A viral diet that's been shown to burn 10 times more fat than a standard diet is gaining momentum among Silicon Valley tech workers. And it involves eating a lot of fat.

The ketogenic or "keto" diet — which first became popular in the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy and diabetes— limits carbohydrates to no more than 50 grams a day, which is the rough equivalent of a plain bagel or a cup of white rice. By comparison, dietary guidelines from the US Department of Agriculture recommend between 225 and 325 grams of carbs a day.

On the keto diet, the body goes into starvation mode and taps its fat stores for fuel. Studies suggest the low-carb, high-fat diet may promote weight loss, improve focus, and stave off age-related diseases. More research is needed on its long-term effects, especially in healthy people.

A small study recently published in the journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome found that adults who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome (a precursor of diabetes) and ate a ketogenic diet had resting metabolic rates (a measure of how much energy your body burns when at rest) over 10 times higher than people who ate a standard diet.

Earlier this year, I spent two months eating bacon, butter, and avocados to see why the keto movement is so popular with tech workers. Here's what it was like.

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I am no stranger to diets. I've cut sugar, counted points on Weight Watchers, and swapped solid food for Soylent, a venture-capital-backed meal-replacement shake.

I gave up breakfast for a week and drank this caffeinated meal-replacement shake instead »

But those usually don't last long. I love food. I'm a chronic snacker.

When I first learned about the keto diet, it caught my interest because dieters could eat seemingly unlimited amounts of healthy fats, like cheese, nuts, avocado, eggs, butter — foods that have high "point values" on Weight Watchers and are severely restricted.

The keto diet reorganizes the building blocks of the food pyramid.

It cuts down carbs to between 20 and 50 grams a day, depending on a person's medical history and insulin sensitivity. (There are about 30 grams in one apple or one-half of a plain bagel.)

On the diet, healthy fats should account for approximately 80% of a person's daily calories, while protein should make up about 20%. On average, Americans get about 50% of their calories from carbs, 30% from fat, and 15% from protein, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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One of the most popular New Year's resolution is to lose weight. Thousands will craft diets and hit the gym this January to drop some pounds, but what are they hoping for? While many think that a skinnier body will lead to happiness, science is suggesting this may not always be true. Following is a transcript of the video.

The ugly truth about weight loss. If you're overweight, then losing some pounds is essential for getting healthy. But not everyone feels great when they lose weight, according to a growing body of research. 

One study found that participants who lost 5% of their body weight over 4 years were 52% more likely to report a depressed mood than those who stayed within 5% of their original weight over those same 4 years.

Your mood can also change depending on how you choose to lose weight. Another study compared participants (who were obese) on a low-carb vs. low-fat diet. After one year people in both groups had lost an average of 30 pounds. But those who cut down on fat reported a boost in mood whereas people who cut carbs had none.

On the flip side — another study found that people who already suffer from depression reported improvement in their symptoms after losing weight. To find out if you're a healthy weight, check out the CDC's adult BMI calculator.

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President Donald Trump hosted a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago private club on Sunday night complete with the glitz and glam his fetes are known for.

See inside the party, with details from the White House press pool:

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Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and their 11-year-old son, Barron, paused to talk to reporters on the red carpet leading into the Grand Ballroom, where the dinner party was held.

Barron and Donald Trump were in tuxes, and Melania Trump wore a $3,485 embroidered rose satin Erdem gown with $675 Christian Louboutin pumps.

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was there with his wife, Louise Linton, who wore a fur caplet — like many of the women in attendance.

Aging is largely your chromosomes' fault. That’s what Nobel-prize winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn discovered when she started exploring the world of the invisible, threadlike cellular strands that carry our genetic code. 

“It’s the over-shortening of telomeres that leads us to feel and see signs of aging,” Blackburn said in an April 2017 TED talk. "It sends a signal. Time to die." 

Here are a few things Blackburn suggests anyone can do to keep their telomeres long. While these tips won't make you live forever, they can help with your “health span” — the number of years a person lives happily, and disease-free.

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Manage your stress.

The more chronically stressed we are, the shorter our telomeres become. Blackburn conducted research focused on mothers caring for children with autism and other chronic conditions, and found that moms who were more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.

“Attitude matters,” Blackburn said.“If you typically see something stressful as a challenge to be tackled, then blood flows to your heart and to your brain, and you experience a brief but energizing spike of cortisol." 

Meditate.

In case you haven’t heard enough about how beneficial meditation can be, here’s another way researchers have found that it helps: Family members who meditated for as little as 12 minutes a day for two months while caring for a relative with dementia improved their telomere maintenance. 

Invest in your neighborhood community.

“Emotional neglect, exposure to violence, bullying and racism all impact your telomeres, and the effects are long-term,” Blackburn said.

But tight-knit communities can be good for telomere health.

Ask a baby boomer about their salary, and you'll probably get a dirty look. But ask someone in their 20s or 30s, and the response might be different.

A survey conducted by The Cashlorette, a personal-finance site run by Bankrate, found that people 18 to 36 were far more comfortable than older workers discussing their salaries with coworkers, friends, and family members.

Thirty percent of millennials surveyed said they felt comfortable discussing pay with their coworkers. Meanwhile, just 8% of those aged 53 to 71 said they felt the same.

Millennials also said they discussed pay more with their family and friends.

Here are a handful of reasons to explain the budding trend.

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Millennials value equality and fairness.

There's a wealth of evidence that millennials emphasize fairness in both life and work, constituting things like diversity in the workplace and gender equality.

A 2016 Deloitte survey found that 36% of millennials working in a place with high job satisfaction said there was an emphasis on fairness, while only 17% of people in low-satisfaction jobs said the same.

Millennials value transparency.

The same Deloitte survey found that open communication was one of the guiding forces of job satisfaction where millennials work.

Forty-seven percent of millennials who said they were happy with their jobs reported that there was "open and free-flowing communication" at work, while 26% of people who were dissatisfied said the same.

The market-research firm ORC International has found in its studies that the average millennial wants to know how they're doing 71 times a year.

Millennials prefer to collaborate, not compete.

If people are focused on one-upping their colleagues, they may be more likely to keep their salary a secret. But millennials largely prefer to work together with their peers, not compete with them.

Malcolm Harris and Neal Gorenflo, the authors of the book "Share or Die," explain how the mindset applies not just to jobs, but to living situations and ride-sharing.

A New York Times investigation revealed that the FBI probe into whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election started at a London wine bar in May 2016. 

George Papadopoulos, a foreign-policy adviser on the Trump's campaign, told an Australian diplomat that Russia had "dirt" on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during a night of "heavy drinking" in May 2016, according to the Times.

That diplomat later passed along that information to Australian intelligence officials, who told their American counterparts. By July 2016, the FBI officially launched its investigation.

See inside The Kensington Wine Rooms where Papadopoulos' fateful night reportedly took place:

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Kensington Wine Rooms is located just south of the trendy Notting Hill neighborhood in London. The building used to be a pub.

It opened in April 2009 and celebrates "all that’s enjoyable around wine: good food, good friends, good conversation."

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The major draw seems to be their Enomatic wine dispenser system, which allows patrons to sample multiple wines or choose their wine by the glass.

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• I got a deal on a first-class one-way ticket because I was breaking up my transcontinental flight.
• American Airlines was the carrier.
• There were pluses and minuses, but I'd do it again.
  

When I travel on my own dime, I sometimes bump myself up to business class, but rarely first class.

At Business Insider, we typically fly coach, but I recently had a chance to add a first-class ticket to a return trip from Los Angeles, so I thought I'd flip for the seat and pay the extra $250.

The reason I got a good deal was that I flew back to the New York area on two planes. I don't mind breaking up my flights for a cheaper ticket, but I do have to add in some margin for error if I miss a connection or experience a delay.

I haven't flown domestic first class in a long time, mainly because I don't really think it's worth it. Transatlantic flights are a different story, but even then I think business class is a better deal.

So how was domestic first this time around, on American Airlines? Read on.

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For comparison's sake, let's start with my coach flight out. It was on an Airbus A321.

I'm not a big guy (5-foot-7) so tight seating usually doesn't bother me unless it's ridiculously tight. My window seat on this American flight wasn't too bad.

And the plane wasn't packed, so I had the whole row to myself.

• We compared premium airline credit cards for the largest US carriers: Delta, United, and American.
• We looked at annual fees, spending bonuses, airline miles, and hotel and airport perks to see which card offered the best benefits.
• There were a lot of similarities, but Delta's airline credit card stood out above the rest.

If you've ever walked past the first-class cabin on your way to a middle seat in coach and thought to yourself that there has to be a better way, well, maybe there is.

JPMorgan Chase brought the allure of premium credit cards to a new level when it introduced the Chase Sapphire Reserve card last year, making a $450 annual fee seem reasonable — if not a downright steal — thanks to generous travel credits and a six-figure sign-on points bonus.

But the popular credit card leaves one thing to be desired: airline-specific loyalty rewards. Though Chase's Ultimate Rewards points can be redeemed on many airlines, perks such as priority boarding and free checked bags aren't included.

If you're a frequent traveler — or even just a beleaguered one craving a more luxurious vacation experience — paying the annual fee for a premium airline credit card allows you to buy the benefits of elite status so you can save time (and maybe money), maximize your trip value, rack up miles, and restore some peace of mind.

To help figure out which airline credit card is best, we compared the top-tier offerings from the three largest US carriers: Delta, United, and American.

Before we dive in, please note all the usual credit-card disclaimers apply: Don't spend more than you can afford to pay in full each month. Credit-card interest is expensive and a waste of money. And so on.

Scroll through to see how each card stacks up when it comes to annual fees, spending bonuses, airline miles, and hotel and airport perks — and which one emerged victorious in our matchup.

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No matter which premium airline credit card you pick, you'll pay $450 for the plastic.

Each of the airline credit cards we compared — the Delta Reserve American Express Credit Card, the United MileagePlus Club Card from Chase, and the Citi/AAdvantage Executive Card— has a $450 annual fee and no foreign transaction fees.

None of the credit cards have blackout dates for travel, a cap on the amount of rewards cardholders can earn, or an expiration date for airline miles.

Citi/AAdvantage Executive cardholders receive a statement credit of $100 for Global Entry, which you should definitely sign up for if you haven't already.

The Delta Reserve American Express is the only card to offer one free companion pass each year, which could very well justify the annual fee, depending on the value of the ticket price.

Best for fees: Delta Reserve American Express Credit Card

Bonus offers change regularly, but they should play a role in your decision-making process.

Credit-card sign-on bonuses have been gigantic lately, but only two of the three cards we looked at offered a sign-on bonus of any consequence.

United is offering a measly $100 statement credit after your first purchase. Delta has the biggest bonus per spending amount required, at 40,000 miles for spending $3,000 in the first three months. American has a bigger bonus at 75,000 miles, but you'll have to spend more to get it: $7,500 in the first three months.

Best bonus offer (currently): Delta Reserve American Express Credit Card

All of the cards will give you a first-class airport experience, even if you're flying economy.

Paying the $450 fee for any of these cards could essentially wipe out the typical frustrations of flying.

To enjoy the perks below, your card may need to be open for a certain number of days before your trip, and you may have to purchase your airfare using the card. Make sure to read the fine print so you aren't disappointed when you arrive at the airport.

Priority treatment, from check-in to boarding

Regardless of where your seat is on the plane, all three cards offer priority check-in, priority security lanes, priority boarding, and priority baggage handling. That means you can breeze through the airport like a first-class flyer, even if you're paying economy prices.

Check your bags free

United cardholders and one companion can check two bags free, while Delta and American limit free checked bags to one for each passenger on the reservation, up to eight travel companions. If your travel crew is large, you'll get more free checked bags with Delta or American, but United is better if you tend to travel with only one other person.

Relax in the lounge before your flight

Complimentary lounge membership is included with premium airline credit cards, which comes in handy if you arrived early at the airport only to realize security is easier with your new card and now you have a couple of hours to spare before your flight. Both Delta and United offer about 50 lounges worldwide, while American has 90.

Delta Sky Club access is free only for the cardholder, but discounted passes can be purchased for up to two guests. American cardholders and guests enjoy the full benefits of an Admirals Club membership, including partner lounge access.

United cardholders gain entry to all United Club locations and participating Star Alliance lounges worldwide. It's unclear whether you also get access to the secret, invitation-only restaurant located in Newark Liberty International Airport's Terminal C, but one can hope.

Best airport perks: Citi/AAdvantage Executive Card (but just barely)

The things we look for in an airline are usually comfort, good service, and good value — but a recent travel ranking also put the attractiveness of the crew at the top of the list.

Monocle's Travel Top 50 — an annual list selected by the magazine's editors — awarded Portugal's TAP (Transportes Aéreos Portugueses) airline the accolade of "most handsome crew."

In the December/January edition of the magazine, Monocle wrote: "It feels a bit 1950s to be talking about attractive flight crew but let's be honest, who doesn't enjoy being served by a handsome fella with a nice smile and a twinkle in his eye?"

Scroll down for a look at what it's like to fly on TAP, which apparently has the most handsome crew in the world.

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This is TAP Air Portugal, the airline that was recently given the accolade of "most handsome crew" by Monocle.

Monocle's Travel Top 50 — an annual list selected by the magazine's editors of their "favourite fifty finds from the fast-moving world of travel" across 50 categories — awarded Portugal's TAP airline the accolade in the December/January edition of the magazine.

Founded in 1945, TAP — which has its hub in Lisbon — is Portugal's national airline, and it flies to numerous European and international destinations.

It's the only airline to connect London City Airport and Lisbon.

According to Monocle, the airline employs more than 2,800 people across its routes.

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• Psychopaths may have a different sense of smell to other people.
• They may find it harder to distinguish between common smells like coffee and oranges.
• This alone is not enough to diagnose a psychopath, but it could be one indicator if someone shows other signs of psychopathy, such as a lack of empathy.

Most people show some of the signs of psychopathy. It's very likely you fall on the spectrum somewhere for personality traits like superficiality, narcissism, promiscuity, and callousness. But that doesn't mean you're a psychopath, because only about 1% of the population is.

To be diagnosed as a psychopath, there's rigorous mental testing and behavioural analysis involved. Over the years studies have tried to piece together the puzzle, and have found that if you are friends with a lot of your exes, or like bitter tastes you might have a higher chance of being a psychopath.

One study from 2012, published in the journal Chemosensory Perception, found that psychopaths could also have a slightly different sense of smell to the rest of us.

The researchers asked 79 non-criminal psychopaths to answer questions, which put them on the psychopathy scale. Then their olfactory abilities — threshold, identification, and, discrimination — were measured.

Results showed that people with stronger psychopathic traits found it harder to distinguish between common smells like coffee, fish, and oranges.

The reason for this is not known, as more research needs to be done, but the authors of the study speculate that it could be something to do with part of the brain functioning less effectively in psychopaths.

Typically, psychopaths have lesser functionality of the frontal parts of their brains, which are the areas that help us make decisions, behave appropriately in social situations, and also process smells.

"Olfactory measures represent a potentially interesting marker for psychopathic traits, because performance expectancies are unclear in odour tests and may therefore be less susceptible to attempts to fake good or bad responses," the researchers wrote.

It's important to remember that a bad sense of smell can be brought on by other things too, such as Alzheimer's disease, or something less severe like a cold, so it's not a definite indicator of psychopathy. But if someone also shows other signs, like manipulation, or a lack of empathy, it could be one of many indicators a specialist may use to diagnose them.

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• Putting aside a little money each day really adds up.
• A new saving idea suggests putting aside £1 to £7 each day for a year.
• This adds up to around £1,460 over the space of 12 months, letting you start the next year with some extra funds with next to no effort.

After a Christmas of giving, partying, and indulging, many of our bank accounts are looking a little deflated.

Luckily, a simple saving hack doing the rounds on the internet could help you bank up to £1,500 in 2018 just by putting aside a couple of pounds each day.

The idea, known as "The 365 Challenge," involves depositing just £1 every Sunday, followed by £2 every Monday, and so on, adding an extra pound each day, until the next Sunday when the sum goes back down to £1. Over the space of 12 months, these tiny deposits add up to around £1,460 depending on which day of the week you start the challenge.

The saving plan originates from the lifestyle and interior design online community Apartment Therapy, where members share design hacks, DIY how-tos, and shopping guides with their fellow savvy home-doer-uppers.

The plan's creator — Brittney Morgan — modelled it as an alternative to "The 52-Week Challenge" which encourages partakers to put aside £1 in the first week of the year, £2 in the second week, and so on until you put £52 into your savings account in the final week of the plan. In total, savers put aside an impressive £1,378 while partaking.

But Morgan believes that while putting £1 or £5 into savings at a time is achievable, putting around £50 into savings a week — especially around Christmas — just isn't feasible for many people.

Instead, "The 365 Challenge" looks at money saving techniques on a smaller scale and offers a new, revised version of the popular money-saving "52-Week Challenge" which means that you're never depositing more than a feasible £7 at a time — that's just the price of two takeaway coffees or a large glass of wine in a pub.

Rather than looking at a money-saving plan as an ever-increasing deposit over an extended period, Morgan wanted to look at putting away funds for a rainy day on a smaller scale.

While putting £52 into savings may feel like a pinch, depositing £1, £3, or even £7 each day seems like a much more feasible way to save spare change and make a difference in the long term.

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If you're hoping for a more successful 2018, you may want to tailor your New Year's resolution to help you meet your goal.

To help you come up with ideas, Business Insider asked successful industry leaders and entrepreneurs to share what they've resolved to do over the next year.

Find out what 30 super-successful people plan to accomplish in 2018.

Libby Kane, Lauren Lyons Cole, Tanza Loudenback, Áine Cain, Rich Feloni, Shana Lebowitz, Abby Jackson, and Mark Abadi contributed reporting.

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Dry Bar founder Alli Webb wants to be the best mom, founder, mentor, and wife that she can be

"My life and schedule has been so nuts over the last eight years, and while I wouldn’t change a single thing, in 2018 I am going to really try to eat better, go to bed earlier, and travel more with my kiddos, who are minutes away from outgrowing family vacations.

"I'm also working on some charitable initiatives that I hope to get off the ground in 2018! "

TheSkimm founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin want to fail faster and fail harder

"As our team continues to grow, we have the ability to iterate much more quickly. To encourage this, we celebrate when we fail.

"In 2017, we introduced a new tradition at our Friday Sip 'n Skimms, where one person on the team gets to wear our 'Fail So Hard' hat and spotlight a project that did not go as planned.

"As a team we celebrate the fact that they tried and failed at something in an effort to propel the business forward. If some of our ideas are not failing, we know we're not taking big enough chances."

Foursquare cofounder and Executive Chairman Dennis Crowley wants to use location technology for social good

"My resolution for 2018 is to use the power of Foursquare for social good.

"We've spent years perfecting technology for our own apps, Foursquare City Guide and Foursquare Swarm, that understands how the world looks to mobile devices as they move through 105 million places globally.

"There are so many creative uses for these capabilities, like helping urban planners to prescribe models for the revitalization of neighborhoods, understanding foot traffic and community trends, or dissecting the impact of natural disasters.

"I'd love to put our tech to the task and helping others enhance physical spaces."

• Moxy Times Square opened its doors in September.
• It offers guests designer rooms, coworking spaces, restaurants, bars, and a large rooftop starting at $99.
• Heidi Klum hosted her Halloween party at Magic Hour rooftop.

While Airbnb is an increasingly popular option among travellers, nothing beats a slice of luxury like a night's stay in a plush hotel. The problem is, it usually comes at a cost, especially if you’re in New York City, where hotel rooms are notoriously expensive.

Fortunately for travellers on a budget who are still on the hunt for a bit of a style, a new alternative has opened up in the Big Apple.

Moxy Times Square is a cool, 612-room hotel that opened in September — and you can stay there from just $99 (£73) a night.

The hotel offers guest rooms and coworking spaces designed by international design firm Yabu Pushelberg, as well as Magic Hour, which it says is the city's largest indoor-outdoor hotel rooftop.

Room rates start at $139 (£103) a night for a standard double, but the hotel also has 19 $99 "Crashpad" rooms on offer "meant for customers who order one too many drinks or don’t want the night to end," bookable only through Magic Hour, which also just so happens to be where Heidi Klum hosted her most recent Halloween party.

The 612-room hotel is located just south of Times Square, "a New York minute from everywhere you want to be: the Theater District, Fashion District, Bryant Park, Madison Square Garden, and 5th Avenue shopping."

Inside you'll find plenty of places to eat, drink, chill out, and party. There's the Legasea seafood brasserie, the Bar Moxy lobby bar and lounge, The Pickup, and Egghead, an all-day egg-centric sandwich shop.

Yabu Pushelberg is behind the design of the guestrooms and communal spaces while Rockwell Group has designed the dining venues.

There are communal coworking spaces open to guests and locals, furnished with a mix of leather and canvas furniture, high-top worktables, stools, and low-slung sofas.

The seating areas are reconfigurable for socialising. There are also meeting rooms available that are divided by sliding, copper-framed glass doors.

Rates start at $139 per night for a standard double, but there are also "crashpad" rooms available for $99 when booked through the rooftop bar.

Guests can pick from a selection of bedroom options, including lofted bunks (pictured below).

"Cosy" kings.

And toe-to-toe doubles.

The Yabu Pushelberg custom-designed furniture includes tables, chairs, and stools that can be folded up and
hung on a wall-peg system around the room’s perimeter so that guests can arrange their rooms to suit their needs.

All of the bedrooms are fitted with oversized walk-in rain showers.

The hotel's pièce de résistance has to be Magic Hour.

Set across 10,000 square feet and offering impressive Empire State Building views, the hotel says it is the city's largest indoor-outdoor hotel rooftop bar and lounge.

Magic Hour can accommodate private events for up to 500 guests, and it just so happens to be where Heidi Klum hosted her most recent Halloween party. By day it offers guests a space for a spot of morning yoga.

It even has its own mini-golf course.

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Business Insider UK is hiring a paid digital fellow to work on editorial partnerships from our London office.

This fellowship will teach you the ins and outs of how a digital news site operates.

This candidate will be responsible for promoting Business Insider UK's content to key editorial partners, as well as tracking and analysing our best-performing stories. He or she will also review and select stories from our partners and rewrite headlines to make them pop on our website. This fellow will become familiar with a variety of verticals and assist the partnerships editor with searching for new partners across all topic areas. 

We are looking for a voracious news reader:

• with excellent copy-editing skills, who can work quickly and independently
• who knows how to package stories in an exciting and smart way
• who has a good instinct for what Business Insider readers find interesting
• who knows how to use blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media to attract and engage an audience

A background in journalism and light HTML and photo-editing skills are a huge plus.

As a digital fellow at Business Insider, there is no getting coffee, filing, or making copies.

APPLY HEREwith a cover letter about why this position appeals to you.

This position requires that you work in our London office, located near the Aldgate East tube station. Fellows are encouraged to work 40 hours a week for a six-month period from the start date.

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2017 was undoubtedly a wild year. 

President Donald Trump was inaugurated, which has led to a seemingly never ending string of debates and controversies: the crowd size at his inauguration, the travel ban, his war of words with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, and so on. 

But there were many other events not necessarily related to Trump that unfolded as well: the Rohingya genocide, multiple mass shootings and terror attacks, hurricanes, the Mayweather/McGregor fight, and more. 

As 2017 comes to a close, we rounded up 50 of the most incredible photos from the year. 

Check them out below. 

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President Barack Obama wipes away tears as he delivers his farewell address in Chicago, Illinois, on January 10.

Watch Obama's speech here. 

Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as he is extradited to New York on January 19.

Read more about Chapo's extradition here. 

Attendees partake in the inauguration ceremonies to swear in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the US at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20.

Read more about the controversy over the crowd size here. 

It seems every week there's a new study or report that contradicts everything you know about how to manage your health.

In the past few years alone, we got more evidence that coffee isn't a cause of cancer and the debate over the health effects of sugar became even more heated.

To help you parse out what works from what's merely myth, we compiled the definitive (at least for now) answers to some of the most pressing health questions, based on the book "Your Health: What Works, What Doesn't."

Here's what the science has to say.

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Does sugar make you hyper?

Short answer: No

The National Institutes of Health has made it pretty clear that additives and dyes added to food have effects that are "small and do not account for most cases of ADHD."

The myth started back in the 1970s when a doctor wrote into the American Academy of Pediatrics that he had become aware that sugar was a leading cause of hyperactivity. But research has shown otherwise: A 1995 meta-analysis of sugar studies found that it didn't have an effect on the behavior or cognitive performance of children.

Does cough syrup work?

Short answer: No

It's been a while since doctors came to agree that most over-the-counter cough medicines don't work. In 2014, Australian researchers published similar conclusions that the syrups typically contain doses of codeine and antihistamines that are too small to be effective and can be harmful for children. And in April 2017, the Food and Drug Administration restricted the use of cough syrup that has codeine in it, saying children under 12 should not use the medication. 

Prescription cough suppressants such as levodropropizine, however, might have a better shot. 

Does olive oil prevent heart disease?

Short answer: Yes

As if you need more of an excuse to put olive oil on everything, scientists have found a connection between eating more olive oil and a lower risk of coronary artery disease. Studies that are happening right now are testing out how a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil compares to low-fat diets when it comes to heart disease recurrence.

In general, olive oil's antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects have also been well documented. And in a study of older women published in 2015 in the medical journal JAMA, Spanish scientists found that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra olive oil appeared to help reduce the participants' risk of breast cancer when compared with two other groups of women on a low-fat diet and a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts.

• Outback Steakhouse is giving away Bloomin' Onion appetizers to anyone who visits the restaurant on Jan. 2. 
• The promotion is tied to the Outback Bowl, the college football bowl game the restaurant has sponsored since 1995.
• Say "Outback Bowl" to your server to take advantage of the offer.

Outback Steakhouse is giving away Bloomin' Onion appetizers to anyone who visits the restaurant on January 2. To take advantage of the offer, say "Outback Bowl" to your server.

The deal is part of a promotion the restaurant ran surrounding the Outback Bowl, the college football bowl game it's sponsored since 1995. Before this year's game, which was played on January 1 and featured the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina, Outback assigned each team an appetizer, with the winning team's item available to customers for free the day after the game. South Carolina was assigned the Bloomin Onion, while Michigan was given coconut shrimp. South Carolina won the game 26-19.

Outback has previously run sports-themed promotions for the highly-caloric dish, giving them away for one day in May 2017 after NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick finished in the top 10 during the Toyota Owners 400.

Outback's parent company, Bloomin Brands, got off to a rough start in 2017 by announcing its plan to close 43 restaurants, including multiple Outbacks.

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With the new year comes new travel goals — and it can be hard to know where to start.

In November Business Insider teamed up with The Indie Traveller to create a comprehensive list of the most inspiring, wanderlust-inducing, and influential travel Instagram accounts on the planet — and following them is a great place to start when planning your 2018 trips.

In order to pinpoint the biggest travel personalities on the app, Marek Bron — who is behind the blog — created an algorithm to analyse hundreds of accounts (filtering out any brands or group accounts).

The "Top 100" was formed based on several metrics, such as follower count, follower ratio, account activity, and engagement rate. It includes some of the biggest names in the travel influencer world, but also some exciting rising stars.

Business Insider compiled a list of the top 30 most influential accounts according to the algorithm.

Scroll down to see the 30 most stunning and influential Instagram travel accounts to follow in 2018, ranked in ascending order.

30. @californiathroughmylens — 19.5K followers.

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Josh McNair runs the California Through My Lens travel site with his wife, which is used by over six million people. The shot above is taken from the North Dome at dusk in Yosemite National Park.

29. @lebackpacker — 454K followers.

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Belgian-born self-taught travel photographer Johan Lolos has just published a book "Peaks of Europe" based on his five-month summer road trip across 17 countries. He is also a Toyota 4×4 ambassador. Check out his blog here.

Above, he's pictured in Elgol, in the Scottish Highlands.

28. @chloe_t — 251K followers.

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Aussie-born Chloe Ting says she is a "Gymshark Athlete." In addition to her globetrotting on Instagram, you can follow her fat burning and fitness tips via her YouTube channel.

• Country singer Carrie Underwood said she suffered a "gruesome" injury that resulted in her needing between 40 and 50 stitches in her face.
• She wrote in a note to her fans that a fall on the steps of her Nashville home in November has left her "not quite looking the same." 
• Underwood previously said that she broke her wrist in the same fall.

Carrie Underwood suffered an injury in a fall at her Nashville home that resulted in her needing between 40 and 50 stitches in her face, the country singer said in a year-end note to her fans.

Underwood, 34, previously said that she broke her wrist in the same fall, which occurred on the steps of her home in November. 

"There is also another part of the story that I haven't been ready to talk about since I have still been living it and there has been much uncertainty as to how things will end up," Underwood wrote in the fan-club message, according to People and the country music site Taste of Country, which quoted the note. 

"It's crazy how a freak random accident can change your life. In addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but when I came out of surgery the night of my fall, the doctor told [Underwood's husband] Mike that he had put between 40 and 50 stitches in."

Seven weeks after the injury, Underwood said she is "still healing and not quite looking the same." She added that she is soon returning to the studio to record new music.

"And when I am ready to get in front of a camera, I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different," Underwood wrote. "I'm hoping that, by then, the differences are minimal, but, again, I just don't know how it's all going to end up."

In her most recent Instagram photo, as Variety notes, Underwood's face is covered by a scarf in an apparent sponsored post. 

Underwood's last album, "Storyteller," went platinum in 2015.

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Former President Barack Obama has made no secret of his love for hip-hop, soul, and all kinds of popular music throughout his eight years in office.

He released his Spotify summer playlists last year, and reportedly used Eminem's "Lose Yourself" to get hyped before his 2016 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Since leaving office, Obama has continued to share his eclectic music tastes with the world. Here are the 22 songs the former leader of the free world says he listened to the most in 2017:

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"Mi Gente" by J Balvin & Willy William

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"Havana" by Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug)

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"Blessed" by Daniel Caesar

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