The FastDiet, also known as the 5:2 diet, is based on something called intermittent fasting.

This involves eating normally for five days a week and "fasting" for two. On those two fasting days, you eat about a quarter of your typical calorie intake — 500 calories for women and 600 calories for men. The rest of the time you can eat whatever you want. 

The book, released last year in the U.S., was written by Dr. Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer, both of the U.K. They claim this diet will make you lose weight faster than other standard diets. Mosley claims to have lost 20 pounds within a few weeks of starting the diet.

Although the extreme eating regime has been met with criticism in the health community, Mosley says the evidence to support intermittent fasting is there. The entire first chapter is devoted to the "science of fasting." And, some fitness experts have come out in favor of the diet. A 2007 review also found that alternate-day fasting may moderate disease-risk. 

Here we break down how and why the 5:2 diet works, according to its authors.

First, this is what happens to your body when you fast.

When you don't eat, your body must turn somewhere else besides food for energy and begins to feed on the glucose in your blood.

Once all of the glucose in your blood is eaten up, your body turns to stored glucose, which is kept in complex carbohydrate molecules called glycogen.

And finally, when all of that stored glucose is used up, your body taps into fat stores for energy and glucose. 

But, continuing to do this for long stretches of time is not sustainable. In fact, your body might go into starvation mode, where your metabolism actually slows down in response to a decrease in calorie intake.

Source: The FastDiet

The 5:2 diet, based on intermittent fasting, is different from calorie restriction or starving.

Intermittent fasting is not the same as prolonged calorie restriction, or starving. That would be when our body doesn't take in enough nutrients to maintain a normal, healthy lifestyle.  

Intermittent fasting involves "eating fewer calories, but only some of the time," Mosley writes. 

Mosley admits that prolonged fasting is not sustainable and will ultimately result in muscle loss.

With the FastDiet, you never go for longer than 24 hours without eating. 

Source: The FastDiet

Ok, so where's the science?

Travel and food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain traveled to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro a few years ago to sample the local cuisine on his Travel Channel show No Reservations.

During his four-day stay, he drank on the beach, took a tour of a run-down Favela, and soaked up the nightlife in Copacabana.

He ate Brazilian favorites, like fried sardines, grilled pork sandwiches, and feijoada, a hearty stew of black beans and pork sausage — and raved about them all. 

Any chance he got, he shared his love for the city. "What sick freak wouldn't come to Rio given the opportunity?" asked Bourdain. "Lets call it what it is: perfection. You have to have some serious problems to not like Rio."

And since all eyes are on Brazil's capital for the much-anticipated World Cup, we decided to take a second-look at Bourdain's South American culinary journey.

Watch the full episode here. 

Bourdain first spends the day people-watching on the chic, 1.25 mile stretch of Ipanema Beach in the South Zone of Rio.

Where he knocks back a couple caipirinhas comprised of cachaça (sugar cane liquor), fresh lime juice, and sugar. “It's pretty much my constant companion every time I come to Rio,” said Bourdain.

At the same stand, he orders a grilled pork sandwich loaded with chimichurri sauce, garlic, parsley, oregano, olive oil and touch of vinegar.

For some, the three-day Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif., is as much about the parties as it is the music.

Lacoste, Samsung, Armani Exchange, H&M, and Patrón are just a few of the brands that sponsored extravagant celebrations day and night for festivalgoers.

Paris Hilton, Katy Perry, Jared Leto, and other celebs took advantage of this weekend's bashes.

The annual Lacoste party brings out tons of celebrities to a private estate near Palm Springs.

Actor Elijah Wood played DJ.

While Katy Perry hung out with Steven Tyler.

With less than a month to go to the NFL Draft, a consensus is starting to form.

Using the prospect rankings from seven of the biggest draft experts, we came up with an expert consensus list of the top 32 players in the draft.

Right now there are 15 players (Johnny Manziel included) who are in all seven experts' top-25 rankings.

Those experts are the following: ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN's Todd McShay, SB Nation's Dan Kadar, CBS Sports' Rob Rang, NFL.com Bucky Brooks, NFL.com's Daniel Jeremiah, and NFL Network's Gil Brandt.

32. Jason Verrett, cornerback (TCU)

Previously: 27th

Average rank: 18.0

Top 25's: 1 out of 7 rankings

Thing to know: He seems like a pretty great character. He already declared that he wants to be defensive rookie of the year in 2014.

31. Xavier Su'a-Filo, guard (UCLA)

Previously: Unranked

Average rank: 15.0

Top 25's: 1 out of 7 rankings

Thing to know: He's the only highly regarded guard prospect in the draft.

30. Morgan Moses, offensive tackle (Virginia)

Previously: unranked

Average rank: 14.0

Top 25's: 1 out of 7 rankings

Thing to know: He pulled a hamstring at his Pro Day, which doesn't seem like a good thing. But he's still climbing on draft boards.

President Obama only wears blue or gray suits.

As he tells Vanity Fair, it's a way of managing his willpower.  

“I'm trying to pare down decisions," he says. "I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make."

Obama's focus on routine is backed up by research. Social psychologist Roy Baumeister has found that willpower is like a muscle — it can be strengthened or fatigued with use. 

It's a crucial insight, given that a 2011 study of 1 million people around the world found that people think that self-control is their biggest weakness or character failure. 

As Baumeister details in his book "Willpower: The Greatest Human Strength" and a New York Times Magazine cover story, willpower and decision-making are interconnected. The house you grew up in, the number of decisions you made today, and what your friends are doing, all affect your decisions in weird ways. Here's a look at how.

Make your most important decisions in the morning, before you experience "ego depletion."

"Freud speculated that the self, or ego, depended on mental activities involving the transfer of energy," the New York Times reports. "[His] experiments demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for exerting self-control."

As the day wears on, your energy reserves are further depleted. 

Your brain needs glucose in order to make good decisions.

"Even the wisest people won't make good choices when they're not rested and their glucose is low," Baumeister tells the Times. "That's why the truly wise don't restructure the company at 4 p.m. They don't make major commitments during the cocktail hour. And if a decision must be made late in the day, they know not to do it on an empty stomach." 

Grocery retailers discovered this decades ago. 

Researchers found that, "just when shoppers are depleted after all their decisions in the aisles — with their willpower reduced, they're more likely to yield to any kind of temptation, but they're especially vulnerable to candy and soda and anything else offering a quick hit of sugar." 

Our finite supply of "decision-making power" means that making a series of decisions can be exhausting.

Which would explain why shopping is so tiring. 

Researchers found that shoppers who "had already made the most decisions in the stores gave up the quickest" on a math test.

While some heavily lauded indie filmmakers like David O. Russell and the Coen brothers have been able to blend critical and commercial success as their careers have gone on, there are plenty of other household name directors who have yet to find box office success stateside.

Surprisingly, these 10 famous directors have never had a movie go over $100 million in the U.S.

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Woody Allen

Despite having been in the movie making business for more than 40 years, and winning multiple Oscars in the process, Woody Allen's films have never been designed to do big in the sales department.

Films Directed: 46
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 21
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster: Antz ($90.7 million)

Paul Thomas Anderson

Ask any working film critic who's the best director today, and you'll probably get a lot of P.T. Anderson responses. Unfortunately, critics get to see his films without paying for a ticket.

Films Directed: 7
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 3
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster: There Will Be Blood ($40.2 million)

Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow may have won the directing Oscar over James Cameron in 2009, but The Hurt Locker wasn't even in the same box office ballpark as Avatar.

Films Directed: 10 
Films Over 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes: 4
Closest to a Box Office Blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty ($95.7 million)

A massive private island in the Bahamas — which comes with its own airport code and 2,700-foot landing strip — will be auctioned off next month in New York City.

Innocence Island, part of the exclusive Exuma chain in the Bahamas, was first listed for $55 million in 2009, but the owner, who recently became ill, wants to auction the property for a quicker transaction, CNBC reports.

It shouldn't be hard to attract a luxury buyer. The 681-acre island has a 3,000-square-foot main house overlooking the entire island, plus a second hillside bungalow with a gym and meditation deck. Innocence Island also includes 15 miles of nature trails, six white sand beaches and flourishing tomato vines as well as mango, guava, and lemon trees growing on the island for your use.

It will be sold by luxury real estate firm Concierge Auctions with Damianos Sotheby's International Realty, and has a reserve price of $10 million.

Innocence Island is part of the Exuma chain of islands in the Bahamas.

It has 681 acres, making it one of the largest private islands in the Bahamas.

Here's a look at the wildlife on the island.

An Easter egg, as it relates to movies, is when the movie's creators hide something in the film that's an intentional inside joke. 

Some Easter eggs are more well known, like how Hitchock makes cameo appearances in his films, but some Easter eggs are a little harder to find, even for the well-trained eye.

Pixar is no stranger to the Easter egg world, and it includes dozens of Easter eggs in its movies. There's even something called the Pixar Theory, where all the Pixar characters live in the same universe. 

Some of the Pixar Easter eggs are based on real-world locations. There are obvious ones — in the beginning of the movie "Cars," the announcer says that the entire town of Emeryville will be closed for the race; Pixar Studios is in Emeryville, Calif. — but some aren't so obvious. 

Fenton's Creamery in 'Up' is located in Oakland, Calif.

At the end of the movie, Russell and Carl can be seen eating an ice cream cone on the sidewalk in front of Fenton's Creamery. 

The real Fenton's is a local favorite, located on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland. The ice cream shop opened in 1894, and moved to its current location in the 1960s. It also claims to be where Rocky Road ice cream was born.

The Grand Lake Theater in 'Up' can be found in Oakland, Calif.

During the credit sequence, we see a photo of Carl and Russell going to see "Star Wars." 

This Easter egg is two-fold: many speculate that this was foreshadowing a new "Star Wars" film. In 2012 — three years after "Up" came out — Disney announced it would release a new "Star Wars" movie in 2015.

The second part of the Easter egg ... 

With the wide assortment of top tech companies currently headquartered in Silicon Valley, it should come as no surprise that some of the country's wealthiest people also call the area home. 

Stephen Higley, a professor emeritus of urban social geography at the University of Montevallo, recently created a list of the country's richest neighborhoods based on data from the U.S. Census' American Community Survey in the years 2006 through 2010. 

He aggregated block groups with a mean income of more than $200,000 to compile a list of the top 1,000 richest neighborhoods in the county. Higley explains his complete methodology on his website.  

We used Higley's rankings to compile a list of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Silicon Valley, looking at cities in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to do so. 

Hillsborough was well-represented, with several different neighborhoods from the affluent San Mateo County city making an appearance on Higley's list. Small cities like Saratoga and Atherton, home to several notable tech executives, also ranked highly. 

#22 San Mateo Park, San Mateo, San Mateo County

Mean Household Income: $257,972

731st richest neighborhood in the U.S. 

This neighborhood is peaceful, with dozens of traffic circles in place to slow down cars on the city's main thoroughfares. 

It's also extremely convenient, with shopping and dining less than a mile away on Burlingame Avenue, and access to freeways via El Camino Real. 

San Mateo Park is 75.%5 white, 10.6% Asian, 7.0% Latino, and 0.9% black. 

#21 Barron Park Southwest-Research Park, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County

Mean household income: $258,759

722nd richest neighborhood in the U.S. 

This pastoral neighborhood provides a stark contrast to Stanford's high-tech Research Park, located nearby. 

You can even watch a pair of donkeys graze at the neighborhood's Cornelis Bol Park. The two donkeys, named Perry and Niner, have become Barron Park's unofficial mascots. 

Barron Park Southwest-Research Park is 66.7% white, 22.6% Asian, 4.6% Latino, and 2.0% black. 

#20 Woodland Acres-The Highlands, Los Altos, Santa Clara County

Mean Household Income: $260,289

696th richest neighborhood in the U.S.

Built on land that used to be orchards and forests of oaks and laurel trees, Woodland Acres is a neighborhood that has retained its rustic feel. 

The community is close-knit, but homes are pricey. 

Woodland Acres-The Highlands is 66.7% white, 23.1% Asian, 4.9% Latino, and 0.3% black.

The retail industry is undergoing a dramatic shift: E-commerce is capturing a larger share of sales than ever before. 

We've created a slideshow highlighting the retail categories where e-commerce is having the most impact, and where there is still opportunity for disruption. The shift away from physical retail toward digital retail is happening faster than many observers expected. 

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There are certain things that don't need to be reinvented, like the wheel.

But once in a while, someone transforms an everyday object no one thought could be improved.

Here are some of the best redesigns of regular household objects we've recently seen.

1. This kitchen table doubles in size in mere seconds.

The Fletcher Capstan Table expands from a standard 6.5- or 10-foot table to one that measures anywhere between 20 and 30 feet across.

The round tables come in four standard sizes, and expand by simply rotating the top 180 degrees manually or electronically by remote. The tables are customizable, and range from $50,000 to $70,000 on the UK Fletcher website.

2. “LiquiGlide” allows condiments to flow effortlessly out of a bottle.

LiquiGlide is a coating of non-toxic materials that allows every single drop of your favorite condiment to flow out effortlessly, reducing a ton of waste.

Invented by five MIT students and their professor, LiquiGlide was named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2012 and came in second in MIT’s $100,000 Entrepreneurship Competition. The inventors currently create the coating for specific clients.

3. These ‘invisible’ bike helmets inflate on impact.

The Hövding, or invisible bike helmet, is the brainchild of two students at the University of Lund. The Hövding is actually an air bag that uses a helium gas cylinder to inflate when its sensors detect a sudden jolt.

The airbag is like a hood, except it’s shock absorbent and able to withstand multiple head impacts. The helmets are expensive, retailing on Hövding for more than $400 (£299).

4. An Austrian artist reinvented the door with origami panels.

Artist Klemens Torggler's Evolution Door is a 4-panel "flip panel door" that opens and closes elegantly as though it's made of pieces of paper. 

Torggler has a few variations on this door, including one with origami-esque triangles that fold out to help the door move, and another system with rods that rotate two square panels. He sells them on his website for an undisclosed price (which depends on materials and design).

5. The toilet of the future folds up to save water and space.

Two British university students invented the Iota toilet, which folds in after use. Its creators claim it uses 50% less water than a stationary toilet, and is also comparatively smaller, so it can fit into tiny bathrooms. The  rimless design also makes it much easier to clean.

Currently the Iota is just a concept, but with an overwhelming Internet response, it could become a reality.

6. These light bulbs are Wi-Fi-enabled, multicolored, and smartphone-controlled.

First funded on Kickstarter where it raised more than $1 million, LIFX is a new kind of lightbulb that is not only multicolored, but can be controlled through any device with Wi-Fi and an app.

The bulbs can last up to 25 years, and have a lot of cool functions. In addition to changing colors, there's a sleep mode that dims your lights at night and brightens them in the morning, as well as a switch you control with your phone. The bulbs sell at LIFX for $99.

7. A shapeless water blob could replace today's water bottles.

Ooho is a biodegradable and edible membrane made of brown algae that can hold water. The flexible water bottle kind of resembles a silicone implant, and is easy to break and sip from.

Ooho was developed by three London design students who were aiming to make something sustainable, durable, and cheap — it only costs two cents to make, though the bizarre shape could prove problematic for on-the-go drinking. Ooho currently remains a prototype.

8. This regenerating candle can be reused again and again.

Called the Rekindle Candle and designed by artist Benjamin Shine, this candle holder collects melting wax to form a new candle in the base.

As the candle burns, melting wax drips down from the candle and accumulates inside a transparent stem with a wick. Once the candle is completely melted, you can crack open the mold to remove a new, fully formed candle (you can then start the whole process over again).

Due to an outpouring of support, Shine's prototype is now coming to market.

9. An inflatable, revolutionary car seat will change the game for parents.

Volvo’s new rear-facing car seat inflates in 40 seconds using an integrated pump. It only weighs 11 pounds, which is about half the weight of a regular car seat. Deflated, it fits neatly into a backpack, especially convenient for parents traveling with a child.

The reinvented car seat, made with a fabric that can sustain high internal pressure, was originally developed by the military and is now used by the boating industry. There's no word on when the inflatable seat could come to market, but hopefully it will be soon.

10. This nightlight keeps outlets free and lasts for 25 years.

The SnapRays GuideLight went absolutely crazy on Kickstarter after being posted in March, raising nearly $470,000 over its initial goal.

It’s pretty easy to see why, since the light replaces bulky night lights that take up outlet space, and is easy to assemble. You can pre-order the SnapRays GuideLight through creator Jeremy Smith’s website at $15 for one, $42 for three, $65 for five, and $120 for 10.

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While California-savvy East Coasters dream of the day that In-N-Out expands to their neck of the woods, there are countless other adored chain eateries that reside in one city, state or region.

From gourmet burgers to LA-style Mexican, we've rounded up amazing local chains that we wish would go nationwide.

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Philadelphia: Federal Donuts

The Formula: Fried chicken, donuts and coffee, because “Who doesn’t love fried chicken, donuts and coffee?”

Number of Locations: 3 (Pennsport, Center City, Citizens Bank Park; two more are planned for Philadelphia: University City and West Poplar)

Lunch for One: $11

Menu Highlights: Hot, fresh donuts (fried to order in the Donut Robot), chile-garlic-glazed chicken

Tasting Notes: If you want to score chicken, arrive soon after the 11:45 AM daily release—there’s a limited amount each day, and when it sells out, there’s no more until the next day.

San Francisco/Bay Area: Super Duper

The Formula: "Fast-food burgers, slow-food values"

Number of Locations: 7

Lunch for One: Averages $8.50

Menu Highlights: Super Burger with bacon, spiked organic Straus milkshakes 

Tasting Notes: The hamburgers are made with Niman Ranch beef that is ground fresh daily.

NYC: Xi'an Famous Foods

The Formula: Founder Jason Wang brought authentic Western Chinese cuisine that's more commonly found in Queens to a hole-in-the wall East Village shop, and the rest is history. There are now four locations in Manhattan and two more in the boroughs dishing out the spicy take-out fare that's heavy on the cumin and spicy heat. Wang's mini-empire landed him a spot on our 2013 list of 30 under 30 industry up-and-comers.

Number of Locations: 7

Lunch for One: $8

Latest Developments: The Upper West Side is home to the latest location, which opened in December on Broadway near 102nd Street. Columbia students rejoice!

Menu Highlights: One bite of the signature lamb-cumin burger, which is more of a meat sandwich than an actual burger, will show you what all the hoopla is about.

Wall Street has often been referred to as a casino, but one bank actually owns a Las Vegas casino.

Deutsche Bank's portfolio includes the $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, which the bank finished building after the developer defaulted on their loans in 2008.

Deutsche Bank is now trying to sell the casino for more than $2 billion, Bloomberg News reports citing unnamed sources familiar.

The bank has has four potential bidders interested, the report said.

The Cosmopolitan has been a money losing venture for the German bank over the last six years. However, the casino has seen an improvement in business recently. 

Now we're going to take a tour of the resort. (A big thank you to Corey Deshon shared some his photos with us.)

The Cosmopolitan, a luxury resort and casino located in the center of the Las Vegas strip, opened in December 2010.

It features 2,995 rooms, a large casino, three swimming pools, bars and lounges, restaurants and retail space.

Here's a shot of the interior of a room.

Los Angeles may have been founded in 1781, but by the late 1870s, the city was still barely anything more than a few seaside villages. A new collection of rare photos acquired by the Huntington Library show the turning point in the city's development in the late 19^th century.

Los Angeles exploded in population and size with the completion of the Southern Pacific railroad in 1876, which connected the area with the rest of the country. In 1892, oil was discovered in the area, driving settlement and industry to the area. By 1900, the city had grown to more than 100,000 residents.

The Huntington Library shared a selection of the photographs with us, but you can see the more than 4,600 photographs at their location in San Marino, Calif. 

This is the Southern Pacific railroad as it enters Santa Monica. The railroad ignited a bustling tourism industry along the Pacific Coast.

These two people are canoeing in Westlake Park, now called MacArthur Park. The park was originally constructed as a reservoir for the city. By the 1890s, it was a hot vacation spot, surrounded by luxury hotels.

This is the "Chinese Quarter" of Los Angeles — the city's first Chinatown — in 1892. This version of Chinatown was in its heyday from 1890 to 1910, but an explosion of gambling houses, opium dens, and gang warfare led the government to condemn the area. The residents were evicted to make room for Union Station. This is the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 1895. Located in Downtown Los Angeles, the cathedral was the seat of the Los Angeles bishop for over 100 years. It is now an event space.

This is the San Fernando Valley around 1890. The Valley now encapsulates parts of Los Angeles, Hidden Hills, and Glendale, as well as the cities of Burbank and San Fernando. It is completely undeveloped here.

These people are visiting  Santa Monica beach in the 1880s. In the distance you can see one of the first iterations of the Santa Monica Pier. This is the Santa Monica Bathhouse, built in 1876. It included rooms for rent, enormous bathtubs, and two steam rooms. It was built by Colonel Baker and millionaire John Percival Jones, who developed much of Santa Monica.The Santa Monica Hotel was the first hotel built in the area. It was constructed in 1885 to accommodate the influx of tourists from the railroad.The 125-room Arcadia Hotel opened on January 25, 1887. It was one of the landmark hotels of the era. This is the roller coaster at the hotel.This is the view of Santa Monica from the Arcadia Hotel in 1893.This photo from 1905 shows bathers on the beach in Santa Monica. This man is fishing at Redondo Beach, one of Los Angeles' three beach cities. At the time, Redondo was a source of halibut, lobster, and sea bass.Here you can see the beginnings of Venice Beach, Calif., built in 1905 as an oceanfront resort. Several miles of canals were dug in the area to drain the marshy land and a variety of attractions were constructed, including the dance hall shown here.Downey, a city southeast of downtown Los Angeles, is seen here in 1875, just two years after the railroad reached the community.

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New York has a new club for under-aged partiers, but you have to be younger than 12 to get in.

CNN Money ran a story today about a new company called Fuzipop that puts together dance parties for children at major nightclubs around Manhattan.

Held once a month for children ages 6-12 and their parents, the three-hour dance parties typically cost $20 for a parent and child to get in, and $60 for a family of four. A 9-year-old child DJs the events (it's not clear whether he or she was trained at Brooklyn's baby DJ school), and professional dancers help keep kids entertained. The kids get down with glow sticks and guzzle juice boxes — seriously.

A CNN Money reporter recently attended one such party at the West Village’s Pink Elephant on a Sunday afternoon, where just 12 hours earlier, the crowd was a lot less wholesome.

The scene she described sounds plain awful: 

Inside, parents lined up the full cash bar as their kids leaped around the dance floor shouting out the words to "What Does the Fox Say."

The tables usually reserved for VIPs ordering pricey bottle service were littered with champagne glasses and juice boxes. The bartender, who's used to serving a liquored-up, over-21 crowd on Saturday nights, was surprised by how much the parents were imbibing. The most popular drink that afternoon was vodka.

Here's a video of the party, if you're having a hard time picturing it:

Fuzipop says on its website that its goal is to “inspire the next generation of DJs, music producers, artists, dancers and music business moguls. Growing up in New York City is a unique one-of-a-kind experience and city kids deserve an event of the same stature.”

The idea behind the events may be to get children into music, but we have a feeling these parties are more for their parents. One mother at the April Fuzipop event told CNN Money that Fuzipop lets parents "live vicariously through our kids, and we can all blow off steam together."

That seems more like it.

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The New York Yankees were the highest-paid team in North American sports in 2013 with players making an average of $8.0 million according to ESPN the Magazine.

However, the Yankees were not the highest-paid team in the world.

Manchester City of England's Premier League, is once again the highest-paid team in the world with their players making an average of $8.1 million in 2013.

On the next few pages, we'll take a look at the 12 highest-paid teams. The full list will be available in the next issue of ESPN the Magazine with data from SportingIntelligence.com.

#12 New York Knicks — $5.9 million (average pay per player)

Sport: Basketball

League: NBA

Highest-paid player: Amar'e Stoudemire, $21.7 million

2013 Rank and average pay: 20 ($5.2 million)

player salary data via Spotrac.com, ESPN.com, Forbes.com, and tsmplug.com

#11 Arsenal — $5.9 million (average pay per player)

Sport: Soccer

League: English Premier League

Highest-paid player: Mesut Ozil, $11.4 million

2013 Rank and average pay: 15 ($5.6 million)

#10 Chelsea — $6.1 million (average pay per player)

Sport: Soccer

League: English Premier League

Highest-paid player: Eden Hazard, $15.1 million

2013 Rank and average pay: 8 ($6.2 million)

Walt Disney loved to predict what the future would look like, whether it was in the form of city layouts or clever inventions.

It was not uncommon for Disney and his Imagineers, as they were known, to put together short cartoons that showcased their vision. In 1958, they created the cartoon “Disney’s Magic Highway,” which had a lot of interesting predictions about how cars and highways would evolve (first spotted at The Atlantic Cities).

Here are some of their coolest predictions:

Airborne emergency units will combine the services of the police, fire departments, and ambulances. The flying vehicles will quickly airlift injured passengers, put out fires, and remove car wrecks from the road.

Highways will be built by huge machines that use tools such as fast-drying cement and “atomic heat” to build roads quicker than ever. Here’s one tunneling through a mountain:

Self-driving cars with TVs and other amenities will be all the rage: 

The cars will separate into parts, thereby allowing different passengers the ability to go to a variety of destinations. Below, a family separates: “father to his office, and mother and son to the shopping center." Classic 1950s Disney — ladies be shoppin'!

"Radium heat" will keep highway surfaces dry in rain, ice, and snow.

If visibility is low, windshields will transform into a radar screen and display the outline of what's in front of the car.

There will be lots of cool vehicles, some that go underwater and some that are powered by jets. Coolest of all, there will be "the sun-powered electro-suspension car, which needs no wheels.”

Ultimately, Disney believed highways were the future and would connect people around the world. You can see his full vision below:

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In recent years, the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has become as much a fashion show as it is about the music.

This year, trends on the fields included furry boots, floral headpieces, large hats, cut-off shorts, embellished sunglasses, and even one giant nose ring.

But when it's nearly 100 degrees in the desert on the outskirts of Palm Springs, clothing is limited — and sometimes, optional.

Coachella-goers bring out their craziest and most colorful outfits for the three-day festival in the hot desert.

Some friends like to pick themes — like America.

Or crop tops.

Unlike the bloated, gimmicky ocean liners that cart hoards of tourists around the Caribbean, river cruises offer a more refined and intimate experience.

And travelers are taking note, as the river cruising industry is booming, with a 10% increase in river cruise passengers in the last 5 years.

Viking River Cruises has carved a niche for itself as the premiere luxury river cruise ship operator.

The cruise company recently unveiled 16 new Longships that travel all over Europe, exploring different cities like Amsterdam, Belgrade, and Budapest on the famous rivers like Rhine and Danube. 

On board and off, a trip with Viking River Cruises is a full cultural immersion, with talks and activities that shed light on the destinations, such as cuckoo clock-making, wooden shoe-carving, cooking classes, wine tastings, and dance performances.

The new Viking Longships are 443 feet long, and carry 190 guests in 95 staterooms.

When you're on board, you can explore their library, boutique, observation lounge, and bar with floor-to-ceiling glass doors.

Guests can enjoy a series of multimedia talks to shed light on the history and culture of the places you visit.

Every year, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker puts together a presentation on the state of the Web.

Meeker is a former analyst for Morgan Stanley, and her decks are always a handy guide to where things are going. 

So, when a source told us he had a copy of Meeker's first report on the Internet — from way back in 1996 — we begged him to send it.

Unlike Meeker's decks, "The Internet Report" is a 322-page text-heavy PDF.  

We've gone through it, pulled all the charts, pulled some quotes, and re-arranged it all into a Meeker-style deck — one from 1996.