Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a leader of the family's $62 billion business empire, has reportedly purchased a $29 million estate in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

Murdoch, 46, is co-chairman of News Corp. and executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. Earlier this year, the Financial Times reported that Murdoch has a passion for "mountain climbing and the great outdoors," so his purchase of the Mopani Estate, located on Buttermilk Mountain with views of Red Mountain, is no big surprise.

The home was most recently listed by its previous owner, tech entrepreneur Mark Schaszberger, for $44 million in June. It first appeared on the market for $49 million in 2015. Amy Doherty and Joshua Saslove of Douglas Elliman had the listing. 

Below, take a look around the 44.6-acre property.

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The main home on the property has 13,500 square feet of space.

There's also a guesthouse, complete with two bedrooms and two baths.

An outfitted horse stable also sits on the property.

One of the tiniest apartments for sale in New York City is a 300-square-foot studio. 

The apartment is listed for $355,000 in historic Tudor City, Manhattan in a full-service co-op building.

We visited the apartment and discovered it's impressive for its small size. 

Tudor City is a sprawling apartment complex on the far east side of Manhattan near the Turtle Bay neighborhood.

The studio is located in Windsor Tower, an elite building tucked away in Tudor City.

Windsor Tower gives the impression of being from a more elegant time period. The 24-hour doorman warmly greets people as they enter. The spot has an in-building convenience store, laundry, and expansive gym.

Hotel mogul Ed Scheetz is looking to sell his duplex penthouse in the Soho neighborhood of New York for $15.93 million. 

Scheetz reportedly purchased the property for $10 million in 2008, soon after the overdosing death of his then-girlfriend. Scheetz was sued by the family of the woman, and the case was settled privately in 2010. Scheetz has worked on the Chelsea Hotels in New York and the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, and he was formerly the CEO of Morgans Hotel Group.

First listed for $18 million in Feburary 2016 and now priced at $2 million less, the home comes complete with two bedrooms and 2,000 square feet of outdoor space. It's listed with Lori Shabtai of Town Residential.

See the home, below.

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The entire property is 4,189 square feet.

There are two bedrooms ...

... one of which looks out onto one of the four outdoor terraces.

A trip to Fiji isn't complete without some kava, the country's national drink. Known in Fijian as yaqona, or by its colonial nickname "grog," kava is a muddy, earthy beverage that calms you and numbs your mouth and throat. And if you drink enough, you'll feel a mild euphoric buzz. It's made from the powdered root of a pepper tree called piper methysticum strained through a wooden bowl full of water.

Kava is always accompanied by a ceremony where people gather around the kava bowl and drink from coconut shells. The practice can range from a formal affair with guests to an informal happy hour among friends, accompanied by guitar playing and singing. Participants clap once before and three times after each drink.

Kava has been consumed across the southern Pacific for thousands of years, and in Fiji it was a drink only for a male chief or priest and his advisers and their guests. Shortly after Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1970, social changes inspired Fijians to open the kava ceremony up to everyone, and Fijians happily share it with tourists. We had ours at the Namale resort in Savusavu.

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Rich parents are just like the rest of us: They don't want to raise spoiled kids.

In "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence," sociologist Rachel Sherman interviewed 50 New York City parents with incomes of at least $250,000 a year.

Largely, she found, they struggled with feeling and being "worthy" of their wealth, knowing that they inhabit incredible privilege, but wanting to distance themselves from the consumerist, morally bankrupt stereotype of a rich person that pervades popular media.

They considered themselves to be normal people living normal lives, spending on the same things as anyone else: their kids. Many of her subjects expressed the fear that their kids' advantages early in life would color their success in the future, and strove to keep those kids from turning out to be, as one subject said, "lazy jerks."

"They want their children to see themselves as 'normal' (and therefore just like everyone else) but also to appreciate their advantages (which make them different from others)," Sherman writes. "In the end, they instill and reproduce ideas about how to occupy privilege legitimately without giving it up — how to be a 'good person' with wealth."

But there's a twist: The parents themselves struggled with the understandable impulse to provide their kids with every advantage, to give them whatever they had to give. Therefore, Sherman found, they were comfortable with their kids being entitled ... but not acting like it. "I came to see that the kind of entitlement parents wanted to avoid was behavioral and emotional, not material," she wrote. "As long as they don't act or feel entitled, children remain legitimately entitled to resources."

They communicate this message primarily in two ways, Sherman found: constraint and exposure.

Here's Sherman:

"First, they talked about limiting children's behavior and their consumption of material goods, experiences, and labor. Placing boundaries on kids' entitlement to consume would, parents hoped, also constrain their sense of entitlement more broadly. And requiring labor of them would instill a strong work ethic and a sense of self-sufficiency.

"Second, these parents tried to expose their children to class difference, in both imaginary and concrete ways, in order to help them understand their advantaged social location and get a sense of what a 'normal' life is. These ideals had instrumental aspects — that is, parents imagine that having a solid work ethic and being comfortable with people different from themselves would help their children succeed in a risky world."

These strategies don't sound so different from any other family, insisting kids do chores and hold summer jobs to develop a work ethic, or volunteering with charities to become aware of those who have less. However, Sherman found, being "legitimately entitled" to resources means they have the same resources as they would were they not legitimately entitled — that is, perhaps, spoiled.

"Ultimately, the parents are not challenging their children's advantage but, instead, teaching them how to occupy their advantaged position appropriately," Sherman writes. She continues: "This legitimately entitled self faces the contradiction we have seen before: between erasing class difference through treating everyone the same and recognizing this difference through 'awareness' of privilege."

"Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence" is available now on Amazon (and is fascinating).

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Few details are known about Ri Sol-ju, the woman who in 2012 was identified as the wife of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Ri is thought to be 28 now and a mother to three children, according to South Korean intelligence reports. The Hermit Kingdom's secretive government, however, has not confirmed that information.

Ri doesn't appear in public very often. She's usually seen when Kim celebrates missile test launches, and is always photographed smiling politely, wearing clean-cut, pastel-colored dresses.

Ri was reportedly born into an elite family — her father was a professor and her mother a doctor — but little else is known about her life or how she ultimately became the wife of the world's most notorious living dictator.

Here's everything we know about Ri Sol-ju:

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Ri Sol-ju was first identified as the wife of Kim Jong Un in July 2012, when North Korean state media made it official.

An international media frenzy had been mounting for weeks over the "mystery woman" spotted with Kim at a a series of public events, including a theater performance featuring Disney characters, and a tribute to Kim's grandfather on the anniversary of his death.

Source: CNN

Ri's eventual public introduction was underwhelming, to say the least. North Korean media mentioned her almost as an afterthought during coverage of an amusement park opening in Pyongyang.

Source: The New York Times

Rob Gronkowski, in an effort to extend his NFL career, spent this past offseason working on a new training program.

To do that, he turned to two people who know a thing or two about a long NFL career — Tom Brady and his fitness guru, Alex Guerrero.

In addition to resistance bands to strengthen Gronk's core, and deep-tissue massages to help with blood flow, Gronk has incorporated elements of Brady's strict diet, according to Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald.

One of the key elements for the famous party boy was an alcohol diet that lets you keep drinking, but with a big catch.

We tried the plan, and it worked. But it was also a lot harder than we ever imagined.

Here's how it works:

Guerrero runs Brady's "TB12 Sports Therapy Center at Patriot Place" and the pair are behind Brady's new book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance," a book that is being described "the athletes' bible."

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While Gronk incorporated elements of Brady's strict diet, he was not quite to Brady's level. So no avocado ice cream yet.

Source: Boston Herald

One twist to the regimen was that Brady does not drink alcohol, so they had to come up with a plan that would allow Gronk to keep drinking.

What you see isn't always what you get — especially when it comes to salary.

According to a 2010 study from Princeton University, Americans' happiness number — the income threshold at which their day-to-day happiness is no longer enhanced by earning more money — is $75,000.

That's a reasonable number. In fact, it's nearly 30% more than the national median income. But depending on where you live, a $75,000 salary can look very different when it hits your bank account, after federal, state, and local governments have taken their share.

We used SmartAsset's paycheck calculator to find out what $75,000 looks like after paying taxes in 11 popular US cities. The chart below shows annual take-home pay in each city.

Some states, like Washington, Florida, and Texas, don't have state income taxes, so a $75,000 earner will bring home a bigger paycheck there than someone in California or New York.

Still, these totals only account for state and local income taxes, which vary by place, plus federal income taxes and Social Security and Medicare (known as FICA), which amount to $778 per pay period no matter where in the US you live.

If you're contributing to a tax-advantaged retirement account, like a 401(k), the paycheck you bring home will be less than these figures.

But in that case, your savings are covered — or at least part of the recommended 20% of your paycheck you should earmark for savings and paying off debt — and the rest of your paycheck can go toward necessities like housing, food, transportation, and discretionary spending.

The same goes for health insurance, if you're enrolled in a healthcare program through your employer, which will deduct monthly insurance payments from your paycheck on a pre-tax basis.

New York City residents fare the worst in our city comparison. Earners there take home just under $50,000 on a $75,000 salary, largely thanks to steep state income taxes and city taxes. That doesn't leave much to cover housing or transportation costs in the most expensive city in the country.

Below, check out the semi-monthly paycheck breakdown for workers earning $75,000 in 11 US cities.

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Dallas, Texas

Miami, Florida

Nashville, Tennessee

I'm on record saying that air travel is an awful experience for the most part and has been for my entire life. I came to this conclusion long before United Airlines' had a dismaying experience with a passenger who was dragged off a plane by police, sustaining injuries in the process.

I also came to this conclusion long before that event was followed by a parade of horribles throughout the industry, reported by smartphone and on social media.

As negative as I can be about the miseries of flight, over the years I've come up with some hacks that make it bearable. I put some of these to work on recent flights to Europe and Utah, in fact.

Here are my top seven:

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1. Make a day of it.

Modern air travel is so much faster relative to what most people used to endure — long train, boat, or car rides — that we've come to believe that we'll be whisked from point A to point B with no deleterious effects.

This is foolish. Just because your flight is two hours doesn't mean that's all the time you'll be committing to the journey. You could get stuck in traffic on the way to the airport. You could be delayed at check-in or security. The flight itself could leave late. You could get bumped! You could miss a connection. And on and on.

Add to that the stress you'll endure if you fly coach, with a cramped seat, and you're confronting an ordeal. 

My practice is to write off the travel day. Even if my flight is just a couple of hours, I plan to spend the day on the move and unless there's a business commitment mixed in, I devote myself to the journey.

I get to the airport with hours to spare, have a bite to eat and something to drink, do a bit of reading, board the plane, take my flight, and then I don't rush at the other end. In effect, I impose leisure on something that for most people isn't leisurely.

All bets are off, of course, if I'm flying with my family. But when I'm, solo, I make it all about me. I didn't adhere to this rule on my most recent trip, mainly because the schedule wasn't completely under my control, and as a result I wound up a bit cranky by the end of my return flight.

2. Use the lounges.

Some travelers have airport lounge access thanks to their ticket or relationship with the airline or lounge through a credit card. But if you don't, I think it's worth it to pay for daily access. In fact, I routinely now do this.

I usually spend around $50, and if you figure that I'm already saving a fair amount of money by flying coach and would have to feed myself in any case, I think it evens out and actually can be a money saving expenditure.

Even if it isn't, it's much more relaxing to hang out in the lounge than it is in the terminal or by the gate. I'll often spend a few hours doing this, becoming a sort of temporary citizen of the airport.

3. Stay overnight at an airport hotel.

This often isn't as expensive as you might think. On a recent layover in Lisbon, I decided to spend the night at a nice boutique hotel across the street from the airport, and I spent around $100. 

Again, you're taking care of yourself with this move, reducing the stress of getting the airport on time. For early flights, I think this a total no-brainer. You wake up, maybe enjoy a free breakfast, and you either stroll over to the airport or jump on a shuttle.

This works out best if the hotel is in the airport itself. Or nearby. I stuck by this rule in Lisbon this year and in Paris last year and the results were great. I arrived for my flights with plenty of time to spare.

A new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest has identified the unhealthiest restaurant meals in America.

For the center's annual "Xtreme Eating" list, its nutrition experts reviewed menus at 200 restaurant chains in the US to find the meals heaviest in calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar.

Restaurants that made the list include The Cheesecake Factory, Buffalo Wild Wings, and IHOP.

Here's the list, ranked lowest to highest by calories.

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The Cheesecake Factory: Flying Gorilla drink (950 calories)

This chocolate and banana milkshake with dark chocolate and banana liqueurs packs 950 calories, 26 grams of saturated fat, and 60 grams of added sugar.  

Uno Pizzeria & Grill: Chocolate cake (1,740 calories)

Uno's chocolate cake is a huge serving, which is why it's called the "ridiculously awesome, insanely large chocolate cake" on the menu. 

It has 32 grams of saturated fat, 770 milligrams of sodium, and 168 grams of added sugar — about three times the daily recommended sugar limit. 

Buffalo Wild Wings: Cheese curd bacon burger with fries (1,950 calories)

Consuming this sandwich with a side of fries is the equivalent of eating five Burger King bacon double cheeseburgers, according to the report. It has 53 grams of saturated fat and 4,700 milligrams of sodium.

• Marriott wants to fend off Airbnb by introducing new apps and services.

• Guests will soon be able to book hotel reservations and submit requests on Facebook Messenger and Slack.

• A new feature that curates local activities for guests could help the company compete with Airbnb.

The hotel business is exploding. Over 80% of millennials, who famously value experiences over material things, are more likely to spend money on travel than save for their financial future.

Still, the threat of home-sharing startups like Airbnb looms large over legacy hotel brands. But Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain, has a solution to take on the startup. 

The company won't be renting out private homes anytime soon. But Marriott is channeling Silicon Valley startups by rolling out new apps and services that aim to make the guest experience seamless and more personalized, from concierge robots that deliver fresh towels, to a data-driven mobile app that suggests restaurants and activities it thinks guests will enjoy.

These millennial-friendly amenities deliver the personal touch that travelers crave from home-sharing startups, with the safety and liability that come with staying in a major hotel chain.

Marriott is by no stretch a startup. Through a $13 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts in 2016, the company now owns 30 hotel brands ranging from The Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis on the high-end to Courtyard Marriott and Four Points on the more affordable side. It has 1.2 million rooms globally, which puts it 400,000 rooms shy of Airbnb's count in 2016.

In 2017, Marriott plans to open 500 new hotels — with some new features.

The company is launching a Marriot Rewards extension for popular messaging apps including Facebook Messenger, Slack, and China's largest messaging app WeChat. Members of the loyalty program will be able to use these apps to search availability at thousands of hotels, find articles about their destination city, and connect with concierge before and during their stay.

Aloft, a boutique hotel brand owned by Marriott, added autonomous robots to its concierge staff in 2014. When a guest calls the front desk to request a toothbrush or a cup of coffee, a hotel employee loads the robot — called Botlr — and sends it on its way. Botlr comes equipped with sensors and 3D cameras that allow it to avoid obstacles and find the right room.

The idea is that Botlr frees up hotel employees to focus on more important tasks.

Stephanie Linnartz, global chief commercial officer for Marriott, told Business Insider that Marriott has to make every part of a hotel stay as easy as placing an order on Amazon.

"To have technology play a critical part in the guest experience — and all along the journey — is how we're going to win [guests'] loyalty," Linnartz said. "We want to be your first choice."

Marriott made another strategic investment this year. It dropped an undisclosed amount in PlacePass, a search engine for travel experiences, tours, and attractions in 800 locations in 117 countries. Before and during their hotel stays, guests receive a curated list of activities based on their interests and past reservations, and can book PlacePass activities through Marriott.

Airbnb began offering a similar service last fall. A new feature called Trips lets users sign up for "experiences," like going truffle-hunting or driving classic cars, or check out "places," which are recommendations from local residents. Trips is available in 40 markets worldwide.

Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott, told Business Insider's Alyson Shontell earlier this year that this is an area where traditional hotels could have an unexpected edge on Airbnb.

"We have advantages because we have a community [at our hotels]. You're not alone in somebody's extra bedroom or house that they've left behind. ... You can talk to people who are there who will say, 'Here's my favorite restaurant,'" Sorenson said.

Anyone who's stayed in a hotel before can relate: Concierge is not always helpful. They might spit out the same few recommendations to each guest that approaches their desk.

Linnartz said the new partnership with PlacePass marries the rich data behind a hotel company with the computing wizardry of a tech startup to make guests' experiences more personal.

"We're thinking in a very open-minded and creative way about what — you know, we've never been afraid of competition — what can we do to be as competitive as possible," Linnartz said.

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Located 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 1,000 miles northwest of Anchorage, the remote Alaskan village of Kivalina is literally melting under the weight of climate change.

The barrier island has been disappearing under water over the last decade, as the warming ocean causes sea levels to rise and powerful storm surges to eat away at the beach. The US Army Corps of Engineers has said Kivalina will no longer be habitable within 10 years.

The future for residents is uncertain. President Barack Obama recommended a budget of $400 million to relocate Alaskan villages like Kivalina in 2016, but Congress has not approved it. 

These photos from the Associated Press and photographers Corey Arnold, Zoë White, and Vlad Sokhin, who shared their beautiful images to Instagram, offer a glimpse of life in Kivalina. 

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Kivalina is no ordinary small town.

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There are no roads to Kivalina, and within 10 years, there could be no coming or going at all. The barrier island is at risk of severe flooding and erosion caused by climate change.

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The village, which has a population of about 450, sits on a slip of permanently frozen earth off the coast of Alaska, flanked by a lagoon on one side and the Arctic Ocean on the other.

Source: Men's Journal

David Chang's culinary empire continues to expand.

The influential chef of Momofuku fame launched Ando as a delivery-only concept in New York City in 2016, which received cautiously optimistic, if not tepid, reviews.

Previously, Ando existed only in the virtual world — all orders were placed through the restaurant's app, and the food was delivered via UberRush.

But now Ando has a foothold in fast-casual reality with an honest-to-goodness brick-and-mortar establishment. 

Business Insider reviewed an early iteration of the delivery service's menu before, so we decided to head down to experience Ando in person. 

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Ando's storefront is on 14th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue, just a few blocks from our offices.

The interior is cavernous — a counter and stools line the window wall, and a simple counter with several registers await.

The menu is varied enough to give options without being overwhelming; there's even a new breakfast menu that's excluded from the app during the week. The prices are within a reasonable range — at least for an NYC lunch.

Since 2014, 32 new residential apartments inside the famed Woolworth building in downtown Manhattan have been on the market — however the building's penthouse, named "The Pinnacle," has gone up for sale just this month reports The Wall Street Journal.

With an asking price of $110 million, the Pinnacle could break sales records for downtown Manhattan — which is currently held by a unit inside the Chelsea’s Walker Tower that sold for $50.9 million in 2014.

Once the world's tallest building, the 1913 Woolworth is 792-feet — and the Pinnacle takes up its top peak, with 360 views of the city.

The Pinnacle is a 9,710-square-foot apartment that, at the moment, doesn't have a specific floor plan. Ken Horn, president of Alchemy Properties who is working on the project told The Wall Street Journal that its buyer will be able to design the space to their specific needs.

Alchemy Properties worked on the construction of the penthouse, which needed more windows and airspace in order to meet New York City requirements. After receiving permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, six windows were added, others were expanded, and 3,500 pieces of terra-cotta were replaced on the exterior.

The ceilings are up to 24 feet high, and the penthouse residents along with the other units in the building get to enjoy amenities such as a spa, a wine cellar, and fitness studio.    

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• Psychologist Eli Finkel says the only real advantage to online dating is that it introduces you to tons of potential dates.
• There's no evidence that matching algorithms work, Finkel says.
• That's why Finkel thinks apps like Tinder and Bumble are the best option for single people today, whether you're looking for casual sex or a serious relationship.

"For people who want to whine and moan about how online dating isn't working," says psychologist Eli Finkel, "go back in time to 1975. Ask somebody, 'What does it feel like to not have any realistic possibility of meeting somebody that you could potentially go on a date with?'"

At least you've got a fighting chance.

Finkel is a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management; he's also the author of "The All-or-Nothing Marriage." Finkel and his colleagues have been studying online dating for years.

Their current conclusion is that the matching algorithms so many companies claim to use to find your soul mate don't work. The biggest benefit of online dating, Finkel told Business Insider, is that it introduces you to tons (and tons) of people.

Which is why Finkel thinks Tinder, Bumble, and similar apps that allow you to find potential dates quickly but don't purport to use any scientific algorithm, are the best option for singles today.

Here's Finkel:

"These companies don't claim that they're going to give you your soulmate, and they don't claim that you can tell who's compatible with you from a profile. You simply swipe on this stuff and then meet over a pint of beer or a cup of coffee.

"And I think this is the best solution. Online dating is a tremendous asset for us because it broadens the dating pool and introduces us to people who we otherwise wouldn't have met."

Finkel's most recent piece of research on the topic is a study he co-authored with Samantha Joel and Paul Eastwick and published in the journal Psychological Science. The researchers had undergraduates fill out questionnaires about their personality, their well-being, and their preferences in a partner. Then they set the students loose in a speed-dating session to see if they could predict who would like who.

As it turns out, the researchers could predict nothing. Actually, the mathematical model they used did a worse job of predicting attraction than simply taking the average attraction between two students in the experiment.

Sure, the model could predict people's general tendency to like other people and to be liked in return. But it couldn't predict how much one specific person liked another specific person — which was kind of the whole point.

In 2012, Finkel co-authored a lengthy review, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, of several dating sites and apps, and outlined several limitations to online dating.

For example, many dating services ask people what they want in a partner and use their answers to find matches. But research suggests that most of us are wrong about what we want in a partner — the qualities that appeal to us on paper may not be appealing IRL.

In that review, too, Finkel and his co-authors suggested that the best thing about online dating is that it widens your pool of prospective mates. That's what apps like Tinder and Bumble offer.

In a 2015 New York Times op-ed, Finkel shared another reason why Tinder and similar services may be the best option for singles. Finkel wrote:

"[S]uperficiality is actually Tinder's greatest asset. Singles typically don't adopt an either/or approach to dating — either casual sex or a serious relationship. Most of them want to have fun, meet interesting people, feel sexual attraction and, at some point, settle into a serious relationship. And all of that begins with a quick and dirty assessment of rapport and chemistry that occurs when people first meet face to face."

To be sure, Finkel acknowledges downsides to having so many date options. In the 2012 review, Finkel and his colleagues used the term "choice overload" to describe what happens when people wind up making worse romantic choices when they've got more of a selection. (Other psychologists say we can wind up making worse decisions in general when we've got too many options.)

Mandy Ginsberg, the CEO of Match Group North America, who oversees Match, Plenty of Fish, and OKCupid, alluded to something similar when she said online dating isn't a panacea. She previously told Business Insider that she still hears about "ability to have chemistry, or someone not being sure about their intent, or going out on endless first dates and nothing ever clicking."

The funny-but-sad thing about online dating is that, while it gives you more options and presumably boosts your chances of meeting someone, you may feel worse off than that guy or girl living in 1975. That's because instead of going on one blah date, you've gone on 27.

Ultimately, there's absolutely no guarantee you'll meet someone online. But Finkel said the most effective way for singles to start a relationship to do is get out there and date — a lot. And Tinder lets you do that.

Based on his most recent study, Finkel said, "The best thing to do is to get across a table from someone and try to use the algorithm between your ears to try to figure out whether there's some compatibility there."

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Carl Zimmer, a science journalist, explains how the revolutionary new genome-editing tool CRISPR works. Zimmer is a columnist for The New York Times and the author of "A Planet of Viruses." Following is a transcript of the video.

Carl Zimmer: CRISPR is basically a group of molecules that can edit DNA. You can basically fine tune them to just go after any piece of DNA you want. They can cut that DNA and then you can actually insert a different piece of DNA in its place. So this could allow you for example to fix a defective gene.

If somebody has cystic fibrosis for example, in theory you could use CRISPR to repair the gene that's faulty in them and then they would not suffer from cystic fibrosis any longer. And also against things like cancer because you can actually take people's own immune cells and edit their genes so that they can recognize and attack cancer cells.

It's different from how GMOs are often created where you're taking an existing gene from another species and you're inserting it into another species. In this case you can just say, you know this particular piece of DNA I don't like it so much I just want to change it a little bit. And you can make that precise change. And CRISPR actually lets you make, many, many, many different changes to an organism's DNA so you can create a whole suite of changes and potentially radically change that organism.

Produced by Alex Kuzoian and Jessica Orwig.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published October 12, 2015. 

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It's been a while since we've seen so many products announced at one time from any company. 

Amazon announced a slew of new products on Wednesday, including new Echo devices that house Amazon's smart voice-activated assistant Alexa, as well as some nifty new features.

Business Insider's Matt Weinberger got some hands-on time with all the new devices, which replace and refresh some older Echo models while also adding brand-new members to the Echo family.

The company also announced a new Fire TV that will make the most of the latest video standards. 

Plus, Alexa was also added to a very special fish-related product, which you'll see at the end of this roundup. 

Here's what we thought of all the new Amazon products announced on Wednesday.

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The all-new Amazon Echo

This new Echo is way smaller — it's only slightly taller than a soda can, and the base fits in your palm. It's hard to gauge in the controlled conditions of an Amazon demo area, but the sound quality does seem noticeably improved from the old model. It also sports a faster processor, which Amazon says makes Alexa's voice recognition better and more reliable. 

It also sports a pair of nifty side-perks:

First, you can choose between six casings for your Echo, including a wood veneer and a full fabric covering. If you get bored, you can swap. The casings seem to be high-quality when we looked at them in-person, which is nice if you're going to place the Echo in your living room. Second, unlike the old Echo, this new one sports an auxiliary jack to plug in your own speakers.

How to get it: The new Amazon Echo is available for preorder Wednesday for $99 (down from $199 for the previous model). Check out more details about Amazon's new Echo. 

Echo Plus

The new $149 Echo Plus keeps the original Echo's design, but it comes with better sound, as well as a built-in smart home hub to control your smart home devices, like smart lightbulbs, smart door locks, and smart thermostats. 

The original Echo could also control your smart home devices, but you needed to install the appropriate app, or skill. "There's no apps, there's no skills, it just works out of the box," said Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president in charge of Alexa.

While we didn't get to try out those smart home smarts, we can attest that the device looks great up close, and wouldn't feel terribly out of place in your kitchen or on a bookshelf. Also, like the all-new Echo, the Plus sports an auxiliary jack for external speakers.

How to get it: It's available starting on Wednesday at $149, in silver or black. Check out more details about Amazon's new Echo Plus. 

Echo Spot

The new $130 Amazon Echo Spot is a small device with a circular 2.5-inch display that's a mixture of the Echo Dot and Echo Show. 

With the Spot, you'll be able to make video calls with its built-in camera and speakers, and it can be connected to speakers using a 3.5mm AUX cord or via Bluetooth. It looks like it could make a great, albeit expensive, bedside alarm. 

The Echo Spot also supports certain screen-based apps: You can check your calendar, watch Amazon Prime video, or even read restaurant reviews on Yelp, among other things. 

Importantly, Amazon tells us that the Echo Spot will have better sound quality than the Echo Dot — but you'll still want a $99 Echo or $149 Echo Show if you want the music to fill a room.

And yes, you'll be able to dim the screen at night so you can sleep. 

How to get it: The Spot will go on pre-order on Wednesday, and will become available to buy in December. 

Ivanka Trump is now a full-time resident of Washington, DC, and she no longer has any use for her Manhattan pied-à-terre.

Though it was originally listed for sale for $4.1 million, the two-bedroom apartment is also now available on the rental market. First listed for $15,000 a month, it was knocked down to $13,000 a month in February. It's now available for rent for $10,450 a month.

Trump reportedly bought the apartment for $1 million in 2004, according to Luxury Listings. It sits underneath the four-bedroom penthouse the family also owns in the same Park Avenue building.

It is listed, appropriately, with Trump International Realty.

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The apartment is located in Trump Park Avenue, a doorman building on the Upper East Side.

Trump also owns the penthouse of the building with her husband, Jared Kushner.

A wide foyer offers a grand entrance to the 1,500-square-foot condo.

On Wednesday, Amazon introduced a handful of new Echo smart speakers during an event at its Seattle skyscraper headquarters. 

The funkiest of them all is the Echo Spot — a tiny, little $129 gadget with a 2.5-inch touchscreen and a camera, shipping in December. It's roughly the same size as the popular Amazon Echo Dot, but with the obvious addition of a screen.

The Spot's primary purpose is to act as a smart alarm clock right at your bedside. But thanks to the Alexa voice assistant, the Spot can do a lot more.

And, after a short demo at Amazon's headquarters following the announcement, it's definitely the new Echo device I'm most excited to really put through its paces when it formally goes on sale. 

Spotting

In the hands-on demo Amazon gave reporters after the on-stage presentations, the Spot wasn't taking Alexa voice commands, or playing music. Ostensibly, the user experience still has some wrinkles to work out ahead of the December ship date. Still, I got to swipe through a few different apps running on the Echo Spot, including checking a calendar, reading Yelp reviews, and displaying lyrics.

The Echo Spot is basically a tinier version of the Echo Show, Amazon's $229 voice-controlled tablet. Both gadgets can display lyrics, play movies from Amazon Prime Video, make video calls, and check feeds from supported video cameras. And like all other Echo devices, it can report the weather, set alarms, and turn on smart home gadgetry.

The difference is that the Echo Spot is way smaller: It's about as wide as Amazon's popular, tiny Echo Dot smart speaker, which retails for $49, but it's taller, to accommodate that screen. Like Amazon's other devices, the build quality is very good, and the Echo Spot feels like a premium gadget. 

Amazon tells me that the larger size means that the Spot boasts better speakers than the Dot, too. And if you're into it, the Spot offers a standard auxiliary jack so you can plug in your higher-end speakers. Otherwise, true audiophiles should probably get the $99 Echo or the $149 Echo Plus. 

The screen isn't fabulous, but it works just fine for what it does. Text on the screen is crisp and clear. The default display is a clock face, with a few different designs to work through. Amazon assures me you'll be able to dim the screen at night, so the light won't keep you awake. 

The built-in camera lets you make video calls. You can shut it off in the settings if you're not keen on the idea of a video camera pointing at your bed. Of course, if you're really paranoid you might want to put a piece of tape over the camera.

The really killer app, though, is its size. I liked the Amazon Echo Show in theory, when I tried it. Its large screen size, and its big base, made it a little unwieldy to fit into my life: If it sat on a shelf, I never really used the screen. If I had it on the counter, I kept having to move it out of the way. 

An alarm clock, though...an alarm clock makes sense to me. Having all the smarts of Alexa next to my bed, in an alarm clock that can also be a little TV? That seems pretty nifty to me. Of course, that assumes you're okay with having an Amazon video camera next to your bed, but that's a personal preference. 

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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has died at 91, Playboy Enterprises confirmed in a press release Wednesday night.

For the last 40 years, the entertainment icon made his home in the infamous Playboy Mansion, the site of many a crazy party. 

Hefner never technically owned the Los Angeles estate. He leased it from Playboy Enterprises and paid $100 a year in rent.

In August 2016, the nearly 20,000-square-foot house sold for $100 million to Daren Metropoulos, a principal of the private-equity firm Metropoulos & Co. and a former co-CEO of Pabst Brewing Company.

As part of the terms of the sale, Hefner was allowed to continue living there for $1 million per year. Now that he has died, the mansion and its five-acre grounds will officially have no further ties to Playboy Enterprises.

Let's take a look around Hefner's longtime home:

Raisa Bruner contributed reporting to an earlier version of this article.

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The 20,000-square-foot house is on the edge of the Los Angeles Country Club in the Holmby Hills neighborhood, right between Beverly Hills and Westwood.

The five-acre property includes the main mansion and a four-bedroom guesthouse.

For decades, invitations to Playboy Mansion parties were highly coveted, and stories of the wild nights here are Hollywood legend.