Pillows should be washed about twice a year.

Not just your pillow cases, but the actual pillows themselves.

I didn't know this either.

But after speaking with Emily Hull-Martin, Bloomingdale's fashion director of Home Furnishings, she said we should be washing our pillows regularly and replacing them every two years or so. And despite the fact that every single pillow we buy has care instructions, most people I know tend to only wash their pillow slips and protectors.

So we asked Hull-Martin and gathered tips from some of the top home blogs about how to rid your fluffy pillows of the dust mites, bacteria, and dead skin cells that they're secretly harboring.

Plus, taking care of your pillows will make them last longer.

How To Wash Your Pillows 

First, remove your pillow covers and protectors (yes, you should be using a pillow case protector — it’s especially good for people with allergies). 

Next, you’ll want to combine really mild detergent and hot water. If you want to get your pillow back to its original whiteness, the best luck I've had is with the whitening solution recipe I found on the blog One Good Thing which is a combination of hot water, laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, bleach, and borax (a type of laundry booster). 

If you have a top-loading washing machine, add your cleaning solution and hot water and let it all mix together before adding your pillows and letting them soak for an hour or two. Turn your pillows horizontal to soak and flip after a half an hour so the entire pillow gets the cleaning solution.

If you have a front-opening washing machine, add hot water and detergent to a large, deep sink and let your pillows soak for an hour or two before adding back to the washing machine.

After your pillows have properly soaked, let them run on a full cycle so that they get thoroughly cleansed. It’s also a good idea to run your spin cycle more than once just in case your pillow is retaining extra water.

Note: Most home blogs recommend washing two pillows at a time to even out the weight in the washer.

When drying your pillows, check the label to make sure that they can go in the dryer — most down and synthetic pillows are good to go.

Set the dryer to low heat and add two tennis balls that have been stuck in clean socks or dryer balls to fluff up your pillows again. The tennis balls will break up the wet fluff to help it dry faster while the clean socks will prevent your pillows from smelling of tennis balls or having the neon color transfer.

Stop the cycle every half an hour or so to check on pillows. Make sure they dry thoroughly so that you don’t get any mold inside your pillows.

This is for synthetic and down-filled pillows. Foam pillows are a bit more complicated. Hull-Martin recommends vacuuming them if they’re very solid or memory foam, but other types of foam can be soaked and rinsed in a cold cycle in your washing machine or hand washed.

Whichever method you choose, hang foam pillows or leave them out to dry completely — they'll melt in the dryer.

Sure, this is a long process but considering that you only have to do it twice every year, it’s really not so bad. 

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When we in the West talk about differences within China, the narrative is usually about the urban-rural divide. Yet I lived in Guangzhou in the south and Beijing in the north—both cities of over 10 million people—and I noticed clear differences in cultures. These were differences that the mainstream narrative had nothing to say about.

I spent the next five years giving psychological tests of culture to people from all over China and puzzling over why the root cause of these differences. I soon discovered these differences fall along the traditional dividing line between rice and wheat. Why would rice have anything to do with culture?

Last fall, Google CEO Larry Page anointed former Android and Chrome SVP Sundar Pichai as the overseer of all of the company's core products. 

It's a big job, but luckily for Pichai, Google's got a crack team of other execs hustling away on each vertical. 

You won't find their names on Google's official management page, but these are the people leading some of Google's most important products.

Alex Gawley, director of product management for Gmail and Calendar

Gawley joined Google back in 2006 as a financial analyst, but it didn't take long for him to switch to the product management side. By 2008, he took the lead on Gmail and Calendar.

A big part of his job recently was heading up the development of Google Inbox, the company's attempt to reinvent email. Inbox lets you bundle emails by category, snooze messages for later, and set reminders, among other features. 

Andrew Conrad, VP of Google Life Sciences

Google's Life Sciences division within Google X is taking on some incredibly ambitious projects, including smart contact lenses to monitor your body's health and nanoparticles that will be able to search the human body for cancer and other diseases. Conrad is the researcher heading up these audacious medical efforts. 

"Google X is one of the few places where the world’s best physicians and other scientists sit together in a cafeteria eating free food and figuring out how a smart contact lens should work,"Conrad told The Wall Street Journal last year."I have a strong belief that this will be fruitful."

One of Conrad's major pre-Google achievements is cofounding the National Genetics Institute in 1991. As chief scientist there, he developed a new way to test for HIV and other viruses in blood-plasma donations that was much faster and cheaper than previous testing procedures. 

Avni Shah, VP of product management for Google Chrome

Shah joined Google way back in 2003, beginning her career by working on Toolbar and Search. Today, she heads up Google Chrome, which currently has more than 750 million active desktop users and 400 million mobile users. You may recognize her as one of two women to present at Google's I/O developers' conference last year.

Before joining the Chrome team, she spent two years in Zurich, where she led Google Maps and Local efforts for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Yale Law School just nabbed the number one spot on US News & World Report's list of the Best Law Schools in America.

Its 13,000-plus alumni network — which includes several very famous graduates — is a hugely advantageous resource for incoming students.

Three Yalies currently sit on the US Supreme Court and one former First Couple met in the law library. The author of the best-selling memoir "Prozac Nation" even earned a law degree from Yale at the age of 40.

Find out who else bled Yale Blue.

Jane Bolin graduated in 1931 as the first African-American female alum.

Jane Matilda Bolin was the first African-American woman in the US to become a judge. During her 40 years serving as a judge of the Family Court of New York, she was an activist for children's rights and education.

Bolin was one of three women and the only black person in her Yale Law class. She was awarded the Medal of Merit in 1994 and today her portrait hangs in the Law School.

President Gerald Ford coached the football and boxing teams at Yale while attending law school. He graduated in 1941.

Before he became president in 1973, Gerald Ford was known for another talent: his athletic abilities.

After he graduated from college, he turned down several offers to play professional football and instead opted to coach football and boxing at Yale, in hopes of attending its prestigious law school.

At first Yale Law School did not accept him due to his full-time coaching responsibilities, but it eventually admitted him in 1938. Ford continued to coach while attending law school and three years later, he graduated in the top 25% of his class. He entered politics soon after.

A Phi Delta Phi Fraternity brother, Ford was presented with the Yale Law School Association’s Award of Merit in 1979. His portrait hangs in the Law School.

Before attending Yale Law School, Former Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron White played professional football and fought in World War II. He graduated in 1946.

Former Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron White, who was appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, graduated from Yale Law School in 1946. 

Before his law career took off, White won fame as a professional football halfback, nicknamed the "Whizzer." In 1938, he deferred a Rhodes Scholarship for a semester to play with the Pittsburgh Pirates, later called the Steelers. He led the league in rushing and received the National Football League's highest-ever salary, $15,800.

His football career was cut short when World War II broke out and he enlisted in the Navy. Instead of returning to football after the war, White decided to enter law school, earning the highest grades in his first-year class at Yale Law. He graduated magna cum laude in 1946.

Syria's civil war has been raging for four years, and there are no concrete signs it will end anytime soon.

Over 200,000 people have been killed and more than 11 million more have been displaced. The conflict is forcing combatants and civilians underground: Syrians are using massive cave complexes in the countryside as strongholds, meeting places, and defensive positions for battles.

Some of the caves are natural while others are artificial and recently excavated. They're used by combatants but also by civilians desperate to shield themselves and their families from the violence.

Looking inside these caves and tunnels shows us how brutal Syria's civil war has become.

Captions by Reuters and Christian Storm.

Mariam, a 9-year-old girl, carries her brother as she stands with other children at an underground ancient cemetery in Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, November 26, 2014. Residents are fleeing to ancient caves and cemeteries for safety during shelling from forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.

Many of the caves were once used during the Roman period but were abandoned and sealed for centuries. Some now serve as makeshift homes for families as they wait for the shelling to end.

Residents take shelter in a similar cave near Hama in this photo from 2012. The civil war has been raging in Syria for almost five years.

So much for high school biology.

Evolution, it turns out, isn't the long, invisible process we once thought.

Instead, it's happening all around us, all the time.

And we are it's primary drivers.

By shaping landscapes, dumping pollutants into rivers and lakes, and transforming wild areas into suburban ones, humans are spurning the creation of everything from wild animal hybrids to pests immune to poisons and superbugs that can't be killed with bacteria.

All of this is taking place at an unprecedented scale.

Bedbugs are becoming a new species of nightmare insects.

While you might be familiar (a little too familiar, you might say), with bedbugs, they didn’t always used to be the terrifying critters we know today.

Thousands of years ago, our cave-dwelling ancestors got along perfectly fine with bedbugs — mainly because they were nearly an entirely different species back then. Unfortunately, as humans migrated out of caves and into cities over thousands of years, they brought bedbugs along for the ride. The insects with traits that made them better able to survive their new urban lifestyle— such as being more active at night, when humans sleep, and having longer, thinner legs for hopping away from us quickly — outlived their less-evolved bedbug friends. 

In just the last few decades, these city-dwelling insects have become almost an entirely separate species from their cave-dwelling cousins. In addition to their new penchant for the nightlife, today’s urban bedbugs have also evolved resistance to pesticides: They have thicker, waxier exoskeletons (to shield them from toxins) and faster metabolisms (to beef-up their natural chemical defenses). 

Two distinct species of mice are mating and their hybrid mice pups are immune to pesticides.

Typically, members of two different species can’t mate with one another — and if they do, the offspring they produce are often infertile or so weak they die before they can produce any babies. 

In mice, at least 50% of hybrids are sterile. But sometime in the past 50 years, when wandering Europeans brought together the Algerian mouse (Mus spretus) and the common house mouse (Mus musculus), the two species got to mating.  

Miraculously, their mice pups were fertile. Although rare, this sort of thing can happen every so often with just the right combination of genes. In addition to their baby-making capabilities, the hybrid mice got another gift from their parents: a chunk of genes that makes them immune to the poison warfarin, meaning they can’t be killed by pesticides.

Unlike the house mice, the Algerian mice had this poison-resistance gene naturally — they likely evolved it as an adaptation to a vitamin-K diet (the same gene that’s responsible for warfarin-immunity manages vitamin K in the body.)

Clepto sea slugs steal genes from their food and incorporate them into their own DNA.

How to adapt to survive for months on nothing but sunlight? Try taking a cue from plants. Better yet, steal a few of their genes.

When food in the chilly coastal waters where they live runs scarce, the bright green sea slug snatches chunks of DNA from the algae they eat. Coupled with tiny energy-producing powerhouses called chloroplasts (which the sneaky slugs also pilfer from their algeae meals), the stolen genes are enough to allow the slugs to survive on nothing but sunshine for days. 

The best part? The algae genes get passed onto the next generation of slugs. 

Although future slugs will then come pre-equipped with the algae genes in their DNA, they'll still need to snatch up new chloroplasts to keep the process going. This gene-swapping process is called horizontal gene transfer. By doing it, the slugs are effectively bypassing traditional evolution, which typically happens over thousands or millions of years. So far, these sea slugs are one of the only known examples of this process occurring between multicellular organisms. 

Dirk Gates, founder and former CEO of internet connectivity companies Xirrus and Xircom, has listed his California home for $14.9 million, according to Curbed.

The Westlake Village home has some crazy features, including 11 bathrooms, a two-floor library, basketball court, and water slide. 

However, there's one room that "Star Wars" fans, in particular, will love: a bedroom that's been decorated in honor of the films, complete with an airspeeder bed and fake snow.

The entire mansion is truly a sight to behold.

A modern sculpture greets you upon entrance.

Inside, the family room is large enough for a giant sectional couch.

The home has six bedrooms in total. With fake snow, an airspeeder replica, and a mini R2D2, this one would be perfect for die-hard "Star Wars' fans.

Each year, there are approximately 1.8 million conventions, conferences, and trade shows in the United States. Conventions are a big business and, for many, an even bigger social event.

From clown conventions to BronyCon, conventions provide an outlet for niche communities to gather and celebrate their sometimes unusual interests with like-minded people.

For the last two years, photographer Arthur Drooker has been investigating the sometimes weird, always interesting world of conventions. Through them all, he's found one common theme.

“No matter what they’re about, where they’re held or who attends them, all conventions satisfy a basic human urge: the longing for belonging,” says Drooker.

Drooker shared some photos from the project with us here, but you can check out the rest on his website, Conventional Wisdom.

When choosing what conventions to attend, Drooker wanted to avoid oversaturated events like ComicCon or Star Trek. He was looking for those like the Association of Lincoln Presenters, the first convention he attended, that have a grassroots following.

At the Lincoln convention in Columbus, Ohio, 150 people dressed as Lincoln. The group's goal is to provide real-looking Lincolns to reenactments, parades, and schools.

Each convention was full of people that were "passionate and obsessive" about their interests. Drooker says the energy was infectious. The Vent Haven Convention in Cincinnati bills itself as "the oldest and largest annual gathering of ventriloquists." The convention has open mics, appearances by pros, and workshops on how to ventriloquize.

There are more influential females in the advertising industry than ever before. Female creative directors account for around 11% of ad industry award-winners, up from fewer than 4% a decade ago.

But while there have been improvements, women are still seriously under-represented in the industry. That's why each year we put out a call for entries for our annual rankings for the most creative women in Adland. 

From these nominations, paired with our own research, we selected 30 amazing women. Factors we considered included recognition within the industry, seniority in their respective agencies, size of the shop, and stand-out creative work that's garnered attention outside of the advertising world.

Our list is by no means complete. But it does feature the fiercest talents in the business.

30. Cynthia Davies, managing director at Safari Sundays

Davies is responsible for overseeing the creative at cool New York design consultancy Safari Sundays, which works with brands including PepsiCo, Walgreens, Unilever, Hershey, Nestle, Starbucks, Frito Lay, and lots more.

She also recently co-founded Animal Studios, a New York-based photo and post production studio dedicated solely to product photography. 

Davies spearheaded Safari Sundays' work on Pepsi's global partnership with Beyonce as part of the drink's "Live For Now" campaign.

29. Lindsey Lanpher, senior copywriter at SS+K

During her career Lanpher has worked on big-hitting campaigns such as the branding of Lincoln to the The Lincoln Motor Company and the HBO Go's "Awkward Family Viewing" campaign, designed to promote HBO Go to millennials and their parents. Other brand credits include Converse, Marriott, and Virgin America.

She joined New York-based SS+K in 2013 but has worked for a whole heap of brands and agencies including Converse, HudsonRouge, JWT, Anomaly, and McGarryBowen.

First we scoured coast to coast to find the most famous book set in every state. Now we're hitting the books to discover the most famous author from every state.

Not all the choices were cut and dry. To qualify for this list, the esteemed wordsmiths had to be born in their respective states, but not necessarily live out their years there.

We considered the authors' fame in terms of ubiquity, literal acclaim, and financial success — and awarded bonus points if the author showed state pride by setting their works there.

Did we get your state right? Let us know in the comments if you have another pick.

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ALABAMA: Harper Lee

Known for: "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville, the inspiration for her classic novel's fictional town of Maycomb. The Monroe County Courthouse, where Lee watched her father practice law as a child, currently operates as a museum.

The University of Alabama alumna continues to live there, just a short drive from the Mockingbird Grill and Radley's Fountain Grille.

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ALASKA: Marty Beckerman

Known for: "The Heming Way"

Marty Beckerman got his start in humor writing as a freshman at the Anchorage Daily News, which published his weekly column about trying to pick up girls.

In his twenties, he self-published "The Heming Way," a cheeky guide to masculinity based on the life and works of Ernest Hemingway, and it hit No. 1 on Amazon.com for parody.

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ARIZONA: Jeannette Walls

Known for: "The Glass Castle"

Jeannette Walls' memoir examines her struggle as a child and young adult to overcome poverty and become self-sufficient. Her dysfunctional family were nomads of the Southwest, but the first place she remembers living is a small trailer park in Arizona.

A veteran of "writing what she knows," Walls more recently published a biography of her grandmother, an iron-willed Arizona cattle rancher, titled "Half Broke Horses."

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On Monday, Apple’s Watch presentation drummed up a lot of buzz surrounding its $17,000 gold timepiece.

But that’s nothing compared to a $55 million diamond-encrusted watch.

We rounded up the latest top timepieces that cost over a million dollars, disregarding auction prices and past sales. We only included watches that are currently on the market that you can actually buy.

That is, if you can afford it. 

Keep reading to see seven of the most expensive watches in the world.

The Roger Dubuis Excalibur Quatuor watch costs $1.1 million

Debuted in 2013, the Excalibur Quatuor silicon watch took 2,400 hours to build and over 7 years of research to create. Each of its balances pulse four times per second, so instead of a classic ticking watch, it sounds more like a whirring machine.

Only three of these watches exist in the world, each made of 590 parts and with a $1.1 million price tag. Read more about the Excalibur Quatuor here.

Jaeger-LeCoultre's Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie timepiece costs $1.5 million

With 1,472 parts, this is one of the most complex watches in the world. It has a perpetual calendar, flying tourbillon, and took five years to the develop.

The watch also comes with a Hybris Mechanica 55 Safe which is a part of the extreme price. It’s a leather-coated trunk that is code-secured with a sound system within the safe that allows the chiming of the Hybris Mechanica à Grand Sonnerie to be heard. 

The Greubel Forsey Art Piece 1 watch costs between $1 million and $2 million

Along with 30-degree double tourbillons, a beautiful blue dial cover, and sapphire case back, this watch has a tiny work of art by British artist Willard Wigan. It’s a tiny gold ship which you can see by looking through what looks like a second crown but what is actually a 23x magnifier that displays the microscopic sculpture.

The price for this exquisite Greubel Forsey design isn’t technically known (it’s only available for serious buyers), but it’s estimated to be between $1 and $2 million. 

Richard Mille's Tourbillon RM 56-02 Sapphire watch retails for over $2 million

With a transparent case made from solid sapphire, this Richard Mille watch has titanium movements and is both scratch-resistant and water resistant up to 3 meters.

Only 10 of the Tourbillon RM 56-02 Sapphire were made and they cost $2.02 million. Each watch “requires 40 days of continuous 24/7 machining for the case followed by 400 additional hours” of finishing work, according to Watch Time. 

A. Lange & Söhne's Grand Complication timepiece costs over $2 million

This A. Lange & Söhne watch debuted at a price tag of €1.92 million ($2.05 million at today's conversion rates) with 876 individual parts.

It takes a full year for the watchmaker to complete each watch. Since it debuted in 2013, there’s only been one of these watches released each year — the last and final watch will be sold in 2018. Read more about the Grand Complication here.

Patek Philippe’s The Grandmaster Chime watch costs $2.6 million

In honor of the storied Swiss watchmaker’s 175th anniversary, Patek Philippe unveiled this gorgeous watch with 20 complications, two dials, and 214 parts.

It took eight years and over 100,000 man hours to develop. Only seven of the two-faced watches were produced, each retailing for a whopping $2.6 million. Read more about the Grandmaster Chime here.

The Graff Diamonds Hallucination watch costs $55 million

Blowing away the competition is also the only watch for women on the list — the gem-studded Graff Diamonds Hallucination from Graff Jewelry, a new name in the watch business that debuted at last year’s Baselworld watch show.

The bracelet has a tiny face and huge colored diamonds all set in platinum. Only one was made and as far as we know, it’s still up for sale if you're interested.

Only time will tell if Graff outdoes itself at this year’s Baselworld later this month.

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Certified life and executive coach Megan Walls has noticed a recurring weak spot among the otherwise intelligent, capable professionals she works with: money.

"For some reason or another, these clients aren't as mindful or deliberate as they'd like to be. Some are business owners, lawyers, or in education," Walls tells Business Insider.

When these clients started asking Walls to help them master their finances, she got right down to their core beliefs about money.

"A belief is a thought you think over and over again," she says. "And then that belief gets buried in your subconscious, and causes an emotion — anything from contentment to fear — which then causes you to take action and produce some sort of result. That's the chain: emotion, action, result."

If these core beliefs are self-sabotaging, you can imagine how that chain progresses.

Here, Walls shares some of the more damaging financial thought patterns she's observed in her practice, among the most impressive professionals.

'Money magically appears.'

Walls remembers a client who inherited money while in grad school and thought he'd be set for years.

Instead, he ran out halfway through school — and later in life he ran out of funds again. After some discussion, they found that his core belief was that money magically appears.

"As a kid, whenever he needed money, he'd ask his dad, who would hold out a $10 or a $20 bill," Walls says.

"We had him replace that money thought with a new one, something to the effect of 'I am in control of my money and can make good financial decisions for me and my family,'" she says. "He started meeting with a financial advisor and using Quicken to track his spending."

'Credit card debt is normal and acceptable.'

The average American household owes over $7,000 on their credit cards, and among indebted households, it's an average of nearly $15,500. It's no wonder we think debt is a normal part of life.

Walls says that while consumers know they have to pay the credit-card companies back, there's a lack of fear or immediacy surrounding the debt. Especially among younger cardholders, she finds, the need for immediate gratification outweighs any reservations about spending money on the cards. 

'Spending will make me feel better.'

"I think what's surfacing is people operating with these beliefs about money are spending in unhealthy emotional states," muses Walls.

"They're saying, 'I'm going to go buy something to avoid feeling sorry for myself; I'm going to buy whatever I want,' when they don't really have the budget for it," she explains. "When the bill comes, they're absolutely panicked."

The Apple Watch does a lot of the same things Android-based watches can, such as delivering text messages and notifications and tracking your health.

But there are several fundamental differences in how you actually interact with the Apple Watch compared to gadgets like the Moto 360, LG G Watch R, and other Android Wear watches.

Here's a look at some of the biggest things that make the Apple Watch stand out from the competition. 

You can send your heartbeat to another Apple Watch wearer.

You can scroll and zoom using the Digital Crown instead of a touchscreen.

You can draw a sketch on your watch and immediately send it to another Apple Watch wearer.

Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have been fighting battles across Ukraine for almost a year, killing upwards of 6000 soldiers and civilians in the process. It's been a bloody war, one which has completely rocked the country.

Nowhere is that more apparent than at the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine. After months of sustained battles, with both sides attempting to gain control of the facility, it has been complete decimated and reduced to rubble. 

Yet, the conflicts rages on. When looking at the photos of the airport, it's hard to see what there's left to fight for.

Originally built in the 1940's and renovated multiple times over the decades, the Donetsk airport was once an impressive complex.

Most recently, it was improved for a reported $1 billion in preparation for the UEFA soccer championships hosted in Ukraine in 2012.

Now, after 10 months of intense fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels, the airport has been decimated to rubble.

"Central banks around the world have put together a lot of intricate policies," Jeffrey Gundlach said. "Ultimately, the tower will not be able to stand."

That was the underlying theme of "Blockhead," the presentation Gundlach gave to DoubleLine Funds clients.

"Blockhead" is an game that involves players stacking oddly shaped blocks on top of each other until the structure falls.

With this macroeconomic backdrop in mind, Gundlach believes the interest rates will stay low, inflation will remain subdued, the US dollar will go up, and gold could rally to $1,400 this year.

Gundlach's presentation is a quick one with eye-opening, hand-picked charts on central banks, inflation, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, demographics, and bond prices. Examine each one if you want to get into the mind of the bond god.

For a long time, people dismissed funny women.

It used to be extremely difficult for a woman to have a successful career in comedy, and most people’s favorite comedians were men.

While it's still tougher for women to break into the field, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pioneered the way for many fellow comediennes to come. 

The two were very popular during their time on "SNL," and both went on to create and star in their own TV shows on NBC.

Since then, they’ve been the undisputed queens of comedy, and have made the comedy game much more open to women. 

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However, when people think of women in comedy, they tend to only think of these two. While they certainly paved the way for some newer female comedians, and maybe even helped them to start their careers, there are so many other women making waves in this field.

For example, Ellie Kemper has been working for years. She got her first big break on "The Office"​ and is now the star of Netflix's newest original series "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt​," which is written and created by Tina Fey.

To coincide with Kemper's new show, which is now available to stream, check out our list of other women who are dominating the comedy game right now.

After you familiarize yourselves with these witty women, if you still haven’t gotten your laughter fix, be sure to check out The Best Comedy Movies Streaming on Netflix Right Now. You can also learn about more comedians you might not know from Comedians Under 30 to Check Out This Year and The 50 Funniest Comedians on Twitter. 

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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson

Why you should know them: Because "Broad City" is one of the funniest shows on TV right now

These two Upright Citizens Brigade-trained Comedy Central stars are winning the female-led TV comedy game by a landslide.

They created and star in "Broad City," which they developed into a TV format from their original web series, with the help of executive producer Amy Poehler. What was originally thought of as a “female 'Workaholics' ” due to its stoner humor, actually turned out to be much more.

Abbi and Ilana do smoke a lot of weed, but they also empower women through their sexual liberation, whether they’re talking about wanting pink d--- or “pegging” their neighbors.

They also live in a way that’s much more relatable than, say, "Girls." Jacobson and Glazer know that sometimes to make it in New York you have to steal and sell all your office supplies, drum in the streets, or clean a grown man dressed as a baby’s apartment in your underwear (well, maybe it’s not totally realistic).

"Broad City" is full of non-stop laughs, and now into its second season, these women have truly found their voice. It’s safe to assume that Jacobson and Glazer have bright comedic futures ahead of them.

Ellie Kemper

Why you should know her: She's Netflix's newest star

Ellie Kemper is the star of Netflix’s newest original series, "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," a comedy created by Tina Fey about a woman who escapes from a cult she’s been trapped in for years, and restarts her life in New York City.

While this is her first starring role, fans of comedy know that Kemper's been around for years.

After college she moved to NYC, where she made waves in the local comedy scene, working in the People’s Improv Theatre and at Upright Citizen’s Brigade.

However, her big break for mainstream audiences was being cast in "The Office’s" fifth season, as Erin, the perky and optimistic secretary filling in for Pam. She’s also had supporting roles in the hit movies "Bridesmaids" and "21 Jump Street."

Ellie Kemper’s wide-eyed and cheerful brand of humor landed her the leading role on today’s hottest platform for TV shows, and will likely keep her working for years to come.

Kate McKinnon

Why you should know her: She's more than just a Justin Bieber impression

Since 2012, Kate McKinnon has worked her way up to being a fan-favorite cast member on "Saturday Night Live." Before she was cast, she started her career on Logo’s "Big Gay Sketch Show," which she was in for all three seasons.

Today, as "SNL’s" first openly lesbian cast member, she is best-known for her spot-on impressions of Justin Bieber (which puts Jimmy Fallon’s to shame), as well as Ellen Degeneres, Angela Merkel, and many more.

She’s also great in sketches with original characters, like the well-known “Dyke & Fats,” which she stars in with another "SNL" cast member, Aidy Bryant.

McKinnon is great at playing ridiculous characters, and was even nominated for an Emmy. Coming up, she will continue to kill on "SNL," and she has a new movie coming out, "Sisters," starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

She will also star in the new "Ghostbusters" reboot, alongside more established comedians Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.

Quitting a job isn't easy, no matter what the circumstances.

But there are smart — and reckless — ways to go about it.

LinkedIn recently asked the top minds in business to share their best advice for quitting a job.

Here's what Richard Branson, Suze Orman, and six other super-successful people had to say.

Richard Branson says you should use the opportunity to build bridges, not burn them.

Richard Branson has never had an actual boss to whom he could say, "I quit!" — which is one of the perks of being a lifelong entrepreneur. But he has had talented employees leave Virgin to pursue their own entrepreneurial endeavors.

The ones who have left and have gone on to succeed are the ones that quit gracefully, he explains.

"All of them left with the best wishes of their previous companies, we've all stayed friends, and I'm sure there will be opportunities for us to collaborate further in the future," writes the Virgin Group founder. 

Hid advice for you: Explain your reasoning; share your vision for the future; and make an effort to keep in touch. "Who knows what the future will hold?"

Maintaining the relationships you have worked hard to create is important. "Think twice before you burn your bridges — build some instead!" he advises.

Read his full post here.

Suze Orman says to trust your instincts.

"Listen when your gut tells you to move on," writes Suze Orman. 

It was the personal finance guru's own gut feeling that prompted her to end her show with CNBC after 13 years and 638 episodes.  

"About a year ago, something started to change. I woke up one morning, and I knew that it was time to end the Suze Orman Show," she explains of her decision. "My heart knew it was time for me to go." 

This decision also put her in the driver's seat: "Lets face it: If you stay on for the wrong reasons, your eventual exit will likely not be on your own terms. By taking the initiative to recognize I needed to move on, I have had the great experience of leaving without regret or acrimony."

Read her full post here.

Robert Herjavec says it's important to remember that quitting doesn't mean you're failing.

"The way I see it, quitting isn't losing," writes the "Shark Tank" investor. "It's simply changing direction."

Herjavec likes to use the term "pivoting," rather than "quitting," because people automatically equate quitting with failure.

"Call it what you will but quitting a strategy, or a job, should not be seen as failure. We can't win at everything we do," he says.

The trick is finding what you're good at, and this opportunity often arises from quitting, which is why Herjavec calls it "a blessing in disguise — an opportunity to pivot to something greater."

Read his full post here.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are shrouded in myth and tragedy.

The International Olympic Committee granted the German capital the right to host in 1931, just as Adolf Hitler was rising to power.

By the time the games rolled around, the oppressive Nuremberg laws were in effect, and the Olympic flag hung alongside banners bearing the swastika.

Today, the 1936 Olympic Village, which actually lies in Elstal, Wustermark, on the edge of Berlin, remains, but it is in ruins. Photographer Sylvain Margaine visited for his book, "Forbidden Places: Exploring our abandoned heritage," and website Forbidden-Places.net. With permission, we've published a selection of his photos here.

In 1931, Berlin won the right to host the 1936 Summer Games. The city threw all available resources behind an extravagant village, erecting 145 buildings and a 120,000-seat stadium.

As construction of the Olympic Village ramped up, so did the Nazis' reign. The newly passed Nuremberg Laws marginalized Jews and stripped them of most political rights.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Here we see Hitler, center, and two aides enter the Olympic Village for an inspection. The gateway inscription reads, "To the Youth of the World."

It’s a scientific fact that Indian food tastes good, mainly thanks to the abundance of spices and flavors.

There’s also quite a variety in Indian cuisine, with dishes ranging from North to South and sometimes by kitchen to kitchen. Punjabi, Bengali, Rajasthani, Goan, Gujarati, and Maharashtrian are just the tip of the delicious iceberg.

And that doesn’t even take into account all of the Anglicized versions of classic Indian dishes, from curry to chutney.

Here are nine authentic Indian dishes you should try instead of the Western knockoffs.

Instead of chicken tikka masala, order chicken tikka 

As the story goes, an Indian chef named Ali Ahmed Aslam invented chicken tikka masala dish while cooking in Scotland. The improvised mixture of yogurt, cream, spices, and tomato soup was poured over chicken after a customer complained about the meat being too dry. Wherever it originated, the dish caught on with the Western palate.

And while the sauce does add a lot to the flavor of the dish, a much more authentic meal to try would be chicken tikka, boneless chicken pieces baked on skewers after marinating in spices and yogurt (basically tandoori chicken, but without the bone).

Instead of eating naan with every meal, try making rotis instead

Most British and American eaters will only consume their Indian food with a side of naan bread. And while the naan is the same baked fluffy flatbread that is eaten in India, it’s usually only reserved for special occasions.

Roti is the bread-of-choice in India. Roti is unleavened wheat-flour bread that is thinner than naan, and can be paired with just about anything from honey and cream for breakfast to curries.

Instead of dishes made with curry powder, try using a more unique mixture of spices 

What we think of as “curry” are dishes that have been cooked with curry powder, typically with pre-mixed flavors of turmeric, ginger, chillies, and coriander, among others.

But the word “curry” was coined by the English and is an oversimplification of Indian cuisine, which uses a variety of spices (masalas) all individually added as you cook so that the mixture is much more unique and varying depending on the region and sometimes by specific kitchen. 

A few of the key spices to have on hand are turmeric powder, cumin seeds, coriander power, cinnamon, red chili or cayenne powder, cardamom, ginger, garlic, and mustard seeds. Don’t be afraid to branch out and experiment.

Instead of mango or “Major Grey’s Chutney,” try different kinds of chutneys

Chutney was a favorite among the British when Imperialism was still in its heyday. The most famous was Major Grey’s Chutney with mango, vinegar, raisins, lime juice, onion, tamarind, and other spices.

But there are so many different chutneys to try, most of which are less jam-like and more runny than the Anglo-Indian counterparts. 

In Indian cuisine, chutneys can range the gamut from sweet to savory. Pineapple, coconut, olive, walnut, and fig are just some of the variants — it it’s a fruit, spice, or herb, you can make a chutney with it.

Instead of eating kedgeree, try the much more authentic khichdi

Though American readers may not be as familiar with kedgeree, it’s a type of British curried rice usually made with smoked haddock and hard-boiled eggs with some curry powder thrown in. Needless to say, it is a British version of an authentic Indian dish. 

It likely originated from khichdi, a rice and lentils dish that varies heavily by region. No matter what recipe you choose, it’s generally considered to be comfort food and makes a fantastic side. It ranges from plain (lentils, rice, and salt) to chock-full of veggies and spices.

Instead of ordering mulligatawny soup, try rasam over rice

Surprise, surprise — another British version of a classic Indian recipe. Mulligatawny, loosely translated as “pepper water," is made with chicken or lamb broth, vegetables, and lots of spices. 

It’s based on a sauce known as rasam that’s typically eaten with rice, though it can also be eaten as a soup. It’s usually prepared with tamarind juice, tomato, chili pepper, pepper, and cumin, though there are many different kinds of rasam to enjoy. 

Instead of the Anglicized comfort food meatball curry, order malai kofta

Meatball curry is an Anglo-Indian comfort food classic with minced beef or chicken, coriander, chilies, potatoes and more all simmered into a delicious and easy meal.

For a more authentic and still tasty counterpart, try malai kofta. It’s a North Indian meal with fried vegetable balls and tomato-based gravy with coriander, cumin, chillies, cardamom, cream, and more. This is a good one for any vegetarians out there, too.

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