With musings on the Fed taper murdering bonds and confusing stocks, investors have been parsing the markets for signs of life.

Markets have been crazy volatile as of late, with scary swings in the Dow. 

But that doesn't mean that there aren't a few attractive bets out there.

Morgan Stanley recently published its list of Best Ideas from around the world, and the list included seven stocks from North America.

Calpine

Ticker:CPN

Price Target:$29.50

P/E ratio:33.2

EPS CAGR:136.8%

Industry:Energy

Source: Morgan Stanley

Canadian Pacific Railways

Ticker:CP

Price Target:$140.00

P/E ratio:19.4

EPS CAGR:40.1%

Industry:Transportation

Source: Morgan Stanley

CBS Corporation

Ticker:CBS

Price Target:$51.00

P/E ratio:15.2

EPS CAGR:14.8%

Industry:Media

As America's number 1-ranked network, CBS' stock has enjoyed a major recovery since 2009 lows. And ordered by market capitalization, CBS recently overtook the #130 spot from Yahoo! in the S&P 500.

Source: Morgan Stanley

With the Food Network, Wal-mart, and even Diabetes drug company Novo Nordisk severing ties Paula Deen, major brand partnerships look dire for the shamed celebrity chef.

But just because Deen's cookbooks are being thrown in the clearance bins at local Duane Reades doesn't mean that every company is jumping on the drop-Deen bandwagon.

In spite of accusations of racism and using the N-word, Deen still has some (albeit smaller) corporate sponsors that are vocally showing their support.

Local food company Sandridge Foods voiced its "unwavering support."

The soup, salad, and fresh produce maker out of Medina, Ohio tweeted Paula Deen's infamous "I  is what I is and I'm not changing" Today Show quote to its 207 followers as a sign of its "proud' support of Deen.

“Paula is a very caring person who has spent the majority of her life helping the less privileged and giving back,” said Sandridge. “As an organization, we believe she and her team are on the right track and we look forward to continuing to work together.”

CEO Mark D. Sandridge believes she has proven "her genuine equality for all."

Springer Mountain Farms, which has been raising chickens for over 40 years, is nearing 7,000 likes in just one day for its post supporting Paula Deen.

Tasty Blend Foods was "very pleased" with her interview on The Today Show and "very saddened" that she was being judged for her past.

Tasty Blend Foods is a dry mix manufacturer for retail and foodservice products. It also appears to have a very religious foundation and posts bible quotes regularly on its Facebook page. (See right.)

The company released the statement Wednesday that:

"Tasty Blend Foods was very pleased with the Paula Deen interview given this morning on the Today Show. We appreciate her commitment and how she stepped up and apologized to her viewers, fans and the nation. We personally endorse Paula Deen and what she stands for. We are very saddened that she is being judged by her past, everyone has made a mistake sometime in their lives. We look forward to our continued partnership with her."

Google just announced this year's 15 finalists in the Google Science Fair. Projects include everything from cancer detection to environmental protection.

These kids are chosen from a pool of 90 semi-finalists. Five projects are chosen in each age group from all over the world — Canada, USA, Russia, Singapore, India, Greece, Turkey and Australia.

On September 23 the finalists will present their projects to an international panel of esteemed scientists for judging. The Grand Prize winner will receive a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, $50,000 in scholarship funding and more.

Elif Bilgin developed a way to use banana peels, instead of petroleum, to make bio-plastics.

Elif Bilgin has developed a way to use banana peels to make bio-plastics, instead of relying on traditional petroleum. She comes from Turkey, and is 16.

She wrote about the project:

In this project, I developed a method for making plastic by using banana peels and found new areas for the use of the plastic that I manufactured: using the bio-plastic in the making of cosmetic prosthesis and in the insulation of cables.

This project was done over a time period of 2 years. During this time period, I was able to succeed in my endeavor to manufacture plastic that can actually be used in daily life.

She was also crowned the Scientific American Science In Action winner, which honors a project that "makes a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge." She gets $50,000 and and a year’s worth of mentoring from Scientific American to help develop her project.

Her role model is Marie Curie.

Ann Makosinski made a flashlight that runs on body heat.

Ann Makosinski is a 16-year-old Canadian. For her project, she designed a flashlight that runs solely off of body heat. She describes her project:

Using four Peltier tiles and the temperature difference between the palm of the hand and ambient air, I designed a flashlight that provides bright light without batteries or moving parts. My design is ergonomic, thermodynamically efficient, and only needs a five degree temperature difference to work and produce up to 5.4 mW at 5 foot candles of brightness.

She's been inspired by Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, and Pandit Ravi Shankar.

Yi Xi Kang, Kwok Ling Yi, and Tricia Lim worked together to study liver scarring.

These three 16-year-old Singaporean girls studied how sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone help prevent and heal liver scarring. They studied rat liver cells in culture, treating them with the hormones to see if they could heal the inflamed cells.

They explain their motivations:

We hope that our contributions to scientific research can be used in real-life applications to improve patient welfare, as we believe each scientist has a duty to work towards the betterment of society.

PayPal announced "PayPal Galactic" today.

It's no less than a way to pay for things while you're in outer space. And no, it's not a joke.

Companies like Virgin and SpaceX are making space tourism a very real and viable thing. And futurists love to speculate about this stuff and add more fuel to the fire, hypothesizing about "space yachts" for people who fancy themselves the next Christopher Columbus, races around the moon, even new sports played in outer space.

During a press event this afternoon, company president David Marcus alluded to some of the more interesting problems to solve before PayPal Galactic becomes a practical reality. There are no IP addresses in space, for example. How do you record, track, and verify transactions without this basic element of online identity?

PayPal said very little of substance during this event. There were no details on timeframe, consumer expectations, how it will work, or any other pertinent details that would-be space travelers would surely want to know.

That said, Buzz Aldrin made an entertaining appearance and put forward the idea that there will be a permanent human presence on Mars within the next generation. If he's right, then PayPal Galactic could mean big business.

PayPal president David Marcus explained the idea of a space payments system in an introductory video.

Sean Casey of the Silicon Valley Space Center suggests that space commerce will soon extend far beyond tourism.

Dr. Frank Drake of the SETI Institute was on hand to explain why it's important to pay attention to space. He showed this graphic of countless previously-unknown planetary systems that have presented themselves as candidates for habitation.

Some analysts are saying President Obama declared a "war on coal" in his climate change address earlier this week.

If coal is indeed phased out, it will mark the end of what had been a staple of the American economy. 

Industries come and go, but for states in the Midwest and Appalachia, coal has been instrumental in shaping local fortunes for much of the 20th century. 

And nationwide, coal employed just as many people as the automobile industry until after World War II.

We dipped into the Library of Congress' vast image database to take a look at America's golden age of coal. 

We highlighted a couple salient elements: first, the work appears to have taken as much of a toll on miners' families as themselves. The coal industry also appears to have been one of the more racially integrated lines of work in the 1930s. This phenomenon has been well documented but hasn't gotten much attention.

Mine "greaser," Bessie Mine, Alabama, 1910

Birmingham Ala., 1937

Miner and wife, Pomery, Ohio, 1942

In the village of Tan-awan, on the southern Philippines island of Cebu, whale shark sightings along the shore have become a prime tourist attraction.  

It was not always this way.  

Giant whale sharks typically swim through warm, tropical waters alone. Within the past couple of years, the gentle sea giants have been drawn to Tan-awan's coastlines in large numbers by fishermen who hand-feed the sharks with krill.

The practice has created a lucrative business opportunity for local fishing boats that have started whale shark watching tours, but sparked outrage among environmentalists who say the feeding technique is unnatural and could change the animals' migratory and eating behavior. 

Meanwhile, as many as 300 tourists a day visit the town in hopes of getting an up-close experience with the marine beasts.

Tam-awan is a coastal town in Oslob, located on the Southern Philippines island of Cebu.

Travelers come to this tropical location expecting to swim with and feed whale sharks, the biggest fish and shark in the sea.

Whale sharks can grow up to 40 feet long, or roughly the size of a school bus.

The Airbus A380 is one of the most incredible planes flying today, even judged by size alone.

It usually seats around 500 passengers, but can hold as many as 853 — making it the largest passenger aircraft on the planet.

After watching the behemoth perform at this year's Paris Air Show, we took a trip south to Toulouse, the French city where Airbus assembles many of its planes, to get an inside look at just what it takes to put together the A380.

After a trip by boat, barge, and truck, the various parts that make up the jumbo jet are assembled in an enormous building, in a process that takes just 10 to 11 days — fast enough that Airbus can produce 2.5 per month.

(The process of building and testing the entire plane, which sells for nearly $400 million, takes between 10 months and a year.)

It's remarkable.

Note: We've censored the tail of the jets in these photos, per Airbus's request to protect their customers' privacy.

Before work starts in Toulouse, the pieces need to get there. The various parts of Airbus planes are built at plants around Europe. Usually, they're flown to Toulouse in the endearingly ugly 'Beluga' cargo plane.

But the A380 is huge — so huge, its various parts don't fit in the Beluga.

So Airbus came up with a special delivery process, the Oversize Transport Itinerary.

In the past, meat lovers may have flocked to the southern states for the best ribs or pulled pork, but some amazing barbecue is being made right here in New York City, specifically in Brooklyn.

With the introduction of new barbecue joints like Fletcher's Brooklyn Barbecue, and the expansion of beloved favorites like Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, these days Brooklyn can hold its own against classic barbecue towns like Atlanta, Memphis, and St. Louis. Chefs are even beginning to develop what Thrillist is calling "New York-style barbecue."

Here are nine barbecue greats in Brooklyn that even southerners will love. Let us know if we missed one.

BrisketTown

359 Bedford Avenue

"Who knew Brooklyn would become the destination for barbecue? ...And I am from Texas where we are the undisputed kings of barbecue brisket..."wrote Yelp reviewer Grant C.

BrisketTown, of Delaney's Barbecue, started as the pop-up BrisketLab before it put down roots in Williamsburg last December. The restaurant is so insanely popular that they have two dinner times: 6 to 6:30pm, when they serve “pre-orders,” and 6:30pm to sold out. It's easy to understand why they sell out: The meat is juicy and tender, and on your birthday you get it for free.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

604 Union Street

“The food is great. I've lived in Texas, and this stuff is for real,” wrote Yelp reviewer Matthew K.

Dinosaur BBQ grew from a small BBQ joint in Syracuse, New York, to a formidable chain with seven locations. Its Park Slope, Brooklyn, location just opened on June 19.

The menu is monstrous, and customers pig out on BBQ pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, and more.

Fatty 'Cue

91 South Sixth Street

"Some barbecue lovers might sneer at the idea of rhubarb kimchee served with their brisket, but at Fatty 'Cue... the meat is as perfectly smoked as anything you’re likely to find in the South,"writes New York Post restaurant critic Max Gross.

Fatty 'Cue looks at barbecue through an Asian lens, making it completely okay, and completely delicious, to pair pork spare ribs with a yellow curry custard instead of your more typical bourbon barbecue sauce. Most notable on the menu is the half pig head. Exactly what it sounds like, it comes with a spring onion salad, pickles, and steamed bao.

Before arriving in Mobile, Ala. for a weekend trip to see that the city's not actually a miserable place, I received dozens of emails from Mobilians telling me I had to try the seafood while I was in town.

Mobilians take pride in their seafood, and with good reason: Crabs, oysters, shrimp, and fish arrive fresh from the Gulf of Mexico, a short trip down the Mobile River. There are dozens of restaurants in and around the city that serve seafood from the Gulf, and many have become famous for their preparations of dishes like gumbo, fried shrimp, and oysters Rockefeller.

Click here to see all the seafood I ate in Mobile >

The commercial seafood industry is major local employer, providing 11,000 jobs in Alabama in 2011, according to the Alabama Seafood Marketing and Testing Program. And fishing is also a popular hobby for people who live around Mobile Bay.

I love seafood, and was blown away by some of the local delicacies (how come they don't serve West Indies Salad up north?). But I also recalled reading some scary stories about Gulf seafood after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and wondered about the safety of the local seafood three years later.

Alabama started testing seafood from the Gulf shortly after the spill, and continues to conduct monthly tests of oysters, crabs, shrimp, and fish from local waters. So far, none of those samples have shown oil or dispersants above a government-mandated "level of concern," said Chris Blankenship, the program administrator for the ASMTP (created through a grant from BP) and the director of marine resources for Alabama.

Despite stories about mutated shrimp — including a disturbing report from Al Jazeera — Blankenship said he hadn't seen any deformed specimens, or heard complaints from local fishermen.

"Early on, testing was a major part of our marketing campaign," he said. "But after a year, few people even asked about test results. Especially along the [Gulf] coast, people don't have as much of a concern and continue to enjoy their seafood."

But it may still be too early to see the long-term effects of the spill on sea life, because the biggest impact is often not on stronger adults, but on juvenile populations and eggs, said John Hocevar, a marine biologist and the Oceans director at Greenpeace.

"One of the difficult things is that it can take a really long time to fully assess the impact of something like this," Hocevar said. "We still don't know what we're dealing with, and we won't know for several more years."

But he did reassure me that I had no reason to worry after eating three straight days of seafood. Click through to check out some of the fantastic seafood I ate on my trip to Mobile, including some local specialties.

Click here to see all the seafood I ate in Mobile >

Disclosure: A couple of months ago, I included Mobile, Alabama on a list of the "most miserable cities in America," based on Gallup data. Sandy Stimpson, a mayoral candidate in Mobile (#3 on the list) objected to my characterization, and offered to fly me down and show me how great the city really is. After a little prodding, I agreed to a visit. Stimpson paid my travel expenses and arranged my travel in the city. I'm not covering the mayoral race, but will be writing about my trip here.

A ton of people emailed me about Felix's Fish Camp, a popular spot overlooking Mobile Bay that serves some of the best seafood in town.

First up was a West Indies Salad, a Mobile specialty that is almost impossible to find outside the area. The simple crab salad contains white onion and vinegar, marinated overnight.

I tried the "One-One-One" soup sampler at Felix's. The turtle soup and gumbo were tasty, but the crab soup with lump crab straight from the Gulf (bottom) was my favorite.

The Fueled Collective is a 18,000 square foot co-working office space in New York City's posh SoHo neighborhood.

The Collective was started by Rameet Chawla and Ryan Matzner as a new business to complement the company's lucrative app development firm, Fueled.

Chawla has been involved with the tech industry since 2004. His primary company, Fueled, makes gorgeous apps for heavyweight companies like Porsche, Ducati, Proctor & Gamble, Hallmark, and the Chicago Bulls, to name a few.

Chawla envisions The Collective as a place where his company can work alongside like-minded startups to further collaboration and community. He spared no expense designing and hand-crafting many of The Collective's staple pieces.

What has resulted is an extremely luxurious, comfortable, and classy office space that would make even the top office designers jealous.

A single desk will set you back $650 per month and they are all gone ahead of today's big reveal.

For companies that want to secure a spot in The Collective, all hope isn't lost. There is a waiting list you can sign up for. But if you're dying to see The Collective in person you can always arrange a personal tour.

The Fueled Collective is a brand-new co-working space in New York's posh SoHo neighborhood.

As soon as you enter the 18,000 square foot space you feel comfortable. This is the office's "Moneypenny" Chelsea Bingham.

Each of the desk areas is broken down into different sections. If your group needs peace and quiet you'll be placed in a section that's away from those that are more animated.

No matter where it's held, the annual Major League Baseball All-Star game is almost as much of a culinary event as it is a sporting event. Each year, vendors at the home field does their best to woo attendees with specialty dining options.

This year the game will be held on Tuesday, July 16th at Citi Field, and the Mets franchise is eager to impress fans with their food.

We attended an exclusive media tasting hosted by the Mets and their food and beverage partner ARAMARK to sample this year's All-Star Game menu. With dishes from Pat LaFrieda of the famed LaFrieda Meat Purveyors and Dave Pasternack, head chef at Esca and culinary partner of Mario Batali, it's a sure bet that game-goers will leave satisfied no matter who wins.

Chef Robert Flowers, executive chef for ARAMARK at Citi Field, spent the off-season crafting a meatball hero just for the All-Star Game. His delicious take on the ballpark classic features his family's 300-year-old Italian gravy recipe from Sicily.

I got up close and personal with the hero, which is made with a blend of LaFrieda Meats' ground beef, pork and veal and is served on one of the best sesame rolls I've ever tasted. It's topped with fresh buffalo mozzarella and fried basil.

New York pizza shop Two Boots featured their "Grandma Joan" pie for the event, a simple but delicious compilation of plum tomatoes, garlic, mozzarella, fresh olive oil and parmesan cheese.

Bond god Jeff Gundlach hosted a surprise webcast this afternoon titled: "What in the World is Going On?" Redux.

"We arranged this hastily," he said.

The title is a play on his June 4 webcast, where he aimed to address the return of volatility as reflected by rising interest rates and the spectacular crash in the Japanese stock market.

However, since that call, rates only continued to surge, bringing down bonds all over the world.

Of note is the 10-year Treasury rate, which broke through the 2.5%, a level that Gundlach said would not be breached.

So what happened?

Gundlach explained that the financial markets got sucked into a liquidation cycle. It probably started with a couple of leveraged players taking risk off. This is followed by prices dropping and interest rates rising. Then more leveraged players get margin calls.  More selling occurs, people freak out, and this cycle perpetuates.

But that perpetual selling may have ended.

"The liquidation cycle appears to have run its course," said Gundlach noting the recent rebound in various asset classes.

Click Here To See Gundlach's Whole Presentation »

Gundlach, a Treasury bull, emphasized that in the universe of bonds, Treasuries have actually been a clear outperforming bond sector

He thinks anyone selling bond funds right now is making a mistake, as bonds are now offering more value. He reiterated his prediction that the 10-year would eventually head to 1.7%.

"Gold looks like death," he said noting that the yellow metal now appears to be a decent contrarian buy.  However, he warned that it could go to $1,000 on momentum.

"Gold has a very good downside upside ratio," he added. He believes it could go down as much as 20% before going up 50% from current levels.

But if there were a contrarian idea that he liked more than gold, it's emerging market stocks.  He noted that the ratio of the S&P 500 to the MSCI Emerging Markets has gone parabolic.  He thinks this is bound to correct itself soon.

As usual, Gundlach offered a deck of charts that he used to frame his thesis.

First of all, Gundlach made very clear that the bond sell off had nothing to do with inflation.

There's no inflation in the Federal Reserve's favorite measure of prices.

There's no inflation in gold, which "looks like death."

Perks are a way for employers to show how much they care about their employees. Google has its food, and Business Insider has its ping pong table.

And now a company called AnyPerk is turning perks into a business.

Large companies can afford perks because of the "bulk discount" they get due to the size of their pool – lots and lots of employees. But what about those two-person startups using an ironing board as a weird inconvenient standing desk?

That's where AnyPerk comes in. It exists to serve all those companies that might not have the time or employee numbers necessary to set up their own worthwhile perk system.

There are some of the more conventional offerings – discounts on all major mobile phone providers, gym deals, home cleaning discounts. But there are also a few weird ones in the mix.

Weirdly enough, AnyPerk itself offers one of the most unusual perks we've ever seen.

Indian cooking classes

Why not get your employees a 15% discount on Indian cooking classes?

I Heart Curry will teach anyone in the Bay area how to make three different Indian food items from scratch in three hours.

The Netflix of ties

Through AnyPerk, your employees can get 50% off a membership to Tie Society, a Netflix-style tie startup.

A motivational cooking seminar

Here's the pitch, straight from their site: "Are You a Company Seeking a Fun Cooking Team Building that Energizes, Engages and Fires-up Your Team?"

CEO Chef appears to be a company built around teaching your employees how to cook a meal together. Teamwork and eating.

In a huge upset, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Anthony Bennett, a forward out of UNLV.

This year's draft did not have a clear top pick although most experts had Nerlens Noel going to the Cavs with the top pick.

The Orlando Magic then selected Victor Oladipo from Indiana.

Noel was finally selected with the sixth pick by the New Orleans Pelicans.

On the following pages, we'll track each pick of the NBA draft and compare those selections to where some of the top draft experts predicted the player to be picked.

No. 1 Anthony Bennett, F (UNLV) — Cleveland Cavaliers

Where the experts projected this player...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): no. 8 Detroit Pistons

Chris Mannix (SI.com): no. 7 Sacramento Kings

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): no. 11 Philadelphia 76ers

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): no. 7 Sacramento Kings

Whomthe experts projected this team to draft...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): Nerlens Noel, Kentucky

Chris Mannix (SI.com): Nerlens Noel, Kentucky

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): Otto Porter, Georgetown

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): Alex Len, Maryland

No. 2 Victor Oladipo, G (Indiana) — Orlando Magic

Where the experts projected this player...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): no. 2 Orlando Magic

Chris Mannix (SI.com): no. 5 Phoenix Suns

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): no. 5 Phoenix Suns

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): no. 5 Phoenix Suns

Whomthe experts projected this team to draft...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): Victor Oladipo, Indiana

Chris Mannix (SI.com): Ben McLemore, Kansas

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): Ben McLemore, Kansas

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): Ben McLemore, Kansas

No. 3 Otto Porter Jr., F (Georgetown) — Washington Wizards

Where the experts projected this player...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): no. 3 Washington Wizards

Chris Mannix (SI.com):no. 3 Washington Wizards

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): no. 1 Cleveland Cavaliers

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): no. 3 Washington Wizards

Whomthe experts projected this team to draft...

Chad Ford (ESPN.com): Otto Porter, Georgetown

Chris Mannix (SI.com): Otto Porter, Georgetown

Matt Moore (CBSSports.com): Nerlens Noel, Kentucky

Tyler Jamieson (Yahoo! Sports): Otto Porter, Georgetown

Could a swim at your favorite beach make you sick?

According to data released by the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), American beaches were closed or on advisory for over 20,000 days last year because of high levels of bacteria and pollutants in the waters.

The NRDC analyzed water testing data from 3,000 beaches across the country, and identified the 11 most polluted beaches in the U.S—six of which are in the Great Lakes region.

These repeat offenders have consistently had water samples with high bacteria counts and contamination. Beachgoers who swim in these polluted waters are at risk of contracting all sorts of illnesses, from skin rashes and ear infections to stomach flus and hepatitis.

Before you head to the beach this summer, check on the water quality of the beaches in your state at the NRDC's website.

Avalon Beach, Calif.

Location: Los Angeles County, California

The Catalina Island town 26 miles off the Southern California coast has an old sewer system on the brink of deteriorating. A $5 million project is aiming to stop waste from infiltrating the waterways. Over 50 percent of water samples exceeded state standards for pollution.

Of five monitored sections at Avalon Beach, the area 100 feet east of the Green Pleasure Pier was only one without persistent contamination problems. 

Doheny State Beach, Calif.

Location: Orange County, California

A popular surf spot, Doheny Beach is also a haven for pollution because of its inlet location, sewage runoff, and bird droppings. Over 30 percent of water samples exceeded state standards of pollution.

The majority of the beach's sections had persistent contamination problems.

Poche County Beach, Calif.

Location: Orange County, California

Over 65 percent of water samples exceeded state standards for pollution in Poche Beach. The beach is exposed sewage water that's often flushed out of storm drains during heavy rains, so the county has invested in a multi-million dollar storm water treatment plant to clean up the beach. Recent dry spells have temporarily masked the problem.

Last year, a falconer was hired to chase away birds leaving droppings along the shoreline.

They're barely 18 years old, but these high school students are doing more than most adults could ever hope to do in their lifetimes.

Their resumes will make your jaw drop: There's a scientist who built a nuclear reactor in his father's garage, a swimmer who won four Olympic gold medals, and a self-taught coder who runs his own app development company.

And more importantly, they prove that age really has no bearing on what people are able to accomplish.

Listed in alphabetical order, we found the 25 most impressive students graduating from high school this year.

Max Rosenberg contributed to this story.

Sabrina Brady created a drawing that was seen by millions of people on Google's home page.

High school: Sparta Senior High School, Sparta, Wisc.

What makes her impressive: Last month the Google home page depicted a touching doodle where a young girl embraces a man wearing a military uniform. The doodle was the heartfelt work of Sabrina Brady, recapturing the moment her father returned home from an 18-month deployment in Iraq when she was 10 years old. Brady won the prestigious Doodle 4 Google contest, as well as glory on the Google homepage, a $30,000 college scholarship, a Google Chromebook, and a $50,000 technology grant for her school.

Brady's drawing, titled "Coming Home," was chosen in a user vote among over 130,000 entries from students in grades K through 12, who were instructed to draw the "best day ever,"according to Google Technologist Daniel Sieberg in an interview on The TODAY Show.

Plans for next year: Brady will continue studying art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) this fall.

Donald Chao started a non-profit that teaches people about the ecosystem.

High school: Newport High School, Bellevue, Wash.

What makes him impressive: Chao founded a non-profit organization in 2011 called the Ocean Acidification Education Project, which teaches people and organizations about their impact on marine ecosystems in the Puget Sound. The goal is that these people can then influence Washington state legislation to implement better, stricter methods of carbon dioxide emission reduction.

Chao also kick-started a program called Teach My Grandma, which "offers personalized, one-on-one, bilingual instruction at locations convenient for the client, whether that be at his or her retirement community or at a local Starbucks," he tells us. "We specialize in social media (i.e., Facebook and Skype), but can teach everything from computers/internet for beginners to Quickbooks."

He says he's also developing several other entrepreneurial projects, including a titanium dioxide-infused exterior paint used to neutralize greenhouse gases released by automobiles.

Chao speaks English, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, and Taiwanese Hokkien. He also taught himself how to pick locks, which is a hobby he enjoys doing as a puzzle, and also to help his friends. To be clear, Chao tells us, he only picks locks with permission from others.

Plans for next year: Chao plans to continue working on OAEP and Teach My Grandma as a freshman at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in the fall. 

Conrad Farnsworth is the first person in Wyoming to build a nuclear fusion reactor.

High school: Newcastle High School, Newcastle, Wyo.

What makes him impressive:Conrad Farnsworth has managed to do something that all of 60 people, at most, have done: achieve nuclear fusion.

Farnsworth built a nuclear reactor in his father’s garage in order to enter a science fair. However, he was disqualified for supposedly competing in too many science fairs, and in the wrong order, according to the Star-Tribune.

“It’s frustrating having four years to get to a single point go down the drain... And it’s silly. It’s a science fair. Seriously, aren’t they supposed to be promoting science and not bureaucracy?” Farnsworth told the Star Tribune.

Regardless, Farnsworth can feel good knowing that he is the first person in Wyoming to build a nuclear fusion reactor.

Plans for next year: Farnsworth plans to attend the South Dakota School of Mines in the fall.

The "grunt-o-meter" is a hand-held device that's supposed to keep female tennis players in check when it comes to excessive grunting and shrieking on the court.

USA Today reported last year, though, that the current generation of women's tennis players will not be affected by the "grunt-o-meter."

Therefore, players the likes of Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, and Maria Sharapova are free to grunt and shriek as loud as they want.

While Maria Sharapova is far and away the loudest tennis player on the women's circuit, she isn't alone in grunting her way through matches.

On a scale from 1 to 10, we've ranked where we think some of the best players in women's tennis fall on the "grunt-o-meter."

10. Petra Kvitova (Grunt-O-Meter Score 1): Kvitova lets her play do all the talking

9. Sara Errani (Grunt-O-Meter Score 2): She's loud, but her "Street Fighter" grunts make her matches more entertaining

8. Samantha Stosur (Grunt-O-Meter Score 3): Her quiet, short grunts are barely noticeable

MyBankTracker created a list of the most outrageously priced parking spots worldwide.

Expensive San Francisco, Manhattan and Hong Kong are all included.

Click through the slideshow below to see the highest end of what it costs to park a car.

In San Francisco, an $80,000 parking spot at 88 Townsend was up for sale.

The listing, being brokered by Vanguard Properties Inc., is just a block away from a major shopping area, a number of educational institutions, and right across the street from AT&T Park.

Information sourced from The Huffington Post.

An anonymous man purchased 284 square feet of space at an underground car garage in Knightsbridge, West London, for over $320,000.

 The spot comes with an exclusive entrance and exit driveway, and 24/7 remote access and security. The deal, brokered via the Harrods Estates Asset Management, calls for $319,460 for the first nine years, and $1,134 each year for the next ninety years.

Information sourced from Silly Millions.

Lisa Blumenthal purchased two parking spaces for $560,000 at 298 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.

At $280,000 each, the spots are nearly 90% of the cost of the average price of a single-family home in Massachusetts. Blumenthal says the spots will be used for workers and guests.  In 2009,  a single spot five blocks away on Commonwealth sold for $300,000.

Information sourced from NPR.

The wait for the Museum of Modern Art's new installation "Rain Room" is currently seven to eight hours long, all because a blog mistakenly wrote that today was the last day of the exhibit.

Spoiler: It's not.

MoMA tweeted earlier today warning visitors of the long wait time:

A note about #RainRoom: the current wait is 7-8 hours. It was blogged somewhere that today was the last day. It closes 7/28, not 6/28!

— Museum of Modern Art (@MuseumModernArt) June 28, 2013

See what the "Rain Room" looks like below.

SEE ALSO: A Museum's Amazing Collection Of Classic Cars Is Open To The Public For The First Time

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There are a bunch of baby foxes – kits! – living at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Facebook employee Jeffrey Ferland took some great photos of them.

When one colleague of mine saw the photos this afternoon, she said, "I wish I were a fox."

She's right.

You can bite your brothers and sisters without hurting them

If you get squished, it's OK. Your ears are bendy.

You can explore the world