5 Topics Everyone Will Be Discussing Over Brunch

5 Topics Everyone Will Be Discussing Over Brunch

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Topics that are sure to go great with your mimosa.


$20K Hermès Birkin bags ‘Smell Like Marijuana’, Page Six

Hermès’ iconic bag, the Birkin, has a pungent problem: Customers are returning some recent orders of the wildly expensive bags to the boutiques, complaining they smell of marijuana. Customers — some of whom have paid $20,000 or more for the exclusive bags — have been told by staff at the luxury goods store that there was a problem with a “badly tanned” batch of leather from a supplier to Hermès.

Hey, Giants Fans: Now You Can Get Your Own Buster Posey Ringtone, SF Weekly

Blue Scout Music sent us some ringtones to pump up our readers, and full-time Giants fanatics, during the postseason. They said they had some fun while creating the tones, and we believe them.

This 12-Year-Old Invented A Robot That Could Help End Malaria, The Huffington Post

David Cohen understands that mosquitoes aren't just pesky annoyances -- they're global killers, too. That's why the 12-year-old from Dallas invented a robot that drowns the pests using a pump-jet system that traps them underwater using mesh. He submitted his work to the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge earlier this year and is one of the competition's ten finalists.

This Rental Market Is Messing Up Relationships, The Bold Italic

For most people, living in San Francisco means making the choice to spend a sizable chunk of your income on rent. It also means when you find a great apartment or room that you can actually afford, you hold onto that place for dear life. But what happens when you fall in love and are thinking about living together? For many of us, as Facebook says, it’s complicated.

Apple and Facebook Pay for Female Employees to Freeze Eggs, Wired

According to a report from NBC News, Apple will start paying for the costs of egg freezing for their female employees beginning in January, following in the footsteps of Facebook. It’s all part of a recent movement among Silicon Valley companies to bolster their arsenal of perks for female workers, which include everything from giving employees $4,000 in “baby cash” to use however they choose (Facebook) to paying for fertility treatments up to $15,000 (Apple).

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