Nicky Hilton, younger sister of Paris Hilton, is engaged to her boyfriend James Rothschild. He proposed while the two were vacationing in Lake Como.

The Daily Mail reports that the two met at Petra Ecclestone and James Stunt's wedding in Italy in 2011. 

Hilton is an heiress to the Hilton Hotel empire and is a great-granddaughter of the founder, Conrad Hilton.

This will be Hilton's second marriage. She was previously married to Todd Meister, a hedge fund manager.

Rothschild is an heir to the European banking Rothschild dynasty. The family is considered to be a pioneer of international finance and traces back to the original engineer of the family's fortune, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, in the 18th century.

Because of the family's wealth and secrecy, it has been targeted by many conspiracy theories.

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"Adorbs." "Side boob." "Amazeballs."

These represent only a small selection of the new words that have been added to OxfordDictionaries.com— the free online dictionary from Oxford Dictionaries — in an update that demonstrates the growing influence that the internet and social media culture have on the English language.

Other new entries include binge-watch (popularized by the release of Netflix's original series that allows viewers to watch them all at once), "cray" (crazy), "humblebrag" (someone who brags through a veil of self-deprecation) and "listicle" (basically an article in the media in the form of a list that has a lot of pictures). 

Millennials have help to create these new silly-sounding phrases, using the internet as a medium to spread them through sharing platforms like Facebook and Twitter. 

“One of the advantages of our unique language monitoring program is that it enables us to explore how English language evolves differently across the world," Oxford Dictionaries editor Katherine Connor Martin said in a statement.

For example, "adorbs" is used four times more frequently in the U.S. than the U.K., while the Brits are really into using the term "side boob" (it means what you think it means) and "cotch," meaning to relax. 

Shakespeare might be rolling his grave, but hey, YOLO. 

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Cooking is a skill, which means that the more you practice, the better you become.

And with practice comes knowledge about what to do when certain problems — rock-hard brown sugar, shells in the egg yolk, boiling-over pots of water — arise.

These are 13 simple cooking tips that chefs of any level can use.

1. Peel garlic easily by microwaving it.

Microwave your head of garlic for 10 seconds. Remove it and peel the garlic with your hands — you’ll notice the cloves slip right out of the casings like magic. 

Another easy method is to smash the garlic head with the heel of your hand, and then throw it into a metal bowl. Put another metal bowl on top and shake hard for a few seconds. When you remove the top bowl, you’ll see a bunch of naked garlic cloves.

2. Soak mussels and clams in water with a few tablespoons of flour.

They will open up to ingest the flour, and in doing so will expel any sand or grit still inside. Leave them in for 30 minutes to get the best possible results before cooking.

3. Get more juice from a lemon by microwaving it.

Heat up your lemon (or any citrus fruit) for 20 to 30 seconds. Apply pressure by rolling it on the counter or in your hands before cutting it in half and juicing. The fruit will be softer and easier to squeeze.

4. Remove excess fats from soups and stews with ice cubes.

Drop a few ice cubes into your finished soup, stew, or casserole. Scoop-able fat globules will rise to the surface where the fat has congealed in the colder areas where the ice cubes landed. You can skim these off with a spoon.

Another simple method to try if you’re not eating the soup right away is put it in a container and let it cool in the fridge. Once the fat has risen to the surface and solidified, you can simply scoop it out and then reheat soup as desired.

5. Toss a pinch of salt onto a cutting board when chopping herbs.

The friction and weight of the salt will keep the herbs from sticking to your knife and getting all over the board.

(Note: this tip is best with herbs like rosemary and thyme. Basil and mint should be hand-torn to avoid bruising.) 

6. Pat meat and seafood dry before pan frying.

Using a paper towel to remove any surface moisture on your meat will help avoid steam (or worse — flare ups) when it hits the hot pan or grill. Moisture and steam will also impede caramelization, which is what makes the delicious exterior you crave when searing and grilling meats.

7. Chop iceberg lettuce in seconds by removing its core.

Take your head of lettuce and slam it down on the counter as hard as you can onto its bottom. Turn it over, and remove the core. 

Once the core is out, the lettuce will be easy to separate and chop up with a knife.

8. Avoid clumpy rice by rinsing it before cooking.

Place your uncooked rice in a sieve or mesh colander and run under cold water until it runs clear. This will remove a lot of unnecessary starch from the rice, which can cause it to stick and clump together. You’ll get fluffy rice every time. 

9. Speaking of rice, freeze leftovers to always have a batch on hand.

After you make a big batch of rice, freeze it in multiple microwave-safe containers. Once you’re ready for rice again, sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of water over the rice and cover with dampened paper towels. Pop it in the microwave on high for 1-3 minutes before fluffing. Repeat until the rice is fully hot. 

10. Prevent pots from boiling over by resting a wooden spoon across the pot.

This works because the dry, room temperature spoon will break the bubbles and send them back into the pot (there’s science behind it — you can read about that here). 

Use a different wooden spoon from the one you were stirring with, however, because if you use a wet spoon, the wood will warp.

11. De-clump brown sugar quickly with a microwave and water.

If your brown sugar is rock hard, there’s a really simple solution. Place the block of sugar in a bowl, sprinkle it with water, cover with a damp paper towel, and then microwave for 30 seconds. Continue microwaving, checking every 30 seconds, until the sugar is soft.

In the future to keep your brown sugar from clumping, place the bag in an airtight container or a resealable freezer bag and store at room temperature. 

12. Wet your fingers with water to retrieve an egg shell.

Bit of egg shell getting in your yolk is the peskiest part about making eggs. Just you run a little water over your fingers before reaching in, and the egg shell piece will be easy to grab.

13. Never thaw your frozen steak.

We’ve previously written about this, but it bears repeating: frozen steaks not only taste better than thawed steaks after they’ve been cooked, but they also cook more evenly and lose less moisture. 

Click here to see the best way to cook frozen steak.

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Did you know that hamburgers, America's most beloved food, were actually invented in Hamburg, Germany, in the 1800s? Or that ice cream, another American favorite, was first created in Japan in 618 A.D.? 

Cheapflights researched the origins of popular foods from around the world, and some of the results were quite surprising.

They found that pizza, Italy's most iconic dish, was actually invented by the Greeks in 100 B.C., who created a flatbread called plakountos and topped it with meats, cheeses, and vegetables.

Europe is famous for its high-end chocolate, but the sweet treat was actually invented by the ancient Mayans and Aztecs in Central America in 2000 B.C. Both groups roasted and pounded the seeds of the cacao tree to create a chocolatey drink, which was then brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadors.

See the full infographic below for more history on your favorite foods.

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation is working with Intel to help people suffering with Parkinson’s disease track their ever-changing symptoms, according to USA Today’s Karen Weintraub (via Forbes).

Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 but didn’t tell the public until 1998, has been in and out of the acting world for more than a decade as his symptoms continue to progress. He established The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in 2000, which has become the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s-related research in the world, according to the foundation.

The 53-year-old actor from “Back To The Future” told USA Today that research and data obtained from a mobile application, which would work in tandem with popular fitness trackers, could help patients keep track of their medications’ effectiveness, their eating habits, and their environmental and physical changes that occur while sleeping.

“The answers are within us,” Fox told USA Today. “We just need to find a way to let people into our brains both literally and figuratively to help us figure this out.

Fox said the collaboration between his foundation and Intel began in spring, when a pilot group of 25 people measured their tremors and sleep patterns and streamed the data in-real time to the cloud. Intel has been providing the servers and the software to collect and organize the biometric data from Parkinson’s patients, and it’s also working on algorithms that can easily analyze the data, according to Diane Bryant, senior VP and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group.

“Ten years ago, it would have been ridiculous to consider,” Bryant told USA Today. Intel wouldn’t say how much it’s investing in The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s new app, but Bryant said the collaboration is made possible since it’s much cheaper to develop and produce this kind of software platform. 

Todd Sherer, CEO of the Fox Foundation, said the app would be a huge boon for doctors, since Parkinson’s patients tend to “minimize symptoms for their doctor, or time their medication so they’ll perform well during [a doctor] visit.” He said he’ll test patients and they’ll look OK, but their spouses will say, “You should’ve seen them yesterday.”

The mobile app will provide a much more objective statement of how each patient is progressing and/or reacting to new symptoms. The Fox Foundation says devices that use the software can facilitate Parkinson’s research to “highlight trends or differences among people with PD … [which] may point researchers to new areas of interest in our pursuits of learning more about Parkinson’s and of developing a cure.”

If the pilot program is successful, Sherer said wearable devices could eventually be used for clinical research trials so doctors can receive more-accurate updates about their patient’s disease.

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Summer is more than halfway over, but there's still plenty of time for cookouts, festivals, and outdoor events. 

From finding the best private swimming holes to partying at summer festivals like Burning Man, here are the best things to do in the U.S. this summer. 

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Eat a fresh, delicious lobster roll in Maine.

Go whitewater rafting on the Snake River in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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Tackle the water slides at Hyland Hills Water World, the best water park in America.

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Known as "The Medicine Hunter," Chris Kilham travels the world looking for plants that can be used as medicinal remedies. Throughout his travels, he has come upon what are known as "hot plants," many of which have been proven to stimulate sexual function.

"Hot plants" grow all over the world, particularly in exotic locales like Malaysia and the Amazon Rainforest.

He tells us about the benefits of some of his favorite natural aphrodisiacs. No prescription required.

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We all know that Paris is a perennially popular tourist destination, but new data confirms that the city, is, in fact one of the most-visited destinations in the world. 

The World Tourism Organization just came out with new data on the most visited tourism destinations in the world in 2013, and France took the top spot.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, France was the most-visited country in 2013 with 84.7 million visitors. The U.S. came right behind with 69.8 million visitors, and Spain was third with 60.7 million visitors.

#10 Thailand: 26.5 million visitors

#9 Russia: 28.4 million visitors

#8 United Kingdom: 31.2 million visitors

When Apple employees go to the tech company's super-secretive course on How Apple Does Things, they're treated to this famous series of drawings by Pablo Picasso:

The first drawing is a hooved, horned, and muscled life-like representation of a bull.

The last is just a few lines, though definitely a bull. 

That's the Apple way.

"You go through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do," an employee who took the course told the New York Times.

There's a word for the process: abstraction.

You can see it in Apple's 25-year pursuit of making the most simple — and functional — mouse possible.

The thing about abstraction is that it's ridiculously difficult, since it demands that you have a grasp of the underlying principles of what's going on.

In this way, scientific theories — such as those that have made Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking immortal — are abstractions. 

It's helpful to consider abstraction as a tool for understanding, which authors Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein do in their awesome guide to critical thinking, "Sparks of Genius." Here's their rap on abstraction: 

Abstracting, by simplifying, yields the common links, the nexuses, in the fabric of perception and nature...

Picasso began his well-known Bull series with a realistic image of a bull. Then he became interested in the planes defining the bull's form. But as he experimented with these planes, he realized that what defined them were their edges, which he then reduced to simple outlines. Finally, he eliminated most of these lines, leaving a pure outline that still conveys the essence of "bullness."

Picasso said much the same in his own words:  

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with concrete reality … You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. There's no danger then, anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark. 

That drive toward simplicity animates Apple. The company's attitude toward simplicity is part of what has allowed it to make technology attractive to people. 

After Steve Jobs died, Guardian tech writer Jonathan Jones wrote that the "exquisite luxury" of the iPad grew "out of a tradition of Apple design that has repeatedly reshaped modern culture" and that "the aesthetic originality of Apple that has reshaped the way we live in the modern world." 

This aesthetic is what made Apple "revolutionary," Jones said, and that stems from simplicity-seeking abstraction. 

Jobs said as much in his own words: 

That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

And that's no bull.

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It's the classic case of billionaire brawling: your 150,000-square-foot vacation mansion is encroaching on mine. 

The dispute between billionaires Peter Nygard and Louis Bacon over their adjacent Bahamas mansions is coming to a courthouse in New York City.

Bacon, hedge fund billionaire, is suing Canadian clothing magnate Nygard for allegedly engaging in "a long history of character assassination and numerous environmental misdeeds," related to Nygard’s tropical estate, according to The New York Times.

Bacon claims Nygard has been "illegally and surreptitiously adding to the size of his compound to the detriment of the local environment," and even allegedly ignoring a government order in 2010 to limit building onto his 150,000-square-foot estate he calls "Nygard Cay."

Additionally, Bacon claims the eccentric playboy billionaire has commercialized his property, turning it into a party pad for celebrities.

And to add insult to injury, he also says Nygard has been assassinating his character by hiring journalists to write articles that paint Bacon as a "murderer, drug trafficker and a member of the Ku Klux Klan."

Meanwhile, Nygard's lawyer says in a statement: "Today’s lawsuit is a continuation of Louis Bacon’s malicious campaign against Peter Nygard with the objective of obtaining Mr. Nygard’s Bahamian property (Nygard Cay), through illegal means, and to wrongfully continue to damage Mr. Nygard’s businesses and reputation."

He plans on filing a countersuit. 

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On his 30th birthday, Harvard Business School dropout and serial entrepreneur Ryan Allis released a 1,284-slide PowerPoint titled, "Lessons From My 20s," and it's all you can imagine and more.

Writes Valleywag's Nitasha Tiku: "It's what 'The Secret' sounds like after you lock yourself in a conference room with a week's supply of Soylent and a whiteboard."

Allis' insights, explored over 1,284 slides, range from:

To:

To:

He also gives practical advice. Some of it is specific:

Some of it is vague:

Although mostly fine advice, the presentation boils down to a several-hours lesson on how to be Ryan Allis.

Now Allis is clearly a successful guy — worth an estimated $40 million, he is the founder of digital marketing company iContact, CEO of social network Connect, chairman of leader network Hive, and more — but the wunderkind also has some significant blind spots.

First, he seems to believe every deep thought he has ever had is profoundly important. He could learn a thing or two about self-editing, not to mention the humility that is key to good leadership.

Second, he apparently believes his every idiosyncratic habit plays a critical role in being successful.

Since he writes down his 90-day, one-year, 10-year, and lifetime goals and frames them on his wall; since he can "clearly express [his] life purpose in 15 words or less with authentic excitement"; since he stalks mentors, exiles mediocre friends, holds weekly dinner roundtables with extraordinary friends, and obsesses over joining networks with other luminaries, he implies that this is the only way to be successful in the world. It's worth pointing out — though he almost certainly believes his own gospel — that Allis benefits personally from converting people to his goal-focused networking mania (slide 1,278 invites people to apply to join Hive).

This way of thinking is a basic fallacy, which fails to acknowledge all the other ways that people can be successful.

At some points he even explicitly states that his way is the only way to be successful, such as:

Really? The people who are doing the most to improve the world all have their goals framed on their wall? That seems hard to believe.

Allis also doesn't acknowledge the role that his own innate qualities played in his success.

Let's check his privilege: To start, he is brilliant and exuberant — I'll give him that much, though I think it's largely something he was born or raised with. Being a white male in America certainly helped. Moreover, he must have been well-connected, given that his uncle Steve Kiely was an early IBM engineer, Stanford Business School graduate, chairman of Stratus Computers, and presumably rich guy (his mom was a social worker and his dad was a minister).

In short, it's not likely that following Allis's advice to a t will make you as rich as he is.

Still, in an industry perpetuated by bloviation about the perfectibility of man and society, he says all the right things, which is why his 2008 book, "Zero To One Million," was a bestseller and his 1,284-slide presentation is probably getting praised outside of Valleywag and Business Insider.

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Stanford University has bred some of the most influential tech entrepreneurs since the beginning of Silicon Valley.

Whether it's due to the top-notch engineering and business programs, extensive alumni network, or university-affiliated accelerator programs, many of the industry's most important figures have earned degrees here, starting with Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the mid-30s and continuing on to today's startup founders. 

We've rounded up some of the most notable Stanford alums in tech. 

HP cofounders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard met at football tryouts.

Hewlett and Packard, considered by many to be the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, were Stanford students. 

The pair first met in the early 1930s while attending radio engineering classes taught by professor Fred Terman, who would later be essential to the founding of HP.

They both tried out for Stanford's football team, though only Packard would make it. 

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropped out of their Ph.D. program.

Perhaps the most well-known founders to come out of Stanford, students Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google while working towards their Ph.D's in computer science. 

The pair first met in 1995. Page, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, was considering attending Stanford; Brin was assigned to show him around.

The following year, they began work on a search engine they called BackRub, which operated on Stanford servers for more than a year before it began to take up too much bandwidth. 

Sun Microsystems cofounders Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Andy Bechtolsheim named their company after the university's network.

Khosla, McNealy, and Bechtolsheim were Stanford grad students when they founded software company Sun Microsystems in 1982.

The company's name is an acronym for Stanford University Network, the campus' computer system. 

Bill Joy, who was a Ph.D. student at Berkeley at the time, is also considered an original founder of Sun.

Whether you wear prescription glasses or simply sunglasses, choosing the right frames for your face is a difficult task.

Here are some key tips from eyewear specialist Shannon Malone, a director of product marketing at Warby Parker, to find a pair that will complement your face. 

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It's August.

So everyone in Europe is on vacation.

America, on the other hand, is at work.

What gives?

The New York Times reports that Americans work an average of 1,804 hours a year while Germans work 1,436. A National Bureau of Economic Research report found that Americans work 50% more than do the Germans, French, and Italians.

It's a global disparity: 39 countries have more vacations days than America. It's standard for Europeans to have four to six weeks off per year; Americans get 10 days. 

After consulting with bright minds, we present to you a few reasons why.

Reason 1: Americans go on tiny amounts of vacation because their jobs are more insecure than European gigs. 

"Jobs are more insecure in the U.S. and always have been," says Cary Cooper, an organizational psychology professor at Lancaster University Management School in England. 

"In the American way of life, if your employer wants to get rid of you, they just fire you," says Cooper, who grew up in California but has lived in the U.K. for 40 years. "In the U.K. we have redundancy pay. You can't just fire someone." 

If you get fired in the U.K., redundancy pay keeps you paid. The U.K. government says that if you've been working at your employer for more than two years, the following will happen if you get fired: 

• You'll get "half a week’s pay for each full year you were under 22."
• You'll get "1 week’s pay for each full year you were 22 or older, but under 41."
• You'll get "1 and half week’s pay for each full year you were 41 or older."

That legislation comes care of workers' rights. 

Reason 2: Unions are much stronger in Europe, further adding to job security. With the security comes a willingness — and legal ability — to vacate your gig. 

New Yorker writer James Suriowecki says it's a union thing: 

European labor unions are far more powerful and European labor markets are far more tightly regulated than their American counterparts. In the seventies, Europe, like the U.S., was hit by high oil prices, high inflation, and slowing productivity...

In response, labor unions fought for a reduced work week with no reduction in wages, and greater job protection. When it was hard to get wage increases, the unions pushed for more vacation time instead.

Governments responded to political pressure by plumping for leisure, too; in France in the eighties, for instance, a succession of laws increased mandatory vacation time and limited employers' ability to use overtime.

So since the unions have more sway, folks can securely go on holidays. Unlike in the States.

Reason 3: American culture norms are skewed toward working all the time. 

In America, the "expectations of managers are that you should be showing commitment and working," Cooper says. "Deep down (managers) don't really believe that you can burn people out and they need R&R, even if they themselves can burn out."

This tendency also shows up in what the management gurus call "face-time" or "presenteeism" — that phenomenon where you make sure to get to work before your boss and stay until after she's left, just so you can look impressively assiduous as you refresh Reddit.  

Citing a survey of corporate managers who equated more time at the office with being "more dedicated, more hardworking, and more responsible," Harvard Business School scholar Bob Pozen argues that facetime is a legacy of the industrial era, when people would clock in and clock out. As a result, it's baked into a lot of our most prestigious professions: lawyers and consultants all bill by the hour — and make bank doing so. 

These are the expectations of the U.S., Cooper says. 

"You have short holidays" in America, he says. "We expect you to be workaholic, we expect you to show your commitment. But the expectation in Europe is that everybody takes a holiday. It's part and parcel of European lifestyle." 

One alternative: results-oriented management, where you can get your metrics met and then go play. 

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Apollo Global Management Founder Leon Black and his wife, Debra, are "hammering out the details" to buy a $50 million townhouse on the Upper East Side, according to the New York Post.

Previously, the apartment was the Knoedler & Company art gallery, although it was shut down in 2009 after a scandal involving art fraud. In 2013, Christian Candy, a British luxury property developer, bought the apartment for $35 million. He refurbished the townhouse and put it back on the market for $55 million.

The townhouse was originally built in 1909. It has 20,757 square feet and seven stories.

The exterior of the townhouse features columns and large windows.

You can enter the townhouse under a beautiful archway.

The townhouse was designed in the Italian Renaissance style.

Depending on how you think about it, the IXION Windowless Jet Concept either has no windows, or it has all the windows.

Cameras on the exterior of this as-yet-unbuilt jet would provide jaw-dropping 360-degree views of what you would be seeing if your airplane were a transparent glass tube shuttling through the sky.

The interior "walls" are actually floor-to-ceiling video monitors that that display what the cameras "see." Or, they could display anything else — just check out the GIF above, which imagines showing underwater or outer space scenes on the huge monitors in the cabin.

A rendering of the jet's exterior is below. You'll notice it has solar panels to help offset its electricity footprint and that it is a truly windowless vehicle!

We encourage you to check out the video below, which features a computer-generated walkthrough of what it would be like to actually fly in this beast.

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Engagement ring photos are nothing new. A cursory search on Instagram reveals thousands of results for #engagementring, splayed hands boasting diamond-ring-encrusted fingers.

But when 33-year-old Christa Hendershot got engaged, she wasn't pleased with the way her hands looked in the photos she took to post to social media.

Hendershot, who hails from Mount Sinai, New York, recently went under the knife to make her hands look more "selfie worthy," reports ABC 7 New York. She spent more than $3,000 for "hand rejuvenation surgery."

Her plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ostad, whose office is based in New York, says he has seen an increase in the number of his clients who bring selfies into his office to point out their flaws to him.

This trend of people getting facelifts to look better on social media has been spotted in India, but the movement seems to be more apparent stateside as well.

Dr. Samuel Rizk, a facial plastic surgeon based in New York City, says that social media and selfies are "the biggest trend he has seen in his 16-year career," according to ABC 7 New York. "I personally would see two to three patients a day that have come in from selfies and social media," he said.

One of Rizk's clients, Jen Muir, said: "I can see everybody posting pictures of themselves, and I'm thinking, 'Why can't I do it? What's the problem?'" Muir said she spent $15,000 on a nose job to make her feel better about taking selfies.

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Bacon and kale have become an increasingly popular part of American diets. 

Eric Chemi at Bloomberg Businessweek decided to track each states' Twitter mentions of bacon vs. kale.  

"It turns out that a focus on kale correlates to being a liberal, while a bacon orientation is tied more closely to conservatism," Chemi writes. 

Southern states like Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina favored bacon. Meanwhile, Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts preferred kale. 

Here's the map, courtesy Businessweek. 

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Rent in San Francisco is incredibly expensive. 

According to a new report from data company Priceonomics, the median rental price of a one-bedroom apartment was $3,120 as of June 2014. That's a big increase over just a year ago, when the median rental price was $2,795.

"San Francisco is a beautiful place, with a bustling economy that has drawn tens of thousands of new residents over the past few years," Priceonomics wrote in the blog post. "But the supply of housing is relatively fixed as large swaths of the city aren't zoned for the type of high-density housing that could accommodate the increased demand. So the price of housing has increased."

Priceonomics used its data crawling service to analyze apartment listings across the Internet. They created a series of charts to break down their findings.

This map breaks down the median rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in various parts of the city. According to Priceonomics' analysis, the Financial District, Civic Center, and tech-centric Mid-Market neighborhoods like SoMa and the Mission were among the most expensive in the city in June of 2014.

As the city's real estate market heats up, Mid-Market neighborhoods that haven't historically been expensive are becoming more and more popular. In an effort to bring investment to these neighborhoods, much of the city's new apartment construction has centered on these areas. 

Twitter has its offices near here, as does Uber and Square.

Southern neighborhoods are also ideal for workers who live in San Francisco but have to commute to Silicon Valley for work. 

"Proximity to the highways and shuttle buses that take tech workers south to companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple is also reorienting the real estate landscape," Priceonomics writes. "Living in neighborhoods like Bernal Heights or Portero was once (arguably) like living in a backwater, but these commuting-friendly areas are now expensive and popular."

According to this chart, which ranks each San Francisco neighborhood according to the rent percentage increase from 2011 to 2014, rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Bernal Heights has more than doubled in just three years.

Still, rent has shot up pretty much everywhere in San Francisco. This chart compares how the median price for different types of apartments has increased from June 2013 to June 2014. 

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In 2002 photographer Corey Arnold left behind a poor economy in San Francisco and headed up to Alaska to try his luck at his longtime passion of fishing.

Arnold, who had worked summers during college on a salmon boat in Alaska, signed onto the f/v Rollo, a crabbing boat that fishes in the dangerous Bering Sea.

While working long, strenuous hours on the Rollo, Arnold often stole away with the captain’s permission to grab his camera and photograph the crew and the ship. Arnold eventually put together "Fish Work: Bering Sea," a documentation of his seven adventurous and dicey crab seasons aboard the Rollo.

Arnold shared a selection of the photos with us here, and you can check out the rest in the book or on his website.

There are two annual crabbing seasons in the Bering Sea, King crab and Opilio crab. During each one- to two-month season, Arnold went on numerous trips crabbing. He went on one or two trips during King season, and three to five during Opilio season.

The Bering Sea, located between the Russian Far East and Alaska, has a unique interaction of strong currents, sea ice, and powerful weather patterns. It is one of the most dangerous places to fish in the world. Arnold calls the sea "a continuous storm."

The 107-foot long f/v Rollo is equipped to handle tumultuous seas. Average seas in the Bering Sea have around 10- to 20-feet waves, but Arnold has witnessed massive 50-foot waves and the Rollo's captain, Eric Nyhammer, has witnessed 80-foot waves. Arnold rarely saw his captain get nervous, but when he does, the crew knows it's time to worry.