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If you’re looking for a massive chakra reset (or just a break from the dinosaurs), rock out in the American Museum of Natural History’s largest hippie attraction: the 12-foot-tall, 9,000+ pound amethyst geode from Uruguay now anchoring the Halls of Gems and Minerals.

You don’t know how important your dreams are until you don’t have any. No, we’re not talking about depression or ennui — we’re talking about literal dreamless sleep, and a new study says that as a society we have collectively entered “Dream Deprivation” in epidemic proportions. New research from University of Arizona psychologist Rubin Naiman focuses on dream loss and the ensuing public health crisis that a lack of REM sleep is causing us overall.

A sign of the death knell of the post-recession, Make-it-Do-Again era, many major retailers have recently begun offering basic life skills classes and online tutorials for young adults who never learned DIY things as simple as how to use a measuring tape and need YouTube videos to show them how. Yes, really. This week, the Wall Street Journal reports that some of America’s biggest names in retail are shifting their marketing strategies to include education for the 4.

Of course everyone’s favorite young adult thriller writer would share his office with a skeleton, a giant cockroach, and a real-life version of his famously homicidal ventriloquist dummy, Slappy. This week on the New York Times‘ video tour series The Daily 360, we get a peek inside R.L.

The Japanese have long been known for their strange and silly yet often wildly efficient vending machines, and American businesses are finally catching on — providing an ever-increasing assortment of products at your fingertips with the simple swipe of your credit card and the selection of a box number.

It’s no secret that modern Americans love our doggos — to the tune of 89 million dog-owning households — and that we sometimes (always?) base decisions around whether or not the dog can tag along. But where, exactly, is the most dog-obsessed city in the country? According to the methodology in this new research from WalletHub, which ranked the 100 most populated U.S.

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to traipse New York City and see its streets through the eyes — and stiletto-clad heels — of Carrie Bradshaw, then now is your chance. Sarah Jessica Parker has partnered up with Airbnb Experiences to offer four lucky fans the chance to shop and tour Manhattan for a day — not just alongside a legendary New Yorker, but with the actual actress who played Carrie Bradshaw (for six seasons and two movies) as your tour guide.

If your bargain loving self thrives in the face of disorganization and feeds off the thrill of the hunt, then we have a website redesign that you’re going to love. This week, The Onion nails perfectly what it would be like to shop your favorite discount retailers—if their websites were just like their stores. Like the digital equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the wall, The Onion’s fake T.J.

Pagans of the good times will love this design award-winning church conversion loft in London, which is now available for rent for approximately $1,000 per week. Hallelujah, travel gods. In the North East London borough of Waltham Forest, just about 10 miles by Tube to downtown London via Charing Cross station, the Chingford chapel loft on Buxton Road features two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, dining for 12, and enough designer appeal to bring one to their knees.

The latest security breach at Equifax means, as Forbes personal finance guru Tim Maurer said: Unfortunately, we now live in a world where it’s not a question of if, but when, we will deal with having all or part of our identity stolen. The most recent panic attack about our personal information came last week, when consumer credit reporting bureau Equifax announced a cybersecurity incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S.

As anyone who loves someone who snores can attest, getting a good night’s sleep is one of the hardest things to come by in your day-to-day life. But it’s pretty important for a happy relationship, according to a new study featured in the New York Times yesterday.

“We spend more time clicking ‘like’ than we do planning for retirement.” It was a Prudential investment planning billboard that snapped me out of my head and back to reality—a sad, sardonic chuckle escaping my mouth as I read it aloud. Too true.

Thanks to a new exclusive partnership with virtual interior design service Laurel & Wolf, you can now DIY and decorate your home in one step through The Home Depot. Called the Home Depot Pro Referral Service, the program will integrate Home Depot’s existing Pro Referral service into Laurel & Wolf’s digital design platform, essentially referring its customers to Laurel & Wolf depending on their project needs, according to news from Architectural Digest.

Slate Vault has uncovered some drawings for an alternate vision of one of America’s greatest public spaces: New York City’s Central Park.

Time to cash in those vintage casseroles, Pyrex lovers: it turns out that the hoard of collectibles hiding in your hutch could actually be worth beaucoup bucks. As NPR reports this week, some pieces of vintage Pyrex glassware are now selling for as much as $3,000 per piece.

Imagine being able to order a new-to-you outfit to wear to that thing tonight — in your size, plus a backup size — the same way you’d order groceries for tonight’s dinner from Instacart. And from just $30. That’s the genius idea behind Rent the Runway’s new Same-Day Delivery Service, launching today in NYC.

Europeans have been doing the wine thing so well for so long that it’s no shocker they felt the need to take things up a notch. Dig deep and (literally) dive into these two wild new wine experiences.

Baby Boomers and Millennials are the two biggest cohorts of humans alive today, and at completely opposite ends of the age spectrum, but they have more in common and to offer each other than we think. And a new class of apps is setting out to enhance those connections — one by playing matchmaker with their living arrangements.