When you lose out on even just one night of sleep you end up binging on food, especially high calorie food, a new study suggests. 

Not only does a loss of sleep decrease your self-control and decision-making abilities, but it also seems to make you hungrier. These two factors work together to make you reach for that donut after losing sleep. 

"We hypothesized that sleep deprivation’s impact on hunger and decision making would make for the 'perfect storm' with regard to shopping and food purchasing—leaving individuals hungrier and less capable of employing self-control and higher-level decision-making processes to avoid making impulsive, calorie-driven purchases," study researcher Colin Chapman, of Uppsala University, said in a press release.

The new study was published Sept.5 in the journal Obesity. The researchers kept 14 normal-weight people away overnight, given breakfast, then gave them $50 to go grocery shopping. Half of the foods they could choose from were low-calorie, and half were high-calorie. 

The subjects ended up buying more calories, and more food, than they did if they weren't sleep deprived. Even though the men had eaten, they had higher levels of ghrelin in their blood, a hormone that makes you feel hungry and want to eat. 

The new study builds on a bunch of older research about sleep and obesity. When low on sleep our brains crave fattier foods, likely because they will provide a quick burst of energy.

Another study showed that losing sleep disrupts your metabolism, changing the way your fat cells respond to insulin, the hormone released when we eat sugar. Sleep deprived people reacted to insulin in ways similar to diabetics.

Keeping up a normal sleep schedule and get eight full hours a night may help people lose weight and eat less.

SEE ALSO: 12 Fascinating Facts About Sleep From Around The World

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Although it has a growing number of rivals, Macau, the world’s casino capital, is set for a new boom.

"THE Las Vegas of the Far East" is how Sheldon Adelson, an American gambling magnate and boss of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, has long described Macau. A decade ago, when Sin City was king and the tiny Chinese territory was still a backwater, such a claim would have been laughably implausible. Today, it is an insult to Macau. Its casinos’ turnover last year, of $38 billion, was more than six times the Las Vegas strip’s takings. With vast numbers of Chinese consumers now finding they have the money to indulge their passion for gambling, Macau’s baccarat tables are busier than ever.

Though gambling has been legal for a century and a half in this former Portuguese territory, its casinos were typically small and seedy. Many moons ago our correspondent remarked to Stanley Ho, a tycoon who held a monopoly on gambling in Macau till 2002, on the large number of prostitutes in his casino. He replied dryly that he was shocked, shocked to hear of their presence.

The times are changing, and Macau is starting to clean up its act. The arrival in force of American casino operators, who must answer for their behaviour overseas to regulators back home, helps. The liberalisation of local licensing laws has brought a number of mega-casinos to Macau, including a supersized clone of Mr Adelson’s Venetian casino in Las Vegas.

The opening of glitzy new venues has fuelled explosive growth. Between 2008 and 2012 Macau’s gambling revenues grew by 29% a year on average. Now, no other casino venue comes close (see chart 1).

Macau’s rise to the top of the gambling league is part of a broader shift in this $160 billion a year global industry. As recently as 2010 the United States made up nearly half of the global gambling market by revenue, while the Asia-Pacific region made up only about 30%. PwC, a consultancy, reckons that by 2015 the latter will be the biggest market.

Macau’s rise owes much to a collision of geography, history and Communist dogma. Chinese love to gamble, but the government has long forbidden casinos on the mainland. It did, however, let them continue to operate in Macau after the Portuguese handed over sovereignty in 1999. Macau, like its close neighbour Hong Kong, has a degree of legal autonomy and is also just a few hours’ flying time or less from a billion potential punters.

Even so, Macau’s spectacular growth was due not to mass tourism, as in Las Vegas, but to its success in attracting "high-rollers". Mainland businessmen and Communist Party officials, organised by intrepid junket operators, have poured in. This is in large part because, unlike heavily regulated casinos in America, casino firms here do not ask too many questions about who these big spenders are or where they get their money.

They outsource such tasks to the junketeers, who typically find the fat cats and fly them to Macau, extend them credit to get around China’s tight currency controls and manage the VIP gambling rooms. In effect, they run autonomous casinos within casinos, shielding the licence-holder from the seedier aspects of the trade. For example, the collection of gambling debt is not permitted through the court system in China, so the junket operators quietly use whatever other means are necessary back home to collect.

Macau may have bested faraway Vegas, but its dominance is now being challenged by rivals in its own backyard. Singapore’s two newish casinos have, in just a few years, become among the most successful in the world, in part by poaching some of Macau’s best customers. More troubling for the Macanese operators, as the next article explains, ambitious new casino projects are now popping up everywhere in the region, from Japan to the Philippines and Australia to the Russian far east.

The billionaire developers and politicians behind these ventures all believe they can lure Chinese high-rollers away from the territory. A Chinese businessman who has often entertained wealthy clients in Macau’s casinos adds that the new Chinese leadership’s crackdown on official corruption and flaunting of wealth are leading clients to consider new venues far from its reach: "Beijing has too many cameras watching us in Macau."

Michael French, chief operating officer of the Solaire, the first of four casinos to open in Manila’s new Entertainment City, recently claimed that "If we can get 7% of Macau business to come here, then we all achieve our goals for the market." Frigid Vladivostok may seem an unlikely threat, but its aspiring casino-builders (a group that includes Mr Ho’s son) point out that it requires less time for a high-roller in Beijing to fly there than to steamy Macau.

Big betters from the mainland have clearly played an important role in fuelling Macau’s past growth. Even today they make up 60-65% of the revenues of its large casinos. So could the poaching of high-rollers take the wind out of Macau’s sails?

In fact there are several reasons to think that Macau’s brightest days may still lie ahead. The most important is that unlike rival destinations, which must typically be reached by air from China, Macau’s physical attachment to the mainland (it is composed of a peninsula and islands) means it can easily and cheaply be reached by land. So it has an alternative to the high-flyers: the mass market.

Low-rollers from neighbouring Guangdong province have long come to Macau, usually on day trips. Indeed, the average visitor to the territory still stays less than two days, whereas in Las Vegas the norm is closer to a week. The great unwashed may seem an unattractive market compared with the monied elite, but here is the surprise: low-rollers bring in more profits.

That is because enticing high-rollers involves enormous subsidies, ranging from fancy suites and champagne to less savoury perks, whereas ordinary punters get none. So even though VIPs still make up most of the revenue of Macau’s big casinos, it is the mass market that delivers the majority of the profits (see chart 2).

Punters galore

What is more, the number of ordinary visitors is about to take off, as links to the mainland improve. Chinese officials are expanding capacity at the border-control post between the mainland and Macau, which is typically clogged with thousands of impatient gamblers. They will experiment with an electronic visa scheme and dedicated entry lanes later this year, hoping to reduce waiting times to a few minutes.

China recently completed several high-speed rail links in the south of the country. In the past, perhaps 100m people could get to Macau in a few hours by rail; now several times as many will be able to. Another hindrance to mass tourism has been the territory’s small airport, which has little capacity to expand and few cheap flights. An ambitious series of bridges is being built that will connect Macau with Hong Kong’s huge international airport.

The airport link in particular will help Macau realise a grander mass-market dream: going beyond gambling to family tourism. Hong Kong has non-stop flights, including low-cost ones, from many places. In a few years gamblers, conventioneers and all sorts of tourist will be able to take a taxi or bus from Hong Kong airport straight to Macau. It is possible to make that journey by hour-long ferry today, but that nuisance puts off many.

One big obstacle remains, however: at under 30 square kilometres, Macau seems too minuscule to support mass tourism. Because land is so scarce, property prices are sky-high, hotel rooms are costly and family-friendly amusements are hard to find. A casino executive puts it bluntly: "There’s just not much to do here." Ah, but Macau has an ace in the hole.

Floating not far off Macau’s Cotai casino strip, and connected by the Lotus bridge, is Hengqin. This thinly populated island, three times the size of Macau, belongs to Guangdong. But mainland officials have designated it a special economic zone, complete with tax breaks and subsidies. They are keen to develop it in ways that support Macau’s aspirations for mass-market tourism.

Cheap land and labour are already luring developers to build facilities on Hengqin, such as cheap hotel rooms, that will boost Macau’s gambling business. Galaxy Entertainment, a local casino firm, is looking into buying a tract there. Chimelong Group, a Chinese firm that runs the country’s largest amusement park, is spending $2 billion on an ocean theme park, to open later this year. This is the first of ten such parks planned in an effort to turn the isle into "the Orlando of China".

"Hengqin is the game changer for Macau," insists Edward Tracy, the head of Sands China. His group’s casinos in the territory have long focused on the mass market, and been rewarded for their prescience. In its latest quarter, profits more than trebled compared with a year earlier, to $488m. Mr Tracy says the margins on his mass-market business top 40%.

Non-gambling activities such as entertainment and conferences are a big, and growing, share of Sands’s business. The shops inside its Macau casinos will have takings of $2 billion this year, for example, of which $250m-300m will be profit. Mr Tracy is bringing in shows ranging from boxing matches to Bollywood awards ceremonies. He recently agreed on a collaboration with DreamWorks, the Hollywood studio behind the "Shrek" and "Transformers" films. "Mass entertainment is the key to the mass market," he says.

The heavy investment in attractions for mass-market tourists is one of the main reasons why Macau is likely to thrive despite the growing competition from new gambling venues across the Asia-Pacific region. Another is that Macau’s casinos are not resting on their laurels but spending heavily on becoming ever bigger and more glamorous. Galaxy claims that when its $7.7 billion expansion is finished its already huge Galaxy Macau casino will be bigger even than the Pentagon. One of the Ho family’s companies, SJM, said in August that its huge new resort on the Cotai strip would include a hotel designed by Versace, an Italian luxury fashion house.

Friends in high places

Another lingering edge that Macau can rely on is a friendly government--and policy matters more in gambling than in most other industries. Praveen Choudhary of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, says Macau’s new casinos gained an edge because operators were allowed to build at world-beating scale; in contrast, Singapore limits the size of its casinos and discourages locals from visiting them. A regional money-laundering expert says the requirements to "know your customer" and report suspicious transactions are far less burdensome in Macau than in America.

If, as some hope, Macau’s government lifts its arbitrary limit on the number of gambling tables, investors will pour in even more money. Robert Goldstein, president of global gambling operations at the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, makes this bold prediction about Macau: "It’s going to be the world’s first $100 billion market."

If China were to suffer a significant economic slowdown, that would only postpone the day that this level of turnover is reached. Macau is in prime position to reel in the surging numbers of new consumers from China and across the region. All its new rivals can hope is that there will be enough business left over for them. There probably will.

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West African country Togo is the world's least happy country, according to the second annual World Happiness Report from the United Nations General Assembly.

Neighboring country Benin was the second least happy, followed by the Central African Republic, Burundi, and Rwanda. Civil war-torn country Syria was the ninth least happy country in the world.

The World Happiness Report ranks countries based on six key factors that contribute to happiness, including GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, having someone to count on, perceived freedom to make life choices, freedom from corruption, and generosity.

This year's list, created to inform policy choices, was topped by Scandinavian countries, while Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa regions ranked lowest for overall well-being. (Here's a cool map that gives a full rundown of the list.)

Below is the bottom third of a list of the happiest countries (colors explained at the bottom):

And click here to see the happiest countries in the world.

SEE ALSO: The 11 Most Miserable Cities In America

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We all want to live longer, healthier lives but there are hidden dangers all around us. Here are just a few of the tons of things we do every day that can shorten your lifespan without you knowing it.

1. Sitting

Bad news for office workers. Even if you regularly exercise, long periods of inactivity are unhealthy. A study published in 2012 in the journal BMJ Open estimated that individuals who reduced excessive sitting to less than three hours a day could add two years to their life expectancy.

2. Sleeping too much

Sleeping too little is of course bad for your health (and makes you gain weight), but sleeping too much can be equally harmful. A review of sleep studies showed that people who slept more than nine hours a night were at a 41% higher risk for heart disease than those who slept seven to eight hours a night.

3. Staring at a screen

Research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that spending more than four hours a day in front of a screen, like watching TV or surfing the Internet, can increase risk of heart attack and stroke by as much as 113%. Another study published in BMJ Open estimated that reducing screen time to less than two hours a day, individuals could add almost 1.4 years to their life expectancy.

4. Taking medication for non life-threatening illnesses

Taking medication for things like insomnia or anxiety could lower some people's life expectancy. In a 12-year study, published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, scientists found that individuals not taking such medications had about a 5% lower mortality rate than those taking medication.

5. Lacking a sense of humor

Laughter has a long list of health benefits according to the Mayo Clinic — it helps boost the immune system, reduces stress, and provides an emotional release. Laughing also burns calories.

6. A long commute

Not only does commuting take up lots of time on a daily basis, it may also be taking time away from your total life span. Unpublished work presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers suggested that people with commutes longer than 30 minutes die earlier than others. Long commutes mean less time for exercise and sleep— both of which contribute to a longer and healthier life. 

7. Stressing out

We've all heard that stress can be harmful to our health and immune system, but research published in the Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences suggests it can actually damage our very DNA. Compared to non-stressed people, study participants with chronic stress had shorter telomeres — the regions responsible for protecting and connecting the ends of DNA strands, so our genes don't degrade over time.

8. Not having sex

Having sex not only relieves stress, it burns calories and may even increase your life span. A Duke University study found that women with enjoyable sex lives lived almost eight years longer. Another study, in the journal BMJ, suggests that men who reported a higher frequency of orgasms had a 50% reduction in mortality.

9. Eating Poorly

Things like processed foods, too much red meat, and not enough fresh fruit and vegetables all can contribute to serious health problems. Excessive red meat consumption contributed to higher cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality, according to a study in the journal Internal Medicine.

10. Being anti-social

Isolation and loneliness can take a toll on your body in the same way excessive stress does. The MacArthur Study of Successful Aging demonstrated that people who rated themselves highly valuable in their friends' and family's lives were more likely to live longer than those who rated themselves lower. 

SEE ALSO: Life Expectancy Is Rising Faster In NY Than Anywhere Else In The Country

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At the end of the summer it is important to send off the season with some kind of celebration. Most of us have a nice barbecue with a few close friends — maybe a pool party.

Then there's billionaire paper mogul Peter Brant. He does his end-of-summer party a little differently but it's still in essence, a summer blowout.

On Sunday Brant opened up his massive property on Conyers Farm, an elite residential enclave, to what seemed like the entire town of Greenwich, Connecticut.

So we had to go check out the details. Couldn't help ourselves.

A few things you should know about Brant — he is probably best known in business circles for modernizing the paper company his father founded, White Birch Paper, in an age when the newspapers White Birch once serviced were (and still are) dropping like flies.

Thanks to that the Brants stayed wealthy, and Peter used that wealth to take on some interesting hobbies. Two of those hobbies were on full display this weekend. The first was Brant's love of collecting contemporary art, especially works created by his friend, Andy Warhol, and the second was the "sport of kings," polo.

Brant picked up the sport in his 30s (because... why not?) and now hosts matches on the grounds he co-founded, the Greenwich Polo Club, which is also on Conyers Farm.

The grounds also house The Brant Foundation, which is where we met Brant around 2:00 pm for a private viewing of his new exhibition, ANDY WARHOL.

For the record, the billionaire does not look like a polo player. He also does not look like he ran with the wild crowd that Warhol reportedly hung out with. Then again, as Brant told us, Andy hung out with "very unstable, and very stable people."

Brant, with his preppy style, quiet voice, and steady gaze was clearly in the latter group of Warhol's friends.

And there he was, not just leading the tour, but on the walls as well. Among the 15 foot Mao painting and the Warhol self portraits, there were Polaroids of a young Peter relaxed among friends.

After the tour of the collection it was time to sit down for some polo, the Royal Salute Jubilee Cup, to be specific. This is when things got really crazy.

Thousands of people were roaming the grounds, eating and drinking in the sun — kids, dogs you name it. And why not? To close the polo season in North America, the best (hands down, no question) polo player in the world was playing on Brant's Royal Salute team.

His name is Facundo Pieres. He's from Argentina and he's only 28.

To be the best player in the world of polo you must start young. You must not be afraid of falling off a horse at a weird (maybe deadly) angle or flying into your opponent (or even teammate) at incredibly high speeds. You must not get lonely when you travel around the world's polo circuit, which spends fall/winter in South America, then traverses the globe until it gets to the United States for the summer.

Pieres is number one in the world because he is the best "10 goal" player in the world. All players in polo are assigned a goal ranking from -2 to 10. Pros are generally a 5 or above. There are only ten 10 goal players in the entire world. Brant, for the record, is a 2.

Now, polo is an expensive sport. There are 4-6 periods (known as chukkers) per game and you need a new horse for every chukker. For that reason, most teams have sponsors. Brant's team is sponsored by Royal Salute, a Chivas Brothers scotch.

Needless to say, this was a major plus for Sunday's polo patrons.

As we sipped, the players on the field soared. Polo is all about speed, super clear communication, and some weird psychic ability. Guys like Pieres know where the ball is going before it gets there because they can feel it. They can juggle it on their sticks so no one can take it from them. They can make horses to back flips.

This skill made for some exciting moments for an increasingly tipsy crowd. In the last chukker, the opposing side (Airstream) scored an incredible 5 goals. Airstream had been down by 6, and they could've tied the entire thing up. But lucky for Pieres and Brant, they ran out of time. The crowd went nuts.

In the world of sports and at the end of the summer, seriously... how much better does it get?

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U.S. News & World Report's 2014 college rankings came out today, and while there wasn't much change from last year, one school continued its steady climb higher.

As the Washington Post points out, San Diego State University has made a huge leap forward in the rankings over the past few years, from 183 in 2011 to 165 in 2012 to 152 this year.

This year, U.S. News increased the importance of graduation and retention rates by 2.5% in its rankings, two indicators in which SDSU sits just outside the top 100 universities in each category. Both SDSU's 86% retention rate and 67% graduation rate are several points higher than many of its peer institutions ranked above 150 overall.

SDSU also has strong numbers regarding student debt, the San Diego Union-Tribune points out. 

"With the cost of college remaining a big issue in higher education, the magazine also tracked graduates’ debt levels, with SDSU ranked No. 11 for least debt. U.S. News & World Report said 56 percent of San Diego State’s graduates are debt-free, and that the average student debt on that campus was $17,600," the UT reports.

Additionally, U.S. News notes that "Private giving to SDSU has also risen sharply in recent years, [with] $70 million in the 2010-11 fiscal year. SDSU is currently conducting its first university-wide fundraising campaign and has raised more than $300 million toward its $500 goal to attract and retain top faculty, support innovation and research and provide more student scholarships."

This distinct rise in fundraising and spending could influence SDSU's ranking though "financial resources" and "alumni giving rate" — 10% and 5% of U.S. New's algorithm, respectively.

SDSU ranked ninth on Business Insider's list of "Most Underrated Colleges" earlier this year, and we noted that "The school has obtained over $150 million for research, allowing students to get real hands-on experience that will help them succeed in the real world."

In 2010, SDSU's president told the UT that this money is helping to advance both the school's teaching and research capabilities as state funding has slowed. 

"It has been a wonderful thing in terms of the learning opportunities for our students, and it has enriched our laboratories with the kind of equipment that the state of California is less and less able to support," he said.

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40 years ago, Atomic war seemed imminent to most Americans.

It's estimated that 200,000 fall-out shelters were built in the U.S. during the '60s and '70s as people scrambled to prepare for the worst.

But some bunkers were decidedly more lavish than others.

Take 3970 Spencer Street in Las Vegas, for instance. The two-bedroom home is located in a 40-foot-by-46-foot room that's roughly 25 feet below ground.

It's a virtual relic of 1970s suburbia, complete with a "backyard," swimming pool, two-bedroom guest house, dance floor, and a built-in barbecue grill. There's even a 360-degree mural of what life looked like above ground.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which visited the home this summer, reports that it was designed in 1978 by a man named Girard “Jerry” B. Henderson, who built these types of shelters for a living with his company Underground World Home, Inc.

It's currently on the market for $1.6 million through Kingly Properties LLC, according to real estate listing website Redfin.

Welcome to 3970 Spencer Street. There's a two-story home above ground with a four-car garage.

There's also a turbine ventilation unit as well as air conditioning units hidden behind boulders around the one-acre lot.

But the real magic happens when you get below ground via an elevator or staircase accessed through the caretaker house.

We’ve all seen and perhaps grown tired of guides and lists that are ripe with tedious clichés and full of humdrum regurgitated meme wisdom.  

For that very reason, @GSElevator — in collaboration with John Carney (@Carney)— presents a fresh and hopefully thoughtful look at what it means to be a man today.

• Stop talking about where you went to college.

• Always carry cash.  Keep some in your front pocket.

• Rebel from business casual. Burn your khakis and wear a suit or jeans.

• It’s okay to trade the possibility of your 80s and 90s for more guaranteed fun in your 20s and 30s.

• The best public restrooms are in hotels: The St. Regis in New York, Claridge’s in London, The Fullerton in Singapore, to name a few.

• Never stay out after midnight three nights in a row… Unless something really good comes up on the third night.

• You will regret your tattoos.

• Never date an ex of your friend.

• Join Twitter; become your own curator of information.

• If riding the bus doesn't incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.

• Time is too short to do your own laundry. 


• When the bartender asks, you should already know what you want to drink.

• If you perspire, wear a damn undershirt.

• You don’t have to like baseball, but you should understand the concept of what a pitcher’s ERA means.  Approach life similarly.

• When people don’t invite you to a party, you really shouldn’t go.
 And sometimes even when you are invited, you shouldn’t go.
 


• People are tired of you being the funny, drunk guy. 


• When in doubt, always kiss the girl.

• Tip more than you should.

• You probably use your cell phone too often and at the wrong moments.


• Buy expensive sunglasses.  Superficial? Yes, but so are the women judging you. And it tells these women you appreciate nice things and are responsible enough not to lose them.

• If you want a nice umbrella, bring a sh*tty one to church.

• Do 50 push-ups, sit-ups, and dips before you shower each morning. 


• Eat brunch with friends at least every other weekend. Leave Rusty and Junior at home.

• Be a regular at more than one bar.  

• Act like you’ve been there before.  It doesn’t matter if it’s in the end zone at the Super Bowl or on a private plane.

• A glass of wine or two with lunch will not ruin your day.


• It’s better if old men cut your hair.  Ask for Sammy at the Mandarin Oriental Barbershop in Hong Kong.  He can share his experiences of the Japanese occupation, or just give you a copy of Playboy.

• Learn how to fly-fish.  

• No selfies. Aspire to experience photo-worthy moments in the company of a beautiful woman.

• Own a handcrafted shotgun.  It’s a beautiful thing.

• There’s always another level. Just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived.

• You can get away with a lot more if you're the one buying the drinks.

• Ask for a salad instead of fries.


• Don’t split a check.

• Pretty women who are unaccompanied want you to talk to them.

• Cobblers will save your shoes. So will shoe trees.

• When a bartender buys you a round, tip double. 



• The cliché is that having money is about not wasting time. But in reality, money is about facilitating spontaneity.

• Be spontaneous.

• Find a Times New Roman in the streets and a Wingdings in the sheets. She exists.

• Piercings are liabilities in fights. 


• Do not use an electric razor. 


• Desserts are for women. Order one and pretend you don’t mind that she’s eating yours.


• Buy a tuxedo before you are thirty. Stay that size.


• One girlfriend at a time is probably enough.


• #StopItWithTheHastags

• Your ties should be rolled and placed in a sectioned tie drawer. 


• Throw parties. 
But have someone else clean up the next day.

• You may only request one song from the DJ. 


• Measure yourself only against your previous self.

• Take more pictures.  With a camera.

• Place-dropping is worse than-name dropping.


• When you admire the work of artists or writers, tell them. 
And spend money to acquire their work. 



• Your clothes do not match. They go together. 


• Yes, of course you have to buy her dinner. 


• Staying angry is a waste of energy.


• Revenge can be a good way of getting over anger. 



• If she expects the person you are 20% of the time, 100% of the time, then she doesn't want you.

• Always bring a bottle of something to the party.



• Avoid that “last” whiskey. You’ve probably had enough. 


• Don’t use the word “closure” or ever expect it in real life. There may still be a mortally wounded Russian mobster roaming the woods of south Jersey, but we’ll never know.

• If you are wittier than you are handsome, avoid loud clubs. 


• Drink outdoors.
 And during the day.
 And sometimes by yourself.

• Date women outside your social set. You’ll be surprised.


• If it’s got velvet ropes and lines, walk away unless you know someone. 


• You cannot have a love affair with whiskey because whiskey will never love you back.


• Feigning unpretentiousness is worse than being pretentious. Cut it out with the vintage Polo and that ’83 Wagoneer in Nantucket. 

• The New Yorker is not high-brow. Neither is The Economist. 


• If you believe in evolution, you should know something about how it works.

• No-one cares if you are offended, so stop it. 


• Never take an ex back. She tried to do better and is settling with you.

• Eating out alone can be magnificent. Find a place where you can sit at the bar.

• Read more. It allows you to borrow someone else’s brain, and will make you more interesting at a dinner party – provided that you don’t initiate conversation with, “So, who are you reading…”

• Ignore the boos. They usually come from the cheap seats.

• Hookers aren’t cool, but remember, the free ones are a lot more expensive.

• Don’t ever say, “it is what it is.”

• Start a wine collection for your kids when they are born.  Add a few cases every year without telling them.  It’ll make a phenomenal gift in twenty years.

• Don’t gamble if losing $100 is going to piss you off.

• Remember, “rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” 

This list has been authored by @GSElevator, but is a collaborative effort between Twitter’s @GSElevator and John Carney (@Carney).

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We usually think of luxury items as just aesthetically beautiful creations, but craftsmanship often goes way below the surface.

Paris-based photographer Laurence Picot set out to peek inside some of the world's priciest items with his new exhibit LuxInside (via Wired).

To create the x-ray prints, Picot teamed up with radiologist Dr. Jean François Paul, software designer Sylvain Ordureau, and graphic designer Ricardo Escobar. With their combined range of skills, they created stunning photographs with updated scanning technology.

The photographs took years to make since the 3D imaging software had to be perfected. After de-noising the images, the team was able to differentiate between the different types of metals and materials that were used below the surface.

The LuxInside exhibition is produced by the Institut Français, and features a total of 14 art prints as well as the real objects that inspired them. Check out some of the photographs below.

The airtight gas tank of an S.T. Dupont lighter, which can retail for over $1,000.

The interior springs inside Pierre Corthay's bespoke Arca shoe, which can cost over $4,000.

This is the inside of a Dyson vacuum, but due to interference from metal and plastic during the scanning process, a red halo was formed.

This is the famous Louis XIII cognac, which can cost upwards of $300 a shot in Las Vegas.

Here's the inside of Gibson's Les Paul electric guitar. It looks simple, but can cost $700 to $1,000.

The Leica M8 digital camera, on the other hand, is extremely complex. It can cost almost $8,000.

The Cadolle corset features traditional boning for support, and costs at least $550.

And this Hermès saddle uses the same cushioning found in luxury memory foam beds, with prices starting at a staggering $8,000.

The exhibit is currently featured in Rio at the Sofitel Copacabana, and will be at the Grand Palais in Paris from September 11th to the 15th, followed by São Paulo, Brazil beginning October 1st at the Citroën Experience Centre.

You can discover more about the project and buy LuxInside prints here.

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San Francisco serves up some of the best java in the country, with strong flavors and cozy storefronts that keep the city satisfied.

Our friends at Yelp have helped us assemble a list of San Francisco's best coffee shops.

While some popular local chains dominate the top ten, there's also tons of variety among the small shops.

And these shops don't just serve your standard cappuccino or latte either. From mint mojito espresso to Affogato (a shot of hot espresso over vanilla ice cream) to waffles and sandwiches, these 10 coffee shops stand out from the rest.

#10 Cafe Algiers

50 Beale St

Originally a sandwich shop that expanded to offer coffee, Cafe Algiers is still renowned for its spicy turkey sandwich with avocados on a Dutch Crunch roll. It offers quick but delicious espressos and mochas in the busy San Francisco financial district. 

"The coffee is fresh, the bagels are toasted to perfect, and don't even get me started on the sandwiches," Ben H. wrote.

#9 Jane

2123 Fillmore St

Jane brews scrumptious Stumptown coffee and offers a wide variety of baked goods, both gluten free and not. Yelpers recommend their espresso and salad selection and give extra points for the friendly staff. 

"It always feels like a warm sunny day at Jane's. I really do love this cafe.  The pastries are usually fresh & the breakfast is always tasty.  I love the egg sandwiches, the banana bread, the citrus brioche and even the basic bread and jam. Love this spot!" Bernadette G. wrote.

#8 Blue Bottle Coffee Co. (Embarcadero)

1 Ferry Bldg

The Embarcadero location of Blue Bottle has a long line that Yelpers say is worth the wait. The New Orleans iced coffee and the Affogato, a shot of hot espresso over vanilla ice cream, are especially popular. Their waffles also earn rave reviews. 

"Blue Bottle is NOT a hype. It's good. It's creamy. It's frothy. It's what you crave when it's 30 degrees in the winter (mocha) and 75 degrees in the summer (New Orleans iced coffee)," Emily C. wrote. 

 While we have yet to find the fountain of youth, we did find the next best thing—five of them to be exact. Incorporate these tips into your daily routine now, and the next time you get carded at a bar, you can thank us.

Load Skin With Antioxidants 

Using a night cream that fights fine lines and wrinkles (a.k.a. the telltale signs of aging) is key to looking younger. Urth Skin Solutions for Men Hydratherapy is a gel formula packed with free-radical-fighting ingredients like red seaweed, white tea, and vitamins A, B5, C, D, and E. It hydrates and protects skin against environmental stress and damage that causes skin to age.

Target the Eye Area 

Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but for our purposes, they're what give away your age (or worse, what make you look older than you really are). The skin around your eyes is thinner and more delicate, rendering it more prone to wrinkles, puffiness, and dark circles. So give the eye area some extra attention every morning and night. We use Kinerase Extreme Lift Eye, which delivers on its promise to reduce the appearance of crow's feet in just five minutes.

Protect Against Sun Damage

You've heard us say it time and time again, but seriously, the No. 1 cause of skin that looks old before its time is sun exposure. If you want to avoid the leather-man look in your later years, apply a daily SPF and wear sunglasses (no joke—excessive squinting creates wrinkles). Werecommend Beyond Coastal Active SPF 34+ Sunscreen.

Get a Healthy Glow

As we age, our skin-cell turnover rate slows dramatically (read: your old face looks dull and lifeless), but you can polish those dead cells away to reveal the youthful glow underneath with a scrub like Billy Jealousy Liquids and Exfoliating Cleanser. The lactic acid gently removes dead skin while reducing the appearance of fine lines and sun damage. Regular use of a scrub also allows moisturizers and anti-aging serums to penetrate deeper into the skin for added effectiveness.

Prevent Hair Loss 

A full head of hair is a sign of virility. If your locks aren't what they used to be, make sure you're using a high-quality shampoo designed to fight hair loss. Try Apivita Shampoo for Thinning Hair to promote the healthy, thicker hair growth of your younger days.

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Yesterday we published the initial results of a national poll about dating and sex conducted for us by SurveyMonkey Audience. 

We queried over 1600 singles from around the country to see how they approached the dating game, and what were the common sexual mores among the unattached. 

One thing we were definitely interested in was how states typically construed as more hedonistic — New York and California — stack up against the rest of the country.

As it turns out, the most populous East coast and West coast states do treat dating slightly differently than the rest of the country. Here's how. 

Californians and New Yorkers tended to have sex at a slightly younger age than residents of the other 48.

In general, respondents from New York and California also thought that it was appropriate to have sex at a younger age. 

New Yorkers and Californians were also more willing to kiss on the first date.

Californians were particularly more likely than other Americans to have dated a member of another race. New Yorkers were particularly more likely to have dated a member of another religion. 

New Yorkers were more likely to have dated multiple people simultaneously. Interestingly, the remaining 48 were overall more likely to date a co-worker. Guess H.R. departments are more aggressive in the Empire State. 

New Yorkers were more likely to have kissed and had sex on the first date than Californians, who were also more likely than the other 48.

Unsurprisingly, singles from the liberal stalwart states of the East and Left Coast were more supportive of gay marriage than the other 48. Still, support is remarkably high among singles across the board.

138 of 1660 respondents were from New York. 214 were from California. 1308 remained from the remaining 48.

SEE ALSO: POLL: Here's How Men And Women Think Differently On Matters Of Dating And Sex

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Google Glass has had a front-row seat at New York Fashion Week, currently underway.

Models, magazine editors, bloggers, and generally fashionable folks have all been giving the glasses test drives around NYFW home base, Lincoln Center.

And it's all been well-documented on Instagram, obviously.

One new Instagram account we came across is @GoogleGlass, which has been doing a great job following fashion week.

"Project Runway" judge and fashion magazine editrix, Nina Garcia, has been wearing Google Glass everywhere.

Actress @Kerrywashington took this photos of designer @Zac_Posen and Glass explorer @Imninagarcia at the @officialprojectrunway finale.

Here's a video of Nina Garcia using Google Glass while at a fashion show. 

And below is a video of the runway show taken with Google Glass.

Garcia posted: "BeNina @tommyhilfiger amazing Spring collection! So obsessed #throughglass @marieclairemag."

Lucky magazine editor Eva Chen posted: "Brave new world: @hannelim testing out my #googleglass! She makes it look chic, no?"

Fashion bloggers @ihateblonde and @jaglever posed hard outside of Lincoln Center. 

@SongofStyle blogger Aimee Song accesorized her Google Glass with patterns and a smile.

@ahmedbraimah and @lvs_y8s looked stylish in Google Glass outside of the shows.

Chinese actress Zengli and her friends tried out Glass.

These guys combined a vintage look with the modern Glass.

@yaelstylist gave it funky flair.

Blogger @kristina_bazan made Google Glass chic by pairing them with her Valentino and Cavalli duds.

While @antiquesocietyhomme went more street style in his Nike shoes.  

Google Glass has been pretty much everywhere.

The talented and Including on this pack of stylish dancers.

Some paired them more simply with all black.

Or with a mix of black and white.

And that's a wrap, time to go.

SEE ALSO: People Magazine Used A Stock Photo Of A Woman Wearing Google Glass And Said It Was Sergey Brin's New Girlfriend

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The following guest post is written by Rachel Wilkerson of Lover.ly, a curated search engine that lets brides-to-be search, save, shop and share all things wedding-related.

These days, the cliché of the bride's father paying for her wedding is quite outdated. In reality, more and more couples are paying for some or all of their wedding costs.

The uncertainty of what, if anything, parents will contribute can leave couples feeling awkward, as they want to start planning but are avoiding talking to their parents about cold, hard cash. Here's our step-by-step guide for dealing with this uncomfortable but necessary topic.

Set a Budget

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The world's largest car show is underway in Frankfurt, and automakers from around the world are taking the stage to reveal what they've been working on.

Lamborghini has come up with something special: The fastest Gallardo, ever.

The full royal name of this latest offering is the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadra Corse.

It's derived from the Blancpain Super Trofeo race car, and little has been changed.

The new Gallardo and the Blancpain have the same 5.2-liter V10 engine, which generates an enormous 570 horsepower.

But the newcomer has one huge advantage over its father figure: It's street legal.

Lamborghini has announced a €191,100 ($253,303) plus tax price tag for the Squadra Corse, and a limited production run (no word on just how many models will be built).

And although you can take it for trips to the grocery store, please head to the track before putting the more than 500 horsepower to use.

It's derived from the Blancpain Super Trofeo race car.

The 'Squadra Corse' part of the name refers to Lamborghini's motorsports department. The place does good work.

The new Gallardo and the Blancpain Super Trofeo race car have the same 5.2-liter engine — no modifications. The V10 generates 570 horsepower, and is controlled by a 'robotized e-gear six-speed transmission.'

Popped collars, country club membership, private school diploma — they're all signs of preppiness. But where are you most likely to run into a prepster, or become one?

Real estate blog Movoto has come up with a ranking of the preppiest cities in America, looking at a number of factors it says go into the preppy lifestyle: Preppy clothing retailers per capita, country clubs per capita, equestrian centers per capita, private schools per capita, presence of boarding/preparatory schools, percentage of college graduates with a bachelor’s degree or higher, and median household income (you can find the full methodology here).

Surprisingly, the northeast did not dominate Movoto's list. The website named San Francisco as the prepster capital of America, followed by Scottsdale, Honolulu, Raleigh, and Seattle.

Here are the top 20:

SEE ALSO: The 50 Most Expensive Private High Schools In America

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There are more "ultra-rich" people in the world than ever before, with the number of individuals worth $30 million or more approaching 200,000 globally, according to a new report from Wealth-X and UBS.

The number of Ultra-High Net Worth (UHNW) individuals (defined in the report as those with total net assets of $30 million and above) is growing particularly quickly in the U.S., which added 5,000 UHNW individuals to its ranks in the past 12 months, for a total of 65,505 ultra-rich.

The report also breaks down the number of UHNW individuals by state. Massachusetts had the fastest growth in its ultra-rich population, which increased 35% between 2012 and 2013. Since the biggest states obviously had the largest numbers of wealthy folks, we normalized the data to see which states had the highest proportions of ultra-rich residents.

Wyoming, with its small overall population, had the highest number of ultra-rich people per capita of any state. But Washington DC, with its relatively small population and a high concentration of wealth, has the densest ultra-rich population in the U.S. New York, California, Montana, and Connecticut are also all high up there on places you're most likely to meet a very rich person.

Here's a breakdown of Wealth-X and UBS' data, along with the number of Ultra-High Net Worth Individuals (total assets of $30 million or more) per state:

You can download the full report here.

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The number of dollar billionaires in China has passed 300 for the first time, an annual ranking of wealth in the world's second-largest economy showed Wednesday.

The Hurun Report, a luxury magazine publisher, named property tycoon Wang Jianlin as China's new richest person, saying he had more than doubled his worth to $22 billion.

There were a total of 315 dollar billionaires in the country, it said, up 64 from a year ago.

The average fortune of the top 1,000 stood at $1.04 billion -- more than double their $440 million during the global financial crisis five years ago.

But some were dogged by scandal.

Three of last year's 10 richest people in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, have been detained amid a corruption crackdown in the province.

Two others on the list are in prison, while Xu Ming, who joined this year at No 676 with $490 million, was a key witness against Bo Xilai last month in China's biggest political corruption trial in decades.

According to court transcripts, Xu said he gave the former senior politician 21 million yuan ($3.4 million) in bribes, including purchasing a villa in the French resort of Cannes for Bo's wife.

Real estate businesswoman and recent divorcee Wu Yajun fell from No 8 to No 22 and her wealth dropped nearly a quarter to $4.6 billion after she gave her ex-husband $3 billion -- propelling him into the Top 50 in his own right.

Hurun called the transaction "the most expensive divorce settlement from a wife to her husband".

Real estate was the biggest source of ultrarich fortunes, led by Wang, whose conglomerate Wanda Group recently also acquired the US cinema chain AMC Entertainment and a luxury British yacht builder.

But Lei Jun of mobile phone maker Xiaomi rose the fastest on the 2013 rankings after his worth shot up seven-fold to $2.6 billion.

Wang was also named as China's richest man by Forbes magazine earlier this week, which estimated his wealth at $14 billion.

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When it opens in the spring of next year, The 9/11 Memorial Museum will honor the memory of those killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The museum will feature oral histories from survivors and first responders, as well as mementos from the Twin Towers.

Reuters' photographers got an early look at the still-under-construction museum, which currently houses some of the extraordinary debris recovered in the aftermath of September 11.

Take a look below.

The two steel "tridents" recovered from the World Trade Center soar above visitors in the entry pavilion area. They originally were embedded in the bedrock at the base of the North Tower and are 70 feet high.

The last column of steel removed from the World Trade Center site in 2002 stands in the center of the museum. It's covered with mementos and messages left by recovery workers, first responders, and family members of the victims.

To provide a sense of scale, the museum will display many of the steel beams found in the rubble. This is a "Cross" intersecting steel beam (left) and a fragment of a trident column (center) that formed the exterior structure of the buildings.

A message is written on the bottom of the "Cross": "To my friends we will miss you."

Known as "Impact Steel," these beams were ripped apart when the hijacked United Flight 175 tore into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

New York City Fire Department's Engine Company 21 fire truck will be on permanent display, as well.

Here, you can see inside the burnt-out cab of the truck. It's a testament to the danger first-responders put themselves in immediately after the attacks.

These are called the "Survivor's Stairs." The staircase was an exit from the World Trade Center Plaza to Vesey Street, providing a way for hundreds of people to escape from the towers after the attacks.

Steel from the wreckage was transformed into symbols and tokens for victims' relatives by iron workers during their breaks sifting through the rubble.

A message from a recovery worker is taped to a wall inside the museum.

Visitors can currently access the memorial pools and plaza at Ground Zero. Both will be visible from inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum when it's complete in spring 2014.

To make a reservation to visit the memorial, click here.

SEE ALSO: How My Polaroids Of The Sept. 11 Attacks Led Me Into America's Secret Court System For Terrorist Suspects

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Freshmen at colleges across the U.S. are settling into their dormitories as a new school year kicks off. But campus living is nothing new: Harvard's oldest dorm is nearly 300 years old.

Dorms have modernized over time. Today, students can expect to find wireless Internet, air conditioning, and cheerful study rooms on move-in day. But some things haven't changed much. A century ago, students still slept in single beds, hung family photos on their walls, and hung out with friends in their dorm rooms.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's archives department recently put together a fantastic collection of photos showing how student housing has changed over the past 110 years. They kindly shared their collection with us.

This woman's dorm room from 1898 isn't much different from modern day dorms: Pennants, books, and a chair for studying.

Photographs and mementos kept things homey in this room, in 1899.

Male students raised a glass in a boarding house or fraternity in this 1909 photo.