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Here are the 14 most affordable housing markets in the US (XHB)

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Houses cost a lot of money. Finding more bang for your buck can be a challenge of being in the market for a home.

RealtyTrac, which analyzes US property data, identified the most affordable places to live in the US.

Surveying 582 counties across the country, the firm compiled home price and wage data. They developed a ranking of affordability by dividing the region's average mortgage payment by average weekly wages.

From RealtyTrac's findings, we compiled the list of the 14 most affordable counties in the US that are part of a metropolitan statistical area. 

For the most part the counties were in the Midwest and South. Missouri, South Carolina, Michigan, and Ohio all placed multiple counties in the list.

Check out the full list below with the metro area, affordability score, average house price, and average weekly wages. The list is from less affordable to the most.

14. Philadelphia, PA

Metro Area: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Affordability Percentage: 14.9%

Average Home Price: $120,956

Average Weekly Wage: $1,214

 

Source: RealtyTrac



13. Trumbull, OH

Metro Area: Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA

Affordability Percentage: 14.5%

Average Home Price: $68,133

Average Weekly Wage: $785

 

Source: RealtyTrac



12. Bay, MI

Metro Area: Bay City, MI

Affordability Percentage: 14.5%

Average Home Price: $55,016

Average Weekly Wage: $694

 

Source: RealtyTrac



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The 21 most popular novels of the year so far

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It's starting to get chillier, and there's arguably nothing more cozy than curling up with a good book. 

The beauty of fiction writing is its ability to take the reader into captivating imagined worlds, from fantasy-like environments to tales set back in time. 

Every year, Amazon pulls together its most popular print books of the year​. Based on sales numbers and updated daily, the list is a good indication of what books people have been reading and talking about the most. 

The list of fiction includes everything from classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" to Harper Lee's newly released novel "Go Set a Watchman."

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21. "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

"Orphan Train" is set in 1929, just months before the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.

After a young Irish girl loses her family, she is put on a train to the Midwest with dozens of other orphans. This fictional book is based on the true story of the thousands of children that were shipped to the Midwest at the time, often by their own families.

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20. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

In this novel, Holden Caulfield tells the story of a few days in his 16-year-old-life, soon after he is expelled from prep school. 

With a unique style that includes edgy slang, the book reads as if it is the unedited thoughts of the teenager.

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19. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

A New York Times bestseller that is also a major motion picture, "The Book Thief" is set in 1939 Nazi Germany.

As foster child Liesel Meminger steals books to get by, she learns to read and shares them with her neighbors amidst all of the madness that is surrounding them. A remarkable story of how books feed the soul, it's a must-read for book lovers.

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Here’s the amount of damage hurricanes of different strengths could cause the US

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Hurricane Joaquin is barreling across the Bahamas and potentially up the Atlantic coast as a Category 4 hurricane.

The category of tropical storm a hurricane is in as it makes landfall actually makes a big difference on the amount of damage it could inflict.

It's tough to predict what category Joaquin will be as it gets closer to the East Coast. Hurricanes typically lose intensity over time, so their category usually decreases as they get closer to land.

Hurricane Katrina, for example, reached a Category 5 storm out at sea, but hit New Orleans as a Category 3. Similarly, Hurricane Sandy was technically a post-tropical cyclone when it hit the East Coast, though it was a Category 3 at one point.

So what do the categories mean?

And what could the damage be if a hurricane were to make landfall as a tropical storm, or a Category 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

The Saffir-Simpson Scale categorizes a hurricane based on its wind speed. Category 5 is the worst, while tropical storms and depressions generally cause less damage.



Less intense hurricanes are generally more common than "major" hurricanes, those that are Category 3 and above. In the map below you can see how many of these storms hit the continental US from 1950-2011, color-coded by category.



Tropical storms have wind speeds of 39-73 mph. Once a storm crosses this threshold, it gets a name.



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People are sharing unnerving images of Hurricane Joaquin in the Bahamas

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Hurricane Joaquin is a strong storm. It went from a Category 1 to Category 4 in less than 24 hours, meaning the storm is sustaining incredible wind speeds of 130 to 156 miles per hour.

Right now, Hurricane Joaquin is battering the Bahamas, the Caribbean island nation that's a popular tourist spot for its beautiful beaches and temperate weather. Right now, their weather is anything but.

Already people are sharing photos and videos of flooded streets, wind-bent palm trees, and waves washing in from the beach. Often the photos were taken while evacuating.

Scroll down to see how the Bahamas is holding up under Hurricane Joaquin.

Andrew Perez, a journalist in Miami, Florida, took these photos of flooded streets in Long Island as he fled back to Florida.

 

 



A resident of Crooked Island took video of flood water slowly rising on October 1. The trees show how strong the winds are.

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Twitter user Kamal took this video of the tide flowing over the road in Exuma, a district in the Bahamas made of 365 small islands called cays.

 



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This couple spent their honeymoon on a luxury safari in Tanzania — here's what it was like

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For their honeymoon last year, Morgan and David DesPrez chose to go on a luxury safari to Tanzania.

They wanted a trip that was active and exciting but also luxurious.

They spent six days in the Singita Grumeti Reserve in northern Tanzania and six days in Zanzibar.

Morgan said the best parts about the trip was the privacy the couple enjoyed and the service they received.

"We were waited on hand and foot," she said.

A luxury safari like this one is a once-in-a-lifetime trip for most people — but it comes at a high price. The safari portion of their trip cost close to $25,000.

Keep scrolling to see what a luxury safari is like.

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Morgan and David chose to spend two weeks in Tanzania in September for their honeymoon.



The couple are active travelers and were looking for a "once in a lifetime trip." They wanted something that was luxurious.



And since the trip to Tanzania requires about 24 hours of travel time — they made the trip from New York — Morgan and David wanted to be able to take enough time off to make it worthwhile. Their flights from John F. Kennedy International Airport, as well as the smaller flights they took within Tanzania, cost $6,400.



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The best Twitter app for the iPhone isn't made by Twitter

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I haven't used the official Twitter app or website for years. 

It's not that Twitter's official apps aren't good. They're just not the best.

The way I interact with Twitter is through Tweetbot, a third-party app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that I'd recommend to any Twitter lover. After a big update on Thursday, Tweetbot has cemented itself as a superior experience for using Twitter.

Here's why you should be using it.

Tweetbot has an incredible dashboard of your Twitter activity. It's like a command center for your tweets.

In the new Tweetbot, which sells in the App Store for $4.99, you can see all of your stats, including the number of favorites, retweets, and follows you've received in a day. Under the chart, interactions like retweets and favorites are displayed.

If you tap "Activity" next to "Stats," you see a list of all the tweets that have @ mentioned your account, followed you, retweeted you, and so on.

The official Twitter app has had a similar activity view for awhile, but Tweetbot's is easier to skim at a glance.



Tweetbot is awesome on the iPad.

Twitter's iPad app feels neglected compared to its iPhone app, and Tweetbot has a new design for its iPad app that blows Twitter's app out of the water.

There's a column view on the iPad in iOS 9, Apple's latest mobile operating system, which lets you have multiple parts of the app open at once. So you can direct message someone and browse your timeline on the same screen.



There are no ads in your timeline.

Because Tweetbot is a third-party app, it doesn't display ads in your timeline like you would see in Twitter's official apps.



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These creepy photos of the International Space Station at night will remind you of Alien

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While his five colleagues were sleeping, astronaut Alexander Gerst photographed the International Space Station (ISS) at night — and ended up with this enchanting series of images. 

Gerst, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut from Germany, took the photos during a six-month mission last year that ended in November.

He's been shooting his surroundings while working at ISS and these pictures are a spooky insight into the research centre after hours, capturing the silent, floating world of living in space.

In October, the ESA reported that Gerst left the relative safety of the station to venture into open space with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman — a brave guy. 

A green, mesmerising hue in the darkness makes the station look like something out of the movie "Alien".



Two empty space suits don't make things any less creepy.



A lone astronaut peers up from a door.



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7 of Britain's most successful business bosses just revealed their secrets for making it big

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Becoming a millionaire seems like an impossible feat for most of us but some of the successful people in Britain grew their wealth from scratch by building great companies.

The BBC talked to a number of famous British entrepreneurs, business leaders, and musicians as part of their "CEO Secrets" series and each delivered snappy pieces of advice about making it big.

From starting a multi-pound business whilst at university, to changing careers in your forties, these business leaders have had very varied experiences making it big.

Business Insider picked seven of the best ones to show you how it's never too late to become a success.

Anya Hindmarch: Designer and businesswoman

Hindmarch designs some of the most sought after bags in the world which has won her accolades and a net worth of £13.2 million ($20 million).

She said: "The advice I would give is, 'be yourself because the other places are taken.' Be original. Cash is king, do not run out of money. Just be brave."



James Dyson: Inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner

Dyson is the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner and now has a net worth of £3.1 billion ($4.8 billion). 

His advice is learning from your mistakes: "50% of the decisions you make will be wrong — learn from them."



Ruth Rogers: Chef and co-founder of The River Cafe

Rogers is the chef and co-founder of the massively popular restaurant The River Cafe. She was awarded an MBE from the Queen in 2010.

The restaurant won a Michelin star and over one million River Cafe cookbooks have been sold.

"If you are starting a new business, it's crucial you choose the people you are going to work with, and then treat them well. You are going to be spending a lot of time with them", Rogers advised.



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These are the 11 richest countries with the biggest organised crime problems

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The World Economic Forum recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which brings together dozens of measures of economic and institutional health.

One of the sub-categories used by the WEF is the prevalence of organised crime — listed under the "security" index. Extortion, racketeering, theft, violence and property damage are all factors that could hold back a country's development.

To make the comparisons more reasonable, we only took countries from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). There are 34 nations, all democracies with mixed or market economies. The group is often though of as a rich countries' club. 

We thinned the list down to any OECD countries that fell outside of the top 50 places in the WEF's ranks. The lower the WEF ranking given, the worse the country is for organised crime.

Take a look:

10. Greece — The country's huge shipping industry and proximity to Asia creates opportunities for smuggling, and it ranks 52nd.



11. Japan — despite their famous Yakuza gangs, Japan only just sneaks onto our list, coming in 57th place. The group is known as one of the biggest single organised crime syndicates in the world.



9. France — in 60th place, France ranks worse than other large EU countries like Spain, the UK and Germany. Its Corsican mafia was once heavily involved in the trafficking of heroin into the United States, referred to as "the French Connection."



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Here's what 18 top Wall Street economists are expecting from the US jobs report

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At 8:30 a.m. ET, we'll learn how many jobs were created in September by US firms.

The consensus expectation is for 200,000 new nonfarm payrolls, the lowest level since March 2014. Gains are expected to be driven by the addition of 198,000 private payrolls.

Lately, the jobs report has gained heightened importance as it has the potential to sway the Federal Reserve's plan for monetary policy.

The Fed meets on October 27 and 28. While most do not expect the Fed to hike rates at that meeting, Fed Chair Janet Yellen has confirmed that October hasn't been ruled out.

We'll certainly get a better sense of what's to come after we get the September jobs report. 

To get you ready, we've complied the forecasts from 18 of the top Wall Street economists. Everyone is expecting improvement from last month's headline number of 173,000. Expectations for September's gains range from 180,000 to 225,000. 

Check out all of the estimates below.

Steve Englander, Citi

Non-Farm Payroll Gains: 180,000

Unemployment Rate: 5.1%

Comment: "Combining the impact of non-farm payrolls and average hourly earnings, we would argue that 180k combined with accelerating hourly earnings should be very negative equities and risk, and positive defensive currencies. The reason is that it supports the view that the slowing employment gains reflect supply, rather than demand, reinforced by rising wages. It may take investors a while to realize that this is the Fed’s second worst nightmare, as it means that they ‘succeeded’ and now have to move policy settings to neutral … or worse"



Maury Harris, UBS

Non-Farm Payroll Gains: 180,000

Unemployment Rate: 5.0%

Comment: "The downward bias to the first prints of August payrolls is well documented and we project an upward revision of 50k to August. However, payrolls probably slowed again in September, reflecting payback for exaggerated increases in education payrolls. The unemployment rate probably fell again. We project a solid gain in average hourly earnings and a still-long workweek."



Lewis Alexander, Nomura

Non-Farm Payroll Gains: 180,000

Unemployment Rate: 5.1%

Comment: "In September, incoming data on labor markets have been mixed, and not suggestive of an above-200k gains in payrolls. Although initial and continuing jobless claims data are at low levels, survey data have been negative and economic momentum appears to have slowed from August."



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This insane 85-meter yacht is better equipped than an English country mansion

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At 85 meters (278 feet) in length and weighing over 2,900 tons, the Solandge is enormous, but it isn't the size that sets this yacht apart.

The interior of the boat, designed by Aileen Rodriguez, could put the majority of English stately homes to shame with lavish detailing, a nine-person lift, vast rooms, and as many amenities as anyone could wish for. 

The Solandge, the creation of renowned shipmaker Lürssen, comes with 29 crew, who cater to any owner willing to pay almost £750,000 (€1 million, $1.1 million) a week to live aboard the yacht which predominantly sails in sunnier waters, such as the Caribbean. 

Here's what she looks like inside. 

The Solandge was designed by Espen Øeino, which was has crafted some of the biggest and boldest super-yachts of the past decade. This one is no different, featuring swooping curves and multiple levels that give it a dramatic, Bond-villain-esque look.



The very upper deck — the boat has six — is dedicated to the owner. The outside area includes a Jacuzzi which has been recessed in order to prevent it from disturbing the view and a seating area for 15 or more.



With a crew of 29, preparing anything yourself is out of the question. The Solandge has multiple bars across its six levels all of which come with a trained bar tender, willing to whip up any cocktail desired.



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New York City's much-anticipated Chick-fil-A is opening — here's what it's like to eat there

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Chick-fil-A fans, rejoice!

The much-anticipated first official Manhattan location— save for a spot in NYU's cafeteria — officially opens for business October 3.

This is huge: Chick-fil-A is America's most loved restaurant chain with a cult following in the South and the Midwest.

We got a look at the restaurant before it officially opens, and one thing is clear: The food looks pretty tasty.

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Welcome to Manhattan's first Chick-fil-A! It's in midtown, at 6th Avenue and 37th Street. Definitely not the most glamorous neighborhood, but it certainly will get a lot of foot traffic from people who work nearby.



We were greeted by the chain's signature cow, which for years has been encouraging customers to "Eat Mor Chikin.'"



Chick-fil-A has been around for years. While mostly loved, the chain has had some trouble winning over liberally minded people, given President Dan Cathy's comments about gay marriage. Cathy has since apologized, but how quick are New Yorkers to forgive?

Source: USA Today



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The 34 best hotels in Asia

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We recently published a list of the best hotels in the world, and many of those happen to be in Asia.

So we decided to focus on the best hotels in Asia.

To create this list, we aggregated five notable hotel rankings made by elite travel publications and websites:Travel + Leisure's World's Best Hotels,Conde Nast Traveler's Top 100 Hotels and Resorts, TripAdvisor's Top 25 Hotels in the World,Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards, and Jetsetter's Best of the Best Awards.

Read the full methodology here.

From the thatched-roof villas of Bali's Amandari resort to the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Chiang Rai, Thailand, here are the 34 best hotels in Asia.  

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34. Hyatt Regency Danang Resort & Spa, Da Nang, Vietnam

Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa sits on a stunning beachfront location near Marble Mountain. Guests can choose between rooms, private villas, or residences on the secluded location and go for a relaxing massage at the VIE Spa, where they’ll see breathtaking views of the area’s mountains and the ocean.

Rooms start at around $260 per night.



33. Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo sits high above the city to offer bird’s eye views of the breathtaking skyline. Besides being at a walking distance from Tokyo’s main shopping and entertainment destinations, the resort is equipped with 157 rooms and 21 suites that offer panoramic views, and dining options that include three different Michelin-starred restaurants.

Rooms start at around $750 per night.



32. Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, Singapore

Four Seasons Hotel Singapore can be found on the tranquil and tree-lined Orchard Boulevard. The hotel offers a relaxing getaway while still being steps away from the shopping, entertainment, and business district of Orchard Road and the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Guests can also enjoy its four tennis courts, its two outdoor swimming pools, its luxury spa, and its fine dining options.

Rooms start at around $307 per night.



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GOLDMAN: Here are the 21 cheapest stocks in the market

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Goldman Sachs expects the stock market to rally every year for years to come.

They also expect some stocks outperforming others.

In their new quarterly chartbook for clients, Goldman Sachs' David Kostin and his team identify the stocks offering the most upside relative to Goldman analysts' price targets.

We went through the list and compiled the top 21 stocks, all with over 50% upside relative to where they've been trading lately.

Many of the opportunities seem to be in the hard-hit media and energy industries, which account for 10 of the 21 companies on the list. 

See below, ranked from least to most upside.

 

21. Scripps Networks Interactive

Ticker: SNI

Industry: Cyclical Consumer Goods & Services, Television Broadcasting

Current Price: $49.19

Upside to Target: 50.4%



20. AbbVie Inc.

Ticker: ABBV

Industry: Healthcare, Specialty & Advanced Pharmaceuticals

Current Price: $54.41

Upside to Target: 50.7%



19. Mead Johnson Nutrition

Ticker: MJN

Industry: Non-Cyclical Consumer Goods & Services, Baby Food

Current Price: $70.40

Upside to Target: 52.0%



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Here's how the planet's best bicycle racers are drug tested

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After Peter Sagan became cycling's new road world champion on Sunday, he took time to celebrate in the streets of Richmond, Virginia, before heading on stage for a podium ceremony and speaking at a press conference.

A couple of hours after Sagan donned the coveted rainbow jersey, a chaperone escorted the 25-year-old Slovak down a long corridor, behind black curtains, and into a large, nearly empty room in which he found a table with a bunch of medical supplies on it and, off to one side, a refrigerator locked with a long chain wrapped around it. The newly crowned king of bicycle racing was reporting for drug testing.

Cycling and antidoping

If there's one sport most closely associated with performance-enhancing drugs in the past few decades, it's cycling. But the sport is moving on from its dirty period, and it's cleaner today than it has been in a long time, though still imperfect.

Thanks in part to new leadership at the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union (known by its French abbreviation, UCI), education, and improved testing, the sport appears to be getting cleaner.

In the run-up to the UCI Road World Championships, I was curious to know what a drug test entailed these days, and I asked the UCI if it would let me see how the tests were administered. It took a week to get permission, but eventually, in the middle of the elite men's race, the UCI called me to the designated doping-control station, near the race's finish line, where a couple of hours later Sagan and others would be making their way as well.

When I arrived, a UCI representative introduced me to Angeline Turin, the in-competition testing coordinator for the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated by the UCI to carry out the antidoping program in cycling.

The CADF tests cyclists in all disciplines, including BMX, cyclocross, track and road cycling, and mountain biking. It's responsible for testing riders in the Tour de France, the Tour of California, the world championships, and other events registered on the UCI calendar. It complies with the World Anti-Doping Code, which aims to bring "consistency to antidoping rules, regulations, and policies worldwide"— and it has partnerships with antidoping agencies in many countries. The banned substances can be found on WADA's "Prohibited List."

Turin walked me through the antidoping protocol, the same process that the riders selected for testing go through, and here's what I saw:

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When I entered the convention center in downtown Richmond, I found these signs.



I met my contact, Angeline Turin, at the designated doping-testing station, normally a restricted area. In Richmond, this is where riders went to be tested.

Turin is the in-competition testing coordinator for the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), and she agreed to show me, step by step, how the tests are conducted. She would sit with a CADF doping-control officer, or DCO, for a mock test, acting as if she were a rider selected to be tested. She would explain what normally happens along the way. (Of course during actual tests, journalists are not allowed.)



Riders who have been tested will be familiar with this form:

Turin explained that in these championships six riders were selected after each race to provide a urine sample: the race's first three finishers and three other riders picked at random or targeted. How, exactly, are riders picked randomly? Sometimes it's just a matter of picking numbers from a bag.

 



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Epically awesome photos of Mars

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Movie goers across the country will get the chance to see Matt Damon trek across "Mars" on Friday, Oct. 2 when the highly-anticipated film "The Martian" premiers in theaters nationwide.

Unfortunately, Damon is not actually on Mars (obviously). Instead, that iconic red-stained sand and those rocky plateaus are just a mock-up.

But we've got the real thing.

Since 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has been orbiting Mars snapping pictures of the surface with its HiRISE camera. Here's a collection of some of the most incredible images the camera has taken over the years.

The HiRISE images shown here have false coloring that highlights distinct Martian features, like sand dunes shown in the image to the right. The false-coloring helps scientists see how the grooves and troughs of these features change over time.

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In June 2014, Mars' southern hemisphere was nearing spring, but you can see that this 1-mile crater still has a smattering of frost on its south-facing walls. A second photo, taken during the Martian summer, showed that all the frost had disappeared.



This ancient crater on Mars, called Jezero Crater, is one of the candidate landing sites for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. What makes this spot so desirable is its clay minerals, which may have formed in the presence of liquid water. "Jezero" is Slovenian for "lake."



Believe it or not, Mars has dust devils! This mesmerizing picture shows the tracks that they trace in the sandy Martian surface.



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There's an amazing hack to play hundreds of secret 'Super Mario Bros.' levels hidden on the cartridge

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The original "Super Mario Bros." is more than just the 32 or so levels you've played. The original "Super Mario Bros." actually has hundreds more levels. Hundreds!

Those levels, however, are messed up. They're broken, contain enemies that have no place within them (a goomba underwater?!), and look completely bananas. They're the bastard children of Nintendo's most revered game, hidden away in the annals of each cartridge's aging chips. These are levels Nintendo never intended anyone to see, and the company's never really spoken about them as a result.

But guess what? Intrepid Nintendo enthusiasts have cracked a crazy secret process for unlocking these hidden levels.

Here's how to do it.

There's one well-known secret world in the original 'Super Mario Bros.' — it's called the 'Negative World.'

It's just one of many of the hidden levels contained in "Super Mario Bros.," and it's perhaps the most widely known. You can reach it by performing an awkward backwards jump in the game's second level, 1-2, like so:

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It's so-named because of the '-1' seen in the 'World' area of the screen:



The level itself is just a standard underwater level, though it's impossible to progress beyond it. Exiting the level results in a loop.

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Parts of the East Coast are already flooding — and there's a weekend full of rain ahead

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According to the latest National Weather Service forecast, the East Coast is mostly out of the woods when it comes to Hurricane Joaquin — a powerful Category 4 storm that is currently battering the central Bahamas.

But that doesn't mean that the US won't feel some nasty effects, including heavy rain, large ocean swells, and flooding.

According to Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and blogger for Slate, parts of South Carolina could receive 15 to 20 inches of rain in the next three days, and will likely see historic flooding.

Some regions near the coast are expected to get 20-foot waves this weekend.

Holthaus reports that, as of Friday morning, states that are still at risk of major flooding include South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.

And some of these states are already experiencing severe effects. Check out some images of the flooding and storm surges below.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey



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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The first-round picks from Tom Brady's infamous 2000 NFL Draft

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Stop me if you've heard this one before: At the 2000 NFL Draft, 198 players were drafted into the NFL — including six quarterbacks — before the New England Patriots used their sixth-round pick on a quarterback out of Michigan named Tom Brady.

You don't need to have strong opinions on Deflategate or the Ideal Gas Law to know this. By now the 2000 NFL Draft is firmly ingrained in sports mythology.

But the story of Tom Brady falling to the sixth round often centers around quarterbacks and overlooks the otherwise extremely talented 2000 draft class. After all, not every team needed a quarterback that year, and many of the players that teams picked turned out to be franchise legends.

Some players drafted in the first round of the 2000 draft went on to win Super Bowls and become MVPs. Others have gone on to coach youth football, head their alma mater's business-development departments, and even start their own eco-friendly kids app. 

Here is every player selected in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft — the infamous Tom Brady Draft — and what has become of them.

The Browns picked Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown with the first pick in the draft.



Brown is widely considered one of the biggest draft busts of all time. He lasted until 2005, but never lived up to the hype he had coming out of college. He now does missionary work in the Dominican Republic.

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The Redskins had the 2nd and 3rd picks. They drafted Penn State LB LaVar Arrington second overall — the only time in history that the first two players selected overall were from Penn State.



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These are the 17 most Instagrammed foods around the world

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A new project called "The Food Capitals of Instagram" serves to show you where 'grammers are taking pictures of specific foods — and the geographic popularity of certain dishes might surprise you. 

After all, there's nothing Instagrammers love more than pointing their phones towards their plates and snapping a picture to share with the world. 

A British company called Photoworld tracked more than 100,000 food photos posted over the course of eight days. 

The photos were tracked based on food specific hashtags, such as #poutine or #pulledpork. 

Keep reading to find out where in the world 17 of your favorite foods are most popular on Instagram. 

The number one location for Instagram posts hashtagged #macaroon isn't Paris, France. Instead, the most #macaron photos come from Bangkok, Thailand.

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Forget the American south, people in London, England, top the charts for #pulledpork pictures.

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London also claims the top spot for photos hashtagged #burger.

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