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Artist Adam Lister has taken iconic pieces of art history and remixed them into 8-bit watercolors.

The result is a stunning collection that brings to mind the art style and nostalgia of old 8-bit video games.

"These pictures are like puzzles, carefully taken apart and then pieced back together to reveal the subject," List said to Business Insider. "These works were inspired by my love for geometric abstraction, the history of visual art, and old school digital graphics."

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You can find this piece in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

"The Starry Night," Vincent van Gogh

Within months of its completion, this 1942 canvas painting was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000.

One of the biggest measurements of success after college is how much graduates earn.

New data from College Scorecard, a website created by the US Department of Education that compares colleges and universities in a number of categories, reveals the median salary earned by graduates 10 years after attending their alma maters.

It's important to note that College Scorecard analyzed earnings data of students who received federal financial aid. We narrowed the list of schools down further to only include those with graduation rates of 85% or higher to ensure we were looking at degree-earning graduates.

Perennial favorites like MIT, Harvard, and Stanford top the list. Perhaps more surprising, schools like Massachusetts-based Babson College (No. 3) and liberal-arts school Lafayette College (No. 18) also rank highly.

Meanwhile, the high-paying fields of business and engineering are among the most popular courses of study at these schools.

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25. Boston College

Median salary 10 years after attending: 
$67,000

Median federal student loan debt:
$19,000

Most popular major:
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services (20%)

24. Dartmouth College

Median salary 10 years after attending: 
$67,100

Median federal student loan debt:
$11,625

Most popular major:
Social Sciences (35%)

23. Santa Clara University

Median salary 10 years after attending: 
$67,700

Median federal student loan debt:
$20,500

Most popular major:
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services (31%)

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New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.

The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.

This isn't the first time Vanderkam has undertaken such a project. He did the same type of mapping for San Francisco as well.

Visit the OldNYC site here, or look below for some of the best photos we saw from the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with their locations in the city.

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 1910

Queensboro Bridge Connection, 1917

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 1912

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Whole Foods is growing like crazy. And with the chain planning to open 100 new stores by 2017, we'll be seeing more and more about the organic grocer in the near future. 

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We've all been there. You plug your charger into your iPhone, but it doesn't seem to be recognizing the charger — or if it does, moving your phone even slightly seems to cause it to disconnect and stop charging.

I first ran into this problem a couple of years ago with my iPhone 5. I noticed that my iPhone just wouldn't recognize my charger, and it got so bad that I would wrap my charging cable around my iPhone in an attempt to keep it firmly in place.

At first I thought the problem was a bad charging cable, but after trying one of my roommate's cables to no avail, I began to suspect the issue was with the phone itself. Frustrated, I was about to schedule a Genius Bar appointment at an Apple Store when my friend John told me he knew what the issue was: pocket lint.

"You always keep your iPhone in your pocket, right?" said John, telling me he had experienced the same issue before. It was true. I did keep my iPhone in my pocket when I wasn't using it, and while it made sense that some pocket lint might build up in my iPhone's charging port, I was skeptical it could actually prevent it from charging.

But after grabbing a paper clip and inserting it into my iPhone's charging port and gently digging around, I was surprised to see a large amount of pocket lint fall out — much more than I had expected. After all was said and done, a sizeable amount of lint was left on my desk.

I tried my charging cable yet again — and voilà — my iPhone immediately recognized it and started to charge. I could even wiggle the charging cable around and the connection stayed solid. It was fixed.

Two years later, my colleague Nathan told me he had the same problem, so we tried the same trick and found that pocket lint was again the culprit. Here's what came out of his iPhone.

So the next time you notice your iPhone isn't charging properly, try to find a slim object (you should use a toothpick or non-metal object just to be safe, though) that you can use to (gently) dig out any built-up pocket lint in your charging port.

Over time, that pocket lint gets packed into the corners and the sides of the charging port, causing the connection between charging port and cable to be blocked.

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Some tourist activities were made for thrillseekers.

You can free climb to staggering heights, get up close and personal with majestic sites, and get views that will take your breath away. 

We've put together a collection of 16 adrenaline-pumping tourist activities around the globe, from volcano boarding in Nicaragua to skydiving over Mount Everest.

Note: Some of these activities can be dangerous and should be approached with caution.

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Insanity is a thrill ride at the top of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada. A massive mechanical arm extends 64 feet over the edge of the 900-foot tower and spins you in the air.

Trift Bridge stretches over the Trift Glacier in the Swiss Alps. The bridge spans a 560-foot gap in the mountains.

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The Devil's Pool is a natural infinity pool in Victoria Falls, which borders Zambia and Zimbabwe. It gives the illusion that you're diving off the edge of a cliff.

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"But... you're a girl."

That's what Sandy Keung's father told the then 17-year-old over Christmas break 1992, after she had flown from Hong Kong to Taiwan to talk about going to college.

Using Cantonese, Keung made her pitch to her parents, as her father, the 5 foot 2 inch, timid and generally patient Chinese patriarch of the family, watched silently — before opening his mouth to imply she didn't need a higher education because of her gender.

Keung, who was second eldest and the only daughter in a middle-class family, had spent most of her life a "second class citizen" within the family. She whad been relegated to the kitchens, helping her mother cook, peeling ginger, washing vegetables, and marinating.

"I was very pissed," Keung said to Business Insider. "I was shocked that he didn't think I needed to go to university .... My dad was quite male chauvinistic and traditional." 

It was her mother, a homemaker, who would put her through St. Johns University with the grocery allowances and savings she had collected. Her father — who disputes the characterization to this day — paid nothing, Keung said.

Ambitious and determined, Keung would make it to the top of the finance world over the next two decades. She became an accountant at one of the big four accounting firms. Soon after, she became a hedge fund manager with $300 million under management. Her next move was to the role of chief financial officer at a publicly traded company. 

And then, after two decades, she turned her back on the industry and returned to the kitchen, where she had spent so much time with her mother in her youth.

In August 2014, Keung opened the doors to high-end Hong Kong restaurant Table: Ingredients Based Cuisine, herself at the helm as owner and executive chef.

Buzz of banking

Keung chose accounting at St. Johns because it was practical: She knew it would  guarantee near financial stability.

After undergrad, she became one of the few female junior accountants at Deloitte-New York in 1993.

Three years later, feeling the symptoms of homesickness, Keung, then 25, transferred to Deloitte in Hong Kong.

She quickly made her way up in the corporate finance sector.

By the time 2001 rolled around and news of Enron's scandal broke, Keung joined hedge fund, Acqua Wellington Asset Management LLC, managing $300 million.

In 2004, she left to try her hand at real estate investments in Vietnam, but was once again pulled back into Hong Kong's orbit in 2009, joining publicly listed company, Sustainable Forests, as chief financial officer.

She enjoyed it, Keung said.

She flew business class, ate everywhere, and enjoyed the work. She was once offered a chance to stop in Paris, just because, by her company. But she shot down the opportunity, thinking: "Why would I waste a vacation day when I could be finishing work?"

Unlike many who left banking behind because they found it boring, Keung enjoyed her time in finance.

"I actually always thought cooking would be kept as an interest," she said, her voice is gentle with an authoritative edge. "It gives me a very different high from what I got in banking."

The journey to becoming a chef

As a child, Keung learned all the basics in the kitchen from her mother, and by the time she was in her teens, she was doing all the preparation — cleaning, chopping, marinating — while her mother would just handled the stove.

In college, her limited funds meant she cooked often — though mostly with frozen and preserved goods.

But Keung didn't have an audience to cook for until Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, where she hosted dinner parties weekly to make social and professional connections.

"The catch was, I would invite people, and they were only allowed to come if they brought a friend, and they were only allowed to come back if they brought back someone I didn't know," she said.

She filled notebooks with tips on presentation and recipes — which eventually caught the attention of a French restaurant she frequented in Ho Chi Minh city, "Ce Page."

The chef there asked Keung to guest chef monthly — but even then, she couldn't see herself as a full time chef.

"I started getting my confidence up," she said.

When she returned to Hong Kong, she started catering and helped serve at her friend's bar. At the same time, while working as a CFO, she invested in a fish farming system out of Australia. It allowed buyers to recycle 100% of the water from fish tanks, which makes farming fish in a high-density city like Hong Kong easier and less costly.

Even though Chinese consumers love seafood, the technology wasn't selling. In a bold move, she went from a passive investor to an active one and bought the system.

She turned the depuration system into a seafood cleaning system — which gives her seafood the freshness and soft texture it's known for — and opened up a precursor to Table in 2013.

It was a tiny kiosk on the streets of Hong Kong serving high quality seafood, but things didn't work out with her partner. 

Poaching a sous chef from Bo Innovation, which has three Michelin stars, Keung decided to open Table, with herself as the executive chef.

She left finance behind in 2013 — and by August 2014, Table was open for business.

"I don't really know," she said when asked why she left finance. "I think it's like this —after a while the finance numbers get a bit removed. You cannot keep doing the same thing over and over and over again, and if you keep doing the same thing over a long period of time, you become numb to it. You have to change it up and magnify that .... I think that's a natural tendency for people." 

This is Table

Table is 2,000 square feet located in a sliver of a Sheung Wan building that looks bigger inside than out. 

It's an eight floor ride up in a cramped elevator — typical of Hong Kong buildings — opening up to a sign on wood paneling with the letters "Table" followed by four Chinese characters that spell: "Depurated Seafood."

Three full-timers and a handful of part-time staff serve the 60-seat space. 

Her cooking style?

"Anything," she said — though the tinges of Japanese, western, and Chinese cooking styles come through. The restaurant is ranked 15th among Hong Kong restaurants on Trip Advisor — flanked by Michelin-starred giants such as NUR Restaurant and Pierre at the Mandarin Oriental. 

Her customers are mostly business people, older and close to retirement. She does attract some second-generation rich kids — the so-called "fuerdai," that snap instagram photos and check-in on Facebook, but they tend to move quickly from restaurant to restaurant. 

"The atmosphere is simple because it is more about the quality of the food and the personalized service," said 58-year-old semi-retired logistics consultant, Deborah Salivar. "[Table had] the best oysters I have ever eaten anywhere, and the freshest."

Salivar, who is based in Hong Kong, began visiting Table regularly after her partner, who works in international logisitics, made reservations at the restaurant for her birthday.

"I was completely surprised. She was a darn good chef," said Wence Chan, who went to university with Keung and saw her by chance managing Table a year ago.

"I knew her as a very focused person in finance who was very determined — and then I met her in Hong Kong, and she told me she had always had a passion for cooking!"

Chan, who works in advertising but is also a certified wine specialist, recalled a line of courses including a melt-in-your-mouth Iberico ham, soft and buttery clams, and snappy and sweet Spanish red prawns.

"It's simple, and it's very artful, the ways she presents the plates. She's very meticulous with the ingredients that she uses, so her dishes are always amazingly balanced," Chan said.

Keung also seems to like visiting every guest at their table, something most restaurants don't do anymore, Chan explained.

"Cooking is more personal [than finance]," Keung said. "There's a distinct difference from something you create with your hands ... and I don't know, it's hard to describe when you actually put your heart into creating something and finishing something."

Keung wakes up at 6:30 am rather than 5:30 am, as she did when she was CFO. When she comes home from work, it's midnight, not 8 p.m. At Table, Keung even cleans the toilets herself sometimes, since there just aren't enough hands on deck.

"Basically I have no life and time outside of job — but at least it's not a strictly desk job, so you get to interact with a lot of people so you're not stuck in a room," she said. "But from time to time I do miss the days off work. They all say investors and bankers work very long hours — and they do ... but I think food and beverage has longer hours."

And yet again, she's working in a male dominated industry.

Her sous chef Ken Tam said through a translator that, "I think's it's quite strange for me ... because I've never worked with a female boss before." 

In an even stranger twist from twenty years earlier, it's her mother who had reservations when she jumped into the world of food and beer, rather than her father.

"She thinks I'm going to have no friends, I'm working too hard, I'm hurting myself all the time, scars and rough hands, all that kind of stuff, and long hours. So for many months she didn't want to come," Keung said. "It was my dad that helped me bring her over. After that it was okay and she didn't have a problem." 

Expanding the Empire

Despite her transition to a full time chef, Keung's finance background comes through easily in her vocabulary.

She talks about consumer behavior, R&D and low cost of entry. She calls the renovations "investments" and mentions the capex of her business. She also knows she needs "scale." 

Recently, Keung bought up Good BBQ, a 38-year-old Hong Kong shop for take out in Sai Wan Ho. She is planning to open a third barbecue shop, soon in Central.

These shops, common in Hong Kong, usually offer a full and fast meal for $5 to $10. It's a far cry from "Table."

"For Hong Kong people, it is comfort food. Someone is eating this product at any price point, something that during a rainstorm or typhoon number 10, they get some to supplement the meal. It's actually in Hong Kong's DNA," she said.

"It's about thinking of new ways of preparing an old product," she said. "I'm approaching this a lot more from the business side than purely the food side. I would be deluding myself to think my technique and skill would be that amazing," she said.

After all, business is her strong suite — and she's always looking for a challenge.

"Who knows," she says laughing. "So maybe 20 years from now, maybe I'll say, 'I don't know, hedge funds were more fun.'"  

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Where you watch a movie makes all the difference.

Today, you can catch a flick while lounging in a hot tub, laying on a private beach, or in a '50s-style drive-in cinema complete with your own convertible car. 

We've put together a collection of movie theaters around the world that take going to the movies to a whole new level.

From a floating cinema in London to one that offers gorgeous backdrops of the Sydney Harbour in Australia, here are 16 incredible movie theaters. 

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Hot Tub Cinema is a pop up event that screens films across spaces in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, New York, and Ibiza. You can book a whole hot tub to share with six of your friends and each tub comes with a tub waiter.

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Enjoy movie screenings in June and July while gazing at the breathtaking Karlskirche church in Vienna, Austria, during Open Air at Karlsplatz.

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The Edible Cinema, located in London, is an immersive theater experience where guests are given a tray of numbered mystery boxes filled with bite-sized foods that coincide with scenes in the movie being played.

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Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and oftentimes it can lead to regret.

Some people have the philosophy that everything happens for a reason, and there is no point in having regrets.

But for so many of us, looking back on our lives can lead us to linger on one poignant moment or period when we wish we had done things differently, and that nagging question, "What if ...?," plays on repeat in our heads.

"This may sound a little melodramatic, but no matter how happy you are, at my age your regrets are countless," writes Quora user Gary Teal in response to the question, "When people look back on their lives, what are common regrets they have?" "You have made decades' worth of little miscalculations you can't completely erase from your memory, as well as a number of big mistakes that made life permanently harder."

Quora user Bradley Voytek points to a national survey about the regrets of a typical American, which found 13 common sources for regret. They are, in order: romance, family, education, career, finance, parenting, health, "other," friends, spirituality, community, leisure, and self.

Vaughn Bell at Mind Hacks notes that there are two ways people frame their regrets: The things they did that they wish they hadn't, and the things they wish they had done but didn't.

"The difference between the two is often a psychological one, because we can frame the same regret either way — as regret about an action: 'If only I had not dropped out of school;' or as a regret about an inaction: 'If only I had stayed in school.'

"Despite the fact that they are practically equivalent, regrets framed as laments about actions were more common and more intense than regrets about inactions, although inaction regrets tended to be longer lasting," Bell writes.

Here are some of the most common regrets as chronicled by Quora users (answers have been edited for clarity): 

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Romance

"I regret that I never fell in love with someone who was in love with me, when that would have been easy for me to do.

"I regret being like an old song sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie: 'Must I go bound and you so free, Must I love one who doesn't love me, Must I be born with so little art, As to love the one who would break my heart?'" —David Kahana

Children

"For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to have kids. But in my younger years, I foolishly assumed that unlike certain accomplishments like a career, the marriage and kids thing would just happen.

"Well, they didn't. I dated plenty of people but never even thought about making family a priority. Then, in my late 30s, a bout with ovarian cancer left me permanently infertile.

"I think about the kids I never had every day, several times a day. I have a great relationship with my nieces and nephews, and volunteer at a children's hospital on a regular basis, but it's just not the same to be around other people's kids. I would love to adopt or be a foster mother, and hopefully be in a financial and domestic situation that would make this feasible one day.

"But again, not the same. And it pisses me off when people say, "You're lucky you don't have kids, they're so much work, blah blah blah." Yes, but a lot of things in life that are worthwhile are also so much work.

"I think the mothering instinct is so strong in some women that the knowledge that one will never get a chance to give birth and raise their own child goes beyond regret. One that a bar chart cannot capture. I can deal with most of my other regrets in life but am having a hard time dealing with this one." —Caroline Zelonka

Parents

"I regret not choosing to spend more time with my parents in my twenties. I lost my mother in 2000, and I feel the loss of the friendship we never had.

"She was very demanding, very strict, and from the perspective of a young man, very unreasonable. It turned out, as I live through middle age, that most of the ideals I have today ended up being the ones she put on me.

"Sometimes, after a setback, I feel the impulse to call her, and in the second or so that it takes for me to realize she isn't alive to speak to any longer, I realize how much I still need her.

"You cannot negotiate with death. It is final, often sudden, and personal. The last night I had with her, at a hospice in Chicago, I was exhausted and asked her if she minded if I went home. She immediately whispered that absolutely, I should rest, and to be careful driving home. I curled her fingers around the nurses call button, and kissed her on the forehead. I remember I felt some relief that I was leaving.

"I know it didn't make a difference, leaving at that time, or leaving a few hours later. She was going to die either way. But reflecting on that moment today I know then that I didn't understand how precious those minutes were, and how a door was being closed that would never open again." —Jim Wagner

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Wearing a white button-down shirt and an Adidas track jacket, Cuba's leftist icon and former leader, Fidel Castro, shook the hand of Pope Francis, the first pope from Latin America in Castro's home in Havana, Cuba.

The 40 minute meeting between Castro, 89, and Pope Francis, 78, was "very relaxed, fraternal and friendly," according to Vatican spokesperson Father Federico Lombardi.

Castro gave Pope Francis a copy of Freitas Betto's 1985 book entitled "Fidel and Religion," which is based off of a 23-hour-long interview between Castro and a Brazilian priest, Reuters reports.

Castro signed the book, "For Pope Francis, on occasion of his visit to Cuba, with the admiration and respect of the Cuban people," according to ABC News.

In return, Pope Francis gave Castrotwo CDs of homily recordings, a copy of his two encyclicals (official papal writings), two books on spirituality, and a book and CD on the writings of Father Armando Llorente, a priest who taught Castro in Jesuit prep school more than 70 years ago.

On Saturday, Pope Francis flew from Rome to began his 10-day visit to Cuba and the US. The pope will stay in Cuba until Tuesday, when he leaves for Washington. Pope Francis will also visit New York City and Philadelphia before returning to Rome on September 28.

Last year, Pope Francis mediated a discussion between Cuba and Washington in hopes to repair diplomatic relations between the Cold War foes.

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Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld's gorgeous Sun Valley, Idaho compound sold last week for a "record-breaking" price at an auction.

The winning bidder for the 71.3-acre Big Wood River Estate is an unidentified person from the Pacific Northwest, Concierge Auctions said in a release.

It's unclear how much was paid. The minimum bid was $20 million. Concierge Auctions' said in a statement that it was the most expensive residence ever known to sell at auction, and the highest known price for a residence in Sun Valley. 

Concierge Auctions previously estimated that the property could fetch from $30 to $50 million.

Before its demise in 2008, Lehman Brothers was the fourth largest Wall Street bank. Fuld had been the CEO since 1994. Since the bankruptcy, Fuld has kept a relatively low profile. He recently reemerged at a small-cap conference this spring.

Now, let's take a tour of his former compound.  

The Sun Valley estate sits on 71.3 acres, offering seclusion and privacy.

Here's a shot of the main house.

The property, which is located at the foot of Bald Mountain, is just a short drive from ski resorts and hiking/biking trails.

Blue Apron, a $2 billion company that wants to make cooking easy by sending you perfect portions of ingredients in a box with a recipe, is now expanding its offerings to deliver wine too.

The wine delivery service is called Blue Apron Wine. Every month you'll get six 500-milliliter bottles of wine — about two-thirds the size of a normal bottle of wine — delivered to your door.

Per month, each Blue Apron Wine delivery consisting of six bottles costs $65.99 plus tax, and shipping is included. In addition to the wine itself, you'll also get tasting cards and notes about how to pair the wine with upcoming Blue Apron meals.

The wines are selected to pair with Blue Apron's meals, which run about $10 a pop. The company tells Reuters it will buy wines straight from vineyards, and the wines will be made just for Blue Apron. To start, Blue Apron says it will deliver wine to 27 US states, and will expand its delivery options to more states where alcohol delivery is legal.

“Wine pairings have been a top request from our home chefs since we launched, and we’re excited about the opportunity to complement our Blue Apron meals with incredible wines," Blue Apron CEO Matt Salzberg said in a statement this morning

With Blue Apron, you can elect to receive 3 meals a week, in portions designed to serve 2, 4, or 6 people. Once a week, you receive your big box of premeasured ingredients, along with a recipe card that tells you how to make each meal. 

Salzberg told Business Insider earlier this year that Blue Apron is selling more than 3 million meals every month. In the past six months, Blue Apron says, it's tripled in size. Salzberg says Blue Apron has over 1800 employees and "hundreds of thousands" of customers.

Blue Apron is a subscription service, so the company knows exactly how much food it needs to order every week. This lets the company minimize waste and keep costs down. Salzberg says Blue Apron is different from other services — companies like Plated and HelloFresh — because its supply chain is the most efficient. "We're the only company in the US doing what we do at scale," he says. "We have a real focus on supply chain and on working deeply with our suppliers." 

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The world's biggest folk and beer festival kicks off in Munich, Germany on Saturday. 

Oktoberfest is an annual celebration of German tradition that's defined by camaraderie, hearty Bavarian cuisine, and lots and lots of beer. 

But you don't have to go all the way to Munich to get in the Oktoberfest spirit. 

Foursquare analyzed its user ratings to come up with a list of the best beer gardens in the US for celebrating Oktoberfest.

From a brewery in Seattle to a waterfront bar in New York, here's a list of the top places in the country to celebrate Oktoberfest the American way. 

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Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This microbrewery on the Milwaukee River serves its very own Oktoberfest beer– a traditional Marzen-style lager made with Munich malt. The menu also includes a selection of Bavarian pretzels and beer-slathered bratwurst. 

Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan

As one of the top-rated breweries in the world, Founders Brewing Co. has plenty to offer in terms of beer and atmosphere. The brewery is throwing their 12th annual Harvest party to celebrate the season and launch their wet-hopped Harvest Ale. 

Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California

Lagunitas Brewing Company's Petaluma location (there's one in Chicago, too) is a Foursquare favorite. With dozens of craft brews, ample outdoor space, and live music five nights a week, it's the perfect place to get rowdy in the spirit of Oktoberfest.

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Take a look at the "Rich Kids of Instagram" blog and you'll see over-the-top photos of luxury bags, massive bottles of Dom Perignon, and flights on private jets. The photos are posted by an anonymous source, who wades through Instagram to find photos of young people flaunting their wealth. 

But if you ask some of the so-called "rich kids" featured on the site, their lives aren't like that all of the time. 

"We just live a certain lifestyle and people perceive it in their own way," Reya Benitez, daughter of legendary Studio 54 DJ John "Jellybean" Benitez, said to Business Insider. "We're not flashing things." 

Benitez has more than 3,000 followers on Instagram. Gaia Matisse, great-great-granddaughter of French painter Henri Matisse and daughter of the late, famed pop artist Alain Jacquet, has more than 15,700 Instagram followers.

"Any picture can be turned into something else," Gaia said. "Our Instagrams are just fun photos of us having fun. There may be a helicopter in the background, but that's just us." 

But according to aspiring fashion designer Andrew Warren, the ringleader and self-proclaimed "Kris Jenner of the group" — which also includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter Kyra, Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, Magic Johnson's son EJ, and actress Bella Thorne — his friends are headed towards big things of their own.

"I try to push everyone toward what they actually want to do," he said. Andrew has more than 34,000 Instagram followers. "My friends are all really different but talented at different things." 

We spent a day with Andrew, Gaia, and Reya to get a glimpse at what life as an elite 20-something New Yorker is really like. 

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We met Andrew at his apartment, located in a stunning, two-towered co-op building that fronts Central Park. Built in the 1930s, the building was at different times home to Marc Jacobs, Conan O'Brien, and members of the Genovese crime family.

His family occupies a second-floor spread here, where Andrew has lived his whole life. His dad is a prominent real estate investor, and his grandfather was a fashion tycoon. "He passed before I met him," Andrew said. "There's a statue in the Garment District of a man sewing, and his name is the last one on it."

Andrew has an interest in fashion, too. He recently launched his own clothing line called Just Drew, available online and at Blue & Cream, a boutique with locations in Manhattan and the Hamptons. He was originally asked to do a T-shirt line with a friend, but they lost touch.

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We recently came out with our list of the 50 best colleges in America.

Many of the top schools — like MIT (No. 1), Stanford (No.2), and Harvard (No. 3) — appear on the east or west coasts of the States, but there are a number of incredible schools in the heart of America: the Midwest.

To create this list, we asked readers to choose the colleges that best prepare students for success after graduation from a list of what we perceived to be the top 100 schools in the country.

We combined the survey results with each school's average SAT score and the median starting salary. (You can read the full methodology here.)

We filtered our list down to show the top schools in the Midwest. Keep scrolling to see which colleges made it.

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15. Macalester College

Average SAT score: 1990

Median starting salary: $41,200

St. Paul, Minnesota's Macalaster College ranked seventh in the nation, according to US News, for commitment to teaching. And some of the classes taught at the St. Paul, Minnesota-based college are quite unusual: Some of its "cutting-edge courses" include "inside the animal mind," "constructions of a female killer," and "the automobile and the American environment."

14. Kenyon College

Average SAT score: 1995

Median starting salary: $46,400

With more than 50 majors, minors, and interdisciplinary concentrations, Kenyon makes it easy for students to customize their educations and create a course of study that's right for them. The Gambier, Ohio-based school offers lifetime career services for alumni, and gets alumni involved in hiring other Kenyon students for internships, externships, and other employment opportunities.

13. Grinnell College

Average SAT score: 2093

Median starting salary: $43,100

Call Grinnell the gateway to a grad degree, if you will: 10 years after graduation, 51% of Grinnellians hold advanced degrees from institutions like Harvard, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, and the London School of Economics. Other students at the Grinnell, Iowa-based school find employment with companies like Mayo Clinic, Nickelodeon, and the Kauffman Foundation. The school is located in Grinnell, Iowa.

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For years, I've read about a "secret menu" at McDonald's that offers up ridiculous items like the "Land, Sea, and Air Burger," which is a Big Mac stuffed with a chicken and fish patty. Only thing is – a McDonald's rep tells us "there is no secret menu at McDonald's."

So, what happens when you order off the infamous secret menu? I found out. 

Produced by Will Wei. Camera by Devan Joseph.

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