Turns out mom was right. Chicken soup is good for a cold.

But it's not the only old-school remedy that scientists have actually found to be helpful.

Here are nine weird household tricks that you can really use to ward off pain, soothe a cold, calm a headache, and brighten your smile.

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Feeling a cold coming on? Try gargling with plain water. A study of close to 400 healthy volunteers found that those who gargled with plain water were significantly less likely to come down with upper-respiratory-tract infections (URTIs) — a type of infection often linked with colds and the flu — during the study period than those who didn't gargle. The researchers concluded that, "Simple water gargling was effective to prevent URTIs among healthy people."

So long as you don't have a punctured eardrum, you use this easy recipe from the Mayo Clinic to stop ear infections before they start. Simply combine one part white vinegar with one part rubbing alcohol, pour a teaspoon into each ear and let it drain back out. The mixture is designed to help stop the growth of bacteria and fungi that cause swimmer's ear.

If you tend to get motion sick on trips, try packing along a couple pieces of ginger candy. One study comparing people taking a placebo with those taking ginger found that just one gram of the root was helpful in alleviating symptoms of seasickness, morning sickness, and nausea induced by chemotherapy.

In general, ginger may also be helpful for relieving gas and indigestion, Stephen Hanauer, MD, a professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told Prevention.

The semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation restaurant and chef awards have been announced.

With more than 20,000 entries this year, the 27 semifinalists in the "Best New Restaurant" category are truly some of the country's best. Those named to this category opened in the calendar year before and display excellence in food, beverage, and service. The panel of judges expects these restaurants to "make a significant impact in years to come."

From creative Asian fusion cuisine in California to wood-fired pizzas in Mississippi, this list has it all. 

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Bastion (Nashville)

434 Houston Street, Nashville, Tennessee

Drifters Wife (Portland, Maine)

63 Washington Avenue, Portland, Maine

Esker Grove at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)

723 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota

New York Fashion Week is the biggest and best week of fashion. Every year hundreds of designers showcase their work in front of big name celebrities, as well as the leaders of the most important fashion magazines. They put it all on the line for a few minutes of fashion fame, and then start prepping for the following year. 

Many designers stick with what they know, but a few take big risks in the name of style. Jeremy Scott, Philipp Plein and Libertine, to name a few, are known for their outrageous looks, but they aren't the only ones who earned shock value this year. 

Here are the craziest looks of the fall 2017 ready-to-wear collections: 

1. Desigual has always been known for their wild prints and crazy combinations.

It was no surprise when they sent models down the runway in mixed prints topped with bright, fur hats. 

2. Libertine hasn't shied away from bold colors and big patterns in the past and Johnson Hartig didn't start to this season.

This crocheted poncho stood out, partially because it was paired with cheetah print leggings, floral shorts, and a fire-hot beanie. The go big or go home theme is more than clear. 

3. The Blonds sent down a pearl-covered model during their show at New York Fashion Week presented by MADE.

The ripped, fur-lined jeans were an interesting choice of bottoms for the almost elegant crop top.

The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta was an impressive car. But the new 812 Superfast is understandably more impressive. 

Maranello pulled the cover off the new top-of-the-line grand tourer on Thursday, in advance of an official debut at the Geneva Motor Show.

"This new car not only introduces a plethora of innovative features but is also particularly significant as the V12 series marked the official start of the glorious Prancing Horse story in 1947, 70 years ago this year," Ferrari said in a statement.

"The 812 Superfast thus ushers in a new era in Ferrari 12-cylinder history, in doing so building on the invaluable legacies of the F12berlinetta and F12tdf. It is aimed at clients demanding the most powerful and exclusive Ferrari in the range: an uncompromising sports car that will deliver exhilarating driving both on road and track yet also be comfortable enough to allow its owners to enjoy it as an all-round experience."

Let's have a look at this gorgeous Italian beast!

SEE ALSO: These are all the coolest features on the Ferrari 488 GTB

The F12 Berlinetta, now stepping aside so that we can enjoy ...

... the 812 Superfast. OK, the name is a little goofy. But this is the same company that gave us the Ferrari LaFerrari hypercar.

The look is sleeker and swoopier than the F12. 

"Designed by the Ferrari Styling Centre, the new 812 Superfast redefines the formal language of front-engined V12 Ferraris, underlining the car’s exceptional performance with very sporty lines and proportions," Ferrari said.

"Seen in silhouette, the 812 Superfast has a fastback sleekness: a two-box design with a high tail reminiscent of the glorious 365 GTB4 of 1969."

Overall, the design is more aggressive, yet still quite sexy. The 812's stonking V12 engine is slightly larger than the F12's, at 6.5 liters. Out is bumped to nearly 780 horsepower, a 20 hp boost over the F12tdf. The yields a 0-60 mph time of 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 211 mph. Vroom!

McDonald's Chicken McGriddle is the sandwich heard 'round the fast-food breakfast world.

When news emerged that it was being tested in Ohio, we took it upon ourselves to construct our own version to see what it might be like.

And with testing expanding to several states, it's more likely than ever that this savory breakfast creation will be the latest addition to the McDonald's breakfast menu.

We finally got our hands on an official Chicken McGriddle — here's what it's like. 

SEE ALSO: McDonald's mocks Jony Ive in this Apple product launch parody

The McDonald's inside Newark Penn Station in Newark, NJ, is testing the elusive Chicken McGriddle.

The sandwich — this captivating collision of salty, savory chicken and a sweet McGriddle bun — costs $1.99.

The smell alone is intoxicating, with the bun's maple sweetness mixing with the distinct aroma of hot fried chicken.

The INSIDER Summary:

• Photographer Paul Mobley traveled to every state to photograph people 100+ years old.
• Meeting the centenarians was inspiring, and they shared their secrets to longevity.
• Advice included owning a dog, never going to the doctor, and concoctions like drinking a beer and eating an apple at the same time.

As Paul Mobley traveled around the US to photograph homesteads for his book, "American Farmer," he was shocked to learn that many of the older family members he saw working out in the fields were over 100 years old.

"I took about 30,000 pictures for that farmer book, and by the time it was done, not only did I realize that I had quite a collection of centenarians, but I had really come to grow very fond of them," he told INSIDER.

He decided to make them the focus of his next book, driving across the country in a motor home to photograph centenarians in all 50 states. In "If I Live To Be 100: The Wisdom of Centenarians," each portrait includes a profile of the subject with charming stories from their youth and their advice for living past 100.

Mobley's task was daunting: to capture the story of over 100 years in a single portrait.

He chose to take the photographs in black and white, and keep them close in order to focus on the details in the person's face.

"How do you come up with a portrait that is moving and touches people when they look at it, when it's somebody who they've never met before?" he said. "That was really what I went in hoping to find, that spark or that twinkle in their eye as to what gave them such a long life."

Mobley, along with his wife and dog, would pull their motor home into small towns and visit local establishments.

He remembers meeting a woman in Rhode Island who invited him to join her for a doughnut and coffee at a shop she'd been going to every day for 60 years. When she turned 100, the shop awarded her free doughnuts for the rest of her life.

"It's that kind of stuff that made it so great, just being able to go into those towns, meet those people, see how they live," he said.

Driving around each place helped him get a feel for their hometowns.

"I'd always wanted to get in a motor home and drive across the country," he said. "I guess everybody kind of does."

Sometimes, his subjects would even get behind the wheel themselves.

"I had a 103-year-old drive my car, take me for a ride in our motor home. He says, 'I'll show you how to drive that car, sonny!'"

Facebook is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites on the internet. As such, the company has set up vast infrastructure to support its billion-plus users.

In 2011, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project as a way to openly share the designs for its data centers — "to spark a collaborative dialogue ... [and] collectively develop the most efficient computing infrastructure possible."

Starting in 2009, three Facebook employees dedicated themselves to custom-designing servers, server racks, power supplies, UPS units, and battery backup systems for the company's first data center in Prineville, Oregon. By 2011, Facebook's data center in Prineville used 38% less energy to do the same work as the company's other data centers at the time, while costing 24% less.

Since then, Facebook has improved on its data center designs and opened several more centers around the world: in North Carolina, Iowa, and Sweden, with new data centers coming soon to Texas, New Mexico, and Ireland.

With the help of Facebook and photographer Alan Brandt, we've compiled some photos to show off what Facebook's data centers look like from the inside and outside. And these are some really gorgeous-looking facilities.

Here's a look inside Facebook's data center in Forest City, North Carolina. The company launched this center in 2010.

Facebook began construction on its second data center in Lulea, Sweden, in March 2014.

Inside Lulea's first data center building, you can see Facebook's "vanity free" approach to design. For instance, there are no plastic bezels in front of its servers — something commonly found in other data centers — to allow those servers to draw in more air.

BMW is placing a bigger focus on tech in its all-new BMW 5-Series.

In addition to semi-autonomous features, the 2017 BMW 5-series comes with smart display systems and Amazon's digital assistant Alexa. The 5-series hits dealerships this month.

Scroll down for a closer look.

SEE ALSO: BMW has a wild vision of what vehicles will look like 100 years from now

BMW made a few design changes to the overall appearance of the car. It's 1.2 inches longer to increase legroom in the back, and the headlights now flow into the kidney grille.

The new BMW 5-series also offers increased trunk capacity at 18.7 cubic feet. The car comes in 13 different colors.

All of the seats in the new 5-Series have eight different massage programs, each with three different intensity modes.

Mercedes' electric truck will hit German roads this year.

In September, Mercedes-Benz showed off its all-electric truck in Hannover, Germany at a tradeshow for commercial vehicles. The unveiling came just a few months after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in his "Master Plan, Part Deux" that Tesla will unveil an electric semi truck in 2017 for hauling freight.  

Mercedes is currently talking to 20 potential customers to trial its electric truck on German roads this year, according to a Wednesday press release.

Scroll down for a closer look at the truck:

SEE ALSO: Volkswagen's 'revolutionary' electric concept car could steal the Paris Motor Show

Meet the Urban eTruck: a fully electric truck designed specifically for city driving that has a range of 124 miles.

That may not seem like a lot of range, but considering the truck designed for package or cargo delivery within cities, it's enough to complete a day's worth of routes, Mercedes said.

The truck runs on three lithium-ion batteries that are part of a modular design, so an operator can add an extra battery pack to bump up that 124-mile limit.

When it comes to naming their kids, celebrities often don't follow the same rules as everyone else.

While non-famous people tend to name their kids normal things like "Jacob" and "Emily," actors, musicians, and other artists think it's part of their life's mission to be creative and push boundaries. Stuart Fischoff, a psychologist who's worked with clients in Hollywood, told The New York Times, giving your child a normal name would be a betrayal of that goal.

"They're expressing their creativity, and they're also expressing their fear,"Fischoff told the Times. "It would be very embarrassing for people to think of them as normal."

Here are 38 sets of celebrity children with the most unusual names, ranked in order of unusualness.

52. Zephyr Emerson Parker

Celebrity parents: Entrepreneur Sean and singer-songwriter Alexandra Parker

Explanation given: "Zephyr" is the Greek term for "Western wind," or "light wind," which plays a pivotal role in the ancient Greek epic "The Odyssey." They could have also been trying to honor academic and political activist Zephyr Teachout. It's not really clear.

51 and 50. Scout and Rumer Willis

Celebrity parents: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Explanation given: The children's names are both literary. Rumer is named after the English novelist Rumer Godden, most famous for "Black Narcissus." Scout was named after the main character of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

49. Rocket Zot Worthington

Celebrity parents: "Avatar" actor Sam Worthington and model Laura Bingle

Explanation given: Worthington's father, Ronald, was nicknamed "Zot,"according to Page Six. No word on "Rocket."

Annoying your coworkers — while never a good idea — is one thing. But annoying your boss with your unprofessional habits could cost you your job.

To help you avoid letting your bad habits get the best of you, we asked experts to highlight some of the least professional behaviors you could demonstrate at work that will put your job on the line.

Here are 24 things you could be doing all wrong that may make your boss think you're not right for the job:

SEE ALSO: 24 unprofessional habits that could cost you a job

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Showing up late to work

"Punctuality is critical,"Rosalinda Oropeza Randall, an etiquette and civility expert and the author of "Don't Burp in the Boardroom," tells Business Insider.

"The professional thing to do is to arrive on time, ready to do what is expected. It's not like they just sprung this job on you," she says.

Rolling in 10 minutes late to every meeting

Similarly, showing up late to meetings shows that you neither respect your coworkers — who showed up on time, by the way — nor the meeting organizer, Vicky Oliver, author of "301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions" and "Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots," tells Business Insider.

"Keeping people waiting can be construed as inconsiderate, rude, or arrogant," Randall says.

Being negative all the time

Repeatedly responding to suggestions with a pessimistic or contrary attitude can be construed as being uncooperative, Randall says. Phrases like "That won't work,""That sounds too hard," or, "I wouldn't know how to start," should be avoided.

Similarly, complaining too much puts you in a bad light.

"While there may be times when everyone feels the desire to complain about the boss, a coworker, or a task, voicing it will only make you look unprofessional," Randall says. "It's even worse if you complain every day, all day, from the moment you walk into work. Before long, people will go out of their way to avoid you."

"There's nothing as energy-draining as having to deal with a pessimistic coworker," Rosemary Haefner, chief human-resources officer for CareerBuilder, tells Business Insider. "Things do go wrong, but even when they do, focus your energy towards what you've learned from a bad situation."

She points to a recent CareerBuilder survey, which shows that a majority of employers — 62% — say they are less likely to promote employees who have a negative or pessimistic attitude.

Americans prefer to flock to the South when they want a change of scenery. 

The truck-rental company Penske found that Atlanta was again the top city that people moved to in 2016. Florida and Texas were the only two states that had multiple cities on the list.  

While some of the moves would have been to rented properties, new home sales in the South have outpaced the rest of the country since 2010, as land is cheaper. 

Penske compiled the list based on one-way rental reservations. 

Here's the full list in ascending order:

"Burgers shouldn't cost $3," the website for Super Duper Burgers proudly declares.

The San Francisco Bay Area fast-food burger chain has garnered a cult following for its extra juicy, double-patty burgers that cost $8.50 with cheese. The company says it sources ingredients within miles of its restaurants.

The chain is now looking to grow its fan base by expanding from 10 locations to 13 by early 2018. Super Duper Burgers also said in a recent statement that it was in preliminary talks to launch international outposts, though we don't know where yet.

Here's what it's like to eat at Super Duper Burgers, a favorite Bay Area fast-food chain.

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You've probably never heard of Super Duper Burgers, but San Franciscans named the regional fast-food chain their "Tastiest Cheap Eat" in a 2016 Reader's Choice awards.

Source: 7x7

"Cheap" is relative. On a rainy weekday afternoon, I stopped by one of the chain's 10 locations in the Bay Area to see whether its $8 burger lives up to the hype.

The menu is pretty straightforward. There's a burger (that comes in two different sizes), a chicken sandwich, a veggie burger, and fries served plain or topped with garlic and cheese.

Whether you're looking for a celebratory weekend getaway or planning to relocate permanently, it's likely that you'll want to find a city that offers plenty of fun activities, but doesn't break the bank.

With the help of WalletHub's 2016 Most fun cities in America ranking, we've come up with a list of 15 cities that are both fun and affordable.

To determine it's original ranking, WalletHub compared the 150 largest US cities based on 51 key metrics, ranging from number of fitness centers per capita to movie costs to number of music venues per capita. Each city was scored on three categories: entertainment and recreation, nightlife and parties, and costs. (Read more about their methodology here.)

To compile our ranking, we averaged the cities' overall score and costs score — a category made up of 10 metrics, including average beer price, average food price, movie costs, and bowling costs. The cities with the lowest averages made it to the top of our list.

Below, check out 15 US cities where you can have a blast on the cheap.

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14. Kansas City, Missouri

Average beer price (6-pack): $8.04

Average pizza price: $8.16

Average movie ticket: $9.15

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $60

(TIE) 13. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Average beer price (6-pack): $8

Average pizza price: $9

Average movie ticket: $10.18

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $82

(TIE) 13. Buffalo, New York

Average beer price (6-pack): $7.99

Average pizza price: $8.66

Average movie ticket: $10.16

Price for a 3-star hotel room: $93

Many Silicon Valley transplants leave their hacker houses or shoe-box apartments in the morning and climb aboard shuttle buses to work. Anna Sweet, a Facebook employee, and her husband Nate Salpeter, a nuclear energy engineer, commute from their farm.

The prospect of juggling careers in tech and farming didn't faze the husband-wife team when they opened Sweet Farm, an animal sanctuary and non-profit organization, in 2016. The farm promotes the humane treatment of animals by providing a loving home for livestock saved from meat markets. Sweet and Salpeter also work to educate visitors about the many places from which their food comes and encourage them to lead more livestock-friendly lifestyles.

We visited the Half Moon Bay, California, sanctuary to see what life is like there.

SEE ALSO: Inside the Bill Gates-backed startup on a mission to reinvent meat

Anna Sweet develops content partnerships for Facebook's social virtual reality team. Before she heads to the tech giant's campus in the morning, she joins Nate in their front yard.

Around 6:30, it's breakfast time for their animals. The couple owns about four dozen chickens, three goats, three dogs, three sheep, a cow, a horse, and several feral cats.

Walking around the 12-acre farm, they introduce their fuzzy and feathered friends by name.

Some girls just have the most beautiful, perfectly curated Instagram feeds.

Ever wondered how they do it?

The answer is: boyfriends. Loyal, subservient boyfriends.

Apparently, some women have trained theirs into acting like personal photographers. And while their Instagram feeds look flawless, taking a step back makes for less curated — and more hilarious — images.

A Facebook page called "Boyfriends of Instagram" shows the dark underbelly of those beautiful, envy inducing snaps, as well the poor schmucks behind them.

Keep scrolling for some of the more cringe-inducing ones.

SEE ALSO: Here are the only 15 accounts Donald Trump follows on Instagram

What, you don't randomly bust out yoga poses at the beach?

This is totally natural.

This guy is working hard to get just the right angle.

The INSIDER Summary:

• Jen Glantz has been asked to be a bridesmaid so many times that she made it her career.
• As a professional bridesmaid, she acts as the bride's personal assistant and peacekeeper.
• She's been to over 30 weddings and wrote a memoir called "Always a Bridesmaid (for Hire)."

 
Move over, Katherine Heigl. Jen Glantz has been to over 30 weddings as a bridesmaid — and has the closet full of dresses to prove it. But unlike those of us who shell out money as part of a bridal party for shower gifts, bachelorette parties, and color-coordinated dresses we'll only wear once, Glantz brings it in as a professional bridesmaid.

What started as a snarky Craigslist post advertising her services is now a full-fledged business. Bridesmaid for Hire offers instructional courses for bridesmaids and maids-of-honor, wedding coaching for brides, and day-of coordination to make sure everything is taken care of on the big day. It may seem like a glamorous job, but she had enough war stories to fill a memoir called "Always a Bridesmaid (for Hire)."

Glantz spoke to INSIDER about why she loves walking down the aisle for complete strangers and what she imagines her own wedding might look like. (Hint: it involves Papa John's Pizza.)

When two of Jen Glantz's friends asked her to be a bridesmaid in one night, something snapped.

Her roommate remarked that she was becoming a professional bridesmaid, which sparked the idea to post an ad on Craigslist offering her expertise.

"I decided to take a crazy idea and bring it to a crazy place," she said.

The ad reads:

When all my friends started getting engaged - I decided to make new friends. So I did - but they got engaged also and for what felt like the hundredth time, I was asked to be a bridesmaid.

This year alone, I’ve been a bridesmaid 4 times. That’s 4 different chiffon dresses, 4 different bachelorette parties filled with tequila shots and guys in thong underwear twerking way too close to my face, 4 different pre-wedding pep talks to the bride about how this is the happiest day of her life and marriage, probably, is just like riding a bike: a little shaky at first but then she’ll get the hang of it.

Right, she'll ask as she wipes off the mascara stained tears from her perfectly airbrushed face. Right, I'll say though I don't really know, I only know what I've seen and that's a beautiful looking bride walking down, down, down the aisle one, two, three, four times so far this year.

So let me be there for you, this time if:

- You don’t have any other girlfriends except your third cousin, twice removed, who is often found sticking her tongue down an empty bottle of red wine.
- Your fiance has an extra groomsman and you’re looking to even things out so your pictures don’t look funny and there’s not one single guy walking down the aisle by himself
- You need someone to take control and make sure bridesmaid #4 buys her dress on time and doesn’t show up 3 hours late the day of the wedding or paint her nails lime green.

Bridesmaid skills I'm exceptionally good at:

- Holding up the 18 layers of your dress so that you can pee with ease on your wedding day.
- Catching the bouquet and then following that moment up with my best Miss America-like “Omg, I can’t believe this” speech.
- Doing the electric and the cha cha slide.
- Responding in a timely manner to pre-wedding email chains created by other bridesmaids and the Maid of Honor.

She received hundreds of messages from brides all over the world asking if the ad was real and if they could hire her.

You can learn a lot from a tweet.

Especially if that tweet is from New York Times columnist, author, and financial planner Carl Richards.

He's made a career out of exposing and analyzing what he calls the "behavior gap"— the gap between what you should do with your money and what you actually do.

In his "napkin sketches," he boils these insights down to a few drawn lines that are simple enough to fit on a napkin. He's gathered many of these in his books, and via his site, Behavior Gap. In anticipation of his next book, on overcoming imposter syndrome, he's also launching a free email course on November 1.

Below, take a look at nine sketches Richards has shared with his 24,000 Twitter followers, covering everything from psychology to financial advisers to why there's no such thing as a dumb question about money.

SEE ALSO: Learn everything you need to know about personal finance from 11 simple sketches

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In an episode of Behavior Gap Radio,Richards explains a recent realization: "Any time there is extra — time, money, or energy — I spend it. You know what I mean? I don't reinvest it."

He refers to this extra as "slack in the system," and explains that it applies equally to energy, time, and money. When there's a day off, a rest, or a budget surplus, he's always viewed it as a reward. 

"I realized that space in the schedule, blocks of unstructured time, is not a reward for doing good work," he says. "If you want to do good work for a long career, it's not a reward, it's a prerequisite. You have to build slack into the system in order to continue to do creative work for the long haul."

When it comes to money, Richards says, traditional budgeting advice usually revolves around creating scarcity: making the most of every dollar, keeping your checking account low to keep you afraid of overspending. However, building some slack into that system, realizing that "just because it's there doesn't mean it has to be spent," Richards says, "was a huge breakthrough for me."

"Next time you find yourself with a little bit of slack in your system," he advises, "you could do two things: You could say, 'Ok, this is what I've worked so hard for. It's a reward. I'm going to take a day off.' But I think you should flip it on its head and say, 'I've got to take this time. This slack has to be in the system, as a prerequisite for continuing to do the type of work I do.'"

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"While humility is a virtue in all parts of life, when it comes to making smart decisions with money, it serves as a vital layer of protection," Richards writes in The New York Times. "When it comes to our money, there are no dumb questions."

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Richards writes in The New York Times that when a friend asked his advice on how to invest so the money would definitely be there in three to five years, when it was time to buy a new house, Richards advised keeping it out of the market — and his friend felt that it was "wrong" to work so hard for that money and then let it "sit there doing nothing."

Reflecting on this reaction, Richards writes:

"In a situation like this one, it's helpful to recall and repeat Mark Twain's advice to be more concerned with the return of our money than the return on our money. For things that are really important and less than five years away, like buying a house or taking a big trip, the return doesn't matter. All we care about is making sure the money is there when the time comes.

"So I'm over the idea that a big pile of money has to generate a big return. We could invest that money, but we'd also have to accept that three years from now, all the money might not be there. Any investment could come back later, but maybe not in time for the big, emotional goal we set. I'm betting at that moment, we'd feel even worse about less money or no money than no gain."

Astronauts have a problem: a bathroom problem.

Bulky spacesuits force them to either hold their urine and feces, possibly for up to 12 hours, or use a diaper. Aside from fasting, there really is no other option.

But the future of going potty in space suddenly looks pretty practical thanks to the ingenuity of Dr. Thatcher Cardon, a 49-year-old family doctor, flight surgeon, and USAF colonel who lives in Del Rio, Texas.

Space agencies are looking to send people to the moon, asteroids, and even Mars, so adventurous humans will need to use the restroom in space — which is why HeroX and NASA teamed up to launch the Space Poop Challenge.

On Wednesday, the contest's organizers announced that Dr. Cardon had won the $15,000 first-prize for his prototype invention.

"You need to plan for emergencies. If a small meteor puts hole in the Orion spacecraft, for example, astronauts might have to spend six days in their suits until they can get back to Earth, or they can fix the hole," Dr. Cardon tells Business Insider. "There was no option inside of a spacesuit for feces, except for a diaper, until now."

Dr. Cardon shared photos and video with Business Insider of his incredible solution — called the MACES Perineal Access and Toileting System (M-PATS) — to this decades-old problem.

Here's how his invention works and why it just might revolutionize space travel.

SEE ALSO: 8 weird things that happen to your body if you live in space for a year

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Going to the bathroom in space is no fun, even if you have access to a toilet.

The Space Shuttle had a toilet, for example, but it required intense training with a below-the-seat video camera to master and avoid making a mess.

Early astronauts did so in bags in the middle of their space capsules.

The INSIDER Summary: 

• Many Disney movie sequels are made to capitalize on the success of a popular title and end up being bad. 
• "Bambi,""Peter Pan" and "Cars" should have been left alone after the original came out. 

For many of us, the name “Disney” is synonymous with nostalgia and childhood. If you’ve grown up in the past eighty years (so, the vast majority of you), the chances are pretty high that you’ve been exposed to at least one of the now 56 film-strong line of their “animated classics” or any other number of their family-friendly entertainment ventures. The House of Mouse has been such a huge presence in our early years that it’s completely understandable that people feel so strongly about their output. As the media-savvy readers we know you guys are, you’ll also know that nostalgia is big business. Disney knows this too, and they’ve found all sorts of ways to sell your own childhood back to you.

As the perceptive amongst you will have already worked out, we’re talking about the really bad Disney movies that were made to capitalize on the success of a popular title and ended up not only being bad, but sometimes even ended up taking the shine off their source material – one of the worst sins a sequel can commit. The notion that children will watch anything is true to a certain extent, but that’s no excuse for some of the low-effort dross released in the past that masqueraded as youth entertainment. With the intent to name and shame some of the biggest culprits, here are the 15 Worst Disney Sequels Of All Time.

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15. "Cars 2" (2011)

The Cars franchise is the black sheep of the Disney/Pixar stable. The first movie was decidedly average and debatably didn’t possess the same magical spark that Pixar films usually have. Critical reception was lukewarm at best, so why was a sequel greenlit? Well, it’s possible that Disney didn’t hear any of the negative feedback over the constant sounds of checkout tills ringing. The movie made decent bank at the box office, but in the five years between movies, the merchandise made a staggering 10 billion dollars, smashing previous retail records into a fine powder.

Pixar co-founder and Cars 1 and 2 co-writer/director John Lasseter refuted the claims that the sequel was purely made because of merchandising opportunities, but it’s tempting to look at it as a reason behind the movie’s shortcomings. Whereas the first was centered on Radiator Springs, Cars 2 opts for a globetrotting adventure courtesy of a tired (no pun intended) spy caper. Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) are whisked around the world and meet a suspiciously high number of new and marketable friends along the way. Had the movie had Pixar’s usual strong tenets of story and character, it might have felt less hollow, but these elements were noticeably absent.

Cars 2 isn’t the worst Disney sequel by a long shot, but as it stands, it’s the only title in Pixar’s vast and impressive back catalog rated as “Rotten” on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. With the surprisingly mature trailer for the forthcoming Cars 3 making a few waves recently, it seems like the franchise may be moving away from disposable silliness and getting back to the compelling storytelling we all know Pixar is capable of.

14. "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011)

To be honest, there’s a case to be made for any of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels to appear on here, with On Stranger Tides or At World’s End being the two least liked. The deciding factor for us ended up being the Rotten Tomatoes score, with Stranger Tides rocking a paltry 32%, making it the lowest rated of the franchise. To its credit, the movie does make an effort to step away from the convoluted tangle of plots left by the first two sequels, but makes the mistake of centering everything on Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).

Don’t get us wrong, Captain Jack is awesome, but he needs to be balanced. Some may have felt that Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann were one-dimensional characters, but they evened out the movies well when coupled with Jack’s antics. When there’s nothing but Sparrow, one character has to do the pratfalling and the serious emotional lifting the story requires, and it doesn’t really work. Factor in the fact that Ian McShane’s cool looking Blackbeard is given practically nothing to do for the entire film, and you end up with an underwhelming high seas escapade that bore all the hallmarks of a studio not quite knowing how to proceed with the story after the series’ big blowout of a third act. Here’s hoping the upcoming Pirates sequel Dead Men Tell No Tales steers the series back on track and gives us a similarly fun experience to the still-great first movie.

13. "Bambi II" (2006)

The Bambi movies hold a world record for the longest time between sequels, with a whole 64 years passing between installments. The sequel is actually more of a “midquel”, picking up around halfway through the original after the unlucky fawn has lost his mother to callous huntsmen. The film follows Bambi’s quest to win the approval of his father, the Great Prince of the Forest (voiced by the brilliant Patrick Stewart).

Bambi II does at least try several new things, but it’s a challenge to get over how unnecessary it all is. People who saw the original Bambi will know how the fawn’s story ends, and the sequel does little to justify itself as anything more than filler with a recognizable name slapped on the front. Bambi II isn’t the worst offender on this list by any stretch. Unlike some of the other entries, it’s clear that actual effort went into the production of the movie, with the art, animation, and songs doing their very best to match the original’s style and tone. It’s just a shame they chose such a shrug-worthy story to marry all that work to.