The best chefs in America have been revolutionizing the culinary industry not just with innovative new dishes, but equally innovative new ways to present and display their gastronomical art.

Think edible foams, fragrant smokes, and mad scientist-level creations that take taste and texture to a whole new level.

We based this list off of our list of the 44 best restaurants in America, in which we combined five noteworthy lists compiled by food critics, experts, and diners to come up with a definitive ranking of the best restaurants in the country.

We pulled the restaurants that fell under the "new American," "contemporary," and "concept" genres and reordered them for this list. You can read our complete methodology and see numerical scores here.

15. Victoria & Albert's – Orlando, Florida

Chef: Scott Hunnel
Victoria & Albert's

14. Blackbird – Chicago

Chef: Perry Hendrix
Blackbird

13. Blue Hill – New York City

Chef: Shingoon Hong
Blue Hill

Summer is on its way, and if you're looking to do some traveling during the season, now is a good time to start planning your vacation.

For those looking to venture to warmer, more tropical climates, Hawaii is a great destination.

The Aloha State's eight islands offer something for every type of traveler, from beach bums to golfers to adventurers.

Best for beach bums: Maui

Maui is known for its beaches. Their bright, soft white sand and crystal clear aquamarine waters attract both sunbathers and water sport aficionados.

Some of the top beaches include Kapalua, Kaanapali, Wailea, and Maluaka (also known as Makena). 

Best for honeymooners: Lanai

Besides its two well known golf courses, most of Lanai remains remote and undeveloped. And that makes it a perfect destination for honeymooners who are seeking privacy and seclusion.

Since the island's two Four Seasons Resorts and its Koele golf course are currently closed to the public for renovations, visitors can enjoy more seclusion and fewer tourists.

Honeymooners can explore the island's countryside and hidden beaches by 4-wheel drive or on horseback.

There's also the Hotel Lanai, a tiny 11-room hotel perfect for couples looking for an upscale, intimate experience.

Best for families: Hawaii (The Big Island)

Hawaii's Big Island has a large variety of attractions, from volcanoes to parks to beaches to museums to restaurants, so it's perfect for a family looking to please a number of travelers.

Kids will love the Ellison S. Onizuka Center for International Astronomy and the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, both of which are open year-round. The astronomy center provides stargazing programs.

For families hoping to interact with wildlife, Kona's coast offers sheltered and calm waters for snorkeling, dolphin and turtle spotting, and manta ray boat tours.

Travelers on a budget who don't mind going off the beaten path and taking some risks can find plenty of bargains, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum. 

In its 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report, the group ranked 141 nations from cheapest to most expensive based on the cost of traveling to that country and being a tourist there. 

Among the items considered in its tally: the average cost of roundtrip flights, hotel accommodations, cost of living, fuel prices, and purchasing power parity (PPP).* 

One major drawback: some of these countries are mired in poverty, war, or harbor anti-American views. However, each also offers a unique tourism experience that is sure to fascinate.

Note: Hotel and gas conversions are based on the US dollar and information from the World Bank and are subject to change. PPP is relative to the country's home currency. Airfares are averages for 2014, room rates are based on averages determined from 2013-2014, PPP is the most recent available as of November 2014, and some gas prices are more current than others. Travel suggestions are based on tourism website The Lonely Planet.

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#10 Algeria

The north African country of Algeria features the 44th cheapest airfare in the world of 141 countries surveyed. However, the average cost per day of staying in a first-class hotel is $185.70, which ranks 81st of 102 countries.

PPP in Algeria is .4, which means that the average cost of goods and services is about 60 percent less than that of the United States (i.e. the same cup of coffee would be much cheaper in Algeria than in the United States). Plus, gas is a meager $1.09 per gallon on average, equivalent to the 6th cheapest gas price in the world. 

What to do while you're there: Go on safari, check out Algiers, go to the beach, and see the Notre Dame d'Afrique. 

#9 Pakistan

This Mideast country features the 36th cheapest airfares in the world. A first-class hotel in Pakistan will run you an average of $94.30 per night, which is the 18th cheapest in the world.

Even better, the PPP in Pakistan is .3, which is tied with several other nations for the lowest PPP in the world, meaning that goods and services in Pakistan are 70 percent cheaper than they are in America. Pakistan also ranks 38th in the world for the cheapest gas at a rate of $4.30 per gallon on average.

What to do while you're there: See the Karakoram Mountains, visit the capital of Lahore, go to the Taxila Museum, and see the Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, one of the largest mosques in Asia. 

#8 India

Flights to and from India are the 16th cheapest in the world and hotel accommodations will run you an average of $93.00 a night, good for 14th cheapest in the survey.

In addition, India is tied with Pakistan and several other nations with a PPP of .3, meaning goods and services will be 70 percent cheaper in India than in the US. Gas is slightly more expensive, at $4.72 per gallon on average (48th).

What to do while you're there: Visit Bombay and New Delhi, see the Golden Temple of Amirstar, explore the Buddhist caves of Ajanta, go on camel safari in Bikaner, and visit the Taj Mahal. 

Turning 30 is a major milestone.

For many it means that you're no longer in the hard-partying, bad decision-making stage of your life, for better or for worse.

Before you turn the big 3-0 (or even if you already have), here are 30 things you should do, from adrenaline-pumping activities to experiences that help you grow.

Additional reporting by Julie Zeveloff.

Travel somewhere TRULY exotic — anywhere that feels like the end of the earth.

Run a half marathon (it’s okay if you have to walk a little).

Buy tickets to a music festival and rage with the best of them.

See the 11 music festivals you can't miss this summer here

Attraction relies on much more than your physical appearance. 

It's in the way you carry yourself, the people you hang out with, and how you talk to people — plus a whole lot more.

Be funny.

Multiplestudiesindicate that women are more attracted to men who can make them laugh. 

In one study, a psychologist asked men to tell a joke to their friends at a bar while a woman sat at a nearby table — and the guys who told jokes were three times as likely to get her number as the people who didn't.

"The effect of a great sense of humor on women's attractions might be partially explained by the fact that funny people are considered to be more social and more intelligent, things that women seek in a mate," anthropologist Gil Greengross writes.

Surround yourself with friends.

A 2014 study from the University of California at San Diego found that people looked better when they were in a group. 

It's because our brains take the faces of a group of people in aggregate, making each face look more "average" — and attractive — as a result. 

"Having a few wingmen or wingwomen may indeed be a good dating strategy, particularly if their facial features complement and average out one's unattractive idiosyncrasies," authors Drew Walker and Edward Vul write.

Skip the small talk.

In a 1997 study, State University of New York psychologist Arthur Aron separated two groups of people and paired them off, giving each duo 45 minutes to answer a set of questions. 

One question set was small talk, and the other was increasingly probing. The people who asked deeper questions felt more connected — and one couple fell in love.

According to Harvard research, talking about yourself stimulates the same brain regions as sex or a good meal. 

"Activation of this system when discussing the self suggests that self-disclosure ... may be inherently pleasurable," Scientific American reports. 

Picasso's 1955 painting, “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O),” just sold at auction for a record $179.4 million. 

Many observers are pointing to the sale as decisive evidence that there's a massive bubble in the art world.

Or, like the New York Times' Neil Irwin, they're arguing that such eye-popping hammer figures prove that global wealth inequality is getting worse.

Who can afford to drop almost $180 million on a painting, unless they're one of 50 multi-billionaires? Irwin asks.

I have a slightly different take, having seen the painting in the private New York apartment where it lived before it was sold in 1997, for a rather more modest $31.9 million.

Picasso painted 15 different versions of the work. The entire series was purchased by the collectors Victor and Sally Ganz in the mid-1950s. Price? About $213,000 (roughly $1.8 million in 2015 dollars). 

In the late 1990s, the Ganz's heirs auctioned the collection. At the time, I lived in New York, a short walk from the Ganz's Upper East Side apartment. A friend of the family, and a friend of mine, knew that I liked art and especially Picasso and said that I had to visit the apartment before the collection was sold. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The friend was stunningly correct, as it turned out.

So one day I strolled over and spent about an hour talking with my friend, ringed by the “Les Femmes d’Alger" paintings. (In translation, by the way, it's "The Women of Algiers"; and Picasso's series was based on paintings that Eugène Delacroix created in the 19th century.)

The way the market for important modern art has evolved means that you're unlikely to find yourself surrounded by lots and lots of an artist's works. In the mid-20th century, passionate collectors of not necessarily immense means could pull together very significant troves. They would hang these works in their posh yet at-times surprisingly un-large homes. 

Yes, these paintings eventually came to be worth a lot. But they were then less an asset class than a expression of taste. And while a taste for modernism is something now widely shared, in the early and even mid-20th century, it wasn't. Collectors often bought because they simply loved the work.

“Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)" shared wall space with its fellow paintings in the series, on its original collectors' walls. It wasn't then a trophy, but rather a statement of a sensibility. The apartment was like a book, and the room in which the “Les Femmes d’Alger" series resided was a chapter.

I was very, very lucky to see the paintings in one place. But it wasn't like I was looking at tens of millions of dollars on the walls. The vibe was far more soothing than it was jaw-dropping or impressive. It was a story – a story about a couple blessed with a wonderful shared eye for art and an idea, a risky idea, about the future.

It's not like this type of experience is gone for good. But to see significant numbers of certain works by certain artists, works that now fetch hundred of millions at auction, in less-than-over-the-top family homes – that's a very 20th-century thing.

There's also the element of chance embodied by extensive collections of artists who haven't ascended to blue-chip status yet. Buying a whole bunch of Picassos wasn't a completely irrational bet in the 1950s – the Spanish artist's reputation by then was formidable – but it was somewhat irrational in the way that collecting a lot of any single artist is. You never know when fashions in the art world might change. The version of “Les Femmes d’Alger" that went for $179 million was from Picasso's postwar period, when the painter's style had shifted from his Cubist pre-war works. A decade after the painting was completed, entirely different trends would seize the art world. In 1962, Andy Warhol would first exhibit a bunch of paintings of Campbell's soup cans. Pop Art would be all the rage.

Obviously, dropping 179 million clams on a Picasso these days is probably a rational investment, if a very, very costly one. I just wonder if it comes with quite as much soul. And to be sure, because an anonymous private collector bought the work, I can be fairly sure I'll never see it again.

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A Reddit user recently turned 30 and received a card from his father, like most people do on their birthdays. The only difference: this person's father died 16 years ago.

User ChrisBenRoy posted a photo of the card to /r/pics late Tuesday night, and it's garnered 4,000 upvotes and almost 2,000 comments in less than 24 hours.

Signed with a simple “Love Ya Dad,” the user's father had prepared the card before he died in 1999, according to Reddit.

His son had no idea.

"My father passed away from liver/lung cancer in 1999 after battling it for a year and a half,” ChrisBenRoy explained on Reddit. “After so much chemo and medication, he just couldn't take that quality of life anymore and realized it was his time to go. I assume at that point he bought cards for my brother and I's milestone birthdays.” 

ChrisBenRoy's mother saved the card for the past 16 years and gave it to him on his birthday. She did the same for his 13th, 20th, 21st, and 25th birthdays, and on the day he got his driver's license. Since it had been five years since his last card, ChrisBenRoy had nearly forgotten about the tradition and seeing the card brought the Redditor to tears, he wrote.

“It caught me totally off guard and made me so very happy,” he wrote on Reddit. “It felt like he was still there, holding something I'd never seen before that he touched, and signed himself, it was [as] if he had just done it yesterday."

Even though the signature was short, ChrisBenRoy is still touched and guesses that his father was very sick at the time he wrote it and may not have been able to manage much else.

There was an immediate outpouring of support from Reddit. Numerous users told ChrisBenRoy how much the card affected them, with some even sharing their own stories of late parents leaving behind mementos for their children. 

“Dad had a graduation and wedding gift for me,” Redditor sjgw137 wrote. “It was completely emotional. I wear the pearls he had set up for graduation whenever I miss him. Don't care if it's a jeans [and] t-shirt day, the pearls are on.” 

“My dad did something pretty similar,” jugglinglimes wrote. “I was in college when he passed away from lung cancer. Similar to your dad, [he] had rounds of chemo and radiation, but knew it just wasn't working. My brother was in med school at the time. He was a first year and I was a sophomore. He actually got us both graduation cards and frames for our diplomas to use when we graduated. Was a pretty awesome feeling to get to use that frame.” 

As for ChrisBenRoy, he wonders if his dad had anything planned for his 40th birthday or any other major milestones, too, and agrees with Reddit that his father was awesome.

“So awesome in fact, he found a way to still be an awesome father 16 years after he died,” he said.

You can see the original Reddit post here.

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A well-known secret for locals, the Hintertux Glacier in Austria offers winter sports fanatics the chance to ski and snowboard 365 days a year. 

Located in the world-famous Alps, the glacier is a favorite for national ski teams and professional boarders thanks to its wide variety of lift-serviced slopes and the highest World Cup half-pipe in Europe. 

Hintertux Glacier is able to stay cold throughout the year because of the massive amount of snow it gets in the winter and its elevation of 10,000 feet. In the summer, it offers at least 10 to 18 km of ski terrain and up to 10 running lifts, making it the only place in Austria for year-round winter activities.  

But besides its runs, Hintertux Glacier also offers stunning panoramic views of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany, and access to Nature's Ice Palace, a glacial crevasse filled with ice stalactites, crystallized ice formations, frozen waterfalls, and a glacial lake.

Nature's Ice Palace remains at a constant temperature  of 0° degrees, allowing it to stay open to the pubic 365 days of the year. 

To ensure safety, Nature's Ice Palace requires you to have a tour guide. Tours are typically either 16 euros for an hour, or 8 euros for 30 minutes.  

Hintertux Glacier is accessible via lifts that are 15 minutes walking distance from the Hintertux village and is open from 8am to 4:30pm. Prices vary depending on the season and time of the day you go. 

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Facebook has been pushing me selfie-editing apps. I’m hope it’s not trying to send a message. Presumably, it’s because I belong to the demographic that uses them: I’m a Millennial woman.

These image alteration tools are a vast new category. Searching "selfie editor" in the iTunes App Store yields more than 600 results, all with vaguely insensitive names like FaceTune, Modiface, and Perfect365.

They're wildly popular, too. A survey of social-media using adults conducted last year by Harris Interactive for the Renfrew Center found that 50% of people who post images of themselves online retouch them first. Of people who retouch their images, 48% remove blemishes, 15% correct paleness, 12% edit images because they don’t like how they look in general, and 6% edit images to look slimmer. As Renfrew VP Adrienne Ressler concluded: "We feel pressured to edit and alter our images so we look like what we think of as our ‘best selves’ instead of our real selves."

The ads kept haunting my Newsfeed: "One-Tap Makeover. Airbrush #SELFIE photos into instant cover girl perfection."

I scoffed at first: #SELFIE culture wasn't my style, and I wasn’t going to contribute to the trend of digitally altering images to conform to sexist ideals. But one day curiosity got the better of me. Facetune cost only $3.99, and with a a single tap, the seduction was complete.

Digital retouching is charting the course of most customs in society — common practice creates acceptance — like answering a cell phone in a restaurant. Thus apps like FaceTuner are increasingly not considered vain behavior but normal behavior. Our new reality is a highly edited one; should we now assume that personal images posted on social media are, well, "modi-faced?"

Studies are exploring if people who "post selfies on social media sites [are] narcissistic and psychopathic, or self-objectifying, or both," writes Gwendolyn Siedman, Ph.D on Psychology Today. Dr. Siedman goes on to detail a current study which examines the selfie and its relationship to the "Dark Triad" — "[n]arcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism."

Taking a blemish off my face, however, seems a far cry from, say, actively manipulating people for the purpose of power. Indeed, cheap or free and intuitively designed selfie-editing apps could be called the populist Photoshop, demystifying the perfection of models while giving everyone else a way to compete.

Certainly, the retouching and the manipulation of images is not new. Idealized portraiture goes back to royal painters, trying their hardest to polish up the inbred King Charles II of Spain.

Photographs themselves have been tinkered with dating back to the mid-1800s when watercolors were applied to images to give women and children rosy cheeks and golden hair. In "Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop," an exhibit from the Metropolitan Museum in 2012, "photography's pre-digital repertoire" included "slimming waistlines and smoothing away wrinkles."

"Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, a purely impersonal, unmanipulated photograph being practically impossible," writes 20th century photographer Edward Steichen.

Therefore, it must be a personal decision: How much, if at all, do you want to retouch images you plan to post? Where are the boundaries when these apps allow us to look through the eyes of a plastic surgeons and indulge our self-objectification with ease? And what about the objectification of others?

In a post-Post world, if my friend has undereye bags or deep frown-lines is it appropriate to tweak those for him or her? Do I have to ask permission? (That’s an awkward conversation: "so about your skin last night...") If I retouch my face and leave a friend in the photo unsmoothed, I am essentially leaving that person alone out in cold, hard reality. It creates an odd imbalance within a single picture.

With these apps, the only thing stopping a "total makeover" of the self would be that the photo needs to resemble you. There’s no social validation otherwise. Reception of obvious Photoshop effects is akin to the social backlash that occurs when a person sports a streaky spray tan. It’s vain and artificial if it’s obvious, but there seems to be an unspoken agreement: As long as do it subtly, you can shrink your nose as much as you’d like.

If you decide to go ahead and download one of these puppies — boy, are they addicting. How quickly can you take yourself from you, normal, to you with Keane eyes? Or you, tired looking, to a resident of the Uncanny Valley? Or perhaps you’ll manage to find a slight retouch that makes you look well-rested. Of course, in an ideal world, we would all work on accepting ourselves as we are (cue the next Dove campaign). But this is assuming that cameras are true to reality — they distort and flatten the image as well.

Loving yourself and loving your selfie aren’t necessarily at odds. For me, I think the selfie retouching apps are like nachos: a sometimes food. I need a rule like this because I can see a world in which I become obsessed with looking "Perfect365" — but that’s where it crosses a line from casual wrinkle smoother to one-woman propaganda machine, like Kim Kardashian. Being perpetually photogenic? Those woods are lovely dark and deep, but come on. Sometimes it’s laundry day.

Lila Newman is a writer and actor living in New York. Check out her radio sketch show, "Barnum Effect," and more at LilaNewman.com.

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Fashion critics may have to change their stance on whether leggings qualify as pants. 

As designer leggings fetch prices equal to and exceeding the cost of a pair of Manolo Blahniks, the $1.1 billion industry is booming.

Why are people paying $500 to $1,000 (or more) on what's basically stretchy workout pants?

With the "athleisure" trend holding firm, designers have given the gym staple a brand-new look, mixing materials, adding patterns, and playing with texture.

Selling for $1,150 and $550, respectively, Brunello Cucinelli and Donna Karan have gone as far as designing cashmere leggings. But make no mistake: those high price tags aren't limited to leggings made from expensive fabrics and skins.

A standard pair of black, pull-on Givenchy leggings goes for $1,175 on Farfetch.com. And Alexander McQueen gets $1,385 for its brightly colored leopard leggings, pictured above. 

As noted by the New York Post, celebrities and stylish city-dwellers are hitting the red carpet and the street in their high fashion leggings. According to Brook Jaffe, fashion director of Bloomingdale's, whom the paper spoke with, the sneaker trend has helped popularize printed designer leggings, which are flying off the department store's racks.  

But many will say that it all started with lululemon and its $100 yoga pants, which begat similarly priced workout pants from brands like Stella McCartney (Adidas by Stella McCartney), Free People (FP Movement), and, just recently, ROWLEY Fitness, by Cynthia Rowley.    

Whether you believe leggings are pants or not, they're not going anywhere. In fact, they could even start replacing pants.  

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Business Insider caught up with Mark Cuban at our IGNITION 2014 event.

We asked the billionaire entrepreneur about his approach to sleep, and how many hours he tries to clock each night. 

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With an average salary of nearly $3 million, America’s wealthiest zip code is in Manhattan.

New York City is home to three of the country's top five wealthiest neighborhoods, according to Experian. The other two are also on the East Coast.

The midtown Manhattan zip code of 10104, where only 14 people filed income tax returns in 2014, boasts an average income of $2,976,929, according to Experian. The one-square-block area stretches from 5th Avenue to 6th Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets across the street from Rockefeller Center.

The second and fourth-wealthiest zip codes in the country are also on the island, according to the data compiled from a number of sources.

A Miami Beach, Florida zip code came in third with an average income of $2,180,105 and another in Wilmington, Delaware — home to many financial firms and other corporations — placed fifth with a cool $1,356,182. 

No locations outside of the top five averaged seven-figure incomes.

Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont failed to even crack average six-figure salaries in any of their zip codes.

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Drinking craft beer has become more than just a hobby — it's a conquest, especially when it comes to limited edition beers that can be as scarce (and as alcoholic) as some wines.

Some of these beers have huge, cult-like followings, with release parties and wait lines that queue up 24 hours in advance. And vintage bottles of the ones that age well can sell at auction for thousands of dollars.

In honor of American Craft Beer Week (May 11-17), we've rounded up the 17 most coveted craft beers in America, based on availability, release schedule, and desirability.

17. Bourbon County Series (Goose Island Brewery)

Goose Island's "Bourbon County" series includes the Bourbon County Stout, Coffee Stout, Barleywine, and Proprietor's Stout. Goose Island releases new batches each year, but with variations in recipes. 2014's Vanilla Rye, a new addition to the series, is a boozy, 13.8% alcohol by volume (ABV) stout aged in rye whiskey barrels from four different distilleries.

The Chicago-based brewery distributes to most states, but the seasonal release of the Bourbon County series means bottles can be harder to find, not to mention that the Proprietor's Stout is only available in Chicago, and the Vanilla Rye is a limited edition only sold in 22-ounce bottles.

16. Nugget Nectar (Troëgs Brewing Co.)

Nugget Nectar is a seasonal, hoppy amber ale from Pennsylvania-based Troëgs Brewing Company. It's citrusy with a malt backbone, boozy at nearly 8% ABV, and, as Deadspin's Will Gordon notes, would probably be called an "imperial red IPA" if it hadn't already been released before the huge IPA craze.

It's fairly easy to find if you're in one of the 11 states Troëgs distributes to (and when it's in season), but if you're not, you may be traveling to get ahold of Pennsylvania's best beer.

15. Utopias (Samuel Adams)

Utopias is an insane barleywine that Samuel Adams has been experimenting with since 2002. It claims to be one of the first barrel-aged beers and ranges in absurd alcohol contents from year to year, from 24% to 30%. It comes in a unique, kettle-style container reminiscent of a genie lamp, and with only about 15,000 bottles released each season (and usually only on odd-numbered years), they often sell for around $200 a bottle.

Thirteen different states actually prohibit the sale of such a high-alcohol beer. 

The mansion prominently featured in the 1983 film classic "Scarface" is not actually in Miami. Instead, it's in Montecito, California, which lies about 90 miles west of Los Angeles.

However, the mansion is still just as beautiful as you remember from the movie. It's also been renovated recently — so it's possibly even more beautiful.

The mansion is still on the market after sitting unsold for an asking price of $35 million. Its price has now been cut in half to $17.8 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The 10,000-square-foot mansion's four bedrooms and nine bathrooms are completely surrounded by Persian gardens and an insane number of fountains.

Emily Kellenberger of Village Properties has the listing.

Surprise! Tony Montana's Miami mansion isn't actually in Miami.

Instead, it's a sprawling, 10-acre edifice in Montecito, California (about 90 miles west of Los Angeles).

The mansion, named El Fureidis, was originally built in 1906.

Consumers are eating burgers in record numbers. 

Polling site Ranker.com recently surveyed 42,000 consumers on 46 burgers to find the best fast food options.

Beloved NYC-based chain Shake Shack was noticeably absent from the list.

Here are the top 10 burgers selected by the people. 

10. Fatburger Burger

Fatburger has been around for more than 60 years, but has recently expanded internationally. The classic burger is made-to-order with patties of various sizes.

9. Steak 'N Shake "Double 'N Cheese Steakburger"

This primarily Midwest chain earned high marks with consumers. The burger patties are made with a combination of steak cuts. 

8. Wendy's "1/4 lb Single"

Wendy's, which doesn't freeze meat and cooks to order, arguably invented the "better burger" category. 

7. Fuddruckers' "The Original Fudds"

Fuddruckers, which is headquartered in Texas, is known for selling large burgers. The chain's smallest burger patty is 1/3 lb, while the largest is 1 lb.

6. Wendy's "Baconator"

Wendy's Baconator was released eight years ago. It contains two burger patties topped with bacon, mayonnaise, ketchup, and cheese.

5. Burger King "Whopper"

The flame-broiled Whopper is an American classic. It's also cheap and customizable. 

4. Whataburger "Original Whataburger"

Texas' Whataburger has a cult following. Like Wendy's, the chain doesn't freeze its beef. Customers can choose which toppings they want, and Whataburger toasts the bun.

3. Five Guys' bacon cheeseburger

Five Guys Burgers & Fries is America's largest burger chain. The brand cooks its bacon cheeseburger to order and offers more than a dozen toppings like jalapenos, relish, and grilled onions.

2. Five Guys hamburger

Consumers apparently also loved the Five Guys burger without bacon.

1. In-N-Out Double Double

The West Coast burger chain likes to keep it simple, which appears to be an effective strategy. The burgers are topped with its signature sauce, a condiment that is like a mix of mayonnaise and ketchup. Sadly, the chain won't be expanding to the East Coast anytime soon.

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For people who work remotely or travel often for business, finding the perfect coffee shop can be an arduous task. 

Julien Smith knew this all too well. Smith is an entrepreneur who has written three books and often travels for public speaking gigs. 

"I was traveling a lot for work, but I found it hard to be productive in coffee shops," Smith told Business Insider. "Trying to find a spot to relax in Starbucks was a hassle." 

To solve the problem, Smith and longtime friend Caterina Rizzo created Breather, a startup that allows anyone to rent small, private office spaces through a mobile app. 

Each Breather space is 500 square feet or less, and they're all located in office buildings. You pay an hourly rate for the rooms ranging from $25 to $70, depending on the size and amenities provided.

The private workspaces are intended to be used for a wide range of purposes, from a spot to get some work done to a place to catch an hour of rest during a tiring business trip. A therapist could rent a space for a few hours a week to cut back on costs. Smith claims one Breather investor even used a space to propose to his girlfriend.

"Sometimes you just need a space that isn't your office," Smith said. 

Splash, for example, a startup that makes event marketing software in New York, has a Breather account that employees can use to host meetings and training sessions or simply take a nap.

"As coworking is becoming more popular, a desk is all a lot of people get, plus conference rooms for conversations," Smith said. "A private office is the picture of luxury. That ability to get luxury on demand is super valuable." 

Since starting the company in 2012, Smith and Rizzo have expanded Breather to include more than 80 spaces in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Montreal, and Ottawa. 

How it works

When I opened the Breather app, it presented a list of locations near me. 

I booked a space in New York's Flatiron District, off Madison Square Park on 24th Street.

A page on the app told me everything I needed to know about the space's features.

This particular room could accommodate 10 people and came equipped with a couch, desk, white board, pencils, notepads, yoga mat, and free wifi. 

It cost $36 an hour. 

When I got to the building, the doorman sent me up to the second floor, where I found a large, vault-like metal door with a keypad.

At the time of my appointment, a code appeared on the Breather app on my phone, so I entered it on the keypad and the door opened up.

The room was arranged beautifully, with lots of natural light filtering in from outside.  

A collection of books about startups and creativity lined the wall behind the couch. 

There was even a jar of Tootsie Rolls, in case I  needed some sugar reinforcement. 

As I was just using the space to make some phone calls, a white board wasn't exactly useful to me, but I can imagine it would be great for brainstorming with a group.

And on one side there was a desk and plenty of plugs.

One of the things that struck me about the room was just how quiet it was.

"Privacy is a really important thing for people, and productivity is influenced by that," Smith said. "It's not that we don't like coworking — things like WeWork are obviously really successful. It's just a different way of thinking."  

There was even a yoga mat sitting in one corner.

Breather has raised $7.5 million in two rounds of funding, and it's growing rapidly.

Though at the beginning the company purchased the spaces they leased out, they now present Breather as an opportunity for property owners to have a professional designer spruce up and make the most of their unused space. 

"Property owners often come to us now," Smith said.

You can download Breather for iOS over at the App Store and for Android over at Google Play.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is No. 4 on our list of the most dominant athletes in the world.

He's also the world's highest-paid soccer player, which means he has a decent amount of cash to burn.

The 30-year-old forward for Real Madrid owns luxury cars, flies around the world in private jets, and makes a mint on endorsement deals — and that's not even half of it.

He earned $80 million last year, making him the second highest-paid athlete in the world.

Source: Forbes

And more than a quarter of that ($28 million) is in endorsement deals with companies like Tag Heuer and Nike.

Source: Forbes

He rakes in over $9 million from his Nike deal alone.

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Seoul, South Korea is about to get its own version of New York City's extremely popular High Line public park.

It's called the "Seoul Skygarden," and instead of a disused rail track, it will recycle an abandoned elevated highway.

"Skygarden" is an appropriate name for the new park. The plan is to incorporate about 254 different species of trees, shrubs and flowers along the half-mile, 55-foot high former highway overpass. The flora will be arranged in order according to the Korean alphabet, with the plan for the park to serve as an "urban nursery," growing trees and other plants for the surrounding neighborhoods.

It will also be jam-packed with tea cafés, flower shops, street markets, libraries, and greenhouses, according to a press release by the project's architects, Dutch firm MVRDV.

The Seoul Station Overpass was first built in the 1970s to provide a connection to the a local point of trade, Namdaemun market. However, city inspectors deemed the elevated highway unsafe for vehicular traffic in 2006.

It was intended to be demolished before residents and local experts, after realizing the projected economic benefits are nearly double what the park would cost to build and maintain, convinced the city to hold a design contest.

This is all similar to the High Line, where organized community groups created a nonprofit and lobbied for its construction, which then resulted in dramatically increased real estate prices.

(H/T DesignBoom)

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As a child, Larry Ellison's adoptive father repeatedly told him he was good for nothing, according to Fortune.

Today, Forbes estimates Ellison's net worth at $54 billion, making him the third-richest person in the US.

Before he founded Oracle, the database software firm that made his fortune, Ellison grew up in a working-class Chicago family of Jewish immigrants.

"I was raised on the South Side of Chicago," he said in an oral history for the Smithsonian Institution. "I remember Look Magazine called it the oldest and worst black ghetto in the United States."

When Ellison was born in 1944, his mother was unmarried, according to a profile in Fortune. She gave him to relatives to raise, and Ellison never met his biological father.

He dropped out of college twice — first from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then the University of Chicago — before moving to California and working odd jobs.

In his oral history, he recalled, "I never took a computer science class in my life. I got a job working as a programmer; I was largely self-taught. I just picked up a book and started programming."

When Ellison landed a programming job at Ampex Corporation, one of his responsibilities at the company was building a database for the CIA, Business Insider's Madeline Stone notes. In 1977, he and two coworkers left Ampex to start a database management company of their own.

Knowing that no one would want to take a risk on a brand new product, Ellison and his cofounders chose not to label their first release "Version 1.0." 

"The very first version was Oracle Version 2," he admitted at a customer conference last year.

Their ploy worked. Oracle's first customer was a big one: the CIA. Their product later became the most popular database ever sold. That success paid off for Ellison — according to the Wall Street Journal, he was the highest-paid executive in the US before he stepped down as CEO in 2014.

But becoming a billionaire was never his goal, he told the Smithsonian Institution. "When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich."

Now 70, Ellison has a lifestyle that he could only have dreamed of during his working-class Chicago childhood.

"This is all kind of surreal," he told Mike Wilson, the author of "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison." "I don't even believe it now. Not only did I not believe it when I was 14, but when I look around, I say, this must be something out of a dream."

Ellison collects cars and private jets, and has his own America's Cup sailing team. His incredible real-estate portfolio includes a private golf club in Rancho Mirage, California; a $70 million house in Silicon Valley; the former summer home of the Astor family in Newport, Rhode Island; a historic garden villa in Kyoto, Japan; and the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai. And because he loves basketball, he's installed courts on at least two of his yachts.

He has also given hundreds of millions of dollars to charity, particularly medical research and education. He also says that he plans to give billions more.

Clearly, he's proven his adoptive father wrong.

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