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If Chris Christie is done for and Marco Rubio isn’t ready (plus the water thing), could Mike Pence 2016 become an actual thing?

Breathless 2016 discussion time! Chris Christie: goose may be cooked. Marco Rubio: possibly his time? Mike Huckabee: lurking. Bobby Jindal: always lurking. All of them: would wake up on Election Day already in a huge hole to whoever the Democratic nominee is. And all of… Continue Reading

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Facebook turns 10 today, and 57 percent of all adults are using it. But the company has issues, to be sure.

If Facebook were a person — wrap your head around that for a second — it would now be in fourth grade. It debuted on February 4, 2004, so, by simple math, it turns 10 today. Weird. I’ve written about… Continue Reading

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Could Miles Teller become the next Leonardo DiCaprio?

First off, if you don’t know who “Miles Teller” is, here’s his IMDB. (Cue Troy McClure voice) You probably know him from movies like The Spectacular Now (trailer embedded above), 21 and Over, Project X, and That Awkward Moment (out right now with Zac Efron and Michael… Continue Reading

Could Jose Salvador Alvarenga really have survived 13 months or so floating at sea?

I used to read all those Alive books as a kid, because I thought there was a chance I’d be in an avalanche (I’ve never been skiing, in all honesty) or have to save my family from a fire (a small kitchen… Continue Reading

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24.9 million tweets were sent during Super Bowl 48 — and the scrollable refresh trigger is lining Twitter’s pockets

There’s a chart of the peak moments on Twitter during last night’s Super Bowl, via Twitter’s official blog. Overall 24.9 million tweets were sent — last year’s Super Bowl, which was a much closer game, had about 24.1 million tweets sent… Continue Reading

What Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, taught us about the world (and the true currency of being uncool)

The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman is certainly tragic, but it shouldn’t necessarily be called shocking — he was in rehab fairly recently. Clearly this was a struggle for him, and the struggle defeated him; it’s happened to many others who excelled at their… Continue Reading

About 45 Northwestern Kellogg MBA students will be analyzing Super Bowl ads tomorrow night (yay ADPLAN framework)

That M&Ms “Anything for Love” ad was one of the big winners of last year’s Super Bowl — along with, you know, the Baltimore Ravens — when a bunch of Northwestern MBA students get together and evaluate the ads on… Continue Reading

Would it be possible to develop your Super Bowl chili recipes via only YouTube? Seems plausible.

I’m a huge believer that you can learn things almost entirely from YouTube — a woman in Idaho basically built a house via YouTube videos — so it seems like the Super Bowl and what you eat should be no different.… Continue Reading