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☆ I take dozens of flights a year as an airline reporter. I always go for the aisle seat — even if it costs extra money
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementFor example, earlier this year, I paid about $100 to snag aisle seats on Finnair flights between New York and Helsinki. I want the freedom to move about the cabin wheneverThe reason I'll pay extra for the aisle seat is two-fold. I opted for a center-section aisle seat on an Air India flight in January, paying an extra $50 for it. The aisle seat lets me stretch an arm or leg out when needed, giving me just enough wiggle room. I paid for my aisle seat for a reason, so I'm within my right to say no.

Persons: —, I've, Taylor Rains, I'm Organizations: Service, Delta Air Lines, All Nippon Airways, Atlantic Airways, Spirit Airlines, Business, Air India, Norse Atlantic Airways, Air, British Airways, Ryanair Locations: New York, Helsinki, Air India

☆ The double-level airplane seat is back. This time, there’s a first-class version
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

He’s spent his twenties – all five years of them so far – perfecting his vision for economy class dual-level seating. At 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 meters), Núñez Vicente was used to cramped airplane journeys in which he struggled for legroom and struggled to sleep. He imagines the Chaise Longue seats in the middle of each cabin, flanked by regular seating on either side. Testing out the conceptHere's the lower level of the business-class/first-class version of the dual-level seat concept. Here's Núñez Vicente demonstrating what it's like to lie flat in the lower level seat.

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☆ Hannah Waddingham says her controversial 'Game of Thrones' waterboarding scene left her with 'chronic claustrophobia'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewYou might have heard Hannah Waddingham refer to filming her waterboarding scene in "Game of Thrones" as "the worst day" of her entire life. During the interview, she reflected on another trying filming experience: her time as Septa Unella on "Game of Thrones." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Septa Unella's death scene in "Game of Thrones." AdvertisementHeadey, who was on the opposite side of the scene, told Business Insider in 2021 that it was a "shit time" for Waddingham.

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☆ 9 things people get wrong about sociopaths, according to a sociopath
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The lack of available care for sociopaths inspired Gagne to pursue a PhD in psychology, where she specialized in the relationship between sociopathy and anxiety. Sociopaths do feel emotions, just not "social" onesSociopaths are often depicted in media as devoid of feelings entirely. As an adult researching sociopathy and going to therapy, she learned that sociopaths — and even psychopaths — can feel basic emotions. Related storiesWhile research on the diagnoses is still limited, Gagne says experts believe that, unlike psychopaths, sociopaths can feel anxiety and also show signs of learning right from wrong. They don't understand why some things are "wrong"Throughout the book, Gagne explains how she finds it difficult to identify "bad" behavior.

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☆ Hannah Waddingham showed off a scar she got from punching an actor in a 'The Fall Guy' fight scene
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hannah Waddingham said she got a scar from punching someone in a fight scene for "The Fall Guy." Waddingham told "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" that she asked to be part of a fight. Waddingham wouldn't reveal who she fought in the scene. AdvertisementHannah Waddingham showed off a scar she got while shooting a fight scene for her upcoming movie "The Fall Guy" on Monday's episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Waddingham told Collider in 2021 that it was the "worst day of my life," and she was now claustrophobic around water.

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☆ ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ review: Ewan McGregor traces Russian history from the prison of a hotel in Showtime series
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Spanning decades of Russian history from the confines of a luxury hotel, “A Gentleman in Moscow” provides another strong TV showcase for Ewan McGregor, this time playing opposite his wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. At the same time, the show manages to be quite funny and even romantic, nicely developing the other lives that Alexander touches. Plus, there’s the added kick of seeing McGregor and Winstead (who met shooting the third season of FX’s “Fargo”) sink their teeth into such juicy, flamboyant roles. And while Alexander might not be able to leave, viewers who voluntarily check into the Hotel Metropol will have plenty of reasons to enjoy their stay. “A Gentleman in Moscow” premieres March 29 on Paramount+ with Showtime and March 31 at 9 p.m.

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☆ I've been in a wheelchair for 27 years. I love traveling by plane, but it's also when I'm the most vulnerable.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Ryan Rae Harbuck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Traveling by air makes me feel vulnerable, stuck in a seat without my wheelchair. I was stuck in that seat because the only way I could get up was with the use of my wheelchair. This is taken as what's expected if you ever want to go anywhere as a wheelchair user, though. I've been paralyzed since I was 16Having been paralyzed for nearly 27 years, I have spent many vulnerable moments relying on trust and growth. Being a wheelchair user has been complicated and even unfair at times.

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☆ How this cult Japanese artist’s eerie paintings foretold our digital malaise
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier. An untitled 2004 acrylic and oil painting by late Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida from the Gagosian retrospective "My Anxious Self." Ishida, who had gone to art school, worked part-time at a print shop and as a night security guard. Many of the 200 or so paintings Ishida completed in his lifetime portray the gloom of becoming a cog in the economic machine. Another painting entitled "Gripe," painted by Ishidia in 1996, portrays a Japanese salaryman with lobster claws for hands.

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☆ I spent Valentine's Day at the bottom of a coal mine. It was the highlight of that relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Charlotte Ahlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I spent a Valentine's Day in an active coal mine. The relationship only lasted months, but that is still one of my most memorable Valentine's Day. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIt was Valentine's Day, and I was taking a zipline into hell. Or rather, I was suspended from a swinging bicycle seat, descending into an active coal mine.

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☆ Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Susan, a 30-something artist, lived in New York City when the pandemic struck. The pair had talked about moving to a smaller town someday — the pandemic just shortened their timeline. As rent prices in big cities shot up and jobs went remote, cash-strapped people were quick to take advantage of an unprecedented situation and try someplace new. It was also a favor to her husband, who never felt at peace in the bustle of the big city. A few months ago, she and her husband found a renter for their house and returned to the city.

Persons: Susan, Eager, Riordan Frost, Millennials, Frost, Alex Gatien, he's, Gatien, Alexander von Hoffman, von Hoffman, Sandro Galea, Galea, Kelli María Korducki Organizations: Harvard's, for Housing Studies, National Association of Realtors, New, Boston University School of Public, Boston University School of Public Health Locations: New York City, McMansions, Toronto, St, Lawrence, Canada, New York

Impossible is often just a starting point on a Christopher Nolan film and “Oppenheimer,”about the father of the atomic bomb, was no exception. She told them at the time that if there were ever a zombie apocalypse, they were the people she’d want to be with. “Every day there’s something that happens and you have to figure out a way out of it. It was the perfect claustrophobic, unglamourous and period-specific setting for a humiliating ordeal designed to make Oppenheimer feel small. When he glued it all together, it sounded perfect — but perfect felt wrong.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Dark, terrifying, claustrophobic.’ What it’s like inside Hamas’ tunnels
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jennifer Smith | Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

In the decade since, she has done extensive research into Hamas’ tunnel system as well as the underground network built by Hezbollah. Peter Bergen: What’s it like inside a Hamas tunnel? A Hamas fighter appears inside an underground tunnel in Gaza in 2014. Israeli soldiers went into Hamas’ tunnels during Operation Protective Edge, and they were not trained and not equipped, and there was combat in the tunnels. Bergen: Is a dog force used by Israel inside tunnels?

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☆ A Slow-Fuse Tale of Obsession and Marital Claustrophobia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Sarah Lyall | More About Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As summer moves into its most languorous days, it’s a perfect time to dive into books about love, obsession and madness. You would be hard-pressed to find a more unhealthy example of obsession than that of the narrator in Maud Ventura’s MY HUSBAND (HarperVia, 260 pp., $28.99), a cautionary tale about marital claustrophobia translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. “I think of my husband all the time; I wish I could text him all day,” says the woman, a beautiful mother of two who lives in an elegant house in the Parisian suburbs. But she restrains herself. “I know I have to control myself in order to love.”

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☆ Why this viral photo of the world’s largest cruise ship is polarizing opinion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The world’s largest cruise ship hasn’t welcomed a single passenger aboard yet, but it’s already set the internet on fire. But when an image of its stern section went viral in July, it polarized opinions, eliciting passionate reactions on all sides. The ship will be home to the world's largest water park at sea. “I think the Royal Caribbean enthusiasts are going to look at this and go ‘Wow, something new! “Royal Caribbean is notable for exceeding 100% capacity on their ships.

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☆ NASA runs a tiny, isolated cabin that simulates a year of life on Mars, and for some reason, they put a book about the psychological horrors of cave exploration in it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

What book would you pack if you were isolated in a Mars habitat with three other people for 378 days? The book includes descriptions of "psychological horrors produced by weeks in absolute darkness." Photographed in the Mars Dune Alpha's capsule library was a book titled "Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth," a novel by James Tabor. The living room/dining area inside of CHAPEA's Mars Dune Alpha at the Johnson Space center in Houston, Texas. "Ultimately, this information will help NASA make informed decisions to design and plan for a successful human mission to Mars," Douglas added.

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☆ The double-decker airplane seat is back. Here’s what it looks like now
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

It might not sound particularly appealing on paper, but 23-year-old airplane seat designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente believes double-level seating is the future of economy flying. You may have seen a photo of Núñez Vicente’s Chaise Longue Airplane Seat prototype floating around the internet. Núñez Vicente envisages an airplane cabin in which the Chaise Longue is in the center, flanked by two rows of regular airplane seating. He says he designed the Chaise Longue to solve the airplane seat conundrum – not make it worse. The earlier iteration of the Chaise Longue Airplane Seat at AIX 2022.

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☆ Flight attendants say it's okay to recline your seat on a plane, but there's one thing you should never do
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But if there's anybody who can settle the age-old debate, it's flight attendants. Five out of six flight attendants interviewed by Insider all agree: you have the right to recline. "It's definitely not rude to recline your seat," flight attendant Andrew Kothlow of the blog "Two Guys on a Plane" told Insider. "In first class reclining your seat isn't so rude because there's space to recline, but reclining in the main cabin of the plane is," the flight attendant told Insider. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesBut the passenger etiquette the flight attendants demonstrated more concern toward was their boldly bare-footed customers — and for good reason.

[1/8] Seho Uyan, who survived a deadly earthquake, but lost his four relatives, sits in front of a collapsed building in Adiyaman, Turkey February 11, 2023. Turkey said about 80,000 people were in hospital, with more than 1 million in temporary shelters. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths described the earthquake as the region's worst event in 100 years, predicting the death toll would at least double. He praised Turkey's response, saying his experience was that disaster victims were always disappointed by early relief efforts. It has killed 24,617 inside Turkey, and more than 3,500 in Syria, where tolls have not been updated since Friday.

☆ ‘The Menu’ Serves Fine Dining on a Skewer
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Moskin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Is the new thriller “The Menu” a parody of the state of fine dining? You’d think so: A small group of people pay astronomical sums to be isolated on an island, fed ingredients that wash up on the beach by employees who are trapped there, and subjected to the hospitality of a creative visionary who is secretly filled with rage. Yet much of this is a reality in the top tier of modern restaurants, a world that has become a fascination of popular culture. The movie is billed as “black comedy horror,” but the horror that stalks this Agatha Christie-style island is not gore; it’s gastronomy. Anyone who has ever felt trapped in a “chef’s tasting,” whether of four or 40 courses, will recognize the roller coaster of claustrophobia and euphoria, satiation and starvation that is “The Menu.”In interviews with the people who dreamed up the food in the film, the consensus was that the tropes of modern fine dining are so extreme that there’s little need to exaggerate them.

There are few monuments in the world as iconic as the Pyramids of Giza, a necropolis that dates back nearly 5,000 years. The first pyramid of the bunch I visited was the Dahshur necropolis' Red Pyramid, so named for its red limestone stones. After visiting the Red Pyramid, I talked to other tourists who had already paid extra to go in the Pyramids of Giza. They told me that going inside those pyramids yields the same collection of brick walls and narrow passageways, with one difference: There are a lot more people. August 2, 2023: A photo caption in this story was updated to clarify that the photo shows the Red Pyramid, not the Great Pyramid.

Locations: Giza, Egypt, Djoser, Unas

☆ Crying on airplanes: Do we tear up more when we fly?
▼ + stars: | 2018-10-17 | by ( Starre Vartan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

If you’re traveling solo, you’re locked inside a small space with a group of strangers for the duration of your flight. So what can you do if you feel emotional when you fly? Self-regulate what you are watching or listening to, and avoid media that would normally make you feel emotional, De Luca suggests. That’s easier than ever – and may even change how often crying while flying happens. “Crying by yourself isn’t memorable to you the way crying on a plane is,” said Groening.

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