Whoever said fish can't fly haven't seen mobula rays in action.
These marine animals, which are often referred to as devil rays because their heads have two horn-like points, can soar through the air for up to a few seconds at a time before belly-flopping back to their watery home.
Why they do it, however, is a complete mystery. Scientists propose that it could be a mating ritual, a way to feed, or just a fun activity, but no one is certain, yet.
Mobula rays are closely related to their larger cousins, the manta ray. Some species of mobula can measure as much as 17 feet long and weigh over a ton.
Octavio told Business Insider that the massive swarm of devil rays he saw in 2011 arrived in a region near the Gulf of California in January and stayed through May.
Tens to hundreds of rays will leap out of the water at a time. Researchers have noticed that usually the jumpers are located along the outskirts of the swarm, which could be the key to understanding why they jump.
Over the Memorial Day weekend, parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico were hit hard by a massive rainstorm that has caused deadly flooding.
CNN reports that 22 people have been killed and a dozen more are missing. Two people died overnight in Houston, bringing the total to five fatalities in Texas and four in Oklahoma, while 13 died from the flooding in Mexico.
"We've seen flooding before, but not nearly to this extreme," Gage Mueller, a Houston resident for the past 40 years, told CNN. "It rains and it rains and it rains, and there's really nowhere for the water to go ... It's ridiculous."
Apple has overtaken Google this year to become the world's most valuable brand, according to WPP and Millward Brown's annual "Brand Z" rankings.
Technology brands dominate the top 10, but there is also a surprise entrant.
Millward Brown's study uses the views of around 2 million potential and current customers of a brand, alongside financial data, to calculate a company's brand value. You can see the full report and methodology here.
10. Marlboro
Brand value: $80 billion
Percentage change from last year: +19%
Last year's rank: 13
What happened: Perhaps a surprise entrant into the top 10 for many people, Marlboro's brand value has shot through the roof over the past year. It commands 43.8% of the US cigarette market, and outside the US, Marlboro's share is bigger than the next two largest brands combined, according to Forbes. Millward Brown says the increase in brand value is largely due to the rise in Altria's (the company that controls Marlboro in the US) share price, which has increased around 26% in the past year.
9. McDonald's
Brand value: $81 billion
Percentage change since last year: -5%
Last year's rank: 5
What happened: It was a testing year for McDonald's, which had to battle consumer concerns around its ingredients, supply chains, and environmental responsibility. Its 5% decline in brand value this year follows another 5% decline in value a year ago.
8. Coca-Cola
Brand value: $84 billion
Percentage change since last year: +4%
Last year's rank: 6
What happened: Millward Brown also credited Coca-Cola for roughing out tough times by adjusting its product range and communications to more effectively address growing consumer concerns around health issues. The brand had particular success with its worldwide "Share a Coke" campaign, which boosted sales in the US for the first time in more than a decade.
An astonishing golden statue of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan riding a golden horse hit headlines this week — but it's not Central Asia's only impressive and slightly bizarre structure.
The capital cities of both Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) and Kazakhstan (Astana) have architecture and statues you'll struggle to find anywhere else in the world.
These are some of the more otherworldly statues and buildings built in the two cities since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Here's the latest golden statue of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan. His likeness is sat on a giant golden horse.
Former President Saparmurat Niyazov also had a thing for gold statues of himself. This one is also in Ashgabat, where the golden horse statue is located.
Turkmenistan's monument of neutrality also featured a golden statue of Niyazov — until a few years ago, this one even rotated to face the sun.
Which liberal arts colleges have the most eligible students and alumni in the US?
Hinge, a popular dating app that introduces users to friends of friends, says it knows.
The dating app displays profiles of single people in your city. If you like someone's profile, swipe right; if you're not interested, swipe left. Unlike location-based dating apps such as Tinder, Hinge shows you only second- and third-degree connections.
Hinge curated its list of the most desirable liberal arts colleges using two criteria: Attractiveness (the alumni from these universities have high "swipe right" rates on their profiles) and academic ranking, using US News & World Report's competitive ranking of liberal arts colleges. The alumni in each picture collage are real people you could meet on Hinge.
10. Trinity College
Beauty: These alumni are swiped right on 16% more than the average Hinge user.
Brains: US News & World Report Liberal Arts Colleges ranking: #45.
The mortgage website HSH.com has updated its estimate of how much annual income a household would need to buy a home in major cities in the US according to first-quarter 2015 data.
Several cities — Portland, Sacramento, Miami, and Denver — appear on the list of highest-priced metro areas for the first time.
The site looked at median home prices from the National Association of Realtors, along with interest rates for common 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages and property taxes, and insurance costs, to figure out how much money it would take to pay a median-priced home's mortgage principal, taxes, and insurance — and how much you would have to earn to afford it.
FIFA officials were recently indicted in a $150 million bribery scandal in connection with the selection of South Africa as the host country for the 2010 World Cup.
At the same time, Switzerland has announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Allegedly awful conditions for migrant workers along with 120-degree summers always made Qatar seem like an odd fit for host.
We've gathered photos to tell the incredible story of Qatar.
Qatar has been ruled by the Al-Thani family since the early 1900s when it became a British protectorate. On July 17, 1913, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Qassim Al-Thani (center left) became the ruler of Qatar.
At the time, Qatar’s primary industry was pearling and fishing. The country was marked by widespread poverty, malnutrition, and disease from the collapse of the pearl trade in the 1920s.
In 1939, oil was discovered at Dukhan. Development on the field was slow until 1949 because of World War II. While the oil discovery was significant, it was nothing compared with the natural-gas reserves found 30 years later.
That suffering increases exponentially when you're the leader of a company.
So how do top CEOs like Bill Gates and Tim Cook manage their overwhelming inbox flux?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos forwards pressing emails with one added character
When a customer emails Bezos to complain about something Amazon-related, which they can very easily do, Bezos often forwards the message to the appropriate person at the company, adding just one character: "?"
"When Amazon employees get a Bezos question mark email, they react as though they've discovered a ticking bomb," Businessweek reported in 2013. "They've typically got a few hours to solve whatever issue the CEO has flagged and prepare a thorough explanation for how it occurred, a response that will be reviewed by a succession of managers before the answer is presented to Bezos himself."
Huffington Post cofounder Arianna Huffington has three email no-nos
"The last time my mother got angry with me before she died was when she saw me reading my email and talking to my children at the same time," Huffington wrote in her book, "Thrive.""... being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us — including ourselves."
Apple CEO Tim Cook reads most of his 700-plus emails
The CEO who wakes up at 3:45 a.m. each day said during an interview with ABC that he receives somewhere between 700 and 800 emails a day.
"And I read the majority of those ... Every day, every day. I'm a workaholic."
The hour-long, "Rich Kids Of Instagram" Tumblr-inspired show features seven 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 the series here before delving into the current season three.
"Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on E!
Meet 27-year-old Dorothy Wang, who was born and raised in Beverly Hills — "The best city in the world."
In the pilot episode, 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."
For those looking to avoid the tourist traps of Europe, there are still undiscovered destinations to explore.
A recent thread on Quora discussed some of the best destinations in Europe that remain unknown.
The answers hit on a number of hidden gems, which we included in this list, along with some others that came from our own research.
From Denmark's Faroe Islands to one of Armenia's oldest monasteries, here are the places you can enjoy without hordes of other travelers.
Sarajevo — the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina — is a city surrounded by the Olympic Mountains and rich in history (Franz Ferdinand was shot there, which started WWI.) A blend of east and west and heavily influenced by the Ottoman Empire, the city offers museums, mosques, and cathedrals.
Kungsleden in northern Sweden is a must for hikers. The 450-kilometer-long hiking trail runs between the towns of Abisko and Hemavan and passes through one of Europe's largest remaining wilderness areas.
Nestled in Germany's Rhine River valley, the small town of Bacharch is picture-perfect with stone streets, colorful homes, and beautiful castles and churches.
The world's most powerful woman earned her Ph.D. in quantum physics, presides over the richest economy in Europe, and is the central broker in a massive euro-bailout deal.
Germany's Angela Merkel is the undisputed leader of her political party, and she faces hardly any opposition in her now third parliamentary term as chancellor.
Merkel rose from humble beginnings under an oppressive East German regime, overthrew her political mentor single-handedly, claimed the top spot as Germany's leader much like her late British counterpart Margaret Thatcher, who also had a degree in science.
Angela Kasner was born in Hamburg, West Germany, on July 17, 1954.
Angela Dorothea Kasner was born to Herlind Kasner, an English and Latin teacher, and Horst Kasner, a theologian and Lutheran minister.
A few weeks after she was born, her father moved the family to Templin, in East Germany, about an hour from Berlin.
Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police. The Stasi made people paranoid. Merkel learned early on to keep her cards close to her chest.
A perfectionist by nature, she excelled in her studies.
She excelled in academics, especially math, science, and languages.
In her teenage years, her parents encouraged her to join the Communist youth organization, the Freie Deutsche Jugend, or Free German Youth, to develop skills for a career in politics.
After flunking a physics course in high school, she decided to pursue a degree from the University of Leipzig in physics to prove her mastery of the subject.
Popular among her peers, she caught the eye of fellow physics student Ulrich Merkel, whom she met during a Russian exchange trip.
She married him in 1977 and graduated the following year with a degree in physics and physical chemistry.
She continued her academic career and went on to study at the elite German Academy of Sciences, in Berlin, and earned a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry, in 1986.
Nestled in midtown Manhattan, just a couple blocks south of Central Park, is a self-proclaimed health and wellness center called KryoLife, where clients are blasted with super-chilled air that's between minus 184 and minus 264 degrees Fahrenheit.
They like it so much, KryoLife co-founder and CEO Joanna Fryben told Business Insider, that over 90% of first-timers come back a second time.
The chilly experience is widely used in Europe to relieve certain types of pain and is growing increasingly popular in America, especially among professional athletes and celebrities.
Whole body cryotherapy was invented in the late '70s in Japan as a way to reduce pain due to inflammation in arthritis patients. According to KryoLife's CEO TKTK, many of its more than 1,000 clients are looking to ease pain due to some type of inflammation.
In a room about the size of a modest walk-in closet is KryoLife's chamber. The center has just the one chamber at their Manhattan base.
Tucked in a corner is one of the center's large tanks of liquid nitrogen. At room temperature and standard pressure, liquid nitrogen boils, and it's the resulting nitrogen gas that fills the chamber.
Going on ABC’s popular reality show “Shark Tank” means you’ll get to stand in front of a national audience of almost 10 million people to pitch your big idea.
The show has funded and created a number of new businesses, some of which get millions of dollars in sales.
What makes a successful pitch?
Online business broker Digital Exits went through every single pitch in the first five seasons of “Shark Tank,” or 380 in total, to find out the main factors that make a winning deal.
In case you haven't seen "Shark Tank," it's a reality show where contestants get to pitch their business idea in front of super successful investors. If you convince them with your idea, they will invest in your business.
But only 48% of the pitches end up in a deal, according to Digital Exits. It also helps to ask for less money, while offering about a quarter of your company. On average, winning pitches sought $184,345 for an equity stake of about 26%.
In most cases, the Sharks won't invest in a company that has no sales. In fact, successful pitches had almost half a million dollars in sales before pitching on Shark Tank.
Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.
In fact, Reuters reports that in 2009 there are 7.8 million millionaires in the United States. That’s a lot of people and the odds are one or two of them are living near you.
Heck, one of them might even be your neighbor. In fact, the odds are very good that it is your neighbor.
But, Len, you don’t know my neighbor. That guy doesn’t look anything like a millionaire.
Well, guess what? A millionaire who is truly financially savvy won't be easily recognizable.
1. He always spends less than he earns. In fact his mantra is, over the long run, you’re better off if you strive to be anonymously rich rather than deceptively poor.
2. He knows that patience is a virtue. The odds are you won’t become a millionaire overnight. If you’re like him, your wealth will be accumulated gradually by diligently saving your money over multiple decades.
3. When you go to his modest three-bed two-bath house, you’re going to be drinking Folgers instead of Starbucks. And if you need a lift, well, you’re going to get a ride in his ten-year-old economy sedan. And if you think that makes him cheap, ask him if he cares. (He doesn’t.)
4. He pays off his credit cards in full every month. He’s smart enough to understand that if he can’t afford to pay cash for something, then he can’t afford it.
5. He realized early on that money does not buy happiness. If you’re looking for nirvana, you need to focus on attaining financial freedom.
7. He knows that getting a second job not only increases the size of your bank account quicker but it also keeps you busy – and being busy makes it difficult to spend what you already have.
8. He understands that money is like a toddler; it is incapable of managing itself. After all, you can’t expect your money to grow and mature as it should without some form of credible money management.
9. He’s a big believer in paying yourself first. Paying yourself first is an essential tenet of personal finance and a great way to build your savings and instill financial discipline.
10. Although it’s possible to get rich if you spend your life making a living doing something you don’t enjoy, he wonders why you do. Life is too short.
11. He knows that failing to plan is the same as planning to fail. He also knows that the few millionaires that reached that milestone without a plan got there only because of dumb luck. It’s not enough to simply declare that you want to be financially free.
12. When it came time to set his savings goals, he wasn’t afraid to think big. Financial success demands that you have a vision that is significantly larger than you can currently deliver upon.
13. Over time, he found out that hard work can often help make up for a lot of financial mistakes – and you will make financial mistakes.
14. He realizes that stuff happens, that’s why you’re a fool if you don’t insure yourself against risk. Remember that the potential for bankruptcy is always just around the corner and can be triggered from multiple sources: the death of the family’s key bread winner, divorce, or disability that leads to a loss of work.
15. He understands that time is an ally of the young. He was fortunate enough to begin saving in his twenties so he could take maximum advantage of the power of compounding interest on his nest egg.
16. He knows that you can’t spend what you don’t see. You should use automatic paycheck deductions to build up your retirement and other savings accounts. As your salary increases you can painlessly increase the size of those deductions.
17. Even though he has a job that he loves, he doesn’t have to work anymore because everything he owns is paid for – and has been for years.
19. After six months of asking, he finally quit waiting for you to return his pruning shears. He broke down and bought himself a new pair last month. There’s no hard feelings though; he can afford it.
So that’s it. Now you know what your millionaire neighbor won’t tell you.
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With an estimated net worth of $700 million, Dr. Dre is one of the wealthiest men in hip-hop. Only Diddy, with an estimated wealth of $735 million, is worth more.
According to Forbes, Dr. Dre earned a whopping $620 million before taxes in 2014, the biggest paycheck of any entertainer in history.
Apple acquired Beats Music and Beats Electronics, the music company Dre started with Jimmy Iovine in 2008, for $3 billion in May 2014.
In honor of the anniversary, we're taking a look at how the fabulously wealthy rapper spends his millions.
Dr. Dre, born Andre Romelle Young, has had a prolific rap career dating back to the 1980s. Through Aftermath, a division of Interscope, he helped launch the careers of both Eminem and 50 Cent.
Every May the Formula One carnival descends upon the twisty streets of Monte Carlo for the annual Grand Prix of Monaco.
Over the weekend, the narrow streets of the tiny Mediterranean principality are transformed into a full-blown racing circuit.
So far this season, Mercedes-AMG has dominated the series. The team's duo of drivers — Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg — have won five of the first six races. However, Ferrari and four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel have been resurgent and are now challenging for race victories.
As the F1 racing series heads for the small principality, Monaco is transformed into ...
...a grand-prix race course!
Over the years, the yacht-filled harbor has become the place to see and be seen.
Sponsored by San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna and voted upon by an international jury of chefs, critics, and food world luminaries, the list has just named 2015's top 51-100 restaurants in the world— aka the runners up to the forthcoming top 50.
But for some chefs and restaurateurs, the precursor to the top 50 brought defeat.
Last year Daniel Boulud's eponymous New York City restaurant, Daniel, was ranked number 40, but this year the French fine dining institution plummeted to number 80.
California chef David Kinch's Manresa, too, has been knocked from its perch, falling from the number 62 spot to the absolute bottom, number 100.
Making the list for the first time at number 49 last year, chef Daniel Patterson's San Francisco restaurant, Coi, slipped to the 75th spot.
David Chang's Momofuku Ko only fell one step behind, from 69th to 70th.
Abroad, some very heavy hitters lost their footing.
Paris' L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon was demoted from number 35 to number 63; San Sebastian's Martin Berasategui— which holds three Michelin stars — dropped from 31st to 63rd; and Monte Carlo's culinary crown jewel, Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV, fell from 56 to 82.
Montreal finally got the respect it deserves.
Somehow one of the world's hottest food towns has never had a restaurant featured on the top 50 or 51-100 list. Thanks to the maniacally delicious Joe Beef, in this year at number 81, the city now has official bragging rights.
And five New York and California restaurants inched upward.
In New York, every Wall Streeter's favorite sushi restaurant, Masa, reentered the list for the first time since 2009, claiming the 94th spot; The Nomad climbed up a rung, from number 68 to number 67; and Noho's small but mighty Estela hit the list for the first time ever in the 90th spot.
Over on the west coast, Napa's stunningly beautiful The Restaurant at Meadowood rose from number 80 to number 72, and San Francisco's Saison— at number 56, up from 69 last year — has the distinction of being the top North American restaurant on the 51-100 list.
The real news will come next week, though. Can René Redzepi's Noma be unseated? The Copenhagen juggernaut has been the number one restaurant in the world for four out of the past five years.
Looks might be everything for some of you, in which case you'd probably automatically for go for the beautiful Apple Watch over the Pebble Time.
But don't pull the trigger just yet, because the Pebble Time trumps the Apple Watch in eight key areas that could make you regret going for form over function.
The Pebble Time's battery lasts a lot longer.
Pebble claims the new Time smartwatch can last up to seven days on a single charge, while Apple claims the Apple Watch has an "all-day" battery life of 18 hours, so there's little contest there. It also realistically needs to be recharged every night.
Battery life might be the most important detail on a smartwatch as the battery plays a huge role in what the Watch can do and for how long.
In our tests, we found the Pebble Time lasts a little over four days on a charge. The Apple Watch lasts about a day and a half, so you'll still have to charge it every night.
The screen stays on all the time.
If a smartwatch is going to replace a nice "dumb" watch, or if it's going to act as a watch at all, it had better tell the time seamlessly whenever you look at it.
Unfortunately, the Apple Watch's limited battery life means the display is dark for most of the day, only waking when you make a time-checking wrist gesture. Sometimes it won't register your wrist movement well enough to wake the display, and you have to repeat the gesture in order to tell the time.
Meanwhile, the Pebble Time's color "e-paper" display is a battery sipper and stays on all day and night for days. Sure, it's not as sharp or colorful as the Apple Watch's display, but at least it tells the time all the time.
Anyone can make a watch face for the Pebble.
There are hundreds of watch faces for Pebble owners to chose from, but Apple Watch owners only have 10. That's because Pebble lets developers build customized watch faces. Apple doesn't.
Apple will surely release new faces over time, and it may even release a watch face developer's kit to let developers create third party Apple Watch faces.
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Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.
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