When Apple unveiled its iPhone 6 earlier this month, it talked about the upcoming camera features we can expect to see in its newest smartphone.
The iPhone 6 comes with the same 8-megapixel camera as the iPhone 5s, which is a slightly lower megapixel count than competitors such as the Samsung Galaxy S5 (16 megapixels) and Motorola Moto X (13 megapixels).
Still, Apple's new iPhone takes sharp and colorful images. In fact, when compared to the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Moto X, the iPhone 6 captured clearer photos in low-light conditions.
All phones took vibrant photos in daylight, but the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s offered the most consistent image quality across the board.
We took some shots with the iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, Galaxy S5, and Moto X to see how each phone's camera holds up in real-world testing.
NOTE:All photos were taken with the camera set to Auto to demonstrate how they perform out of the box. Each image was taken in the same spot at the same time.
Here's a photo of the Flatiron Building in New York City taken with the iPhone 6.
This is the same photo taken with the iPhone 5s. The pictures look exactly the same.
In this image taken with Samsung's Galaxy S5, you'll notice the building looks a little darker.
TV host Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have finally sold their gorgeous New York loft for $20 million, according to The New York Daily News.
The couple put their 76 Crosby Street penthouse on the market with The Modlin Group for $24.5 million back in January 2013. They had previously spent two years renovating the home after originally paying $9.5 million for it in 2005.
The buyer of the 6,800-square-foot loft is real estate tycoon Alex Adjmi. Brokers for Adjmi told the Daily News that he bought the place as an investment, which Curbed NY believes implies that Adjmi wants to reconfigure and re-list the home himself.
The pad has five bedrooms and tall 12-foot ceilings. It was outfitted with a fully vented six-burner Wolf stove in the kitchen, a Jacuzzi in the master suite, and a private roof deck with outdoor fireplace and hot tub.
This is 76 Crosby Street. It has a full-time doorman and easy access to SoHo's main shops on Broadway.
Twenty years ago, in direct protest against the then-recently signed North American Free Trade Agreement, a makeshift uprising of Mayan farmers seized a collection of cities and towns in Chiapas, in Mexico's remote southeastern corner. They were demanding rights for Mexico's indigenous people, who they thought had long been treated unfairly and would suffer even more under the landmark economic deal.
Naming themselves the Zapatistas after Emiliano Zapata, a principal leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, they emerged as a populist left-wing movement that openly called for a new revolution in Mexico, one that would replace a government which they argued was completely out of touch with the needs of its people.
While that revolution never came to pass, the Zapatistas and their ideologies have remained a presence in Chiapas and in Mexico. They continue to vocally oppose and resist the government, and have broadened their rhetoric to include larger issues of globalization and social justice. To this day, they live by their doctrine of upholding, at all costs, the importance of "work, land, shelter, food, health, education, independence, freedom, democracy, justice and peace."
In January, photographer Giles Clarke was invited to travel to Chiapas and immerse himself in the culture of the Zapatistas, staying with a family high in the mountains.
"I was honored to live off-the-grid with my appointed family and witness just a glimpse of this dignified, self-governed collective," Clarke says.
That glimpse was both at times illuminating and strange, heartening and conflicting.
(Captions by Giles Clarke and Christian Storm)
Much of Chiapas is over 7,000 feet above sea-level, and the area can be shrouded in fog for weeks on end. "We drove through mountains without seeing anything for hours," Clarke says.
Clarke stayed with a family in the town of La Illusion, one of the Zapatistas' 35 or more autonomous communities high in the mountains of Chiapas. La Illusion is 5 hours from San Cristobal de las Casas, the state's major city. The Zapatistas wear masks and cover their faces as a form of protest and resistance, calling themselves "the Faceless" and turning anonymity into a source of power. When asked about the masks, leaders are famously quoted as saying, "We cover our faces in order to be seen; we die in order to live."
“K”, Clarke's guardian and guide for the week in Chiapas, is pictured here. Clarke visited the Zapatistas as one of 1,500 people invited to travel to Chiapas and learn about the Zapatista social experiment — immersing themselves in the ways, culture, and teachings of the movement.
High-profile marchers included Moon, McKibben, Leonardo DiCaprio, former Vice President Al Gore, Jane Goodall, and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).
The protest was massive by any measure, even as it maintained the air of controlled chaos one might expect of a St. Patty's Day parade or another NYPD-sanctioned and monitored event.
We headed down to the march to get a feel for the scene on the ground.
March attendees gathered on the Upper West Side to form up before it began. Subways headed towards Central Park West were overflowing with people.
By the time we got to the march, the crowd was in full swing. About half the attendees were grouped into a column by a police barricades, but there didn't seem to be much of a point to them. As many people were gathered outside the barricades as in them.
It took a little while for the crowd to start moving.
Etsy, the online marketplace that specializes in crafts and other artistic items, has a gorgeous office space in Brooklyn, New York.
The company has been profitable since 2009, thanks to the site's more than 1 million active sellers, who made $895 million on goods last year.
(Etsy's main revenue comes from charging sellers $0.20 to list a single item for four months, and then 3.5% of the value of the sale if someone buys an item.)
As you'd expect, the office space has an artsy, quirky feel, but the team also has several sustainability initiatives.
Etsy's office is in Brooklyn, in a neighborhood called DUMBO (it stands for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass").
The lobby of its building — 55 Washington St. — is pretty slick.
With nearly 40,000 followers, Postel is one of the city's most widely followed photographers on the platform, and he uses only his iPhone to shoot photos.
Pretty amazing.
Postel also makes films, which you can see teasers for on his website.
We culled through tons of his Instagram photos of Chicago to find our absolute favorites of the city and the gorgeous ways he preserves the beauty of this urban landscape.
This is an awesome shot.
Drawbridge in action.
This was from an "Instameet" Postel attended to meet other Instagrammers in Chicago.
Even among billionaire megayacht owners, there's competition to be the biggest and best.
In celebration of the Monaco Yacht Show, which kicks off Wednesday, our friends at Wealth-X shared the estimated values of the 10 most expensive yachts on the planet.
From a movie mogul's secondhand yacht to a futuristic design by Philippe Starck, these boats are like small cities on water.
10. Al Mirqab is worth $250 million.
Al Mirqab is owned by Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Muhammad Al Thani, the former Prime Minister of Qatar. The 133-meter boat was completed in 2008. It can accomodate 24 guests in 12 suites, each with its own bathroom and bedroom.
Amenities include a movie theater, swimming pool, helicopter pad, and room for a crew of 55.
9. Pelorus is worth $300 million (tie).
Initially built for a Saudi businessman, the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the megayacht Pelorus in 2004. His ex-wife received the ship in their divorce settlement, and Hollywood movie mogul David Geffen bought Pelorus for $300 million in 2011.
The 115-meter yacht has two helipads and a garage full of toys, including jet skis.
9. Al Said is worth $300 million (tie).
Al Said was built for Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the billionaire Sultan of Oman. The massive, 155-meter yacht has space for 70 guests and 154 crew.
It has a helicopter landing pad, elevator, and concert space that can accomodate a 50-piece orchestra.
"We see upside in markets broadly into year-end as result of: (i) a strengthening economy; (ii) 'beta' chase as 2014 has been one of the worst years for fund manager performance so far, and (iii) seasonal factors," he writes.
In a new 39-page research note, Lee identifies 10 stocks that he believes investors should hold into the end of the year.
Lee, now head of Fundstrat Global Advisors, said these 10 stocks are "Value-Momentum."
"Since the start of 2014, we believe a regime shift is taking place that favors 'Value' over 'Growth' in the next few years," Lee said. "As the pace of economic growth improves, growth is less scarce hence, investors are likely not to pay up for it."
Abbott Labs
Ticker: ABT
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
2015 Expected EPS: $2.47
2015 Expected P/E Ratio: 17.7x
"The stock seems to be playing 'catch-up' this year after underperforming in 2013," Lee said. "ABT is up 14% YTD, showing sustainable momentum."
Source: Fundstrat
Check Point Software
Ticker: CHKP
Industry: IT Security
2015 Expected EPS: $3.99
2015 Expected P/E Ratio: 17.8x
"Attractive backdrop encompassing significant I.T. security breaches (most recently Home Depot, Target, and JPMorgan as well as several other high-profile banks) to be a net positive for the stock," Lee said.
Source: Fundstrat
CVS Health Corporation
Ticker: CVS
Industry: Retail Pharmacy
2015 Expected EPS: $5.07
2015 Expected P/E Ratio: 16.0x
"Same store sales growth is reaccelerating (+3.3% in 2Q vs. 1.4% in 1Q14 and 0.5% in 2Q13) with the Pharmacy segment up 5% (roughly half of total sales)," Lee said. "Management is showing discipline in driving higher margin store-brand sales, which were up 80 bps as a percentage of front-store mix in 2Q14."
This isn't the first time that whole swaths of the labor market have gone extinct: The Industrial Revolution did away with gigs that your great-great-grandparents might have had that sound preposterous to us today.
This is an update of an article that previously ran. Additional reporting by Vivian Giang.
Pin Setter
Before mechanical pin setters came out in 1936, boys were hired to set the pins — you called them Pin Setters.
Phrenologist
Before it was dismissed as a racist, awful pseudoscience, lots of people went to Phrenologists, who could "read" your intelligence by the shape of your head.
Ice Cutter
Before you could get ice from your fridge, you had to cut it from a lake. You'd hire an Ice Cutter to do so.
We all know that some entrepreneurs get rich quick, but still others do it even while they're young. Quite a few of them are making their first million before they're even of legal drinking age. While most teens spend their youth honing work skills in entry-level jobs, whether that's slinging fast food or working retail, others get that spark to succeed at an early age. There's no shortage of useful advice out there to help even the very young make strong business decisions. There is also no minimum age to become a millionaire, as these "kids" know first hand. From playing the stock market to starting up their own company, check out these 50 teens who made millions before turning 20.
It's hard not to feel a bit competitive after reading about all these young entrepreneurs. However, try and take away at least this one important lesson from the list. It's never too late--or early--to chase your dreams. Anything can happen with a great idea, hard work and creativity. These teens are living proof.
The founder of WhateverLife.com got her ingenious idea back in 2004 when she was just 14. Meant to showcase her design skills, when she started doling out freebie MySpace layouts, that's when the site really took off. An anonymous buyer offered her $1.5 million and the car of her choice, but she declined.
2. Julieth Brindak
She began creating sketched characters at age 10, then developed a complementary social media platform at age 16. Her "Miss O & Friends" company is now worth an estimated $15 million, though she gets most of her revenue from ad revenue.
3. Sean Belnick
With just $600, Belnik started an e-tail shop at age 16, beginning with small items like trading cards. He then moved on to furniture, founding BizChair.com and proving a knack for the market. By the time he was 20, he was worth $24 million.
Online dating can be a sticky and confusing subject, one full of ups, downs, and embarrassing stories.
Kirra Cheers, a photographer from Brooklyn, recently set out to document her trials and tribulations using Tinder, a wildly popular app that allows users to approve or deny potential mates based on a small number of pictures and a short bio.
If two users approve each other, they can chat and potentially meet up. While the app certainly makes it easy to meet new people, the lack of substantial information on the other person makes for some interesting first dates.
Cheers went on 17 Tinder dates over the course of two months, and she photographed many of them.The resulting series shows what it's like to navigate modern dating, on both a personal and universal level. "I wanted to document my own experience so that people can compare it to their own," she tells Business Insider.
Cheers originally began the project for a group show she was curating about modern romance. "I wanted my take on the theme to have more of a personal approach, putting myself into the project and documenting my experience with online dating," she tells Feature Shoot.
Cheers told all of her potential beaus about the project and asked to photograph them during the dates. Initially, she asked before meeting, but she found that her dates were much more likely to agree in person.
Cheers tells Business Insider that "the use of flash is aggressive and revealing. I think it works well within the gritty New York landscape and defines my style as a photographer."
Marchers included such notable names as the UN's General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, former Vice President Al Gore, Primatologist Jane Goodall, and actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio, who was recently named a Messenger of Peace.
We were there and asked the marchers we met along the way why they were.
People we talked to hailed from around the country and the world, and represented a diverse set of organizations and causes — but they held the common belief that addressing the issue of climate change will make the world a better place.
Some people marched simply to raise awareness and encourage more action. "I don't think there's anything really happening, and something needs to happen," Ciara Sterbenz, 20, from New Mexico told us.
Eric Benson, 33, of New Jersey and a member of Clean Water Action told us: "The time for climate action is now. The longer we wait, the worse it gets." He's on the left.
"I'm not marching because I think marching changes what people do — I'm marching because you have to start somewhere on a basic level, and a march is a good way. ...Democracy allows us to do this," said Dan Lyles, 29, of New York.
These are their top tips for acing your first marathon.
GIVE YOURSELF ENOUGH TIME TO TRAIN
The biggest mistake rookie runners make is starting too fast and with too much mileage. This can inflict high stress on your cardiorespiratory, endocrine, and neuromuscular systems, and lead to injury.
“It's one thing to sign up for a marathon. It's another if you have, like, a four- or six-week window to train,” Jenny Hadfield, an author and frequent columnist for Women’s Running Magazine and RunnersWorld.com, says. “I would recommend a solid 12 to 14 weeks to train for a half, and 18 to 20 weeks for a full marathon. I usually lean toward a longer time frame because life happens, vacations happen, sickness happens, and, if you rush, you end up running with less mileage under you."
FIND A TRAINING PLAN THAT SUITS YOUR NEEDS
There are a ton of training plans out there. If you do a quick Google search, you’ll be up all night checking out the free training plans online.
The key is to think about how training will fit into your current lifestyle so that you stick with it. For instance, is date night usually on Thursday? Do you typically run errands on Sunday? Choose a schedule that syncs well with your routine.
“You want to make sure that the first week of training is close to what you're doing right now,” Hadfield says. “If you're running three to four times a week and anywhere from three to six miles, you want to make sure your training plan begins similarly to that. If you jump into a training plan that has a lot more mileage right away, your risk for injury and burnout is going to be super high.”
MAKE IT SOCIAL
Marathon training requires long, slow runs, which can become mentally draining. Signing up with a buddy can make it a lot more motivating and fun.
Jeff Galloway, an author and Olympic athlete, warns his clients to choose someone whose pace is similar to theirs. “If you have a fast friend, ask if they can run at your pace. If it’s too slow for them, you want that kind of honesty because you want to run at your own pace so you don’t get injured.”
EASE INTO YOUR TRAINING
It’s important to build up your strength slowly, and not try to run too many miles too quickly.
“The No. 1 mistake people make is running too hard and too often,” author and trainer Matt Fitzgerald says. “You have to ease into any aerobic exercise. Really take your time and take a cautious approach with the running.”
Galloway recommends that beginners start with a combination of running and walking. “Using the very easy patterns of running and walking, the human body can adapt to long-distance running,” he says. “You want to ease up the distance so that two to three weeks before the event, you could cover that distance.”
TRAIN BY YOUR BODY, NOT A PACE
Instead of relying on iPhones or GPS monitors that say how fast you’re going, listen to your body. You will have good days and bad days, but the important thing is to make sure the pace always feels comfortable, even if it’s slower than your last run.
All three coaches recommend using what’s called the talk test. “If you can have a conversation and talk in sentences, you're running at an easy effort, which is great,” Hadfield says. “If you can only talk in one-word responses, you're going too fast. That pace is going to change daily depending on where you're racing, how you’re fueling, and what's going on in your body.”
MAKE SURE TO CROSS-TRAIN
You don’t want to run every day; instead, run every other day and fill in the gaps with rest days and cross-training. Choose exercises that make you move in different ways than running to give your joints a break and build strength.
“Cycling or swimming lets you work out aerobically without the added impact,” Fitzgerald says. The coaches say strength training is vital to increasing balance, strength, and endurance.
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE EATING AND WEARING BEFORE THE RACE
Race day is not the time to start a new diet or try on a new running outfit. Practice what works ahead of time. Does your body respond better to Gatorade or gel packets? Do those spandex shorts ride up too much on longer runs? These are things you’ll want to know early on.
Think of your practice runs as rehearsals for the marathon. Try different nutrition and wardrobe options, and figure out what works for you.
Hadfield suggests dressing for 20 degrees warmer than the weather. Fifty degrees may seem chilly if you’re just standing around outside, but it’s better to wear a T-shirt and shorts, because once your body heats up, it’ll feel like it’s 70.
DURING THE RACE
On the day of the race, first-time marathoners tend to make the mistake of starting too quickly. They're refreshed, tapered, and pumped up by the music and crowds.
But don’t! Starting too quickly could cause a drop in energy, and runners may hit a mental wall as their blood sugar drops. Better to run slower than necessary at first, and then pick up the pace during the last leg.
“Hold yourself back,” Hadfield says. “The first half you want to stay at a conversational and easy effort. After that, if you're feeling good, you want to start to pick it up for the last stretch. It's all about conserving that energy early on so you can push when you really need it.”
Also, if you’re running in summer weather, be sure to pace yourself extra thoughtfully because of the added heat. “Those who start their marathon training now are going to be running in hot weather in the summer,” Galloway says. “Be aware that you're probably going to be running 30 seconds more slowly for every 5 degrees above 60.”
AFTER THE RACE
Congratulations! You’ve officially finished your race. But don’t sit down just yet! These are the five things you want to do now that the marathon is over:
Walk around for 10 to 15 minutes to allow your body to come back to reality. “It helps your body to purge that lactic acid and recover, as well as bring your circulation back to normal,” Hadfield says.
Have a protein recovery drink and nibble on some food. “Within the first half hour, you want to eat a snack of 300 calories that is mostly simple carbohydrates, because that will help to reload the muscle glycogen,” Galloway recommends. “It's best to pick something that is going to digest very easily. Even things like gummy bears or cola drinks will often work.”
Sit in an ice bath for five minutes with your sweatshirt on to help with inflammation.
Wait three to four hours before getting a massage, if you decide to get one post-race (otherwise, your massage therapist will be rubbing the lactic acid all over muscles, making you feel worse).
Treat yourself! “Go out for a greasy hamburger, go for a beer,” Fitzgerald says. “None of this is going to help you recover faster, but who cares? There's a time to let your hair down a bit, and just give yourself time to recuperate. If you do everything right after the marathon, you're still not going to be able to run one for another four months. Have the burger.”
Biking in the city comes with a lot of benefits: It's healthy, convenient, gets you outside, and reduces carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Some of the best biking weather New Yorkers will see all year its now arriving: cool and breezy, with limited humidity.
Biking around New York is a great idea until you start thinking about all the folks out there with as much experience biking as flying a space shuttle picking up a bike and tooling around New York City.
So if you are thinking about getting on a bike in NYC, whether on your own wheels or on shared ones — such as a Citi Bike — here are 15 rules to keep you (and those around you) safe, legal, and from drawing the ire of New Yorkers.
[This post has been updated from its original version.]
Find bike lanes before you go. Use Google Maps’s “Bicycling” feature, or download a 2014 NYC bike map at nyc.gov.
You don't have to bike in a suit. And autumn doesn't mean you won't perspire a tad. If you can’t shower at the office or a gym nearby, consider biking in a t-shirt, then changing once you’ve arrived. Bring deodorant.
Take your time. Just like you can walk instead of run, you can bike slowly instead of quickly. Cycling can be a “fast form of pedestrianism,” rather than exercise. That cuts down on the stress and the sweating.
In five seasons of ABC's reality pitch show "Shark Tank," we've seen some doozies. Hopefuls have pitched products including an energy drink for Cougars, a vortex chamber that generates gold, and flatulence-scented candles.
At times, contestants show up unable to even explain why anyone would want to buy their product.
With an average viewership of seven million and airtime that's worth about half a million dollars to the aspiring entrepreneurs who make it on, you'd think every pitch would be thoughtful, well-rehearsed, and airtight. But you'd be wrong.
Andrew Figgins, a Chicago-based entrepreneur and owner of the fan site InTheSharkTank.com, says nearly half of the hundreds of pitches that have been made on the show have been awful. The most common problems? Far-fetched ideas, wacky personalities, and a lack of basic business knowledge. "The people who have gone on the show and don't know their numbers get chewed up and spit out," Figgins says.
In anticipation of the sixth season's two-hour premiere on Friday, we take a look at some of the biggest duds in the history of the hit pitch show.
Jason Woods pitches the Kymera jet-propelled boogie board.
Episode 507: "Kymera"
In the most recent season, Woods asks for $250,000 for a 20% stake in his company, which he's been developing for 10 years. The problem is he doesn't have a business plan. Oh, and he's never sold a single one in a decade.
Mark Cuban calls Woods a "wantrepreneur," someone who's got ideas but not a shred of business acumen.
Episode 507: "Kymera"
Because Woods couldn't figure out how to finalize a product and sell even a few with the $130,000 he spent on development over the past decade, the Sharks conclude an injection of capital won't save him.
Brothers Richard and Albert Amini pitch a social media app for doctors.
Episode 501: "Rolodoc"
It would function as a secure platform for medical professionals to upload their medical records and put each other in contact, they say. They want $50,000 in exchange for a 20% stake. Sounds like there may be an idea there, right?
Jeremy Gray is an award-winning fine art, nature and landscape photographer who grew up in Maine, a state known for its beautiful scenery.
Through his art, Gray hopes to inspire in others the same respect, care and connection with nature that he feels for his home state.
Gray's shared a selection of his astronomy photography with Business Insider, which he took at state and national parks throughout Maine.
Click here for more examples of Gray's astronomy photography, or visit his main page for samples of his other nature and landscape photography.
Jeremy Gray took to nature photography a few years ago. He creates emotionally powerful images through his emphasis on light and tone, like in this breath taking image, “A Colorful Night”, which he took along the banks of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park capturing the bright band of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Mesmerizing star trails paint the night sky along the frozen, snow-blanketed banks of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park in this image Gray dubbed “Celestial Winter". Star trails are particularly challenging to produce but the result makes it all worthwhile, which Gray says.
A colorful aurora illuminates the horizon while stars dot the night sky. A calm pond located west of Baxter State Park, reflects the night sky and the trees and hills, which separate Earth from sky in this image “Abol Bridge Aurora”.
The Seahawks and the Broncos played the best game of the NFL season so far, and it did little to convince us that they aren't two best teams in the NFL.
Elsewhere at the top of our power rankings, the Chargers joined the top five and the Bears snuck into the top-10.
At the bottom of the power rankings, the Bucs and the Jaguars battled it out for the title of Worst Team In The NFL.
1. Seattle Seahawks (previously: 1st)
Record: 2-1
Week 3 result: 26-20 OT win over Denver
One thing to know: Seattle's offensive line — the biggest worry going into the season — looks fine. They're 3rd in the league in yards per rush.
2. Denver Broncos (previously: 2nd)
Record: 2-1
Week 3 result: 26-20 OT loss to Seattle
One thing to know: Denver is quietly the third-worst rushing team in the league.
3. Cincinnati Bengals (previously: 3rd)
Record: 3-0
Week 3 result: 33-7 win over Tennessee
One thing to know:We're going to learn a ton about this team when they face New England in Foxboro in Week 5.
Last week, the winners were announced for the prestigious 2014 Astronomy Photography of the Year competition. Photographers competed to place in seven categories, as well as to be named the overall winner.
British photographer James Woodend took the top prize for his photograph, "Aurora over a Glacier Lagoon," taken in Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park, seen above. Besides honor, Woodend also won £1,500, or about $2,450.
Other winning photographs depict eclipses, galaxies, the Sun, the Milky Way. All of the selected photos will be on display in an exhibition put on by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, who also presented the competition.
This photo, named runner up in the "Deep Space" category, was taken by David Fitz-Henry from Australia. He photographed the Helix Nebula, one of the closest planetary nebula to Earth, which resembles an eye "looking across 700 light years of space," as the photos caption puts it.
The winning photograph, taken by Bill Synder, is a stunning shot of the Horsehead Nebula. Snyder chose a wider angle for the shot, further depicting the awe-inducing scale of this massive form.
In the category of "Our Solar System," the runner up was this image by George Tarsoudis of Tycho, a crater on our moon which can be seen easily from Earth and boasts a diameter of 53 miles.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have released a study that reveals America’s food preferences based on the most commonly used Twitter hashtags.
Spotted on FirstWeFeast, the researchers analyzed 3.5 million tweet with food hashtags that were taken from Twitter’s API between October 2013 and May 2014.
The original purpose of the study was to determine if what people hashtag and talk about on Twitter can convey information about their community and health, such as their likelihood of diabetes, their weight, and even their political preferences.
What they found was that our food preferences can actually reveal a lot about us. Diabetes sufferers, for example, were more likely to tweet about Mexican, fried food, or bacon. Food also delineated party lines, with Democrats tweeting about vegan food, brunch, and the deli counter, while Republicans were all about lunch, snacks, and #party.
The researchers created visual maps of the food patterns they found as well, such as which foods each state hashtagged the most on Twitter.
Some of the findings were unsurprising, such as Texans loving brisket and Wisconsinites favoring sauerkraut. But other states had bizarre results, such as the spiky fruit durian being popular in Maine or Alaska loving to tweet about the herb tarragon.
It should be noted that these results don’t necessarily show the state’s favorite food, but the food that is most often hashtagged on Twitter. New York’s “prune” result for example was not about the fruit at all, but is instead the name of a popular NYC restaurant.
The researchers also filtered out the highest-weighted hashtag results for some major US cities where, it seems, everyone loves to get drunk. Mixed drinks were one of the most popular hashtags across the board (especially if they were bottomless), as was #wine, #foodie, and #brunch.
Last but not least, researchers broke down the findings by region for the West, Midwest, South, and Northeast. The Midwest was most likely to tweet about breakfast and recipes, the Northeast loved its brunch, the South favored lunch as well as mixed drinks like bloody marys, and the West tweeted most about dinner and #foodporn.
According to a report released by online real estate marketplace Zumper last week, San Francisco is the most expensive place to rent a one-bedroom apartment.
The study found that the median rent for one bedroom in San Francisco was $3,100, compared to $2,995 in New York City and $2,250 in Boston.
Our friends at Zumper helped us compile a list of one-bedroom apartments you can rent for around the median price in different San Francisco neighborhoods.
This one-bedroom apartment is located on the 17th floor and has its own private balcony.
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The number of people who run marathons in the U.S. is steadily rising, 
MAKE IT SOCIAL
MAKE SURE TO CROSS-TRAIN
DURING THE RACE
The researchers also filtered out the highest-weighted hashtag results for some major US cities where, it seems, everyone loves to get drunk. Mixed drinks were one of the most popular hashtags across the board (especially if they were bottomless), as was #wine, #foodie, and #brunch.
Last but not least, researchers broke down the findings by region for the West, Midwest, South, and Northeast. The Midwest was most likely to tweet about breakfast and recipes, the Northeast loved its brunch, the South favored lunch as well as mixed drinks like bloody marys, and the West tweeted most about dinner and #foodporn.
