Adele Chapman

We All Know Peas Are Nutritious, But Here's Exactly Why

There’s a reason your mom made you eat your peas when you were a kid.<p>This vegetable (which is actually a seed of a fruit, botanically speaking) might be small, but it turns out to be a nutritional powerhouse. Ever wonder how, exactly?<p>First off, they’re a good source of fiber.<p>Just a half cup of peas …

Cancel the Apocalypse: Eating Cheese Is the Secret to Living a Long Life

It's the good news 2016 was crying out for.<p>It turns out humankind's greatest invention – cheese – could actually be the thing that saves you.<p>Already essential to any notion of a <i>happy</i> life, new research from<i>Nature Medicine</i> has linked cheese – or specifically a compound found in it called spermidine …

6 Cognitive Biases That Are Messing Up Your Decision Making | Inc.com

Over millions of years of evolution you'd think your brain would have gotten pretty good at thinking. But the truth is natural selection hasn't been nudging our brains to be ever more rational. It's been nudging them to keep us alive. Those aren't always the same thing.<p>If our brains were bad at …

Airbnb and its critics take to TV as tensions escalate

The battle between Airbnb and its critics is heating up on the televisions of New Yorkers and Washingtonians.<p>Airbnb is facing a "mid-six figure" TV …

13 of the coolest capsule hotels around the world

Size isn’t everything.<p>Sure, if you’re a chronic over-packer and like to spread out like a starfish on a giant hotel bed, a tiny room might not be …

Takeover: A second robot-run hotel to open in Japan

The first automated, "weird" hotel opened in Nagasaki last year. This second one, in Tokyo, will rely even less on humans.<p>If human interaction isn't what you want from your hotel stay, this may be the perfect place for you.<p>Known as the Henn na -- "weird" -- Hotel, the first one opened to the …

Go Ahead, Drink The Water!

The magnificent fresh water reservoir of Montsouris (<i>Le réservoir de Montsouris</i>), inside the belly of Paris, is one of the several receptacles the large city keeps under check to make sure all Parisians and visitors alike can get a glass of clean water.<p>The Réservoir, sometimes also called <i>Le</i> …

Robert Sijka Captures The Fierce Beauty of Maine Coons Cats

3.0K Shares<p>Comments<p>These days we are talking a lot about magnificent Maine Coons cats, but we simply can’t help ourselves, they are simply stunning. …

The Difference Between Being Happy and Being High

Breaking down how we decide which kinds of pleasure are acceptable and which ones are not OK.<p>Many people think of drug use, or other potentially addictive experiences like gambling, as more profane than sacred. Chemical or virtual highs, a lot of us believe, are cheap substitutes for genuine …

Here’s How You Can Get a Flight to Europe for $150

If you’re already thinking about how you’re going to spend your time away from the office this holiday season, please allow us to offer up a few suggestions: Why not catch a show in London’s West End or take a wander along the picturesque canals of Amsterdam? Or maybe spend a few days totally …

Accidental Fashion Illustrator Captures the Elegant Woman in Her Element

Elusive yet alluring figures populate the work of Kelly Beeman.<p>Desiring simply to incorporate clothing into her illustrations, Kelly Beeman highlights the sumptuousness of fashion—the way it can transform a figure and serve as eye candy for the viewer. In this way, she became a fashion illustrator …

The most beautiful clifftop hotels in the world

Private plunge pools aside, there are few things more thrilling and luxurious than a clifftop hotel.<p>Perhaps it’s the sheer seclusion, or the unobstructed views, or the feeling that you’re living on the edge—quite literally. From lofty hideouts on the Amalfi Coast to precariously-perched Balinese …

30 places in Europe you must see in your lifetime

If You Love Instagram, Here's Some Really Good News for You

Maybe social media does make everything better!<p>You know all those people who tell you to get off your phone and enjoy the "real world"? Screw 'em. A new study might just have proved them wrong.<p>Published in the <i>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology</i>, a group of three researchers conducted a …

Re-Gram: 9 Crag Cats

11.2K<p>SHARES<p>Crag dogs get all the love, but what about all the climber cats out there? We asked our readers to send us photos of their feline …