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Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice were two strangers with a similar outlandish idea. After a serendipitous lunch meeting, they decided to spin that idea into a fitness empire. Meet the founders of SoulCycle.

The Wallenda family have performed tightrope walking stunts for eight generations. Under the big top, between skyscrapers and across Niagara Falls, the troupe perseveres in reaching new heights.

Chef Chuck White and Anne Churchill cook for rock stars and pop sensations on tour. Their food is the glue that keeps the band and crew grounded. We join them on the road in their roadside kitchen stocked full of surprises.

Curatio is an app that matches people coping with the same health challenges around the world. Kind of like a (non-creepy) Tinder for wellness. Together users are more informed, better supported and more motivated to achieve their health goals.

Newcomers to teamwork — kids taking on their first group projects — give their advice on surviving the sometimes awkward, often acrimonious, give and take of teamwork. We have so much to learn.

You know those people that always seem to know how to get impossibly good deals on airfares and upgrades? LoungeBuddy co-founder Tyler Dikman is one of those people. And he has the tips to prove it.

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What is multitasking exactly? And how on earth do you get good at it? Can you get good at it? We have so many questions, and neuroscientist Kelly Garner has answers.

Breaking up with bad habits is hard to do. Author and speaker Gretchen Rubin has been there, done that, and has some excellent advice on how you can do it too.

Kaggle is an online platform that gathers a community of number crunchers, analytics soothsayers and data wizards (of the technical kind, there’s no actual wizardry involved, we don’t think). Together they build machine learning algorithms that can do anything from grading high school papers to diagnosing eye diseases.

Longtime New Yorker copy editor and bestselling author Mary Norris schools us (gently) on writing well. She also explains why this skill still reigns supreme over automated spell-check, which is a sobering thought given how terrible some of us around here are at grammar. :facepalm: