There are 30 Best Business Hotels this year Here’s the first-place winner: 1. ST. REGIS Business Facilities Score: 99.0 “Always a wonderful experience here,” says one reader from Nashville, Tennessee. Located in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood, this 26-story hotel with a facade of semicircular windows is within walking distance of shopping, restaurants, and art galleries. …

Think tough guys don’t do ballet? Think again. Steelers’ nose tackle Steve McLendon has been honing his performance on the field since college by attending a weekly ballet class, continuing the Steel City tradition begun by Lynn Swann, but even he’s left in awe of the power of the professionals in this interview with ESPN’s …

Wondering whether your attempts to spread joy throughout the world via Twitter are working? The results of an interesting study from China’s Beihang University on how effective certain emotions are on social media have just been released, and while your warm fuzzies do show a tendency to spread, anger is far more likely to be …

Diana Adams at Bit Rebels has put together this terrific infographic called, 25 Customer Service Skills Every Company Should Require. Take a look at her interactive infographic, as well as her article about it, here: Bit Rebels. More stories about jobs. Photo credit: Diana Adams – Bit Rebels

The most excellent National Post’s infographic team is at it again. Jonathan Rivait, Mike Faille, Richard Johnson produced this. Sarin, allegedly used by the Syrian regime to kill more than 1,400 people on Aug. 21, is one of the most toxic and rapidly acting nerve agents. Developed in 1938 by Germany as a pesticide, sarin …

The life of a creative professional isn’t always smooth sailing, as Grant Snider explains so succinctly in his take on A Christmas Carol. Via Incidental Comics. The not-so-comic side of creativity.

Think touching your toes is tough? Try drinking tea with your feet, coming over your head backwards. That’s just one of the amazing tricks Guinness record holder Leilani Franco displays in the video that makes us wonder why we didn’t go to circus school. She currently holds the records for world’s fastest backbend walk, the …

Only in Paris would a classic dessert be deemed ready for a makeover and come out looking like it could hit the runway. Meet French pastry chef Christophe Adam, the man who made an éclair that looks almost too good to eat and well worth the five euros it takes to taste one. Parisians and tourists alike …

Not many people look at a soccer ball and see its architectural possibilities, but that was the inspiration for this unique, cheap and portable living structure designed, built and dwelt in by Bruce Hauman. Being a builder and noticing early on how expensive housing is I have had a lifelong fascination with alternative structures. Having built …

If you haven’t discovered the wonderful time-suck that is Reddit, prepare to lose many an hour of your life perusing “the front page of the Internet.” Before popping over, though, check out C.G.P. Grey’s explanation of the popular site, then sit back and enjoy. Full story at YouTube via Laughing Squid. Informative videos.

Have you ever been confounded by another country’s culture? Now that travel is dare I say, ubiquitous, knowing about other cultures and reactions matters. And so a Brit, Richard Lewis, decided to map out the world by its culutres. He is author of a book “When Cultures Collide”, which is considered “‘an authoritative roadmap to …

What’s ten feet long, has jaws powerful enough to snap a passing fish in two, could be haunting your aquarium and comes in the colors of a happy rainbow of death? Meet the Bobbit worm, possibly named after the news story that still makes men shudder the world over. According to Wired‘s Matt Simon: Using …