This Sunday, E!'s hit reality show "#RichKids of Beverly Hills" will return for a second season.

The hour-long, "Rich Kids Of Instagram" Tumblr-inspired show features six friends from 90210 who drop thousands of dollars on clothes, shoes, cars, and partying like it's their job — because that's exactly what it is for some of these "funemployed" 20-somethings. 

Get to know the cast and catch up on season 1 here before this weekend's season 2 premiere, which takes the "Rich Kids" to China.

Season 2 of "#RichKids of Beverly Hills" premieres this Sunday at 10/9c on E!

Meet 25-year-old Dorothy Wang, who was born and raised in Beverly Hills — "The best city in the world."

Dorothy says "Growing up, my parents never talked about money. It wasn't until it was printed in Forbes that I knew how much money we had."

Dorothy is currently "funemployed and fabuluxe," but "when I grow up I want to be the Asian sensation of the world."

Even the most successful tech companies had to start somewhere. 

Many companies that are now worth billions were launched from makeshift headquarters in relatives' garages and living rooms.

Others were started in dorm rooms and coffee shops, where young coders could make use of the free Wi-Fi and plentiful caffeine. 

The tech world is filled with interesting founding stories — we've rounded up some of the best ones here.

Hewlett-Packard famously began in a Palo Alto garage.

Starting your company in a garage has become something of a tradition in the tech world. HP was the first, officially launching at the beginning of 1939.

The garage and the house it's connected to are now a private museum, considered by many to be the "birthplace of Silicon Valley." 

Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer in his parents' Silicon Valley home.

Steve Jobs grew up in this ranch-style home in Los Altos. In 1976, he and Steve Wozniak used the garage to assembled the first 50 Apple computers, which they then sold to Paul Terrell's Byte Shop for $500 each. 

The Los Altos Historical Commission has designated the house a "historic resource," which means that any future renovations will need to be approved by the city.

Google also started in a garage.

In the winter of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid Susan Wojcicki $1,700 a month to work out of the garage in her Menlo Park home. They were still students at Stanford at the time. 

Brin later married Wojcicki's sister Anne, though the couple recently separated. 

The top dogs in finance are worth millions and even billions, so it's no surprise they flaunt their exorbitant pay checks on the places they call home.

We found the most expensive homes belonging to bankers, hedge funders, and the kings of finance.

From oceanfront mansions with more rooms than you could possibly know what to do with to ritzy Manhattan penthouses with panoramic skyline views, any one of these properties will make you drool. 

To estimate the approximate current market value of the houses, we looked at public assessors' records and spoke to expert realtors in these homes' markets, including Kyle Egan, licensed real estate salesperson for Nest Seekers International, and Susan Breitenbach, licensed associate real estate broker with Corcoran Group.

#17 Peter and Jill Kraus' Park Avenue residence (TIE)

Estimated value: $30 million

Title: Former Merrill Lynch executive and wife

According to Curbed, Peter and Jill Kraus purchased this Park Ave. sweet spot for nearly double what the previous owner paid. The former "Goldmanite" worked for just three months at Merrill Lynch before collecting his $25 million bonus and resigning, eventually purchasing this impressive apartment.

Nest Seekers real estate broker Kyle Egan estimated the home at $30 million, based on a similar listing on another floor of the building.

#17 Julian Robertson's luxurious full-floor apartment (TIE)

Estimated value: $30 million

Title: Founder of Tiger Management Corp.

Julian Robertson purchased an apartment at the famous Hampshire House on Central Park South for "just" $3.9 million, and later came to occupy the entire 27th floor, according to Egan. Given the high per-square-foot prices of a Park-facing unit, Roberton's five-apartment combination — totaling 8,000 square feet — is valued around $30 million.

The property was built by the grandfather of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and has been home to numerous wealthy individuals, from David Koch to Vera Wang. Living here, however, comes with very high maintenance fees and carrying charges.

#16 Eddie Lampert's Florida mansion

Estimated value: $30.3 million

Title: Chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments

Eddie Lampert set records for the most expensive single family home in Indian Creek Island when he purchased this property for $40 million in 2012. It's an extra-impressive feat, considering the neighborhood's affluence.

The seven-bedroom, Italian-style home is set on 2.7 acres in Biscayne Bay, and includes luxurious features like a reflecting pool at the entrance. Public assessor records estimate the home is worth $30.3 million today.

Mark Cuban lives a life most people envy. 

After selling his dot com company in the late nineties for $5.9 billion, Cuban has been able to live large. And live large, he has.

One of his biggest purchases was a majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks, and ever since, he's become a huge voice in the sports world.

What does it feel like to be a billionaire? Cuban told James Altucher on a podcast:

"The billion was, 'I can't f---ing believe it.' Literally, I was sitting in front of a computer, naked, hitting the refresh because we were close — waiting until my net worth hit that billion when the stock price got to a certain point, and then I kinda screamed and jumped around and then got dressed."

Even in college, Cuban was a businessman.

He and his friends had a bar called Motely's Pub but it was shut down because they had a wet t-shirt contest with an underage girl in it.

After graduating from Indiana University, he took a job as a bartender in Dallas.

He also had a job as a salesperson at a PC retailer in Dallas, but he was fired in less than a year when instead of opening the store, he met with a client about new business.

So this is when Cuban decided to take matters in his own hands.

Cuban's first business was called MicroSolutions. But a few years later, in 1990, Cuban sold this company to CompuServ for $6 million. Cuban cleared $2 million after taxes, and by the time he had sold the company, he had already saved up about $1 million.

Two Stanford computer scientists proved last year that beer geeks have great taste. 

Stanford University computer science post-doc Julian McAuley and assistant professor Jure Leskovec released a paper in 2013 outlining how our tastes change as we consume more products and gain more expertise.

They theorized that the more experience we have, the more we will like certain products that are less accessible to beginners.

McAuley and Leskovec developed a model to help them separate "expert" users from "beginners" on a given review website. You can read all about it here, but briefly, it takes into account the number of reviews a user has written, and how the user's ratings evolved compared to the rest of the "expert" community (those who have written more than 50 reviews).

In honor of International Beer Day, we are sharing their data for the highest-rated beers by experts on RateBeer, the largest beer-rating website, with more than 3 million beer reviews.

#20 Stone's Imperial Russian Stout

Brewed in Escondido, California, experts on RateBeer gave Stone Brewing Co.'s Imperial Russian Stout 4.215 out of 5 stars.

The brew is thick, rich, and pours black with a roasted, complex aroma of black currants, coffee, and anise.

Ratings on RateBeer are out of 5, and factor in aroma, appearance, taste, palate, and an overall score. "Experts" are defined by the Stanford University study as RateBeer users who are assigned the highest experience level based on volume of reviews and how their ratings compare to other "experts."Click here to learn more about the methodology.

#19 Bell's Batch 7000 Ale

This imperial Stout from Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan was rated 4.226 by experts on RateBeer.

Brewed in honor of the brewery's 7,000th batch, it pours dark with almost no head and flavor undertones of vanilla and caramel.

Ratings on RateBeer are out of 5, and factor in aroma, appearance, taste, palate, and an overall rating.
"Experts" are defined by the Stanford University study as RateBeer users who are assigned the highest experience level based on volume of reviews and how their ratings compare to other "experts."Click here to learn more about the methodology.

#18 Bell's Hopslam Ale

Another beer from Kalamazoo's Bell's Brewery, Bell's Hopslam Ale is an Imperial/Double IPA beer that was rated 4.229 stars by RateBeer experts.

Bell's used six different kinds of hops to make this beer, which has floral and grapefruit notes.

Ratings on RateBeer are out of 5, and factor in aroma, appearance, taste, palate, and an overall rating.
"Experts" are defined by the Stanford University study as RateBeer users who are assigned the highest experience level based on volume of reviews and how their ratings compare to other "experts."Click here to learn more about the methodology.

One hundred and fifty miles off the Horn of Africa lies a tiny archipelago of islands known as Socotra.

Because of its extreme isolation from other land masses, Socotra has very unique plant life, a third of which can be found nowhere else in the world.

Not only are the plant endemic to Socotra, but they look weird as can be, causing people to refer to it as "the most alien-looking place on earth."

Socotra is part of Yemen, which is currently undergoing some serious political strife. But you wouldn't know that from the surreal beauty of Socotra.

Because Socotra is one of the most isolated land masses in the world, as well as its extreme temperatures and dryness, Socotra's flora is incredibly unique and unusual-looking. A third of all plant life on the island can only be found on Socotra.

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One of the most distinct plants on the island is the Dragon's Blood Tree. It gets its name from its crimson red sap, which has been prized for centuries for its purported medicinal qualities. The people of Socotra still use it today as a cure-all for many daily health problems, as well as for dying fabric.

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Just a week ago, the S&P500 hit a new all-time high, continuing an epic five-year bullish run for stocks.

But some market commentators believe we must be heading for a top.

The signs are there if you want to look for them. As of Friday, the Dow had erased all of 2014's gains. Forward price-to-earnings ratios are well above both their five- and 10-year averages. Even Alan Greenspan has said a correction is inevitable given that the rally is now well into its fifth year. 

There are other, less technical signs. We're talking about the signs of that make you think twice and wonder if irrational exuberance has taken over and investors are investing in things recklessly.

We've pinpointed the 15 most ridiculous moments in finance of the year so far that might lead one to believe that this bull market has seen its top.

Marketwatch profiles "the Oracle of San Quentin."

Since his conviction 15 years ago on murder charges, Curtis Carroll, now 35, has gained a reputation among inmates at the infamous California penitentiary as an investing wizard. Marketwatch's Catey Hill says that while it's impossible to judge his track record, his advice "some quite good, some risky and speculative, and most of it brand-new territory for a clientele that lives behind prison walls."

Burrito Bonds

A U.K. Chipotle-esque chain is looking to raise funds from mainstream investors by offering"burrito bonds" that come with an 8% coupon, and of course free burritos for a year. 

Uber for Underwear.

OK, technically FlyCleaners.com, backed by Union Square's Fred Wilson, will also deliver the rest of your laundry at a moment's notice. Through your phone you just tell them exactly where you need your clothes picked up, and they come to you.  

If you're looking for something to read that will improve your ability as an investor, I'd recommend any of these books. All 12 of them are deeply informative and will leave an impact on you.

Keep in mind that if investing were as easy as buying a book and reading it, we'd all be rich.

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The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

Described as "by far the best book on investing ever written" by none other than Warren Buffett. "Chapters 8 and 20 have been the bedrock of my investing activities for more than 60 years," he says. "I suggest that all investors read those chapters and reread them every time the market has been especially strong or weak."

You can find the book on Amazon.

The Little Book that Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

As Buffett says, investing is simple but not easy. This book focuses on the simplicity of investing. Greenblatt, who has average annualized returns of about 40% for over 20 years, explains investing using 6th grade math and plain language. Putting it into practice is another story.

You can find the book on Amazon.

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

The core of Taleb's other books — The Black Swan and Antifragile — can be found in this early work. One of the best parts, for me, was the notion of alternative histories. "Mother nature," he writes, "does not tell you how many holes there are on the roulette table." This book teaches you how to look at the world probabilistically. After you start doing that, nothing is ever the same again.

You can find the book on Amazon.

The marketing stunt can be a valuable tool for any company. Last week, Microsoft employees released a ridiculous "Sexy And I Know It" parody featuring the Surface tablet, and despite the horrible lyrics and dancing, it actually made the Surface look sort of cool.

But Microsoft — and even the Surface — already has a defined image. No matter how the video turned out, Microsoft would still be Microsoft.

A startup has more to potentially gain from a successful marketing stunt than any other kind of company. Without defined brand images in the minds of consumers, some clever PR can easily turn a fledgling startup into a superstar brand in a matter of weeks.

GoldieBlox created a viral video about getting young girls into technology. It got 3 million views in two days and caused a lawsuit.

GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling is a Stanford-educated engineer who produced the popular video to the hit Beastie Boys song "Girls." 

The lyrics spoke to an issue about too few women being interested in technology from a young age. Here are some of the versus:

Girls to build the spaceship,

Girls to code the new app,

Girls to grow up knowing they can engineer that.

Girls.

That's all we really need is Girls. 

To bring us up to speed it's Girls. 

Our opportunity is Girls. 

Don't underestimate Girls.

The video was watched more than 8 million times. All the attention attracted a lawsuit between the Beastie Boys and GoldieBlox over rights to the music. It kept GoldieBlox, an interactive game company few people had heard of, in headlines for weeks.

Here's the video.

Tinder visited sororities and their partnering fraternities on campus and devised a master plan to get tons of signups.

Tinder cofounder Whitney Wolfe ventured to college campuses with a clever plan to onboard thousands of users. According to Bloomberg Businessweek's Nick Summers, Wolfe scheduled meetings with sororities and then their corresponding fraternities on campus. Sororities typically have a favorite fraternity or two on campus that they plan social events with frequently, so Wolfe made sure to hit both chapters back to back.

From Summers:

“We sent her all over the country,” Munoz told me this week. “Her pitch was pretty genius. She would go to chapters of her sorority, do her presentation, and have all the girls at the meetings install the app. Then she’d go to the corresponding brother fraternity—they’d open the app and see all these cute girls they knew.” Tinder had fewer than 5,000 users before Wolfe made her trip, Munoz says; when she returned, there were some 15,000. “At that point, I thought the avalanche had started,” Munoz says.

Mailbox was one of the first apps to stir up demand by creating a wait list that grew to more than 260,000 people.

Mailbox, an email app that sold to Dropbox for ~ $100 million 37 days after launch, built hype for the product by creating a virtual wait list.

The demand grew to more than 260,000 pre-launch signups by first creating an intriguing teaser video that promised to help people reach a desirable inbox 0. 

Then, blogs like TechCrunch went wild. That's when Mailbox announced a brilliant "reservation" scheme to keep the hype going and waited an unnecessarily long time to launch. Here's the video that was used to hype up the app.

In Qatar, the summers are long and hot. From April through October, the average high hovers between 90 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and there's hardly ever a drop of rain.

To meet the needs of a rapidly growing population, the oil-rich country must rely on imports for about 90% of its food. But there's a radical idea that's growing — against all odds — in the middle of Qatar's vast Arabian Desert.

It's called the Sahara Forest Project (SFP for short).

SFP was created to find a way not just to grow food in the desert, but to do so sustainably — to make the environment better, not worse. As the organizers explain in a fact sheet, it's "designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater, and CO2 to produce food, water, and energy."

As the planet gets hotter and more crowded, this initiative in Qatar becomes relevant to us all. If we can learn how to sustainably grow food in such inhospitable conditions, the world's agricultural future might not be as bleak as it seems.

Construction of the 10,000 square meter pilot site in Qatar began in 2012. It's built on land near the capital city of Doha, adjacent to an industrial ammonia factory.

Source: Sahara Forest Project

The major technologies incorporated into the project include: concentrated solar power, revegetation, and saltwater-cooled greenhouses.

The SFP pilot facility includes the first "concentrated solar power" unit in Qatar. The unit uses mirrors to reflect and focus the sun's rays, amplifying the solar energy captured. In the next phase, this will be used to generate electricity by powering a steam turbine. In the pilot, the power it generates is used to turn some of the saltwater into freshwater.

Before British photographer Luke Casey settled in Hong Kong, he spent 3 1/2 months traveling by boat. It was only later that he realized how much faster he could see the world — sort of — by visiting one theme park in nearby Shenzhen.

Window of the World features incredibly detailed reproductions of 130 major tourist attractions, some life-size and some much smaller, squeezed into 118 acres.

Created in 1994, the park has become a popular destination in itself.

“I have always found tourist destinations interesting in that for the majority of visitors, it is simply about getting your photo with that landmark, buying a souvenir and then getting back on the bus,” Casey told Business Insider. “Why visit those places for real when you can get all those photos and souvenirs in one place?”

There are approximately 150 replicas of world sights in Window Of The World. Here you can see Basilica Di San Marco in the park's replica of Venice's Piazza San Marco.

Part of the allure is seeing all of the landmarks in one place. Here you can see the riverside view of Piazza San Marco, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

At 354 feet, the park's version of the Eiffel Tower is one-third the size of the real thing.

There's no shortage of advice on where to meet the right person, how to make people like you, and how to build a successful relationship.

Sometimes, though, people are attracted to each other for seemingly arbitrary reasons, such as what color you wear or whether you have a pet.

What might influence someone to fall for you? We pored through research on the psychology of attraction and found some fascinating reasons why people fall in love.

If you do something thrilling together.

In 1974, Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron wanted to test the connection between sexual attraction and anxiety. In their study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, they placed men under two conditions. The first walked across a high, shaky bridge. The other was on a low, sturdy bridge. Afterward, they met a female experimenter who asked them a series of questions and gave the men her phone number "just in case."

The men who met the woman after walking on the high bridge were more likely to call her than the men who met her on the low bridge. Psychologists call this phenomenon the "misattribution of arousal." The high bridge created a sense of arousal from the anxiety, but men mistakenly thought it was from the attraction to the woman.

This is why many people like to do exciting things on first dates, such as visiting amusement parks, skydiving, or riding motorcycles.

If you prime them to feel more attracted to you.

Priming is an implicit memory effect, which means that the stimuli you are exposed to can influence your response to later stimuli. For example, if people take a multiple choice test with words that have to do with "oldness" like "Florida,""gray," and "weak," they tend to walk slower afterward.

Yale psychologist John Bargh performed an experimentin which participants held warm or cold beverages and had to rate whether someone's personality was warm or cold. Participants who held warm beverages judged the person to have a warm personality, because their minds were already primed to think that way.

If you take someone on a coffee date instead of an ice cream date, they may feel more warmly toward you.

If you live close to them.

It's not only important to be close to someone emotionally — you should also strive to be close physically. According to an experiment at MIT, the proximity of students' dorm rooms increased how close they felt to one another.

This is because they had more passive interactions, like brief meetings as they passed one another in the hallway, which made them feel more intimate.

It's known as the mere exposure effect, which states that familiarity plays a huge role in attraction.

Today, we use our smartphones more than ever to capture photos. As smartphone cameras continue to evolve, the need to carry around a separate camera with you becomes even slimmer.

The iPhone in particular has been praised for the quality of its camera. The iPhone 5s, for example, is capable of capturing larger microns in its lens than some other smartphones.

Basically, this means its camera sensor is capable of taking in more light, which results in more detailed and clear photos.

But there's always room for improvements. iPhone accessory makers and photography companies have released a ton of gadgets that are meant to enhance your iPhone's camera capabilities.

We've combed through a bunch of expert reviews and photography blogs to find some of the best camera accessories for your iPhone. 

USBFever's Fisheye Wide Angle 2X 9X 12X Telephoto Lens for iPhone 5s / 5 ($98.99)

This lens set comes with several handy lenses for your iPhone 5. In the pack, there's an 180-degree Fisheye lens, a wide angle lens, and various telephoto lenses in 2X, 9X, and 12X variants. USBFever claims that these lenses can turn your iPhone into a professional DSLR camera. 

Joby GripTight GorillaPod Stand ($16.74)

Sometimes, you need a better way to hold your camera. That's when tripod and camera mounts prove useful. The Joby GripTight GorillaPod Stand provides a flexible anchor for your phone that Joby says will stick to nearly any surface. It works with any smartphone, regardless of which model you have. 

Lensbaby Sweet Spot Lens ($70, coming soon)

In May, Lensbaby raised more than $40,000 on Kickstarter to create an attachable lens for smartphones that lets you choose the area of focus. With the Sweet Spot, you can focus on one point in your image while the outer edges gradually get blurry. Lensbaby, which makes an array of lenses, says this is its most popular effect to date. It'll cost $70 when it comes to market, but Kickstarter backers get it for $50. 

While paying for top talent is important, studies consistently show that money isn't the only thing that makes people happy at work.

The savviest companies today have figured out that offering awesome perks can help them get, and keep, the very best employees.

We've found 17 companies that understand the value of rewarding their staff — and do it in some of the coolest ways possible.

Epic Systems gives 5-year employees a monthlong vacation.

Healthcare tech company Epic Systems gives employees at least one great reason to stick around — a monthlong paid vacation. Even better: If employees choose to spend their sabbatical in a country they've never visited, Epic will pay for most of the travel costs for the employee and a friend.

Epic's expansive offices, on a farm outside of Madison, Wisconsin, are another impressive perk. The campus features an Indiana Jones-themed tunnel, a tree-house conference room, a moat, and plenty of green space for outdoor activities.

Google has free food, a bowling alley, and bocce courts.

There’s a reason Google has been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” each of the past three years. The company has incredible offices around the world that offer, among other benefits, free food at gourmet, on-site cafes.

Meanwhile, employees don't even have to leave work to partake in a range of recreational activities — Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters have a gym, a bowling alley, a game room, and basketball courts.

For chores, there's also a barber shop, a massage parlor, and a laundromat.

Cisco Systems has a gym that offers physical therapy and acupuncture.

Cisco's LifeConnections Health Center is more than just a fitness center; it also offers primary care, physical therapy, acupuncture, and even a pharmacy.

The company believes in supporting a healthy work-life balance, and it provides employees with telecommuting technologies like data and voice services to create a home office experience.

Last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thumbed his nose at Google for its various “moonshot” projects, currently housed at Google's semi-secret X Labs.

When asked if Microsoft could learn a thing or two from X Labs, Nadella retorted that there's always something to learn from "from people who market themselves well."

He was right to some degree. Project X creates a lot of hype for Google even though most of those projects aren't quite ready for the public.

But you’ve still got to hand it to Google for being so ambitious about ventures others would label “implausible” to “impossible.”

Google has already changed the world with its various software services and platforms like Gmail, Google Maps, Android, and of course Google search, but what Google is working on next is even more awe inspiring.

Google Glass

The head-mounted optical display is one of the only projects to actually leave the Google X labs. Though it has some practical applications for searching and navigating, it’s still not quite ready for consumers just yet — it’s still in beta and has a prohibitive $1,500 price tag. 

Still, Google’s wearable technology has found important enterprise, military and government uses. In June, Nepal’s government and military opted to use Google Glass to track its various wild animals, but also poachers that threatened the country’s endangered flora and fauna.

Self-Driving Car

The first official X Labs project, Google has spent the last four years developing its autonomous cars with the help of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, even if “the technology is ahead of the law in many areas,” as one attorney for the California Department of Motor Vehicles put it to The New York Times.

Most recently, Google unveiled a new prototype of its self-driving car that has no wheels or pedals. Though it’s a cute design, Google said it aims on pitching its incredibly intelligent software, called Google Chauffeur, to automobile manufacturers, giving them the data and tools they need to bring the noble technology to market.

Smart Contact Lens

The lens, which contains a mini glucose sensor and a wireless chip, aims to help people living with diabetes by measuring the sugar levels in their tears. 

It’s only been in development for two years now, but last month, Google announced it will be working with Novartis’ eye-care division called “Alcon” to bring the smart contact lens to market, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This Sunday, E!'s hit reality show "#RichKids of Beverly Hills" will return for a second season.

The hour-long, "Rich Kids Of Instagram" Tumblr-inspired show features six friends from 90210 who drop thousands of dollars on clothes, shoes, cars, and partying like it's their job — because that's exactly what it is for some of these "funemployed" 20-somethings. 

Get to know the cast and catch up on season one here before this weekend's season two premiere, which takes the "Rich Kids" to China.

Season two of "#RichKids of Beverly Hills" premieres this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on E!

Meet 25-year-old Dorothy Wang, who was born and raised in Beverly Hills — "The best city in the world."

Dorothy says "Growing up, my parents never talked about money. It wasn't until it was printed in Forbes that I knew how much money we had."

Dorothy is currently "funemployed and fabuluxe," but "when I grow up I want to be the Asian sensation of the world."

Tons of research shows that our adult behavior stems from what we experienced as kids. 

If you're extremely sneaky or suffer from obesity, it's probably an issue you can trace back to your younger days.

To help you make connections between now and then, we've compiled 14 childhood experiences that shaped who you are today.

Vivian Giang contributed research to this story.

If your parents didn't let you make decisions, you might be codependent as an adult.

If you had a helicopter parent who didn't allow you to dress yourself or choose your own playmates and food, you may end up as a codependent adult, says mental health counselor Laura JJ Dessauer. 

As you get older, this means that you'll seek out relationships in which your partner has all the power and control.

If you were close with your dad, you can handle intimacy now.

If you had an emotional connection with your father as a child, you'll be able to enter a healthy, physically intimate relationship with a partner later in life.

"The research found a definitive connection between the quality of the father-child relationship and interpersonal relationships later in life,"said lead researcher Dr. Nurit Nahmani.

If your parents were super controlling, you might be a stubborn adult.

Stubbornness is a defense mechanism that children adopt to escape the will of their controlling parents. The children will also likely grow up to inherit this trait.

Eighty-three percent Russians approve of Vladimir Putin as president, a number that has soared from 54% last year since his annexation of Crimea and intervention in Ukraine as well as the Sochi Olympics.

Westerners may wonder why Russians so happily approve of a man who is becoming an international pariah.

And that might get them wondering what else Russians think and what Russians are like anyway.

Taking care to avoid unfounded stereotypes, we've turned to data from polling centers, the World Health Organization, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Pew Research Center to identify facts about the majority of Russia's 144 million citizens.

The average Russian adult consumes 15 liters of pure alcohol annually, far more than the 9-liter average in America. Heavy drinking has been blamed for alarmingly high early death rates for Russian men.

Source: WHO and Reuters

56% of Russians aren't pleased with the quality of their drinking water, the worst of the 36 nations ranked by OECD.

Current data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

60% of Russians think their country is moving in the right direction.

August 2013 Levada Center Poll

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The TMZ office in Los Angeles is unique in the way that the celebrity gossip website's work space also functions as a TV studio for the show.

TMZ on TV, which airs mainly on Fox-owned stations, features "in-studio" segments that are taped during a morning staff pitch meeting — led by the site's founder and show's executive producer, Harvey Levin — at TMZ's headquarters.

TMZ is an insider term ("thirty-mile zone" or studio zone), referring to the movie studio area of downtown Hollywood.

San Fransisco-based Rapt Studio recently refurbished TMZ's very public workspace — see what it's like to work in the fast lane.

If you've ever watched TMZ on TV, you're already familiar with the show's pitch meeting format.

San Fransisco-based Rapt Studio designed the real life work place/TV studio in Los Angeles. The celebrity-inspired workspace is built around a 9,000-square-foot newsroom, connecting brand and culture to its environment.

Rapt Studio 

TMZ's trademark red and black color scheme is apparent upon arrival.