Some men are just better than others when it comes to packing for business trips.

Their clothes aren't wrinkled at meetings. When they go out for drinks, they're dressed right.

What are these guys doing right? And how can you learn from them?

The Tie Bar— a purveyor of quality ties and men's accessories, such as pocket squares and belts favored by the fashion experts at GQ and celebrities like Dwyane Wade — has some valuable tips in the video above.

So what should your packing game plan be? Less clothing and more accessories.

Accessories are not just easy to pack — you can create an entirely new look each day by pairing them with basic shirts, jackets, and pants.

If you're looking for another space saver, wear your suit on the flight — it's less likely to wrinkle this way.

Another tip: If you're not great at folding, have your wardrobe basics professionally washed and folded before you pack.

Watch the video for more valuable tips.

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While many might claim that kissing is an art form they've mastered, one girl is actually turning her kisses into art. Commercial art.

One night, before going out, Natalie Irish applied lipstick, then blotted her lips on a tissue. Upon seeing the color smudged across the fabric, she realized that lipstick could be used instead of paint, and her lips instead of a paintbrush.

Ever since then, Irish has been making incredible, life-like portraits with nothing but lipstick and her lips.

"Instead of using paint and a brush, I put lipstick on my mouth and kiss the canvas to paint my pictures," she told CNN. 

Irish was diagnosed with a very serious case of Type 1 diabetes when she was 18, and said that her art often helps her forget about it.

"I'm not going to let some stupid, rotten pancreas stop me from doing what I want to do... even if what I want to do right now is make out with canvas," she said.

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While we all know Hollywood to be the official home of the film industry, some of the most memorable movies actually take place in New York City.

And while some of these films are produced in Hollywood — on movie sets imitating New York apartment stoops — only one outdoor studio backlot is currently operating in the five boroughs, helping bring to life New York City-centric stories as well as countless others. 

The Kaufman Astoria Studios are located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, about a 20-minute subway ride from Times Square, and they're one of the biggest and most complex production centers along the East Coast.

Screen actors that have graced the sets of Kaufman include Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Meryl Streep, but those are only a handful of the dozens of award-winning actors who have done work at the studios. 

Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas," Woody Allen's "Radio Days," and Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club" were all shot at Kaufman. More recently, the studio has been home to blockbusters like "Birdman," "Men In Black 3," "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," and "Spider-Man 3."

TV shows have also used the facilities. "Sesame Street" has filmed there since 1992, and "Law and Order" used the premises about a decade ago. The popular Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" is one of the new star shows using the studios.

Constructed in 1920, the studio was the original home of Paramount Pictures, well before it was even called Paramount. The company originally went by the name Famous Players-Lasky, until the lasting name change was made in 1927. Kaufman Studios was opened by Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor. 

At the time, the movie business was still focused on making silent films. Hundreds of them were made at the studios until 1929, when newly advanced technology allowed sound to enter the equation. The studio would continue to make films with sound — or "talkies" — until 1941, when Zukor moved Paramount out to Hollywood, along with the majority of the film industry.

It wasn't long until the United States Army moved in to the studio. The Signal Corps division moved in in 1942 and began producing films for various needs, including training and medical films as well as TV broadcasts. They gave Kaufman Studios a new name, the Signal Corps Photographic Center, and used the facilities throughout the Korean War and anti-communist years.

Eventually, their production came to a stop. In 1970, the army turned the property over to the federal government. In 1972, the government offered the grounds to the City University of New York, to build a campus for LaGuardia Community College. Unfortunately, or perhaps for the best, there was not enough money from the city to bring the school to life.

In 1976, the studios were granted official National Historic Landmark status. A year later, a lease for the property was granted from the government, and the studio re-opened. It was renamed the "Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation." Production picked back up, and the filming of movies such as "The Wiz" and "Arthur" began.

In 1982, the city was given back ownership of the land. George Kaufman, a real estate developer, got the opportunity to bring the studio back to its glory days. They wanted him to bring life back into the walls of the studio, and that's exactly what he did.

Through expansion and renovation, the studio was able to get back on its feet. A consistent flow of commercial films has been shot there ever since. 

The studio's backlot didn't always exist, however. While Kaufman had wanted one built since the 1980s, it was actually added just two years ago, in the summer of 2013, after gaining approval from both the community and the city. The tall steel gate, reminiscent of a style often found in Hollywood, cuts off a one-block section of 36th Street in Queens.

Now, the 34,800-square-foot backlot provides an outdoor space for filming car chases and other stunts so that film crews don't have to block busy city streets. Dressing rooms, building workshops, and production offices are nearby, too — so it's easy for the crew to move back and forth. The block is under lease from the city through 2049, costing $140,000 per year and rising every five years.

The studio provides over 500,000 square feet of space, which includes sound stages, production offices, and service space. The biggest stage is 26,000 square feet, the largest east of Hollywood. 

All the biggest networks and production companies have used the studios throughout its history — including Universal, FOX, Warner Bros., Columbia, Miramax, and Paramount, when they need an east coast partner. TV studios like NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, MTV, A&E, HBO, Lifetime, and Disney have also filmed at the facilities. 

Demand for the space is at an all-time high, according to the studio — and with the Musuem of Moving Image next door, and the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts across the street, Kaufman Astoria Studios is more than just a production center for New York — it's an important foundation to a growing arts community.

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Which countries consume the most calories on a daily basis? 

Substance abuse and addiction treatment providerRecovery Brands set out to answer this question, using data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to analyze caloric intake in countries around the world.

The study analyzed calories served per capita from 2004 to 2013. While you might assume it's US citizens who consume the most calories, it was actually Austria who topped the list with an average of 3,769 calories consumed per day. 

While some countries remained neutral on the scale, significant portions of North America and certain countries in Europe hit well above the average. Those countries are in red on the map below.

They also found that residents of countries where a smaller portion of income is spent on food costs are generally served larger amounts of calories each day, usually around 3,500 calories per person. In the US, where 33.3% of men and 35.8% of women are considered obese, one out of every four food calories meant for human consumption ends up going to waste. 

Residents of India, on the other hand, consume the least amount of calories — about 2,500 a day on average. Countries where food costs usually make up a larger portion of the monthly budget are less likely to have high obesity rates, the study found. 

Recovery Brands also analyzed how average daily caloric intake has risen between 1961 and 2011. In some places, people were consuming as much as 500 or 600 more calories in 2011 than they were in 1961. 

According to the study, part of the reason for the dramatic increase is that restaurant serving sizes continue to grow, and the number of people eating out continues to rise. Data compiled from independent and small-chain restaurants showed that the average serving size per meal has grown to be as much as 66% of an adult's daily recommended caloric intake.

You can find the full study, including its findings on alcohol and tobacco consumption, on Recovery Brands' website. 

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Most of the time on Instagram, people are trying to dress up the world to look better than real life. Instagram filters make colors look more vibrant and light look most dramatic.

But Instagram’s #nofilter tag is a glimpse into the places in the world where we have the opposite urge. These are places that are so mind-blowing that the thought of putting a filter on them seems silly.

Now bus-booking site Busbud has done an analysis of over a million posts tagged #nofilter, and found which places in the world don’t need special effects.

These are the top five places in the world that have the highest density of #nofilter posts:

1. Bahamas
2. Iceland
3. Finland
4. Croatia
5. Canada

These are all places generally thought of as having an intense natural beauty, and it makes sense that users would take the opportunity to brag on Instagram. But what's strange is that other users weren't necessarily equally impressed. When looking at which #nofilter posts had the most "likes," the only place that maintained its top five ranking was the Bahamas. These are the top five places with the highest density of Instagram likes on #nofilter posts:

1. The Maldives
2. Lebanon
3. Israel
4. Bahamas
5. Kazakhstan

The Maldives, a string of islands in the Indian ocean, took the top spot. And it's not hard to see why.

And from this data, it looks like there is a disconnect between cold locales and Instagram likes. When you move from posts to likes, Iceland, Finland, and Canada both drop out of the top five.

Maybe people are just tired of seeing pictures of the Northern Lights, but you keep wanting to post them.

Lastly, it has to be noted that not all posts tagged #nofilter actually tell the truth. Busbud found that more than 7% of posts tagged #nofilter did, in fact, have a filter.

Cheaters.

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Australian Instagram model Essena O'Neill went viral last week after calling social media "fake" and saying it made her "miserable."

"I spent hours watching perfect girls online, wishing I was them," she explained in a YouTube video. "Then, when I was 'one of them,' I still wasn't happy, content, or at peace with myself. Social media is not real life."

O'Neill tried proving her point by breaking down one of the most popular photos she had posted on Instagram: a photo of herself at the beach.

While it may have looked like a simple snap captured by a friend, O'Neill explained that "there were probably 100 pictures, and this one was my favorite," adding that she edited it to make herself look "effortless."

She continued, "This life of effortless beauty was not effortless. My makeup was quite heavy, actually. The lighting made me look quite tan when I actually wasn't, and the necklace I didn't even like that much."

She also reveals that while she may look happy in the photo, it was all a facade. "You look at this picture and you think this girl has it all together," she said. "She's tan, she's glowing, she's beautiful. But I look at this picture and I see someone that wasn't happy with herself."

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Meet Brenda, a 600-pound machine that cuts through the earth like it's a piece of cake.

The massive tunnel boring machine, whose face is essentially a giant rotating cutter, completed a six-month journey under Seattle on Friday.

During this time, Brenda cut one mile of tunnel for Seattle's new subway line extension, the 4.3-mile Northgate Link, which is under construction at a cost of $2.1 billion. To excavate the line, two tunnel boring machines were brought in.

These machines weigh 600 tons each, and feature a rotating cutting face that's 21.5 feet in diameter. Hydraulic cylinders push the cutters through the earth, which set concrete rings into place every five feet, giving the tunnel structure. The excavated material falls through holes in the machines' face, and is then removed from the tunnel by conveyor belt.

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Teri Poulton wanted to be an astronaut growing up. As a pilot in the US military, the Air Force Academy graduate, retired Lieutenant Colonel, and current head of BP’s national veterans outreach efforts ended up routinely doing something that doesn’t rank too far below space travel as far as risky and complex aviation feats go.

Poulton flew the AC-135 tanker plane, and then later piloted the C-17, one of the military’s workhorse transport aircraft. Aerial refueling is key to the US Air Force’s operations — “From war to humanitarian relief, we’re part of everyone’s mission,” Poulton says.

It’s also incredibly dangerous. The planes fly as little as 12 feet apart from one another. One wrong move, and the aircraft can get suctioned into each other’s draft, creating a vortex that can doom both aircraft.

“For every movement that the tanker makes, the receiver has to make six moves to adjust,” she explains. “And the receivers are doing everything visually. They’re looking at nothing but a windscreen-view of the tanker.” 

The pilot watches the tanker grow lager in the windscreen as the two planes meet within a single point in the sky. The pilot on the receiving end has to decelerate, while also powering the engines for a series of intricate maneuvers as the planes draw within distance of the tanker’s fuel boom.

“The airplanes are moving at all three dimensions at the same time,” Poulton emphasizes. “All you’re doing is adjusting. Some pilots just see the movements quickly out of experience and some see it a little more slowly. And that’s where it gets really challenging.”

Refueling in mid-air, or landing a two-ton behemoth on a dirt runway in the middle of a combat zone takes skill, concentration, and guts. Poulton mastered them over the course of a 20-year career as a military pilot.

As she explains, she partly following in her father’s footsteps. He earned 55 air medals as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, and piloted the recently introduced Cobra helicopter in combat. “He was legitimately a badass, but I don’t think I had that figured out until I was at the Air Force Academy and understood what helicopter aviators were doing in Vietnam,” she said.

Poulton graduated from the Academy in 1992. She was interviewing for civilian airline piloting jobs just a few days before the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. She immediately understood that the attacks would have a huge impact on both the US military and on the entire field of aviation. 

She decided to stay in the Air Force — and as a result, she would get her own chance participate in a US war effort by flying C-17s into Iraq and Afghanistan. She was based in Saudia Arabia and United Arab Emirates, and even flew missions out of Diego Garcia, the remote US-British military base on an island in the center of the Indian Ocean (“Between work and going to sleep you got to see some beautiful scenery,” she says).

But as Poulton explained, a C-17 crew’s deployment is never really over — the plane will spend 4 to 6 months abroad, only to “get home an then they start flying again.” The plane, and its crew, remains in a constant state of readiness, no matter where it is, or what the next mission might bring. “You’re always in the mix in a C-17,” says Poulton.

 A C-17 Globemaster weighs around 2,000 tons, but it can land on as little as 3,500 feet of dirt runway. In Afghanistan, Poulton would land the massive aircraft on dirt strips to resupply remote forward operating bases. She explained the typical landing procedure: the plane would be completely blacked out, with no external or internal lighting during the approach. The crew, including the pilots, would have to wear night-vision goggles.

On night approaches, the ground and sky would be a void-like black. But on the radios, Poulton would pick up evidence of the surrounding conflict, as she would hear Air Force combat controllers talking to nearby aircraft, along with other surrounding radio chatter within a crowded yet blacked-out airspace.

“There’s so much stimulus, you can hear things going on and you’re trying to synthesize it all so that you can be helpful to whatever’s going on around you, while you’re still trying to execute your mission,” Poulton says. “It’s like having your brain in 4 different places.”

Operating under these conditions requires intense concentration. Poulton found motivation in the idea that her missions were part of a larger whole — a world-spanning network in which troops, equipment, and aircraft sustained operations from the US all the way to the most remote and dangerous corners of Afghanistan. “We know that the mission we’re on is part of a bigger mission,” she says.

The US military is vast and interconnected, and civilian life can feel limited and isolating in contrast. Poulton retired from the military in 2013, and said the key to her transition after two decades in the Air Force was finding a company where she felt she could make a difference — and then finding a specific mission within it. 

She ended up in BP’s communications’ department not long after she left the Air Force and when the 2010 Gulf Oil spill was still fresh in the public's mind. She found a company eager to make things right — and with a social conscience that she says appealed to her after her 20 years of military service. She found that it was receptive to changing its strategy towards recruiting veterans, and promoting the role of veterans within the company. 

“It was really important for me to continue feeling like I’m part of something bigger,” she said. At BP, she’s tried to promote the idea that veterans have more private-sector skills than civilians realize — that veterans have leadership, technical, and organizational abilities that are useful outside of a military context. “I want to make sure I’m using the voice and the power and the reach of this company to really elevate the narrative about veterans,” she says.

Poulton isn’t just a veteran, but a pilot as well. Veterans may have skills and experiences that most Americans lack. And pilots in particular have a different view of reality than people who have never taken control of an aircraft, Poulton explains.

“Pilots are thinking about how we fit the overall flow of everything, not just our little piece of the sky or the ground,” she says. “You’re thinking about the whole big picture, all the time.”

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Bobby Holland Hanton is a stunt double for Daniel Craig, Chris Hemsworth, and Channing Tatum, among others. As such, he's done some crazy things in his lifetime, but Hanton told INSIDER about his craziest stunt to date — the one that launched his career.

The first stunt Hanton ever performed was for a scene in the Bond movie "Quantum of Solace," in which Bond jumps from one balcony to another.

The stunt was filmed in Panama at 2am, and Hanton did the jump without any wires, and without any safety below. It was a risky move, but Hanton says it was his make-or-break moment, and his chance to prove that he was capable of performing high-level stunts.

Clearly, the risk paid off.

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An ultra-rare, one-of-a-kind Patek Phillipe watch sold at the Only Watch auction in Switzerland for a jaw-dropping $7.26 million this weekend. 

It's the most expensive wristwatch ever sold in the public eye, according to Stephen Pulvirent at Bloomberg.

The estimate for the watch going into the auction was only $698,000 - $898,000, which the final price exceeded by nearly a factor of 10.

The model is a variation on Patek Phillipe's 5016 model, except that it's made with a stainless steel casing. The handsome watch includes a blue face and a few other interesting features, including a tourbillon which stabilizes the watch against the forces of gravity, a minute repeater which will chime the time on-demand, and a calendar that takes leap years into account.

Phillipes frequently dominate the lists of the most expensive watches ever sold, and they're highly sought after by collectors as investment pieces.

The Only Watch auction happens every year in Geneva, Switzerland. Ultra-high-end Swiss watchmakers donate rare and unique editions of their watches to be auctioned off, with the proceeds aiding the fight against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This year's event auctioned off 44 watches and clocks and raised a total of $11.2 million for charity.

However, the $7.26 million price tag still can't touch the price of the most expensive regular watch ever sold: the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication, a vintage pocket watch that sold at auction for $24 million last year.

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Visiting a top-notch pub is an essential part of the British experience, and many can be found in London.

Some of London's best pubs have fascinating histories as the favored drinking destinations of figures like Charles Dickens, George Orwell, and John Keats.

Others boast incredible locations and an inviting atmosphere. 

Whether you're a local or just visiting, here are 17 incredible pubs you'll want to check out in London.

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The Star Tavern

6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia

The Star Tavern has hosted the likes of Peter O'Toole, Diana Dors, Albert Finney, and Alexandra Korda, and it's said that one of the biggest heists in London's recent history — The Great Train Robbery — was planned here. 

Today the pub serves as a friendly and comfortable place where visitors will find a wide selection of drinks and an array of hearty dishes to pair them with.

The Dog and Duck

18 Bateman Street, Soho

The Dog and Duck originally opened in 1734, hosting the likes of John Constable, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and George Orwell.

Though the present pub was built in 1897, its interior is considered one of the most stunning in London.

Lamb and Flag

33 Rose Street, Covent Garden

This historic pub stood as a favorite watering hole for Charles Dickens since its first mention in 1772.  

In the early 19th century, it acquired a reputation for bare-knuckle fighting, earning it the nickname, "The Bucket of Blood." Today it hosts a friendly environment while maintaining its old-school charm.

Been to a bar lately? What's old is new again, from the barman's bow tie to the prohibition era drinks. 

And while it's true that the 1920s and early '30s gave us iconic cocktails like the Tom Collins and the Sidecar, the period between 1860 and the start of prohibition was the real golden age of cocktails. 

During this gin-soaked heyday, drinks like the Martini and the Daiquiri were born, and America's first bartender's guide was produced by Jerry Thomas, a New Yorker and the widely regarded father of mixology, in 1863.

Similar tomes, such as Albert Barnes' "The Complete Bartender" and Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia," followed in 1884 and 1903, respectively. We leafed through both books and found 10 forgotten gems that deserve a second shake. 

Note that old timey measurements are translated and a few slight tweaks have been made for the modern home mixologist. Where Barnes and Daly call for 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar, half an ounce of simple syrup can be substituted for a smoother sip. 

Milk Punch 
From Albert Barnes' "The Complete Bartender"

1 tbsp. sugar (Demerara is best)
4 oz. brandy
2 oz. dark or spiced rum 
6 oz. milk
Nutmeg

Add first three ingredients to a cocktail shaker and stir to combine. Top with milk and cracked ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass and top with grated nutmeg. 

Champagne Cobbler  
From Albert Barnes' "The Complete Bartender"

2 orange wheels
3-4 fresh berries
1 tbsp. sugar 
Champagne 

Muddle fruit and sugar in a rocks glass until well combined. Fill glass halfway with crushed ice, top with Champagne, and "stir well and ornament with fruit, berries, etc. in season."

Whiskey Smash 
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

1 tbsp. sugar 
4 oz. seltzer water 
2-3 mint sprigs 
4 oz. whiskey

Add first three ingredients to a mixing glass and stir until mint is nicely bruised. Add cracked ice and whiskey and stir until combined. Strain into a "fancy stem glass" or coupe and garnish with fruit. 

American Velvet
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

"One of the good ones, where the cost is not to be considered and the best ingredients should be used." — Daly

Champagne
Guinness

Fill a Champagne flute halfway with the beer, top with Champagne, and stir. (You can also reverse the order and leave it unstirred; this is called a Black Velvet.)

Hot Brandy Sling 
From Albert Barnes' "The Complete Bartender"

1 cube sugar 
4 oz. brandy 
lemon peel
Boiling water 
Nutmeg

Add first three ingredients to a mug, top with boiling water, and stir. Garnish with grated nutmeg. 

Tuxedo Cocktail
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

2 dashes orange bitters
2 dashes maraschino liqueur 
2 oz. French vermouth
2 oz. gin
1 tsp. maple syrup 

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with cracked ice and stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a cherry and a lemon twist. 

Mamie Taylor 
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

"The foregoing offers a pleasing form for a person to partake of whiskey without feeling the harsh effect that plain whiskey would have, and imparts the same stimulating effect." — Daly 

1/2 lime, juiced 
4 oz. Scotch 
Ginger ale

Build in a rocks glass with a few cubes of ice and stir to combine. 

Coffee Cobbler 
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

1 oz. brandy
1 tbsp. sugar 
1 oz. heavy cream 
Black coffee (cold brew or room temperature is best, in our opinion)

Stir brandy and sugar in a rocks glass until combined. Add in heavy cream and top with ice. Fill glass with coffee and stir well to combine.  

Banker's Punch
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia"

"This is much sought after by bankers and brokers and considered by them unequalled." — Daly 

3 dashes raspberry syrup
1 tbsp. powdered sugar, dissolved in a bit of seltzer water 
1 lime, juiced 
4 oz. whiskey
1 oz. Jamaican rum
4-5 raspberries
4-5 blackberries
1 slice pineapple

Muddle fruit in the bottom of a rocks glass and set aside. Add remaining ingredients to a mixing glass with ice, stir until combined, and strain into the rocks glass with fruit. 

Tim & Jack 
From Tim Daly's "Bartender's Encyclopedia" 

"This is the most recent cold weather resuscitator, and as a nourishing stimulant is unsurpassed." — Daly

1 tbsp. cocoa powder
1 tbsp. sugar, dissolved in a bit of hot water
1 1/2 oz. Cognac
1 1/2 oz. dark or spiced rum
Warm milk

Build in a mug, whisking first four ingredients until combined and topping with warm milk.  

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On the eve of the release of his new album, "Purpose," Justin Bieber is having the best year of his career. "What Do You Mean?" is his first song to ever hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and "Sorry" would have been the second if it hadn't come out on the same day as Adele's first single in three years.

This isn't a case of Bieber simply growing up — he's been grown up for a while, and his last two albums were both solidly post-teeny bopper. "Journals" in particular was a bona fide R&B album that fell outside the pop mainstream.

So no, this isn't our first look at "adult" Bieber, but it is our first look at a Bieber that's tailoring his sound for mainstream pop. Bieber changed his sound this year, producing dance-pop in the vein of the "tropical house" genre that grew out of electronic dance music, and is a mix of electro and Caribbean vibes.

This transition was facilitated by none other than Skrillex, the electronic music mastermind who has become a close Bieber collaborator. He put Bieber on "Where Are U Now?," and the unlikely dance hit introduced the ex-tween sensation to a brand new audience. Skrillex went on to produce four songs on "Purpose."

Bieber is now running with this new sound, and taking over the world in the process.

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Everyone gets hungry, but the way we satisfy that hunger can differ from country to country.

In Japan, a snack means dried crabs, while people in the Netherlands enjoy stroopwafels, cookie-like waffles filled with syrup.

Expedia created an infographic that shows some of the most popular snack foods in 15 countries around the world.

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Matt Prior takes adventure to a new level.

A member of the prestigious Explorers Club, his past endeavors have included circumnavigating Lake Baikal on a WWII-era Russian motorbike, traveling across Sri Lanka in a rickshaw, and even participating in a Guinness World Record-setting taxi journey at 17,143 feet. 

He wanted to find a way to ignite a passion for exploring in others, so he founded Matt Prior Adventure Academy, a one-week course that teaches people how to conquer and enjoy extreme travel experiences. He exposes travelers to the joy of traveling off the beaten path, taking them through hidden villages, breathtaking volcanoes, and glistening hot springs. 

The course costs $3,995 per person, not including hotel accommodations and international flights. 

We've put together a collection of images from his amazing adventures so that you can see what a course with the Matt Prior Adventure Academy is like. 

For the full collection, visit his Instagram or Flickr account.

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Prior's first real adventure began almost a decade ago, when he and a friend drove from London to Mongolia and back in a $180 1.0L car. "It completely turned our worlds upside down and showed us what was out there," Prior said.

In 2010, Prior and two friends who were pilots in the Royal Air Force decided to fly to India, where they would buy and legalize their own rickshaw. The plan was for them to head from Kerala, on the southern tip of India, all the way to the Himalayas in Nepal.

The trip took four weeks in total, and Prior was surprised that they were able to make it without a single technical difficulty. "I still can't quite believe it to this day," Prior told us. "The fact that [the rickshaw] is only designed for short one- to two-kilometer journeys, not for going long distance up into the Himalayas, makes it all the more impressive."

Will Smith's controversial new film, "Concussion," explores a real cover-up in the NFL.

Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered a deadly brain trauma that many NFL players were suffering from. 

At the film's premiere, Smith discussed the biggest revelation in "Concussion."

According to Smith, "The thing that was a revelation for me with this is that it's not really the big hits that are the problem, it's definitely an issue, but more the issue is the repetitive head trauma."

"One of the statistics in the film is that by Dr. Omalu's calculations, Mike Webster sustained more than 70,000 blows to his head from the time he was a young man through his high school and college, and his 18-year professional career," Smith said. "So the repetitive head trauma is more the issue, and that's sort of the revelation that comes out in the film."

"Concussion" comes out in theaters on December 25th, 2015.

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Love is mysterious, but it's probably not destiny.

According to the research, your hormones, interests, and upbringing all help determine who you fall for — and who falls for you.

Since your partner plays a significant role in your long-term health, happiness, and even your career prospects, we've scoured the studies and collected some of the psychological reasons two people click.

This is an updated version of an article originally written by Maggie Zhang.

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If you're really, really alike

Decades of studies have shown that the cliché that "opposites attract" is totally off.

"Partners who are similar in broad dispositions, like personality, are more likely to feel the same way in their day-to-day lives," said Gian Gonzaga, lead author of a study of couples who met on eHarmony. "This may make it easier for partners to understand each other."

If you look like their opposite-sex parent

University of St Andrews psychologist David Perrett and his colleagues found that some people are attracted to folks with the same hair and eye color of their opposite-sex parents, as well as the age range they saw at birth.  

"We found that women born to 'old' parents (over 30) were less impressed by youth, and more attracted to age cues in male faces than women with 'young' parents (under 30)," the authors wrote. "For men, preferences for female faces were influenced by their mother's age and not their father's age, but only for long-term relationships."

If you smell right

A University of Southern California study of women who were ovulating suggested that some prefer the smell of t-shirts worn by men with high levels of testosterone.

This matched with other hormone-based instincts: Some women also preferred men with a strong jaw line when they were ovulating. 

Luxury shoppers are highly coveted customers for brands and retailers. The top 10% of US household earners (those taking home $120,000 or more annually) account for approximately half of all consumer expenditures.

This demographic’s growing preference for online shopping is changing the face of luxury retail, and it has significant implications for how brands target luxury consumers.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we profile the luxury shopper and take a close look at the spending habits and preferences of high-income earners — including how and where they shop.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• Discretionary spending among the wealthy is growing faster than for the average US consumer. Discretionary spending among those earning $120,000 a year or more is expected to increase 6.6% in 2016, reaching $406 billion, according to YouGov. Among the top 1%, it's expected to rise 10%. By contrast, discretionary spending for the average US consumer dropped 1% between 2014 and 2015.
• Wealthy consumers are expected to spend the most next year on fashion, travel, and dining. Among these categories, spending on fashion (specifically, apparel, accessories, and handbags) will grow the most, increasing 6.9% to $37.4 billion (roughly 9% of total discretionary spending). 
• Luxury brands are over-allocating ad spend to print media. The seven largest US luxury brands collectively spent $133 million last year on holiday ad spending, 57% of which was allocated to magazine ads, according to the Shullman Research Center. But among luxury shoppers, recall rates are higher for digital ads.
• There are signs that luxury shopping is less brand- and status-oriented than it once was. Luxury shoppers, like the average consumer, enjoy the convenience and low prices of online retailers like Amazon vs. shopping via official brand sites. Luxury shopping may become even more price-sensitive as millennials age. 

In full, the report:

• Sizes the market for personal luxury goods, by country.
• Measures the effectiveness of luxury marketing channels.
• Breaks down ad spend among luxury brands.
• Identifies where luxury consumers shop online and in-store.

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So much for an empty nest.

According to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center, a larger share of young women are now living at home with their parents or relatives than at any time in the past 70 years.

Looking at new data from the US Census Bureau, Pew researcher Richard Fry found a sharp rise in the percentage of young adults aged 18-34 moving back in with their parents in 2000, after decades of a slow rise. 

But it was highest among one group in particular: Women.

The rate of men moving back in with parents and other relatives is also on an upward trend, with about 42.8% of men ages 18-34 moving home as of 2014 (compared with 47.5% in 1940), but only the rate for women (36.4% in 2014) has eclipsed its 1940s figure of 36.2%. 

The data show young adults were the most independent in the 1960s, when only about 24% of men and women lived at home. Here's how the trend played out:

Fry told The New York Times that what he found most puzzling is that number of men and women opting to live at home is still going up despite being years from the Great Recession of 2008, considering how many jobs there are for young adults compared to right when the recession hit. 

"I’m still struggling with the economic explanation, since the labor market for young adults has improved in the last five years, and yet the percentage living with their family is still going up," he told The Times. "It seems to be somewhat decoupled from economics.”

Men and women are also getting married later in life, with the median age of first marriage for men 29, and women 27, which likely contributes to the number of young adults choosing to stay with family instead of living independently. 

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