As television revenue increases for conferences and the NCAA, and demand rises for schools to compete for national championships, salaries for the head coaches are skyrocketing.

So it's not surprising that the most successful coach in college football, Nick Saban, once again tops the list.

Using data compiled from USAToday.com and other sources, here are the college-football coaches who were paid the most during the 2015 season.

25. Dabo Swinney — $3.31 million

School: Clemson

Conference: ACC

School Salary: $3.30 million

Other Pay: $5,200

Potential Bonus: $1.13 million

Championships (conference/national)*: 1/0

One thing to know: Swinney is in line for a big pay day after guiding the Tigers to an undefeated regular season and the No. 1 ranking for most of the season.

* Entering the 2015 season

24. Jim Mora — $3.35 million

School: UCLA 

Conference: Pac-12

School Salary: $3.35 million

Other Pay: $0

Potential Bonus: $0.93 million

Championships (conference/national): 0/0

One thing to know: After reports that he was interested in returning to the NFL before the season, Mora was quick to shoot those down, saying, "You know how those guys are. Sometimes they just make stuff up, and throw it out there, and see if it sticks."

23. Chris Petersen — $3.40 million

School: Washington

Conference: Pac-12

School Salary: $3.40 million

Other Pay: $2,940

Potential Bonus: $1.18 million

Championships (conference/national): 5/0

One thing to know: Washington lured Peterson away from Boise State in 2013 by making him the highest-paid coach in the Pac-12, a distinction he still holds. Earlier this season, Peterson returned to Boise to face the Broncos, something he called "awkward."

World leaders are meeting in Paris to hammer out a comprehensive climate deal.

The stakes couldn't be higher: Nine of the ten warmest years on record have occurred since 2000, according to NASA. 

This issue is especially pressing in Patagonia, the sparsely-populated and mountainous region straddling Argentina and Chile.  

Glaciers — the lifeblood of Patagonia (and a major source of fresh water for the rest of the world) — are melting rapidly throughout the region, and the rate at which they are disappearing is only set to increase.

A 2012 study from the University of London surveyed 626 Patagonian glaciers using historical and satellite data. The authors found that 90.2% of them had receded since 1870, the first year data was available. Even more alarming, the pace at which the glaciers are shrinking is accelerating. The observed glaciers shrank twice as rapidly from 2001 to 2011, than from 1870 to 1986, according to the study's authors. 

Mario Tama, a photographer from Getty, spent a week at the end of November observing glaciers in Argentina's famous Los Glaciares National Park. The images are striking and show just how much we stand to lose.

h/t The International Business Times

Patagonia's glaciers are melting rapidly. This ice melted from the Perito Moreno glacier (background).

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Ice calves from the Perito Moreno glacier into Lago Argentino

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The Perito Moreno glacier is a major tourist attraction in Argentina

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Britain decided in a 397-223 vote late Wednesday night to begin airstrikes on Syria. The first attacks were already made on Thursday morning on ISIS's oil fields.

A recent poll showed that Britons supported the decision to start strikes by a 48-31 margin. But many citizens criticized the decision. As the verdict was reached, opponents protested outside of Parliament.

London-based photographer Holly-Marie Cato was on hand as people demonstrated in her home city. Scroll down to see her photos.

SEE ALSO: One politician's powerful speech on Syria moved British lawmakers to tears and applause

"There has been an outcry, not just from protesting crowds in Britain, but across social media," Cato, who is against the bombing, told Business Insider.

Crowds formed outside of the Houses of Parliament, and chants were yelled so loudly that they were apparently heard from within Parliament's walls.

Everything from "No more warfare! We want welfare!" to "Don't bomb Syria! No more wars!" were being chanted in unison by the crowd.

When it comes to finances, you might have some money habits that make sense in the moment but can hurt you in the long run.

You might pay more for convenience or avoid a service that has fees in favor of another that ends up costing you more over time. If you take a look at your money habits, you might just find that you’re doing things that make you look poor — and perhaps even make it harder for you to thrive.

Here are five money habits to break: 

SEE ALSO: The 6 worst money mistakes couples make

1. Using alternative financial services.

If you’re someone who doesn’t use an insured bank for your finances, you’re likely spending more money on alternative financial services like check-cashing stores and payday loans. Microsoft’s "Millennials" study found that 22% of millennials said they’d never open a bank account. Nearly 9.6 million households did not have an account at an insured bank, according to a 2013 FDIC study. Respondents for about one in three of those households said it was because they disliked or distrusted banks; they also cited high or unpredictable fees.

Unfortunately, alternatives like payday loans and prepaid debit cards can also carry big costs — more than what you might spend with a traditional bank if you shopped for a low-cost option. "People use these services because they don’t understand the value of using a bank and bank services, which can help you improve your financial status," said Harrine Freeman, financial expert and owner of H.E. Freeman Enterprises.

What to do: Banks typically offer better protection for your money and can cost less than many alternative financial services. If you’re truly opposed to the big banks or find them too costly, consider credit unions or online banks. Online banks, for example, can often offer higher interest rates on saving accounts.

Related: 5 Reasons Why No One Goes to the Bank Anymore

2. Borrowing money from friends.

Sometimes you have emergencies and have to turn to friends and family for help. If your emergency is simply that you find yourself out of cash several days before payday and have no savings to fall back on, however, then chances are you have a bad money habit.

"Constantly borrowing money from friends or family shows that you are not responsible and accountable with your money. Everyone needs help sometimes, but if you always borrow money, that makes you look poor, even if you are not," said Freeman.

What to do: Manage your money better by learning how to budget. Practice living within your means. If that’s impossible, find ways to increase your income.

Read: 10 Ways to Take the Fear Out of Budgeting

3. Spending your tax refund before you get it.

The average tax refund for 2014 was $3,034, according to the IRS, and as the 2015 tax season approaches, many taxpayers are expecting significant tax refunds. One bad tax-time money habit is spending your refund before you get it — whether it’s overspending on your credit card in advance or using a refund anticipation loan (RAL).

The RAL is a short-term loan against your anticipated tax refund that comes with high fees and interest rates, according to the Center for Responsible Lending. Using these loans can potentially even cost you hundreds of dollars. Thanks to electronic filing, however, you can typically get your refund within a few weeks deposited directly into your bank account. If you can plan carefully and wait a few weeks, you can save yourself the added loan fees or the finance charges from your credit card.

What to do: If you expect to get a tax refund this coming tax season, plan to save at least some of the money. Rather than planning what you’ll buy with it, deposit it into a savings account. As you start to see the benefits of saving, you might just be compelled to save more and make it a habit.

4. Paying on credit and collecting the cash.

Using credit cards for everyday purchase like groceries, dining out and other necessities can lead you into debt, unless you pay the balance in full at the end of the month. Furthermore, there’s one trick that can really dig you in deeper. "When dining out with friends, you pay for your share of the bill with your credit card while everyone else pays (you) cash — and you keep the cash (because you need it)," said Freeman.

What to do: Limit your use of credit cards. It’s easy to put charges on credit and forget about it. Balances build and soon you’re in debt, paying only minimum balances each month. Credit cards are expensive because they charge significant amounts of interest. You could be putting this money toward your financial future instead of handing it over each month to the credit card company.

5. Having cash savings.

Some people still choose to save their money in their home — they have cash savings. While it might not be "under the mattress," as the saying goes, it comes close. Keeping savings in cash in your home isn’t a good habit. It can also be risky behavior. If someone knows you have significant cash savings in your home, it might be an invitation to thieves, said Freeman. Furthermore, she noted, the cash in your home is not earning interest.

Even though savings account interest rates are currently low, there are financial products out there that can give you better returns than zero percent. Having cash savings means that you are not keeping up with the rate of inflation, which means that you are getting negative returns on your money.

What to do: Put your savings in a bank, where it will be safe and earn something back for you. There are many options out there, and ones that give you better returns — so it makes less sense to keep large sums of money at home.

Read: How to Deposit Cash to an Online Bank Account

Now that music comes out on Fridays, and superstar artists are increasingly keeping their work off Spotify, it can be hard to know where to find the next great song. So Business Insider is helping you with this rundown of the best of what's new in the music world that you can listen to right now — from the latest PSY viral music video to the hottest rapper of the moment.

SEE ALSO: PSY just released his followup to mega hit 'Gangnam Style' — here's why it took him forever to write it

G-Eazy, "One of Them"

G-Eazy is a white Bay Area rapper whose major-label debut came out just last year. Now he's rapping alongside a who's who of hip-hop talent, including Big Sean.

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 G-Eazy's new album "When It's Dark Out" available on Spotify.

PSY, "Daddy"

The return of PSY, "Gangnam Style" mastermind, sounds like an unholy combination of Korean pop and LMFAO, but it has a perverse pleasure — and you'll probably be hearing it for the next 18 months, so it's time to get ready.

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 Available to stream on Spotify.

Chairlift, "Romeo"

Singer Caroline Polachek has written for Beyoncé, but as one-half of Chairlift, she makes pop music that sounds slightly askew. You'll have a hard time getting this one out of your head.

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For some, the weekend's a sacred retreat from the hustle and bustle of work.

For others, the weekend is a myth — Saturday and Sunday are mere extensions of the workweek and a chance to get ahead of the competition.

Judging from the ways successful people spend their — at least theoretical — time away from work, there really is no right or wrong way to structure your weekends. It's all about striking the right balance for you.

Here's how some successful people do it.

Richard Branson hangs out on his island in the Caribbean.

While Branson tells the Telegraph he spends half the year traveling the world on business trips, he says he spends the other half on his tiny private Caribbean island, Necker.

"I know I shouldn't, but I still like to party on Friday nights," he admits. The business mogul says he dances until the wee hours of the morning to the sounds of the island's band, the Front Line, and heads to the crow's nest on his roof around 2 a.m. to watch the stars.

Despite being up late, Branson says he still wakes up early, usually before everyone else, and goes for a swim around the island.

"It's exquisitely beautiful; I'll see spotted eagle rays, giant leatherback turtles and a number of species of shark, such as nurse sharks and lemon sharks,"he tells the Telegraph. "It's not frightening; if you're swimming with sharks they don't tend to bother you at all, it's only if they mistake you for a seal that they might have a nip."

His morning swim is usually followed by a healthy breakfast of fruit salad or natural muesli, though on occasion he spoils himself with kippers or an English breakfast.

The day's activities could include tennis, kitesurfing, scuba diving, or hanging out with dolphins and whales in his tiny submarine. But Branson says afternoons are always spent on the beach, oftentimes playing chess with his kids. 

Saturday evenings consist of more partying, and Sundays include rock jumping, paddle boarding, and boat races, Branson tells the Telegraph

Elon Musk spends time with his children.

Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has five sons, with whom, he told Mashable, he hangs out on the weekends.

But he also admitted at South by Southwest in 2013 that some of this "quality time" is spent sending emails.

"Because they don't need constant interaction, except when we're talking directly," he said. "I find I can be with them and still be working at the same time."

Jack Dorsey hikes and prepares for the week.

In 2011, when Jack Dorsey was running Twitter and Square full-time, the cofounder told the audience at Techonomy 2011 that, to get it all done, he gave each day a theme. This allowed him to quickly recall and refocus on the day's task once distractions were out of the way.

Dorsey said he would take Saturday off to hike and spend Sunday focusing on reflections, feedback, strategy, and getting ready for the rest of the week.

Now that he's back running both companies, there's a good chance theme days could come in handy again.

The US Senate passed a bill this week that would honor the country's largest land mammal — the American bison — as our national mammal. The National Bison Legacy Act now awaits consideration by the US House.

Frankly, it's about time.

The bison stands as one of the most majestic, if smelly, creatures that rebounded from near-extinction over 100 years ago. Today, they happily roam all 50 states.

Here are some facts about what should become America's most prized animal.

The bison is about as American as apple pie.

Often mistaken for the buffalo, the bison features one defining characteristic: its hump.

The muscular hump acts as the bison's snowplow, allowing the beast to swing its head from side to side, pave a path through drifts of snow, and reach grasses hidden below.

Source: National Park Service

Since the global financial crisis, high youth unemployment has been a problem across the world.

But even though the issue is widespread, the causes and the effects vary greatly within each country.

Business Insider took a closer look at the economic and geopolitical factors that have led to continued high youth unemployment in 47 countries, as well as some of the major regional and global trends.

Given that many of the countries on our list do not release official monthly (or even annual) economic data, we used the estimated 2014 youth-unemployment rates from the International Labour Organization.

47. Libya

2014 youth unemployment rate (est.): 24.5%

Percentage of population aged 15-24 | under 24: 17.77% | 44.29%

Chronic youth unemployment was one of the issues leading to the toppling of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

A 2014 report by the African Development Bank notes that youth unemployment continues to be high as postrevolutionary economic recovery was mostly focused on oil (which has since seen some troubles), as well as continued political instability in recent years.

Source: ILO, CIA World Factbook

46. Sudan

2014 youth unemployment rate (est.): 24.9%

Percentage of population aged 15-24 | under 24: 20.5% | 60.65%.

A 2012 report by the AfDB said that an estimated 62% of students in higher education were studying humanities, while only 32% the sciences. But employment opportunities for youth are in agriculture (42%), public services (19%), and trade (19%). Employers are starting to hire foreign workers to fill the gaps.

Additionally, South Sudan's 2011 independence from Sudan was economically sticky as 75% of oil reserves are in the former, while the refineries and major pipeline remain in the latter.

Source: ILO,CIA World Factbook

45. France

2014 youth unemployment rate (est.): 25.3%

Percentage of population aged 15-24 | under 24: 11.82% | 30.48%

"After six quarters of continuous decline in youth unemployment, the situation of French youth deteriorated in 2014 leaving 24.7% of the youth labor force unemployed in the first quarter of 2015," according to a 2015 report by the OECD.

Moreover, France was only one of three countries in Europe that saw the proportion of youth with temporary jobs rise. "To a certain degree, temporary employment among youth can be viewed as an increasingly standard phenomenon in the career path," notes a report by the ILO.

Source: ILO,CIA World Factbook

America has seen two more high-profile mass shootings in the past week. 

The shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that left three dead. The massacre in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people died and 21 others were wounded in what authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism.

In his latest address following a mass shooting during his presidency, Barack Obama pleaded with lawmakers to change America's gun laws.

"This is not normal. We can't let it become normal. If we truly care about this — if we 're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough," he said after last week's Colorado shooting.

His previous calls for gun control have fallen on deaf ears, as Congress is yet to pass any meaningful gun-related legislation during Obama's time in office. 

What is clear is that other countries don't have the gun violence issues that the US does. The president has tried to hammer home this point again and again. 

"We're the only country in the world where this happens, and it happens once a week,"Obama said after a school shooting in Troutland, Oregon, last year left two people dead.

"At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other developed countries," Obama repeated after a mass shooting in June left nine dead at a church in Charleston.

And after a shooting in Oregon earlier this year, he brought it up again.

"We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months," he said.

Here, we take a look at the data that shows why America is so unlike the rest of the world when it comes to the popularity and the abuse of guns. We'll look at the role that policymakers play in the gun-control debate, and we'll look at what can be done (if anything). 

It isn't pretty, but it's important. Hundreds of thousands of American lives hang in the balance. 

Editor's note: Walter Hickey and Matthew Speiser contributed to earlier versions of this post.

SEE ALSO: Smith & Wesson nails what Obama did for gun sales in one sentence

When Americans kill one another, they usually use a gun. In 2013, firearms were used as the weapon in 68% of all homicides.

More than 6 in 10 Americans think having a gun in their home makes it a safer place, including 81% of Republicans.

At the current rate, 339,000 Americans will die by guns by the early 2020s. That is roughly equivalent to the current population of Tampa, Florida.

I spent years working as a consultant, advising the world’s largest banks.

Now, I run Betterment, an automated investing service that’s working to realize the potential of technology to make each and every one of us great at managing our own money — providing personalized advice and planning.

My money management tips aren’t complicated, and they work for anyone who’s investing for a happy future.

SEE ALSO: I was earning $500,000 a year at 30: Here are the 10 best pieces of advice I can give you about money

1. Start with your goals.

When you invest, avoid blindly putting money into the market; instead, think about what you want to accomplish in the future in terms of specific goals.

These are things like retirement, a home down payment, your child’s education, making your money last your lifetime, or simply building wealth for the long term.

By having clear, concrete goals, you can put together a properly risk-managed investment plan, which can increase the likelihood that you’ll reach your goals.

2. Make sure your portfolios are taking on the right level of risk.

It’s important for your portfolio to take on the right level of risk for your goal’s time horizon because it will increase your chance of reaching your goal.

For example, if you have a 30-year retirement goal, then it generally makes sense to invest in a 90% stock / 10% bond portfolio.

This higher-risk portfolio is designed to return more over this long time period, even though it may have ups and downs along the way.

3. Use low-cost ETFs.

Invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with low expense ratios that let you keep more of what you earn. Over time, high fees can significantly erode portfolio returns. In fact, the Council of Economic Advisers estimates that unnecessary fees drain $17 billion a year from IRA investors’ accounts.

For individual investors who want to build a portfolio, basic stock and bond index ETFs tend to be cheaper than the average mutual fund in the same asset class, and lower minimum investments.

Consider the price difference between Vanguard’s Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) and equivalent mutual fund (VTSMX). They both follow the same CRSP US Total Market Index, but there is a significant cost difference. VTI has an expense ratio of 0.05% and VTSMX has an expense ratio of 0.17%, according to Morningstar. You can invest in VTSAX, which costs 0.05%, but only if you invest a minimum of $10,000 in that fund alone.

I have a vivid memory of my friend hanging off a door horizontally, her nails digging into the wooden frame as a giant, fur-covered beast with demonic red eyes and giant fangs pulled her outside into the cold December night.

A few feet away, a girl was sobbing while a horned monster whipped her.

Kids everywhere were screaming and crying, the Alpine house thrust into chaos as children scampered about seeking safety.

We were 8 years old, and the whole thing was arranged by our parents.

Krampusnacht, or Krampus Night, is an ancient Austrian tradition that is also celebrated in Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. Basically, Santa, or Sankt Nikolaus (St. Nicholas), comes around with his devils (or Krampuses) in tow.

He is there to determine whether kids have been naughty or nice. In this case, being naughty has severe consequences: a run-in with his demon assistants.

Let's take a look at this insane tradition.

SEE ALSO: There's a strange forest in Poland that's filled with crooked trees — and no one can explain how it got that way

This is Krampus. Santa's little helper is a terrifying demonic beast that helps him deal with naughty kids. He literally exists to scare children straight.

Most Krampuses have thick fur, sharp horns, cloven hooves, fangs, and a long, pointy tongue. They usually wear loud bells and chains, which they thrash around for effect, and carry a whip or birch branches to beat kids with.

They also often brandish a basket or sack of some sort, meant to transport kids to hell (or the nearest river).

The Xbox One is heating up.

In the last couple of months, Microsoft’s third video game console has benefited from both major game releases and major system updates, including the new assortment of Windows 10-powered features collectively known as the “new Xbox One Experience.” As a result, the Xbox One actually passed Sony’s PlayStation 4 in monthly sales in October — a rare feat for Microsoft.

If you don’t have an Xbox One yet, now’s the best time to buy one. Check out all the upsides.

1. It’s now backward compatible with a growing library of Xbox 360 games

Thanks to the major “Xbox One Experience” update, the Xbox One can now play your old Xbox 360 games. Any games you bought digitally automatically show up in your current collection, and all your progress and old save files will transfer over, too. If you own a physical copy of the game, you just slip the disc into your Xbox and the correct version will download from Xbox Live. This also works for those games’ expansions, downloadable content, and achievements.

2. It’s a game console, plus a cord-cutting solution

You don’t need an extra set-top box to enjoy TV and movies if you have an Xbox One. It supports an array of video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, ESPN, and Twitch, and it can also play your Blu-ray discs and media from your storage devices via USB. You can even make Skype calls over your Xbox if you have the Kinect accessory (more on that later). And it’s super easy to switch back and forth between different content.

3. You can also watch live TV in a new way

Xbox One also works with a number of live TV apps. You can buy the Hauppauge Digital TV Tuner for less than $60, which will get you access to NBC, CBS, and Fox — or you can pay $20 a month to access TV and video on-demand via Sling TV, which comes with AMC, CNN, and more. Once you connect your content, you can create a favorites list of the TV channels and apps you watch the most, and you can also see the top trending shows based on your area and what’s trending on Twitter.

In just a matter of years, the American "energy renaissance" has made the region a leader in global oil.

Joseph P. Quinlan, the chief market strategist at US Trust, attributes the US' energy boom to three factors:

One, pro-market policies at the state and local level. Two, revolutionary technologies. And three, "good old American entrepreneurship/risk-taking."

"By combining all three, the United States has upended the global energy markets," he wrote in a recent note to clients. "However, and unfortunately, the boom has also turned a virtue (soaring oil/gas production and the attendant positive effects) into a vice (oversupply and ensuing negative knock-on effects)."

Oil prices have been depressed since crashing in the second half of 2014, and that has had huge implications for the industry. With that in mind, US Trust put together the following 10 charts that show exactly where American energy is right now — and what it might mean for the future.

The number of active rigs drilling for oil keeps dropping, but production is still going strong.

Production peaked around July at 9.6 million bpd, and is currently around 9.2 million bpd. Much of this has gone into storage.

"The declining rig count, coupled with a sharp drop in oil-related infrastructure among major oil producers, portends slowing or declining US oil production over the medium term, and a bottoming out of oil prices over the next year," writes Quinlan. "Supply cutbacks in the US and overseas, coupled with stronger global growth in 2016, could boost world oil prices back into the range of $50-65 per barrel over the next twelve months."

Source: US Trust

A few "super" oil fields emerged in the shale basins in the last few years.

"Super" oil fields, or those that produce over 1 million barrels a day, are pretty rare around the world. But over the last two years, two "new" ones emerged in the US: the Eagle Ford in South Texas and the Bakken in North Dakota and Montana.

Although the production of both super oil fields has declined in the past few years, they still "lie at the core of America's energy revolution," writes Quinlan.

Source: US Trust

US oil production skyrocketed in the years after the financial crisis.

By 2014, daily oil production topped 9 million barrels a day.

Moreover, production increased by 2.2 million bpd in the past two years — which, to put it in perspective, is greater than the entire production of Brazil.

Source: US Trust

Previously a test pilot for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Kimiya Yui was selected to be an astronaut for JAXA in 2009 and has been aboard the International Space Station since July this year.

Over the last few months, the Japanese astronaut has been documenting his time in space by tweeting gorgeous photos of Earth, its sunrises, and the lights of cities as night.

We may not be able to fly through space with Kimiya, but at least we can share his view through the magic of the Internet!

SEE ALSO: Someone published thousands of photos of historic US space missions — here are some amazing ones

The photo below is a view of the sunset from space — a sentence almost as awesome as the picture itself. Kimiya notes that he’s had numerous views in space that were so beautiful as to leave him speechless, a feeling we can perfectly understand having seen these photos.

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Here’s a tweet where the astronaut asks the difficult question about which view we like better. We can’t pick, Kimiya! We just can’t!

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This photo is of a low pressure area over the Sea of Japan taken at the end of November, as a sliver of light, called zodiacal light, glows on the horizon.

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Ever wonder which college major is most likely to get you a job on Wall Street?

Business Insider turned to Emolument, a salary benchmarking website that collects self-reported pay data, to find out which college majors are most common in finance.

They gathered data on 840 finance professionals in New York at the analyst, associate, vice president, and director level.

The respondents come from a number of firms, including Citigroup, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as well as smaller banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. They are all front-office professionals, and two-thirds work at banks, while one-third works on the buy-side.

Emolument found that, while the clear majority of Wall Street professionals studied something related to finance, there are definitely a few history and geography majors out there. 

So humanities students, don't give up hope.

Here is the breakdown.

SEE ALSO: An MBA isn't as important as you might think for building a career on Wall Street

SEE ALSO: The key to scoring your dream Wall Street internship

At the analyst level, accounting, business, and finance are by far the most popular majors for Wall Streeters. Economics follows in second place.

The same majors are even more common among associates on Wall Street.

Accounting, business, and finance majors are the clear majority at the vice president level, too.

Clearly, the tech industry is chock full of high-paying jobs. But the truth is that engineers within any industry, doing just about any kind of engineering, are commanding high pay.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the largest professional organization for engineers, conducts an annual salary survey.

In the one released in 2015, involving more than 12,000 of its US members, median compensation (salary + bonuses, etc.) across all types of engineering jobs, was $130,000.

In fact, the median pay for every type of engineering job topped $110,000, with most of them earning well over $120,000. 

Here's the list of engineering jobs, their pay and the salary range for each, according to the IEEE.

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Robotics and automation engineer: $110,000

Salaries ranged from $67,842 - $171,000.

Power electronics engineer: $114,500

Salaries ranged from $76,532 - $186,350.

Control systems engineer: $115,650

Salaries ranged from $72,000 - $197,026.

If "get a new job" is on your to-do list for 2016, look no further.

CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI) have compiled a list of the most in-demand jobs for 2016 for people without a college degree.

They used EMSI's extensive labor-market database, which pulls from over 90 national- and state-employment resources, to look at supply and demand (the number of job ads companies post each month outpace the number of people they actually hire), growth, and salary data for every profession in the database.

They then sorted the results by the required level of education. 

Here are the occupations with the largest gap between job openings and hires that don't typically require a college degree. (Some occupations may require additional training after high school.)

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Heavy- and tractor-trailer truck drivers

Gap between monthly job postings and hires: 984,669

Job growth (2010 - 2015): 208,932

Median hourly earnings: $19.00

Food-service managers

Gap between monthly job postings and hires: 33,408

Job growth (2010 - 2015): 24,690

Median hourly earnings: $23.34

Computer user support specialists

Gap between monthly job postings and hires: 30,937

Job growth (2010 - 2015): 85,324

Median hourly earnings: $22.89

On Tuesday, December 1, a fleet of Japanese ships departed for Antarctic waters.

The four vessels are subsidized in part by Japan's government, and the sailors' goal is to kill hundreds of bus-sized Minke whales.

Japan claims these expeditions are scientific in nature, but the fleet is likely in violation of both a global ban on whale hunting and a recent ruling by an international court of law.

Here's why Japan keeps sponsoring whale hunts in spite of stark forces working against the practice.

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On December 1, a whaling fleet subsidized by the Japanese government left on an expedition that will last through March 2016.

Source: BBC

The fleet's goal is to kill hundreds of Minke whales in the waters near Antarctica.

Minke whales are gentle giants that feed on tiny plankton. The animals can grow to 35 feet long and weigh 10 tons, or about the size of a bus.

Source: NOAA

Sony's most popular game console ever released was the PlayStation 2. Who can forget games like "Grand Theft Auto 3: San Andreas" and "Shadow of the Colossus?"

The PlayStation 2 is one of the most popular game consoles ever released, period.

It doubled as a DVD player at a time when DVD players were still new and expensive, which helped Sony move more than 150 million units from shelves and into people's homes. That's more than the original Nintendo and more than the wildly successful Wii.

And now, some of the PlayStation 2's best games are coming to the PlayStation 4. Here they are!

The first eight PlayStation 2 titles available for PlayStation 4 will go on sale December 5:

The entire "Grand Theft Auto 3" trilogy is available, including the original:

Price: $14.99

So is the "Miami Vice" flavored "Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City":

Price: $14.99

Brett Favre, who led the Green Bay Packers to a Super Bowl victory and was the NFL's most valuable player three times, is staying in shape after his stellar football career by cycling.

And he recently got this stealth-looking ride from Waterloo, Wisconsin-based Trek Bikes. The former star QB they call "The Gunslinger" is riding a custom Project One Madone. He rides 120 miles a week, Trek says, and he's even getting into the triathlon scene.

Check out some of the nice touches on Favre's new ride:

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Favre's new bike is a custom-made Trek Project One Madone. As you can see, it's mostly black with green lettering in honor of Favre's time playing for the Green Bay Packers, where he won a Super Bowl and set a slew of NFL records.

The bike is made of carbon fiber and has top-of-line goodies all around, including high-performance carbon aero wheels, made by Bontrager, and a pro-level electronic components group from Shimano. We don't know the actual weight and cost of Favre's bike, but we're pretty sure it's a tad over 15 pounds — impressive considering the large size needed to suit Favre's build — and costs at least $12,000. This bike is Tour de France-worthy all around.

Favre's Trek Madone is the essentially the same as those raced in the Tour de France.

Favre's career highlights are custom-painted under the frame's top tube. They include his Super Bowl win, MVP awards, Pro Bowl appearances, touchdowns, passing stats, and, of course, his number, 4, which the Packers honored by retiring.