Durham, North Carolina has long been a center for innovation in tech, thanks in part to the universities of the Research Triangle. 

But now the city of 286,000 is becoming a hub for young companies looking to get their ideas off the ground.

Much of the activity has focused on the American Tobacco Campus, a former factory complex that has been completely revamped to include hip working spaces, retail, and restaurants and bars. Small startups, accelerators, and venture capital firms have made their homes there. 

Plus, Google just confirmed that Raleigh-Durham is next on the list to get Google Fiber, the super-modern Internet service that's said to be 100 times faster than basic broadband.

Tech companies based in Durham have long benefited from being able to recruit talent from the three universities of the Research Triangle: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Major companies like IBM and Cisco have been in Durham for decades. IBM recently opened a brand-new, 72,000-square-foot Cloud Resiliency Center at Research Triangle Park.

Source: Triangle Business Journal

But before Durham was a center of research and innovation, it was home to the largest tobacco company in the world, American Tobacco. Throughout much of the 20th century, the nation's supply of Lucky Strikes and Pall Malls were churned out of a series of factories on a 1-million-square-foot campus in downtown Durham. By 1987, however, the tobacco industry had declined, and the American Tobacco campus was suddenly vacant.

Source: American Tobacco Historic District, Curbed

When Matador Network, an online travel magazine, was first approached by publishing house Macmillan to write the new book "101 Places to Get F----- Up Before You Die," they were concerned.

"Our website is not about exploiting destinations," David S. Miller, a senior editor at Matador Network, told Business Insider. "Matador and our brand has always been about traveling in a respectful way and trying to connect with local people."

Which is why when they decided to take on the project, it wasn't just the obvious destinations and festivals — Burning Man, Oktoberfest, and New York nightclubs — that made it into the book (though those are in there, too). It was also about finding places that were off-the-beaten track: Locales that were not only fun to visit culturally, but that also knew how to have a good time.

"In the end, I felt like we were able to tread a really nice line between showing the exuberance and partying, and connecting with people," Miller said. "We also had natural humor with it without being fully salacious."

Matador Network shared some of their editors' top places to visit — keep reading to see where you need to get trashed with the locals.

Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

Known for its young population and unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird," Austin is a diverse mix of college students, musicians, tech, and business people.

For those who want to party in this Texas town, Matador editors say to "Start at Sixth Street, at the far eastern end of the street, and work your way west, drinking in as many places as you can and seeing how far you make it."

Barcelona, Spain

Filled with gorgeous beaches and teeming with nightlife, Barcelona even has a bar that's dedicated to producing hundreds of different types of shots for only 2 euros.

As Matador's writer Sarah Briggs put it, “Throughout the year, multi-generational party-seekers travel to Barcelona or BCN as cool people abbreviate it, many remaining to embrace the Mediterranean and the opportunity to nap on a daily basis without tan lines or scorn.” Enough said.

Berlin, Germany

Matador writer Josh Heller says of Berlin: “Everyone has their own version of where to go totally bonkers in Berlin, and each one of these prescriptions is 100% right."

And clubs never seem to close, either. "No matter how early you arrive in town, you’ll hear the thumping bassline of a familiar track," Heller says. "You’ll soon realize that it’s 8:00 A.M. and they’re playing an extended remix of the theme song from Ferris Bueller. This is Berlin.”

Asia has become a hugely popular travel destination in recent years, and now several cities in Asia have officially become the most-visited cities in the world.

Euromonitor International recently released data on the most-visited cities in 2013, and Asian cities dominated the list. 

Hong Kong took the top spot, with over 25 million visitors. Singapore and Bangkok trailed right behind. In fact, 11 of the top 20 cities are located in Asia. 

#20 Miami, USA: 6.3 million visitors

#19 Taipei, Taiwan: 6.6 million visitors

#18 Pattaya, Thailand: 6.9 million visitors

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick has been voted the best coach in the NFL for years on end.

You can see why when you look at how he's outfoxed his opponents — again and again. 

2000: Drafting Tom Brady with the 199th pick.

Belichick has earned a reputation as a brilliant talent scout.

That includes what might be the greatest draft pick in history: taking Michigan quarterback Tom Brady in the sixth round in 2000. 

"The thing with Brady was really the traits: his work ethic, his intelligence, his decision-making,"Belichick said in an interview."I think a lot of the draft process is [about] not where the player is right now, but where the player will be a year from now. I don't think I've ever seen a player improve as much as Tom did. That's certainly a big credit to his work ethic and his determination."

It paid off: Brady has two MVP awards, three Super Bowl wins, and 10 Pro Bowl selections.

2003: Giving up points — to get more in return.

Flash back to November 2003. The Broncos are up 24-23 on the Patriots with 2 minutes 51 seconds left in the game. The Pats are in the perilous position of 4th and 10 from their own 1-yard line. 

Belichick's solution? 

"Belichick was unwilling to give the Broncos strong field position, so he ordered his long snapper to air one over his punter's head, giving the Broncos two points on the safety and possession," John McTigue reports for ESPN. 

It worked. 

The Patriots forced the Broncos to go three-and-out, and Brady had over two minutes to come back and score the winning touchdown. 

2008: Waging the information war — even with the injury report.

Belichick listed Brady on the Patriots' injury report for three years straight. 

During that time, Brady played 127 straight games. 

Crazy, right? Anything to confuse opponents. 

It had an effect on how the league operates. 

"The NFL has altered the format for the injury report, in part because of the Patriots,"the Boston Globe reported. 

The way we access the internet has changed rapidly over the past few years, transitioning from desktops to mobile devices.

Now, the internet is expanding again — coming to all of the everyday devices found in our homes, businesses, and cities.

BI Intelligence has created a slideshow highlighting the most important ways the Internet of Everything market will develop, the benefits newly connected devices will offer consumers and businesses, and the potential barriers that could inhibit growth. 

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Jennifer Lopez has listed her Hidden Hills LA mansion for $17 million, Variety’s Real Estalker writer Mark David has exclusively learned.

The mansion is a stunning 17,129 square feet with nine bedrooms, a 20-seat theater, dance studio, gym, and a massive professional recording studio.

The home sits on three acres of land with a pool, outdoor kitchen, BBQ grill, huge patio, and 8-car garage.

Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony paid $8.2 million for the home back in 2012, according to Variety. 

Matthew Gaskill and Alisa Peterson of Sotheby’s International Realty are sharing the listing.

Welcome to Jennifer Lopez's gorgeous home in LA's exclusive Hidden Hills neighborhood.

Lopez is selling the property for $17 million. She originally bought it with her ex-husband Marc Anthony in 2010 for $8.2 million.

The home has more than 17,000 square feet of space and eight wood-burning fireplaces.

The San Francisco dining scene is known for being incredibly diverse and a bit quirky at times. 

But even with so many restaurants to choose from, certain food items always stand out.

Last summer, Foursquare launched a major rebranding initiative that takes users' preferences, or "tastes," and uses them to generate appropriate recommendations. 

Using the tastes users have provided, Foursquare's data scientists have been able to determine what restaurants and food items are trending in major cities like San Francisco.

From balsamic strawberry ice cream to macaroni and cheese grilled cheese, you'll find some amazingly delicious things on their list of San Francisco favorites. 

Food items are arranged alphabetically by category. 

BACON: Slow-cooked Brown Sugar Alderwood Smoked Bacon at Foreign Cinema

2534 Mission Street

BLOODY MARY: Bloody Elixir at Elixir

3200 16th Street

BOURBON COCKTAIL: Bourbon Old-fashioned at the Alembic

1725 Haight Street

Every year we survey the field of startups selling their wares to businesses to find the ones we think are sure-fire winners.

These are companies with great technology, great leadership, massive investor backing, or tons of partnerships and industry attention. Or all the above.

Enterprise has become a hot area for startups in the last year or two. We actually had difficulty narrowing our list down to these select few.

Mixpanel: Watching your website

Company name:Mixpanel
Headquarters: San Francisco
Investment raised to date: $77 million

Mixpanel grew hot in 2013 by helping companies figure out what website visitors were doing, and has been growing like crazy ever since.

Today, it counts nearly 3,000 companies as customers, including Uber and Airbnb, and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, early Yelp and PayPal exec Max Levchin, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and Yammer founder David Sacks. In December, it raised a $65 million round in that valued the company at $865 million.

Slack: Insanely popular chat app for work

Company name:Slack
Headquarters: San Francisco
Investment raised to date:$180 Million

Slack, a chat room for coworkers, is one of the fastest-growing business applications ever, going from launch to a value of $1 billion in a jaw-dropping 9 months. It now has over 365,000 users (including teams at Business Insider).

Prior to Slack, CEO Stewart Butterfield was a co-founder of Flickr, sold to Yahoo in 2005 for about $25 million.

Zenefits: Hottest employer in the Valley

Company name: Zenefits
Headquarters: San Francisco
Investment raised to date: $83.6 million

Two-year-old Zenefits has become the hottest employer in the Valley. It's causing chaos in the insurance and HR software industry by giving away cloud human resources software for free, making money as an insurance broker instead.

It's on track to grow its user base 1,600% this year and is so hot that "PayPal Mafia" angel investor David Sacks (who sold his last company, Yammer, to Microsoft for $1.2 billion) not only invested in Zenefits but signed on to work as its COO.

Whether it's in a sandwich, topping pasta, or simply on it's own, cheese is one of America's favorite foods.

We reached out to Sydney Willcox, formerly the head cheese monger at Murray's Cheese in Greenwich Village, and asked her what even true cheese connoisseurs get wrong about their favorite decadent treat.

Keep reading to see what everyone gets wrong about cheese.

Mistake No. 1: Wrapping cheese with plastic wrap.  

Even though the cheese may come in plastic wrap, you should be wrapping it up in parchment or wax paper when you’re done.  

“Cheese needs to breathe, and plastic wrap inhibits that ability,” Willcox explained. “When the wrap is too tight, as often the case with plastic, the cheese is more likely to grow unwanted bacteria; the tight wrap also prevents the cheese from breathing out off odors (such as ammonia, which is a natural byproduct of the cheese and needs to be released from the cheese).”

Plus, it can leave the cheese tasting plastic-y.

Mistake No. 2: Throwing out cheese with mold on it. 

Willcox said that unwanted mold on cheese is not the end of the world. 

“If white or blue mold is growing on the outside of a cheese, the cheese is not ruined,” Willcox explained. “Simply cut away the face of the cheese that has the mold on it and you’re set to go.” 

She does warn though that with a whey cheese, like ricotta, the mold can grow inside the cheese, so you shouldn’t eat it.

Mistake No. 3: Lactose intolerant people can’t eat cheese. 

This is true with some cheeses, but not all. 

“The lactic acid in milk is in the whey (the liquids, as opposed to the curd or solids), so the less moisture a cheese has, the less lactic acid it has,” Willcox said. “If your body takes issue with lactose, stick it firm aged cheeses.”

Mistake No. 4: Not serving cheese at room temperature. 

When you have guests coming over, don’t just plop some cheese down on a plate directly from the fridge. Give it time to reach room temperature.

“Cheese should be eaten at room temp to allow to flavors and textures to be enhanced to their full and natural state,” Willcox said. You’ll have a tastier cheese plate if you let the cheese sit out awhile.

Mistake No. 5: Keeping all cheeses in the fridge.  

“Many people still have it in their head that cheese needs to live in a cold, cold fridge,” Willcox said. Not so! 

Back when cheese was first made, it didn’t need to be kept in the refrigerator and it still doesn’t. “Cheese is a product that has gone through a controlled spoilage of milk,” Willcox said. “Very firm cheeses, such as Parmesan, can be kept out of the fridge for weeks — their life span just wont be quite as long.” 

If you do want to keep your cheese in the fridge, keep it in the warmest spot, like the vegetable drawer. A too-cold spot will keep the cheese from breathing, according to Willcox.  

Mistake No. 6: Assuming all cheeses have equal shelf lives.  

There are numerous cheese families and each one has a unique shelf life and ages in different ways.

“Get to know your cheeses,” Willcox advised. “Each cheese family has a different shelf life, peaks at a different age, prefers to be eaten at a different temperature, and pairs with different beverages and condiments.” 

Visit a cheese monger and don’t be afraid to ask questions. They’re there to help. 

Mistake No. 7: Not trying different cheeses within a cheese family.  

This is especially true for people who say they hate all blue cheeses or all stinky cheese. 

“People who think they dislike all blue cheeses are often used to one not-so-good, tart, past-its-peak blue,” Willcox said. “Blue cheeses get stronger or more stinging as they sit around so if you’re not eating from a fresh wheel you are likely getting a piece that would turn off even an avid cheese lover.  

Instead, try a mild blue cheese like a Cambozola Black Label or Cheriboga, and apply this to all different kinds of cheese. Even if you think you don’t like something, you could be in for an eye-opening (and mouth-watering) experience. 

SEE ALSO: See why New Yorkers are obsessed with Eataly, Mario Batali's giant Italian food market

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If your 20s are a time for figuring out who you are and what your purpose is, then your 30s are a time for discovering how to turn your aspirations into reality.

We asked entrepreneurs, including billionaire "Shark Tank" investor Mark Cuban and the cofounders of popular retailer Warby Parker, to share the most important lesson they learned in their 30s.

They shared insights into how their worldview and business approach changed with experience and created the success they enjoy today.

Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, co-CEOs of Warby Parker, learned that being deliberate is the key to beating the competition.

Blumenthal and Gilboa cofounded hip, affordable eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker with Andrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider in 2010. Last June, the company sold its millionth pair of glasses and is now expanding its brick-and-mortar business in addition to the ecommerce model that made it famous.

Blumenthal and Gilboa agree that as they learned to develop a business, they learned how to gain an advantage over once-intimidating competitors.

"Everything is not what it seems," they say. "Peek behind the curtain at a bunch of organizations, and it's not as tightly organized or well-run as you'd expect. There's so much opportunity for people to be more thoughtful. Being thoughtful and deliberate in one's approach is a big competitive advantage. The most thoughtful company wins."

Mark Cuban, "Shark Tank" investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, learned that nothing trumps sales.

The billionaire investor made the biggest deal of his life when he sold his company Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in Yahoo stock in 1999.

In his career, he's made over 120 investments in both major institutions like the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and startups featured on "Shark Tank." As he became a savvy investor through trial-and-error, he realized that any company, regardless of management issues, can be made to scale if they've developed an audience.

"In my 30s, I learned that in a business sales cures all," he says. "If you can generate sales you can have a succesful company."

Kristina Roth, CEO of Matisia Consultants, learned to see the big picture.

Roth founded Matisia Consultants in Seattle in 2006. Her firm has worked with several Fortune 100 companies, and last year it brought in over $60 million in revenue. Roth recently opened an office in Los Angeles and is planning an expansion into San Francisco.

In her 30s, she realized that it's a sign of strength, not weakness, to utilize your support group.

"I learned to be a bolder version of me, with more power to run the marathon of life, see the big picture, and stop from time to time to get the water somebody is offering you during this marathon," she says. "Say 'thank you,' recognize it's a team effort, but continue running and pushing a little more."

It has just been announced that Harper Lee — the famously private author who wrote the classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” — is coming out with her second book. 

Titled “Go Set a Watchman,” the novel is a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, though it was actually written before "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Lee has not published any new works for more than half a century, so naturally, book lovers and fans are thrilled.

But as we look forward to her new book, it’s worth noting that if it hadn’t been for a 1950s Christmas gift, Lee might never have written “To Kill A Mockingbird” in the first place.

Back in 1956, Lee was a ticket agent for British Overseas Airways Corporation. Like most struggling writers, she was having trouble balancing her job and finding time to write. 

She told this to her New York City friends, Michael and Joy Brown (who were also friends of Truman Capote — quite the literary circle). 

Michael was a successful "industrial musical writer" whom American corporations hired to create performances to inspire their workers. His clients ranged from DuPont to JC Penney, and he was raking in the money for songs like “The Wonderful World of Chemistry,” according to his New York Times obituary last year.

So in 1956, the Browns’ gave Lee the best Christmas present of all: An entire year’s salary so she could take time to write whatever she wanted.

“There was an envelope on the tree, addressed to me. I opened it and read: 'You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas,'"she wrote in McCall’s magazine in 1961. “They assured me that it was not some sort of joke. They’d had a good year, they said. They’d saved some money and thought it was high time they did something about me.”

Lee took that time to write "To Kill A Mockingbird," which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and is still read in classrooms around the country. 

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It's probably not destiny.

According to the research, love and attraction happen thanks to your hormones, your interests, and what your parents look like.

We've scoured the studies and collected some of the weird psychological reasons someone might fall in love with you.

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

If you're really, really alike

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

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

If you look like their opposite-sex parent

University of St Andrews psychologist David Perrett and his colleagues found that people are attracted to folks with hair and eye color like their parents— and the age range they saw at birth.  

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

If you smell right

According to a University of Southern California study, when women are ovulating, they prefer the smell of t-shirts worn by men with high levels of testosterone. 

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

This year, the biennial Ryder Cupgolf tournament took place at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. It was the first time since 1973 that the Cup took place in Scotland, and only the second time in history. 

Now, Diageo plc, the beverage company that owns Glenagles, has but the resort on the market, asking $300 million for the facility.

No place could be more suited for high pressure golf than the courses at Gleneagles. The grounds, as well as the other hotel facilities, are held to the highest standards of perfection. The entire grounds are quite remarkable.

Gleneagles marked its 90th anniversary by hosting the eagerly awaited biennial Ryder Cup this year.

Gleneagles was named the best golf resort in the world for the third year running at the 2014 ULTRA awards.

Linkman Duncan Hunter, who greets guests on arrival, poses for a photograph outside the hotel, which sits on 850 acres of beautiful land in Perthshire, Scotland.

On Sumba, a remote island in the Indonesian archipelago, natives continue to celebrate their most ancient traditions. The most important of these is the Pasola, an annual festival to celebrate the harvest. 

The Pasola festival is a brutal war ritual that pits two neighboring tribes against each other. Men of age ride on horseback throwing spears, with a deadly intent to spill blood onto the soil. Without blood, the Sumbanese believe, the harvest will be bad. 

Photographer James Morgan recently traveled to Sumba to document the festival. He has shared some of his photos with us here, but you can check out the rest at his website. 

Editor's Warning: Images in this slideshow may be considered graphic by some readers.

Sumba is a tiny island in Indonesia with a population of about 650,000. Unlike most Indonesian islands, Sumba has indigenous horses, which play an important role in Sumbanese culture.

Sumba is largely covered in rice paddies. The Sumbanese believe that for the rice to have a good harvest, blood must be spilled on the ground.

To spill the blood, the Sumbanese enact the Pasola. Shamans called "ratus" determine the date of the Pasola based on the appearance of the Nyale sea worms, which show up on the beach once a year.

Cold winter months can cause a bit of cabin fever in everyone — but that doesn't mean you can't get away.

Gogobot just released the winners of its 2015 Travelers' Favorites Awards, based on reviews from thousands of travelers as well as destination booking data.

One of the categories assessed the top winter destinations.

From the ski slopes of California's Big Bear mountain to the beaches of Cape Town, here are the top 20 destinations to travel to this winter. 

20. Jackson, Wyoming, USA

19. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

18. Cape Town, South Africa

A 35,000-square-foot mansion in the Atlanta metro area just went on the market for $13.9 million.

That's $26 million less than the mansion's mysterious current owners spent to build the lavish home — and they never even lived in it.

The gigantic house is currently one of the biggest homes for sale in the US, according to toptenrealestate.com. 

It features an insane number of ridiculous touches, including five kitchens, 17 bathrooms, eight bedrooms, a home theatre, a gun room, a wine cellar, a saltwater pool, and so much more. 

Atlanta Fine Homes has the listing.

The ridiculously lavish Rose Hill Estate is located in Suwanee, Georgia, which is about 35 miles north of Atlanta.

The town of Suwanee is routinely rated as one of the 10 best places to live in the US, appropriate for a house this luxurious.

The main residence is nothing short of huge, with a whopping 35,000 square feet of interior space. It's one of the 25 largest homes currently for sale in the US. All of that space includes...

LinkedIn recently asked the top minds in business to reflect on the best advice they ever received and what they did with those words of wisdom.

Here's what Richard Branson, Suze Orman, and six other super-successful people had to say.

Richard Branson: Listen more than you speak.

"I thought I would share a simple tip from another person who had an enormous impact upon my life — my dad," says the Virgin Group founder.

Growing up, Branson recalls being in a home where his mother was "dreaming up new entrepreneurial schemes left, right, and centre," while he and his sisters ran wild. "Amidst all the fun and chaos, Dad was always a supportive, calming influence on us all. He wasn't quiet, but he was not often as talkative as the rest of us. It made for a wonderful balance, and we always knew we could rely on him no matter what. Within this discreet support lay one of his best and most simple pieces of advice for me: Listen more than you talk."

Today, Branson writes, he tries to spend as much time as possible listening to the people he meets. "I am fortunate to travel widely and come across fascinating characters from all walks of life. While I am always happy to share my own experiences with them, it would be foolish if I didn't listen back."

Read his full post here.

Suze Orman: The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking.

"I've built a successful career around giving advice," writes Orman, a TV host and personal finance guru. "And that very success has often made me a target of criticism. Not helpful, constructive criticism, but nasty feedback entirely disconnected from facts."

She says when she first encountered the blowback, she was angry and perplexed. But then she learned to be an elephant. 

"A wise teacher from India shared this insight: The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking," she says. "The sad fact is that we all have to navigate our way around the dogs in our career: external critics, competitors, horrible bosses, or colleagues who undermine. Based on my experience, I would advise you to prepare for the yapping to increase along with your success."

She says it's important to remember that although you can't tame the barking dogs, you do have the ability to tune them out. 

"While the world would definitely be a better place without vindictive and misinformed dogs, I have learned to make peace with their existence. And used it to my advantage," she writes. Being an elephant has made Orman stronger and more resolute, and has helped her become more compassionate.

"It delights me to turn the dogs' vitriol into my virtue."

Read her full post here.

Michael Powell: Don't play in the baby pool.

"I heard my father [Colin Powell] say it first: 'Refuse to play in the baby pool.' ... I have no interest in playing on the minor league field. I want to play on center court. If you are going to win, you are going to have to beat me there,'" writes Powell, the president and CEO at NCTA.

This is more than bravado, he explains. "It is a challenge to others to treat you fairly and let them know you are wise to the inferiority game. It is also a challenge to yourself to be excellent and not to allow others to move you to perform off Broadway, or accept comfortable consolation prizes."

Read his full post here.

Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom tucked between India and China, has but one international airport.

Surrounded by 18,000-foot mountains.

That airport is called "Paro," and like the rest of the mostly Buddhist kingdom, it is nestled among the Himalayas, which make getting there a tricky proposition.

Obviously, however, it's easier to fly in than it is to walk.

Partly due to an unusually short runway, takeoffs and landings are among the world's most difficult, and very few pilots are qualified to land there.

But for those who can get their hands on a tourist visa, and handle their fear, a trip to Paro also offers breathtaking views of some of the world's most beautiful mountains, and one of the only ways to visit one of world's happiest countries.

Bhutan has preserved much of its traditional Buddhist culture, a big draw for the tourists who come from around the world to explore its majestic mountains and centuries-old monasteries. 

[An earlier version of this post was written by Alex Davies.]

The runway is short, with little space on either side.

The Google Maps satellite view shows it is nestled among the Himalayan Mountains.

One Google reviewer says there's one duty free shop and a small beverage counter, but "sweet and hospitable security and one of the most charming airport buildings ever."

[Source: Google Review]

Silicon Valley legend Jim Clark made it big when Netscape, the web browser company he founded with Marc Andreessen, went public in 1995.

Twenty years later, he's now worth an estimated $1.5 billion, thanks in part to large timely investments in Apple, Facebook, and Twitter.

Clark lives just the life you'd expect of a billionaire, with multiple mansions, racing yachts, private jets, and a model wife. 

Clark is a high school dropout from Plainview, Texas. After getting his GED, B.S. and ph.D., he went on to become a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. He founded visual effects company Silicon Graphics in 1982 and Netscape with Marc Andreessen in 1994.

Source: The Almanac

With the success of Netscape and its incredibly popular Navigator browser, Clark and Andreessen became the first to capitalize on the World Wide Web. Clark's wealth grew after the company's extremely successful IPO in August 1995. He later became a billionaire thanks to timely investments in Apple and Facebook.

Source: Forbes

Clark has developed a number of expensive hobbies in the 20 years since Netscape's IPO. As a former Navy man, sailing is perhaps his number one passion. His latest watercraft is the new 100-foot monohull sailboat he named "Comanche." Though he hasn't shared how much the boat cost to build, he told the Australian Associated Press, "Boats of this type are sort of like building a Formula 1 car. They are expensive."

Source: Daily Mail

Nearly 200,000 Texas women hold licenses to carry a concealed handgun, and the number of licenses issued to women has tripled in the last four years.

While their reasons for packing heat vary, one thing is for sure: These women won't hesitate to pull the trigger if their, or a loved one's, life depends on it.

Photographer Shelley Calton is one of them. In an effort to document and elucidate women's roles in modern gun culture, Carlton took portraits women in her native Lone Star State for her book "Concealed: She's Got a Gun."

You can buy the book in Europe in March and in the US in September, or preorder it on her website.

For some heat-packing women in Texas, carrying a concealed handgun is not only their right but a matter of life or death.

State law permits them to hold a handgun if it is hidden — worn on the body or tucked away in a glovebox or purse, as below — and provided that they secure a license through the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Source: Texas Department of Public Safety

More women are packing heat than ever before. The number of women who applied for a concealed handgun license, or CHL, tripled in the last four years, with 67,000 licenses issued in 2014 alone.

Source: Texas Department of Public Safety