight of stock in Top 50's aggregated portfolio: 0.3%

% of shares outstanding: 4.9%

Recent news: The company reported record earnings in Q2.

Source: FactSet

For some billionaires, when it comes to buying a yacht, bigger is always better.

Tech billionaires definitely don't disappoint. Megayachts belonging to entrepreneurs like Larry Ellison, Mark Cuban, and Paul Allen are among the biggest privately owned boats in the world. 

They have some pretty out-of-this-world features, too. One even has a special deck that can be transformed into a nightclub, while others have multiple helicopter landing pads and submarines. 

We've rounded up some of the biggest yachts owned by tech executives.

#10 Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström is an avid sailor and owns several yachts in the Rán Racing fleet, including the 72-foot "Rán" and brand-new "Rán V."

Source: VSail

#9 Virgin founder Richard Branson owns a 105-foot catamaran called the "Necker Belle," which he charters out for $110,000 a week. He put the yacht up for sale in March, though he has yet to find a buyer.

Source: Yacht Charter Fleet

#8 In 2011, Google cofounder Larry Page bought the 193-foot "Senses" yacht from New Zealand businessman Sir Douglas Myers for $45 million. The yacht was designed by Philippe Starck, has a helipad and jacuzzi, and can accommodate up to 10 guests and 14 crew members.

Source: New Zealand Herald, Daily Mail

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, in 1869.

He was assassinated in 1948. 

Though in school he was rated as only"good at English, fair in Arithmetic and weak in Geography," he would go on to become a lawyer and spend twenty years in South Africa before returning to a still-colonial India. 

There he led the Indian independence movement, which culminated to the Indian Independence Act of 1947. 

His philosophy of satyagraha— or mass nonviolent protest — would become a tool of oppressed people around the world, inspiring the likes of Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

For this we call him Mahatma, or great soul. 

On nonviolence

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

["Satyagraha Leaflet No. 11," 1919]

On religion

"In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals."

["Hind Swaraj," 1908]

On practicing law

"I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men’s hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder."

["Gandhi's Experiments With Truth", 2006]

Last month, Airbnb changed its logo to a symbol it calls the "Bélo," meant to convey that Airbnb is not so much a company as it is a community of people who feel a sense of belonging when they stay with one another.

Alas, the internet mostly ignored the company's strategic branding once people began to point out that the new logo looks like both the male and female reproductive organs.

While companies like Reebok and Foursquare joined Airbnb in completely rebranding themselves this year, others, like Google and Cadillac, opted for more subtle changes to their logos.

This is Olive Garden's old logo. The restaurant changed its logo in March ...

... and was jeered for making a logo that some people felt was too generic.

Google's old logo is synonymous with the internet to many who use its products.

A wave of innovation is driving a dramatic shift in the way we make payments.

In this presentation, we highlight the most important trends fueling the changes: the rise of payment apps, mobile registers, e-commerce, and the decline of cash and checks. We also show where the payments industry is headed. Many of the slides are based on charts exclusive to BI Intelligence. 

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The answer to, "Can money buy happiness?" isn't simply "yes" or "no."

It's, "depends how you spend it."

Miriam Tatzel, PhD, of Empire State College, recently presented an overview of consumer behavior and happiness at The American Psychological Association's annual conference.

In it, she examined the link between consumerism, happiness, and even the environmental impact of our buying decisions.

She found that the same things that benefit our mindset may improve our surroundings, as well.

Dr. Tatzel graciously allowed us to republish her slides here.  

Dr. Tatzel found that many of things that increase our happiness are also good for the environment.

While we regard an increase in consumer spending as a good thing for the economy, it's not such great news for the environment, or for our individual levels of satisfaction.

All of that spending isn't making us happy. Why not? The field of Positive Psychology has been investigating this very question.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford in 1995. Both in their early 20s, they began collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. 

By September 1997, they registered the domain name Google.com, with the mission of organizing the world's information. 

Thanks to The Internet Archive, we can revisit those early days and see exactly what Google used to look like. 

SEE ALSO: Here's The 'Toothbrush Test' Google's CEO Uses To Make Acquisition Decisions

If you went to Google.com in 1997, here's what you'd see:

The first of the two links would take you here:

The link called "might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date" would take you to this page:

Imgur has come a long way since its humble beginnings more than five years ago. Earlier this year the company announced it has more than 130 million visitors monthly, roughly the same as Buzzfeed, Fortune reported. Still the startup is working in the same space it's had for almost three years, CEO and founder Alan Schaaf told Business Insider. Before that, operations were based out of Ohio, where Schaaf studied.

This fall, Imgur is making the move from its small downtown San Francisco office near Union Square to a more appropriately sized space in Jackson Square. But before they begin packing up to leave in the next few months, Business Insider took a tour of Imgur's office, taking photos of what Schaaf has called "the de facto image host for the Internet."

About 15 people work between two brick walls in Imgur's office on San Francisco's Market Street.

Company spirit permeates. You can't miss Imgur's signature lime green color.

Imgur proudly reps its awards.

Morning routines are important — but bedtime rituals can have a serious impact on your success.  

That’s because the very last thing you do before bed affects your mood and energy level the following day, since it often determines how well and how much you sleep.

Knowing that, we decided to find out how the most successful spend their nights before surrendering to sleep.

Turns out some — like President Obama and writer Michael Lewis — are night owls, preferring to work while the rest of the world sleeps; while others —like Arianna Huffington and Sheryl Sandberg — know how important sleep is, and force themselves to cool down.

President Barack Obama is a "night owl" and likes to work late.

Unlike Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, who prefers to rise in the early hours, the current president stays up late, reports Carrie Budoff Brown at Politco. He is said to hold conference calls with senior staff as late as 11 p.m. and reads or writes before heading to bed.

In a 2011 interview with Newsweek, Obama calls himself a "night owl" and describes his typical evening:

"Have dinner with the family, hang out with the kids, and put them to bed about 8:30 p.m. And then I'll probably read briefing papers or do paperwork or write stuff until about 11:30 p.m., and then I usually have about a half hour to read before I go to bed ... about midnight, 12:30 a.m. — sometimes a little later."

Obama has also said that if he's home late at night, he'll try to catch "The Daily Show.""I think Jon Stewart's brilliant," Obama tells Rolling Stone. 

Inventor Benjamin Franklin asked himself the same self-improvement question every night.

In his autobiography, Franklin outlined a schedule that would lead him to "moral perfection." In this ideal schedule, Franklin asked himself the same self-improvement question every night: "What good have I done today?"

He described his other rituals before bed as "put things in their places, supper, music or diversion or conversation, and examination of the day."

Franklin tracked his progress on self-improvement daily.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg turns off her phone at night.

Sandberg might work for a tech company, but she knows when to unplug.

Sandberg tells Jefferson Graham at USAToday that it's "painful," but she turns her phone off at night so that she "won't get woken up."

"I check my e-mail the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night," says Sandberg.

Since we're in the midst of a hot summer here in the States, it's easy to forget that there's anything but sweaty, scorching weather elsewhere on earth.

Just take a step inside the Arctic Circle, though, and you'll quickly find that's just not true.

The Arctic Circle, one of the main lines of latitude on any globe, demarcates where the Arctic begins and ends. North of here, the sun can stay up for 24 hours during the summer and hide below the horizon during the winter, plunging inhabitants into darkness.

And it's cold. Average temperatures in the summer hover around 50 °F and in the winter, they have been documented as low as -136°F. 

While the Arctic is not very populated, people do live there. Photographer Cristian Barnett wondered who these people were, so he decided to document and photograph them. He was particularly intrigued by those who lived on or near the invisible, dotted line of the Arctic Circle. Starting in 2006, Barnett made 11 trips to 23 towns, all within 35 miles of the Arctic Circle. His series, titled Life On The Line, will be released as a book  later this year.

"The Arctic Circle is much more than just hunters and polar bears," says Barnett. "There are many thriving modern settlements where you're more likely to meet a hairdresser than a reindeer herder."

Barnett told about 15 of the people he photographed. You can see more of his beautiful work on his site.

Benjamin, Enoch, and William, are excited about their new wheels, which means freedom and independence, especially in Fort Yukon, Alaska. The town was officially founded by the Hudson's Bay Company, famous for their wool blankets, though the area had been inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years prior.

Standing outside her father’s multi-story log cabin in Fort Yukon, Alaska, Chasity Herbert is proud to appear in her newly won Miss Fort Yukon sash.

Maria Manninen is a fashion student in Rovaniemi, a large city in Finland only six miles south of the Arctic Circle. Even though it's outside the borders of the Circle, it still gets pretty cold. The lowest temperature every recorded here was −54 °F.

The KiraVan is ready for the apocalypse. This all-terrain monster is designed to withstand some of the most grueling conditions nature can throw at it. It's the brainchild of designer and technologist Bran Ferren, who also happens to be a former Disney "Imagineer" whose job was to bring the Magic Kingdom's cinematic fantasies to life. 

Named after Ferren's daughter Kira, the vehicle is an expedition vehicle designed with a youngster's safety and comfort in mind. As Ferren put in a recent interview with Wired Magazine's Brian Rafferty, he wants Kira to see the natural wonders of the world, but he would also like her to survive the experience. 

The KiraVan was designed and built by Applied Minds LLC, where Ferren serves as the co-chairman.

KiraVan is built on a Mercedes-Benz truck platform and comes with an attached trailer that houses the living quarters.

Development for the KiraVan started in 2010. It was designed as a go-anywhere expedition vehicle with a limited ecological impact.

The final concept for the vehicle features an all-terrain tractor-trailer setup.

Like a predecessor, the MaxiMog ...

The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a livability survey to determine which cities around the world "provide the best or worst living conditions."

Cities that tended to score the best on the survey were mid-size and located in wealthier countries with relatively low population densities. This environment, according to the report, "can foster a range of recreational activities without leading to high crime levels or overburdened infrastructure."

Out of the top 10 cities, seven are located in Canada or Australia, which have population densities of 3.40 and 2.88 people per square kilometer respectively. Finland and New Zealand, which also have high-ranking cities, have 16 people per square km. The global average is 46.65 people per square km, and the U.S. average is 32 people per sq km, according to the report.

Sixty-four cities scored above an 80% — which means they are considered to be "in the top tier of livability."

10. Auckland

Country: New Zealand

Auckland scored high on education (100) and healthcare (95.8).

One-third of the New Zealand population is located in Auckland, the "largest commercial center" in the country. Major industries in Auckland include tourism, marine architecture, and specialized manufacturing.

Additionally, 80% of the city is considered to be rural; subsequently rural development is another major industry. 

9. Perth

Country: Australia

Perth scored high on education (100), healthcare (100), and infrastructure (100).

Perth is the capital and largest city of Western Australia. Mining and mineral industries are major parts of Perth's economy. 

Additionally, Perth boasts an oil refinery, steel-rolling mill, alumina refinery, desalination plant, power station, and a nickel refinery, according to the Government of Western Australia.

8. Helsinki

Country: Finland

Helsinki scored well on stability (100) and healthcare (100).

Helsinki's major industries include food, metal and chemical processing, printing, textiles, clothing, and manufacturing of electrical equipment. Over 50% of Finland's imports go through Helsinki, although most goods are exported elsewhere.

Additionally, Helsinki has grown into a major European startup hub. And, in 2013, the gaming sector in Finland recorded a combined revenue of approximately €1 billion.

Goldman Sachs' 'Hedge Fund Trend Monitor' report is out, and as usual it includes a list of the 50 stocks most shorted by hedge funds.

The stocks listed are "not based on 13-F holdings", nor is this a "basket of stocks most held short", according to the report.

When compared with the median S&P 500 company, the median stock has a higher value of short interest. However, it has "similar" short interest as a percent of float-adjusted shares.

The top five stocks are AT&T, IBM, Intel, Exxon Mobil, and Caterpillar.

AT&T

Sector: Integrated Telecommunication Services

Value of short interest (in billions): $7.0

Short interest as a % of Float cap: 4%

Number of funds with stock as Top 10 holding: 4

Average portfolio weight when stock ranks among Top 10 holdings: 4%

Recent news: AT&T is planning on offering the HTC One M8 for Windows soon, although prices are undisclosed.

Source: Goldman Sachs

IBM

Sector: IT Consulting & Other services

Value of short interest (in billions): $5.2

Short interest as a % of Float cap: 3% 

Number of funds with stock as Top 10 holding: 6

Average portfolio weight when stock ranks among Top 10 holdings: 6%

Recent news: IBM and Apple recently announced a partnership.

Source: Goldman Sachs

Intel Corp.

Sector: Semiconductors

Value of short interest (in billions): $4.6

Short interest as a % of Float cap: 3% 

Number of funds with stock as Top 10 holding: 13

Average portfolio weight when stock ranks among Top 10 holdings: 5%

Recent news: Intel recently acquired Avago's network chip group.

Source: Goldman Sachs

There are over 1,700 TED Talks available to watch online, on a range of topics from innovative business pitches to explorations of new psychological studies.

Many of them stretch on well past 10 minutes, but there are some under just five.

We've gone through all of the shortest TED Talks and picked the best motivational ones.

The next time you take a quick break and want something with some more substance than a blog post full of funny GIFs, check out one of the presentations listed below:

Clint Smith explains that sometimes silence is the worst option.

Even though there are situations when it's best to keep your thoughts to yourself to avoid confrontation, Smith — a writer, educator, and award-winning slam poet — says that sometimes you can't just bite your tongue.

"We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," he says. "Silence is the residue of fear."

Watch here >>

Arianna Huffington dispels a long-held productivity myth.

The Huffington Post editor in chief is one of the most vocal proponents of the benefits of sleep.

She explored them at length in her latest book, "Thrive: The Third Metric To Redefining Success And Creating A Life Of Well-Being, Wisdom, And Wonder."

In this talk, she explains that the workaholic tendency to flaunt how little sleep one needs to be productive is not based in reality.

"I was recently having dinner with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours sleep the night before. And I felt like saying to him... 'You know what? If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting," she says, only half joking.

Watch here >>

Richard St. John shows how success is not a destination.

St. John uses the story of his own path to becoming a millionaire entrepreneur to illustrate how thinking of success as a destination, achieving a set of goals, is setting yourself up for failure.

Rather, he says, true success is a lifestyle that you must dedicate yourself to indefinitely.

"Why do so many people reach success and then fail? One of the big reasons is, we think success is a one-way street. So we do everything that leads up to success, but then we get there. We figure we've made it, we sit back in our comfort zone, and we actually stop doing everything that made us successful," he says.

Watch here >>

When the Navy SEALs or Army Special Forces need a ride, they call the unit with the most elite helicopter pilots in the world — the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR).

So it comes as no surprise that the 160th was involved in the effort to rescue American journalist James Foley and others from ISIS captivity in Syria. While the mission of the pilots — to get operators in and out of the target — was successful, ultimately no hostages were rescued.

"The Nightstalkers" as they are called, are the only special operations aviation unit in the Army, deploying almost continuously since 9/11 to provide drop-off for U.S. military elite at their targets. They also provide close air support — actually shooting at the enemy — while they are on the ground.

An elite air unit for special operations missions didn't always exist. After serious issues surfaced during a disastrous 1980 mission to free the hostages in Iran, the 160th was formed in 1981.

"We are a force ready to move at a moment’s notice anytime, anywhere, arriving on target plus or minus 30 seconds," Col. Clayton Hutmacher told Special Operations Technology.

It was only after serious issues were found during the disastrous mission to free the hostages in Iran, that the 160th formed in 1981.

Since then, the program has selected very few applicants. The standards are high — they like to have aviators with at least 500 flight hours, or at the top of their class at flight school.

Put simply, it's the exceptionally skilled pilots and crew who set the 160th apart.