It may not seem like a tricky question, but your response to, "Where do you see yourself in five years?" can make or break your interview. 

"The purpose of asking this common interview question is to understand whether a candidate is looking for a career rather than just a job, whether their goals align with the organization's goals, and whether they have a realistic plan for their future," explains David Wishon, chief recruiting officer at job search site Happie.

Dale Kurow, a New York-based executive coach, says your response to this question can also tell the company if you have the requisite work ethic, attitude, and loyalty to be a good hire in the long term.

Here's what hiring managers do and do not want to hear when they ask this question:

SEE ALSO: Here's how to respond to weird interview questions you may hear from major companies like Google and Apple

1. They want to know that you've put thought into your response.

"Don't get caught without a long-term plan," Wishon says. Show the interviewer that you have thought about this question and have a basic trajectory mapped out. But let them see that you're flexible. "Everyone understands things can change, so strike a balance between being set on where you want to go and also understanding that the path may change," he says.

2. They want to know that you're driven — but that you have realistic goals.

"Don't come off as overly ambitious," Wishon says. "It's okay to mention some future promotions within the organization, but it may be overkill to say you want to be CEO in five years if you're applying to an entry-level job."

3. They want to hear that you are willing to pay your dues before expecting a promotion.

"The hiring manager doesn't want to hear that you are looking to move up to a higher-level position within a year or that you want to become eligible for your boss's job," Kurow explains. Don't threaten anyone else's career, and let them know you realize it may take time, and a lot of work, before you'll move up.

"Emphasize your willingness to work on personal and professional development to progress your career path within the organization," Wishon adds.

The very last thing you do before bed tends to have a significant impact on your mood and energy level the next day, as it often determines how well and how much you sleep.

Successful people understand that their success starts and ends with their mental and physical health, which is almost entirely dependent upon their getting enough sleep.

That is why good bedtime routines are a key ritual for so many of them.

Here's what many successful people do right before bed:

SEE ALSO: 18 things successful people do in the first 10 minutes of the workday

1. They read.

Experts agree that reading is the very last thing most successful people do before going to sleep — President Barack Obama and Bill Gates are known to read for at least a half hour before bed.

Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of "You Can't Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work," says he knows numerous business leaders who block off time just before bed for reading, going so far as to schedule it as a "non-negotiable item" on their calendar.

"This isn't necessarily reserved just for business reading or inspirational reading. Many successful people find value in being browsers of information from a variety of sources, believing it helps fuel greater creativity and passion in their lives," he says.

2. They disconnect from work.

Truly successful people do anything but work right before bed, Kerr says. They don't obsessively check their email, and they try not to dwell on work-related issues. 

Studies have found if you associate your bed with work, it'll be much harder to relax there, so it's essential you reserve your bed for sleep and sex only.  

Michael Woodward, Ph.D., organizational psychologist and author of "The YOU Plan,"agrees, saying, "The last thing you need is to be lying in bed thinking about an email you just read from that overzealous boss who spends all their waking hours coming up with random requests driven by little more than a momentary impulse."

Give yourself a buffer period of at least a half hour between the time you read your last email and the time you go to bed. 

3. They unplug completely.

Disconnecting from work means not checking your email right before bed, but this doesn't mean you should turn to social media or games on your phone either. Researchers agree that any kind of screen-time before bed does you far more harm than good. 

The blue light from your phone mimics the brightness of the sun, which tells your brain to stop producing melatonin, an essential hormone that regulates your circadian rhythm and tells your body when it's time to wake and when it's time to sleep. This could lead not only to poor sleep, but also to vision problems, cancer, and depression.

If you don't believe the research, take it from Huffington Post cofounder, president, and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington. After collapsing from exhaustion, Huffington completely revamped her approach to sleep, and as she details in her book, "Thrive," she has completely banned iPads, Kindles, laptops, and any other electronics from the bedroom.

We've all regretted a purchase at some point. 

Not only are we surrounded by enticing things to buy, but everything is remarkably easy to purchase, with the swipe of a plastic card or the click of a button.

To help you make smart spending decisions, here are 17 things you can stop wasting your money on today:

SEE ALSO: 15 things you're better off buying used

Late fees and ATM fees

Late fees and penalties on credit cards or other bills are a waste of money that have "no purpose to the spender,"writes Quora user Alex Schamenek.

Another pointless money suck: ATM fees. Consumers these days are paying an average of $4.35 each time they use an out-of-network ATM.

As Schamenek puts it: "Irresponsibility is expensive."

Brand-name products

Go generic whenever possible if you want to save more money over time.

"You have to prioritize because you can't have the best of everything," Ramit Sethi writes in his book, "I Will Teach You To Be Rich.""Buy brand-name for the stuff you care about, and cut costs mercilessly on commodities you don't care about by buying generic."

Areas you may be able to save money on include toiletries, food, certain clothes, and pet supplies. What is important to you? And what are you willing to sacrifice? Establish what you want to prioritize and what you can de-prioritize.

Excess groceries

"When food spoils, that's money down the drain," writes Quora user Faraha Khanam.

According to Natural Resources Defense Council project scientist Dana Gunders, about 60% of consumers throw food away prematurely. As a result, our households waste between 15% and 25% of the food that we're buying.

"That's expensive," said Gunders. "Imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and not bothering to pick it up. That's essentially what we're doing in our homes today."

McLaren builds supercars for people who love technology. Ferrari builds them for people who are into a sexy, screaming engine and breathtaking styling, and Lamborghini builds them for people who had Lamborghini posters on their bedroom walls as teenagers. Pagani builds them for artists. Porsche builds them people who ... I guess like Porsches a whole lot and need Porsche to have a supercar. Ford builds them when it wants to remind everyone that it has beaten Ferrari at what Ferrari does best. And Corvette builds them because Corvette wants us to be happy and not have to spend $300,000 for the privilege.

But McLaren has the tech angle down. This provokes some criticism: McLarens aren't visceral, they lack soul. They look as if they were spit out of 3D printers or sculpted from blocks of plastic. Maybe they take a little too seriously the notion that racing is a laboratory for the street, and they channel their namesake, New Zealander Bruce McLaren, to bond on-track performance with perhaps the finest engineering in the car world. McLaren — the supercar for technocrats. Elon Musk owned a F1 hypercar, don't you know. Kind of says it all.

Of course it's all just the obsessively fine, blathering distinction-making of folks who want to debate the thises and thats of supercars. The real test of what a McLaren is all about takes place when you swing up the doors and slip into the driver's seat, as we did for a day in Los Angeles.

Here's what we thought of the 675LT coupe — "LT" for "Longtail," an extended version of McLaren 650S — a supercar that the mad scientists in Woking, England, created specifically for track days and sold (in the case of our vehicle) for $400,000. (Unfortunately, you can't buy a new one any longer — McLaren sold them all!)

We didn't have the pleasure of tracking the 675LT, but we did hit the canyon roads above Malibu.

The 675LT was bathed in glorious Southern California sunshine for the entire time we enjoyed it — a whopping day and a half. It was an aggressive study in carbon fiber and neon green or, as McLaren calls it, "Napier Green."

... with those exotic upswinging doors of course.

The carbon fiber is literally everywhere.

Virtually the entire US illicit-drug market is controlled by seven Mexican cartels, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary.

The DEA report notes that there are no organizations at this time with the infrastructure and power to challenge these cartels and their hold over the US market.

Trafficking heroin, meth, cocaine, and marijuana, these organizations will continue to dominate throughout the US, according to the DEA.

"Narcotics are the biggest black market earner of all,"wrote Ioan Grillo, author of "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America."

"Estimated to be worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year, the global industry has pumped huge resources into criminal empires decade after decade."

A number of criminal organizations have risen and fallen over those decades, but we have listed the seven Mexican cartels that currently supply the US drug market below.

SEE ALSO: Mexico finally recaptured fugitive drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán, but the fight is far from over — here's what could come next

The Sinaloa cartel

The Sinaloa cartel is generally regarded as the most powerful and wealthiest cartel in Mexico and in the world.

The cartel is based in Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast — a rugged and mountainous area known as the Golden Triangle for its extensive drug cultivation. 

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada took leadership of the Sinaloa cartel in the early 1990s (after the disintegration of the Guadalajara cartel).

In 2012, the Chicago Crime Commission named Guzmán as Chicago’s Public Enemy No.1 due to the Sinaloa cartel's dominant role in supplying large quantities of drugs to the city and the region around it.

 In 2013, the DEA said that Guzmán's organization shipped "80% of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine" most of which flowed through the Chicago region each year, a supply with a value of $3 billion. 

The DEA's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment revealed even more extensive control, with only New Mexico and the southern half of Texas out of the Sinaloa cartel's grasp.

On the morning of January 8, the Mexican government arrested Guzmán, and hours later frog-marched him from northwestern Sinaloa state, where he was captured, back to the prison near Mexico City from which he escaped in July — where he will reportedly be even more closely monitored.

Most observers believe that Guzmán will eventually end up in a US supermax facility and that his cartel will continue to operate from Mexico through its vast networks. 

"The drug trade will continue to operate without 'El Chapo,' but 'El Chapo' represented drug traffickers who could defy the government," Grillo, author of "Gangster Warlords," told Business Insider.

Since unveiling the T-14 Armata tank in May 2015 during the Victory Day Parade, Russia has kept the specifics of the tank underwraps.

A video walk through translated by Ukraine War Awareness, explains some of the capabilities of Russia's newest battle tank.

SEE ALSO: Here's how Iraqi and Kurdish forces are training to destroy ISIS

Here the Armata tank variations show off their impressive turn radius:

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The tanks are coated in a radar baffling paint, making them difficult to detect and target.

Russia also says the tanks use magnetic sensors to repel incoming anti-tank rockets.

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The top trending calorie searches on Google in 2015 revealed some of the foods and drinks people were excited about — or worried about. 

Since the new USDA dietary guidelines recommend adults get between 1,600 and 3,000 calories, based on age and activity level, it's important to know what the numbers are. (You can also look up how many calories you should be getting in a day.)  It can be shocking to see the nutritional content of some of your favorite foods.

Here are the top 10 foods and drinks people were checking the calories on in 2015, according to Google. 

10. Hollandaise Sauce — Google says the glorious butter-based topping usually found on Eggs Benedict has 30 calories in a 1 Tbsp. serving.

Source: Google

9. Coney Island Hard Root Beer — For adults only, this alcoholic beverage has 180 calories per 12 oz. bottle.

Source: Google

8. Starbucks Birthday Cake Frappuccino — The 20th anniversary drink, available for five days only, had 280 calories in a tall size made with whole milk and topped with whipped cream.

Source: YouBeauty

A Reddit user is gradually uploading the 5,000-page court case file of Steven Avery, and his digital haul now includes 14 crucial documents submitted by the FBI during Avery's murder trial in 2007.

The FBI's reports — some 700 pages in total — are critical because they might have turned jurors against Avery "and maybe not fairly," Dean Strang, one of Avery's defense lawyers during his trial, told The Daily Beast in January.

Avery, a resident of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, was arrested in November 2005 as a suspect in the disappearance of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach. Police later found Halbach's bloodied car and burned bones on Avery's property and, after a lengthy trial, jurors in 2007 delivered a guilty verdict, leading to Avery's sentence of life in prison without parole.

Attention to Avery's case has exploded due to Netflix's 10-part series "Making a Murderer," a true-crime documentary that follows Avery and his family before, during, and after that trial.

The show has since amassed countless fans and a community of Reddit users, including Skipp Topp, who's digitizing Avery's enormous case file with crowdfunding help and uploading the PDFs to StevenAveryCase.org.

All 14 FBI evidence exhibits, which are embedded at the end of this post, deal with the presence of a blood preservative called EDTA (short for ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid).

"There are around 700 pages in total, the vast majority being charts and graphs from exhibit 446," Topp told Tech Insider. "This means everything related to EDTA is now online."

Conspiracy theory

Many fans of the show are particularly obsessed with a controversial idea that filmmakers played up in episode seven: that blood stains found in Halbach's car may have been planted by police to help incriminate Avery.

Avery's lawyers argued that the blood stains, which matched Avery's DNA profile, could have been extracted from a vial of Avery's blood collected in 2002 and stored in a police evidence room.

Framing by police is never a popular defense strategy, but in this case the idea wasn't too far-fetched for a few reasons.

Shortly before his arrest as a suspect in Halbach's murder, Avery filed a $36 million civil lawsuit against the county that put him in jail for 18 years on a rape charge. He sued because DNA evidence exonerated him from the 1985 crime in 2003. (That's where the 2002 vial of blood in the evidence room came from; it was used to verify Avery's DNA.)

When the defense team examined that blood vial years later, it showed possible signs of tampering, including a broken evidence seal and a hole in the tube's cap.

Several members of the local police force were also being deposed in Avery's lawsuit as late as October 2005. Those deposed included two officers who collected evidence linking Avery to the scene of Halbach's murder.

But a conspiracy theory and a potentially tampered vial of blood wasn't enough for Avery's defense team to go on; the lawyers had to show the blood stains in the car came from the vial in police custody.

A search for EDTA

This is where the FBI's blood stain analysis reports, filed in February 2007, come in to play.

Almost every vial of blood contains a preservative called EDTA. It's a chemical that isn't found in human blood and prevents it from clotting. Mixed in a sealed vial, EDTA can keep a blood sample liquid for years.

The court asked the FBI to test the samples for the presence of EDTA, and the results came back in the middle of Avery's trial.

Patrick Willis, the presiding judge during the trial, was shown the FBI's reports during a closed hearing without any jurors. Willis ultimately deemed the information admissible as evidence — something that still frustrates Strang today.

"We had no chance at that point to do independent testing, or even to react terribly well to it because we're being handed the report during trial and then, boom—[expert witness] Marc LeBeau is on the stand the next morning," Strang told The Daily Beast.

In a testimony that was damning to Avery's defense, LeBeau, an FBI forensic scientist, said that the blood swabs from Halbach's car showed no signs of the preservative — or planted evidence.

The FBI's reports

All 14 of the FBI's EDTA-related reports — exhibits 433 through 446 — are embedded below.

Ten of them were not publicly posted online and in plain view of outside forensic experts until this week. (We wrote about the first four documents here.)

These 14 FBI exhibits listed in the court record of events include a "white binder with lab sheets and reports" (more than 630 pages long), an "EDTA stability study," a "graph of Poss. Cont. B Q49 sample," an approved EDTA testing order, and more.

Tech Insider has reached out to several scientists and lab technicians to review the documents and offer their feedback.

Strang declined to comment on Avery's case deferring to fellow defense laywer Jerry Buting. Buting replied to an initial query but hasn't responded to our followup queries.

The FBI's LeBeau directed our interview request to FBI public affairs, which denied it (in addition to another interview request).

When we initially asked the FBI for more details about its EDTA testing process, a bureau representative told Tech Insider that "the Avery protocol was based off [a] 1997 study" in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology, "but was updated based on technology advancements." When we asked for clarification on what "technology advancements" meant, we were told to file a Freedom of Information Act request (which we've done).

If you're a forensic scientist, analytical chemist, or lab technician, and you wish to comment on the following documents — especially exhibit 446, which covers the lab reports, methods, validation, and more — please reach out to: dmosher@techinsider.io

Trial exhibit 433 — CV of Marc LeBeau

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Source: StevenAveryCase.org/Wisconsin Court System

Trial exhibit 434 — Analysis of EDTA in Dried Bloodstains

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Trial exhibit 435 — FBI EDTA Test

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Source: StevenAveryCase.org/Wisconsin Court System

It's important to remember that every interview is a two-way street. You should be interviewing the employer just as much as they're interviewing you because you both need to walk away convinced that the job would be a great fit.

So when the tables are turned and the interviewer asks, "Do you have any questions for me?" take advantage of this opportunity. It's the best way to determine if you'd be happy working for this employer, and whether your goals are aligned with theirs. 

"The very process of asking questions completely changes the dynamic of the interview and the hiring manager's perception of you," says Teri Hockett, chief executive of What's For Work?, a career site for women. "Asking questions also gives you the opportunity to discover details that you might not have otherwise unveiled."

Amy Hoover, president of TalentZoo, says there's another reason you should always prepare questions. "It's expected — and if you don't ask at least two questions, you will appear disinterested, or worse, less intelligent and engaged than a prospective employer would like." You should have at least four questions prepared, though, in case your original two are answered through the course of the interview.

But, Hoover says, don't just ask questions for the sake of it. To actually benefit from them, you'll need to think carefully about what you want to ask.

"Your questions can, in fact, make or break an interview," she explains. "If they're not thoughtful, or if you ask something that has already been addressed, this can hurt you way more than it can help. Asking smart, engaging questions is imperative."

Luckily, there are plenty of smart ones to pick from.

Here are 29 questions you should always ask in a job interview — if they weren't already answered — to help you get a better sense of the role and the company, and to leave the interview with a positive, lasting impression:

Vivian Giang contributed to a previous version of this article. 

SEE ALSO: 31 smart answers to really tough interview questions

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Who do you think would be the ideal candidate for this position, and how do I compare?

Hoover recommends this question because it's a quick way to figure out whether your skills align with what the company is currently looking for. If they don't match up, then you know to walk away instead of wasting time pursuing the wrong position for yourself, she says. 

Who would I be reporting to? Are those three people on the same team or on different teams? What's the pecking order?

It's important to ask about the pecking order of a company in case you have several bosses, Vicky Oliver writes in her book, "301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions."

If you're going to be working for several people, you need to know "the lay of the internal land," she says, or if you're going to be over several people, then you probably want to get to know them before accepting the position.

How has this position evolved?

Basically, this question just lets you know whether this job is a dead end or a stepping-stone.

Gett, the iOS and Android app that lets you book a licensed black cab with your smartphone, launched a new feature today called Gett Courier.

The on demand-courier service allows you to hail a delivery boy/girl in 20 minutes to wherever you happen to be with just a few taps on your smartphone screen.

The service, which is only available in London, charges users £6 to send an item weighing up to 5kg to anywhere in Zone 1. It is only available from 9am to 9pm.

Gett is confident items will arrive within an hour because all of the deliveries are made by people who are currently studying "The Knowledge"— the geographical test that Black cab drivers must take to prove they know London's roads.

Rival taxi firm Addison Lee launched its own courier service last year after acquiring Cyclone VIP Cars & Couriers. Addison Lee has over 200 motorcycles, 200 vans, and 30 pushbikes in its fleet, according to its website.

Gett was unable to disclose how many drivers it has signed up for Gett Courier but there are 6,000 Knowledge students in London that are eligible to sign up as delivery boys/girls. 

Gett invited Business Insider to trial a beta version of Gett Courier before it went live, so we decided to send some "Love Hearts" to our management consultant friend Jonathan Gore as a Friday surprise.

Here's how it went:

Given it's February next week, and February is the month in which Valentine's Day falls, we decided to send some Love Hearts. Ok, that's a lie. We were sent them by an unknown PR company and they've been sat in our kitchen all week.

I gave Gett my phone number and they gave me access to the new Gett Courier service three days before the official launch. I opened the app at 10am on Friday and saw the new feature.

I moved the pin so it hovered over the Business Insider office and then ordered a courier. For addresses outside Zone 1, a fixed price will be confirmed when you enter the destination in the app at the time of booking.

Google is planning a redesign for Chrome, its browser, that will adopt the "Material Design" ideas that Android uses, according to The Next Web.

Screenshots of the redesign were spotted on Google's developer website and show a slight tweak to the way Chrome looks, including squarer corners, a flatter look, and redesigned buttons for bookmarks and information.

According to the report, the new design is functional but not finished, and it's unclear when Google plans to roll out the update.

Here is what the new design looks like:

Here's what Chrome looks like now.

Tabs will now have a squared-off look rather than a rounded one, and Google has ditched the line-based settings menu in favour of three dots.

The browser will feature an all-new incognito mode, for private browsing, that turns all of the UI black.

More than two years after China’s lunar rover got away to a wonky start on the surface of the moon, the country’s National Space Administration has released the stunning hi-def pictures it took.

On December 14, 2013, Yutu, or “Jade Rabbit” became the third unmanned spacecraft to land on the moon. But within a month, the rover started having some problems preparing for the lunar nights, and was losing its precious solar power supplies.

It stopped moving on January 25, 42 days into a three-month mission.

By mid-February, Chinese officials had to face the fact that Jade Rabbit wasn’t going anywhere further but remarkably, it kept transmitting information until the end of October last year.

Despite the fact it had been immobile and transmitting exactly the same observation for nearly 20 months, Jade Rabbit still technically claimed the record for the longest operational period of a rover on the moon, surpassing that of the Soviet Lunakhod rover.

Nevertheless, while it never quite managed to traverse the three square kilometres intended, Jade Rabbit still took load of snaps. Up until now, the agency has only released a handful, but now there’s hundreds publicly available, and they’re in spectacular HD.

Here’s the obligatory shot of Jade Rabbit’s first donut as it parts company with lander Chang’e:

That picture is part of the set you can access via the Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration, but the process is frustratingly complicated.

Fortunately, Emily Lakdawalla from Planetary Society has earned herself the gratitude of moon-gazers everywhere by doing the hard work. She’s collated hundreds of the images into two subsets – 35 gigs worth – to make it easy.

You can find the shots from Yutu’s panoramic camera here, in this kind of detail:

And some great images of the lander:

North Carolina-based fund manager Mark Yusko, the chief investment officer of $3.7 billion Morgan Creek Capital Management, revealed the 10 things he thinks could surprise the market in 2016. 

He shared his predictions in a presentation at the Inside ETFs Conference this month in Florida.

Among his predictions is that one or more of the developed markets, including the US, Europe, and Japan, could slip into a recession.

He also thinks the Fed will have discussions about another round of quantitative easing in the second half of 2016. Another bold call of his is that the US dollar is on its way to being dethroned by the Chinese yuan as the world's reserve currency.

We've included the full slide deck below. 

Walt Disney has overtaken Lego to become the world's most powerful brand, according to valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance's annual rankings.

Only one technology firm makes it into the top 10 — and it's not Apple. Retail, media, and financial companies dominated the top 10.

Brand Finance evaluated companies by their familiarity, loyalty, promotion, marketing investment, staff satisfaction and corporate reputation. Using these factors, each brand's power was ranked out of 100. Each brand was also given a valuation.

SEE ALSO: The 30 most valuable liquor brands in the world

10. Google

Brand strength: 89.5

Brand value: $94.2 billion

Brand value rank: 2

What happened: Over the past year ,Google has gone through big changes, having reorganized its structure to sit under parent company Alphabet in October. While cost-per-click advertising has been declining over recent years, the tech company is increasing its ability to generate substantial mobile revenue. Alphabet will post Google's Q4 earnings on Monday. 

9. NBC

Brand strength: 89.7

Brand value: $16.1 billion

Brand value rank: 72

What happened? NBC claims it is un-threatened by the rise of non-linear TV services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Executive Alan Wutzel boasted in January that “Everyone goes back to watching TV like God intended.” Wurtzel was referring to data obtained by Symphony Advanced Media, which shows that the most popular shows on online streaming services still get far fewer viewers than the best shows on traditional TV.

8. Coca-Cola

Brand strength: 90.4

Brand value: $34.2 billion

Brand value rank: 17

What happened: Coca-Cola is still incredibly popular, but the brand has been somewhat undermined over the past few years by consumers opting to switch away from sugary drinks. Low sugar "Coke Life" has had disappointing sales, particularly in the UK, where sales dropped by 71% between October 2014 and November 2015, according to Brand Finance. The company recently launched its new "Taste the Feeling" global campaign to unite the various incarnations of Coca-Cola under one message.

It seems every week there's a new study or story that contradicts everything you know about how to manage your health. 

To help you parse out what works from what's merely myth, here's the definitive (at least for now) answers to some of the most pressing health questions, based on the book Your Health: What Works, What Doesn't.

NEXT: 15 healthy eating habits that work according to scientists

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Does sugar make you hyper?

Short answer: No

The National Institute of Health has made it pretty clear that additives and dyes added to food have effects that are "small and do not account for most cases of ADHD."

The myth started back in the 1970s when a doctor wrote into the American Academy of Pediatrics that he had become aware that sugar was a leading cause of hyperactivity. But research has shown otherwise: A 1995 meta-analysis of sugar studies found that it doesn't have an effect on the behavior or cognitive performance of children. 

Does cough syrup work?

Short answer: No

It's been a while since doctors came to agree that most over-the-counter cough medicines don't work. In 2014, Australian researchers published similar conclusions that the syrups typically contain doses of codeine and antihistamines that are too small to be effective, and can be harmful for children.

Prescription cough suppressants, such as levodropopizine might have a better shot, however. 

Does olive oil prevent heart disease?

Short answer: Yes

As if you need more of an excuse to put olive oil on everything, scientists have found a connection between eating more olive oil and a lower risk of coronary artery disease, and its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects have been well documented.

And in a study of older women published in 2015 in the medical journal JAMA, Spanish scientists found that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra olive oil appeared to help reduce the participants' risk of breast cancer when compared against two other groups of women on either a low-fat diet or a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts.

With unemployment in Britain sitting at just 5.1%, fewer people than at any time since before the financial crisis are out of work right now.

However, there are still 1.77 million unemployed people in the UK today, and they're all looking for a job.

Using data given to us by Jobspotting, a German job search site, we've put together a list of the companies hiring the most right now. Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, has a small stake in Jobspotting.

The ranking is based on the number of job vacancies the companies have listed as active right now excluding recruitment firms.

In our ranking, we've included examples of the sort of jobs available at each company, as well as a brief description of what that job entails.

So if you're looking for a new job, take a look at the companies in Britain that are hiring the most.

12. JP Morgan

Number of jobs: 135

What they do: JP Morgan is one of the world's largest and most recognisable banks. The company does everything from retail banking to asset management to mergers & acquisitions. It employs over 265,000 people worldwide.

Example job: Applications Support Director, Bournemouth — "The ideal candidate will possess a combination of strategic, analytical, senior management and hands on technology skills with a focus on receivables/payables processing.  Candidate must have superior organizational management, talent management and relationship building skills with significant experience managing an end to end technology environment at a senior level." 

11. Bristol Street Motors

Number of jobs: 135

What they do: A division of Vertu Motors, Bristol Street Motors is one of the UK's largest chains of car dealerships, selling brands including Ford, Peugeot, Vauxhall, Volkswagen, and Renault across Britain.

Example job: Business Manager, Peugeot, Oxford  — "We are looking for a driven, motivated and disciplined individual who is able to communicate well and create a rapport with our customers. Your passion, energy and commitment must be second to none and should be able to be demonstrated at interview. You must also be able to demonstrate a superb track record within a Business Manager role, with a settled career history in the Motor Industry."

10. Safestyle UK

Number of jobs: 151

What they do: Safestyle UK is one of Britain's biggest installers of replacement windows and doors, based in Bradford, England. The company is famous for its Buy One Get One Free offers, and off-the-wall advertising. It floated on the AIM share exchange in 2013.

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Disney re-imaginings are a common starting point for many internet phenomena, whether it's princesses as hot dogs or gender-swapped villains. 

Artist Andrew Tarusov — already responsible for creating Disney princess pin-ups — has a new take on the idea: Tim Burton's visual aesthetic combined with the Disney classic movies.

Scroll down to see the imaginative renderings for yourself.

Tarusov posted the new series on January 28. Within days, the photos had been shared 15,000 times on Facebook.

The photo series was also posted to Imgur, and hit the with over 3,000 upvotes.

"I’m big fan of Tim Burton’s style and Disney movies," Tarusov told Tech Insider. "[The idea] just happened and I began to draw immediately!"

Many people think of maps in terms of their basic purpose: showing a country’s geography and topography. But maps can speak to all dimensions—political, military, and economic. 

In fact, they are the first place to start thinking about a country’s strategy, which can reveal factors that are otherwise not obvious.

The 10 maps below show Russia’s difficult position since the Soviet Union collapsed and explain Putin’s long-term intentions in Europe.

Russia is almost landlocked

Sometimes a single map can reveal the most important thing about a country. In the case of Russia, it is this map.

One of the keys to understanding Russia’s strategy is to look at its position relative to the rest of Europe. 

The European Peninsula is surrounded on three sides by the Baltic and North Seas, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The easternmost limit of the peninsula extends from the eastern tip of the Baltic Sea south to the Black Sea.

In this map, this division is indicated by the line from St. Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don. This line also roughly defines the eastern boundaries of the Baltic states, Belarus and Ukraine. These countries are the eastern edge of the European Peninsula.

Hardly any part of Europe is more than 400 miles from the sea, and most of Europe is less than 300 miles away. Much of Russia, on the other hand, is effectively landlocked. The Arctic Ocean is far away from Russia’s population centers, and the few ports that do exist are mostly unusable in the winter.

Europe controls Russia’s access to the oceans

Russia’s access to the world’s oceans, aside from the Arctic, is also limited. What access it does have is blocked by other countries, which can be seen through this map.

European Russia has three potential points from which to access global maritime trade. One is through the Black Sea and the Bosporus, a narrow waterway controlled by Turkey that can easily be closed to Russia. Another is from St. Petersburg, where ships can sail through Danish waters, but this passageway can also be easily blocked. The third is the long Arctic Ocean route, starting from Murmansk and then extending through the gaps between Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom.

During the Cold War, air bases in Norway, Scotland, and Iceland, coupled with carrier battle groups, worked to deny Russia access to the sea. This demonstrates the vulnerability Russia faces due to its lack of access to oceans and waterways.

It also reveals why Russia is, for all intents and purposes, a landlocked country.
A country’s access to the sea can greatly influence its economic and political strength.

Most of Russia's population lives along the western border

Russia’s population clusters along its western border with Europe and its southern border with the Caucasus (the area between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea to the south). Siberia is lightly populated. Rivers and infrastructure flow west.

Wards recently released the latest edition of its annual list of best engines in the world. For 2016, the 10 winners are an eclectic bunch. There are 4-, 6-, and 8-cylinder engines, along with a diesel and a trio of hybrids. This the 22nd time Wards has conducted the competition to find the best engine in the world. Eight of the 10 are new to the list for 2016, with two being holdovers from last year.

According to Wards, only new or significantly reengineered engines or propulsion systems that are available for sale in the US and are installed in cars having a base price of less than $61,000 are eligible for the top 10. In addition, the winners from the previous year are also eligible to defend their crowns. But all VW Group products were banned this year from the list, as a result of the company's ongoing emissions scandal.

A total of 31 candidates were evaluated by the publication's editors in real-life, on-road driving conditions in October and November. Wards scored each engine based on horsepower, torque, comparative specs, noise attenuation, fuel economy, and application of new technology.

Here are the 10 winners for 2016:

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The Ford Shelby Mustang GT350 is one of the hottest pony cars to reach production in recent memory. At its heart is a snarling 5.2-liter, 526-horsepower V8 engine known as the "Voodoo."

Wards editors found the powerful V8 to be equally competitive at mundane street driving or at pushing the boundaries of its performance. As a result, the publication calls the Voodoo "the pinnacle of internal-combustion engineering."

The 3.6-liter LGX V6 engine is the first of two power plants from General Motors to make the list this year. According to Wards, the 335-horsepower, fuel-efficient V6 proves that the six-banger is no longer just a consolation prize for missing out on the V8.

Here on Earth, we tend to not give our measurements of time much thought.

Unless we’re griping about Time Zones, enjoying the extra day of a Leap Year, or contemplating the rationality of Daylight Savings Time, we tend to take it all for granted.

But when you consider the fact that increments like a year are entirely relative, dependent on a specific space and place, you begin to see how time really works.

Here on Earth, we consider a year to be 365 days.

Unless of course it’s a Leap Year, which takes place every four years (in which it is 366).

But the actual definition of a year is the time it takes our planet to complete a single orbit around the Sun. So if you were to put yourself in another frame of reference – say, another planet – a year would work out to something else.

Let’s see just how long a year is on the other planets, shall we?

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A year on Mercury:

To put it simply, Mercury has an orbital period of 88 days (87.969 to be exact), which means a single year is 88 Earth days – or the equivalent of about 0.241 Earth years. But here’s the thing. Because of Mercury’s slow rotation (once every 58.646 days) and its rapid orbital speed (47.362 km/s), one day on Mercury actually works out to 175.96 Earth days.

So basically, a single year on Mercury is half as long as a Mercurian (aka. Hermian) day. This is due to Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, ranging from 46,001,200 km at perihelion to 69,816,900 km at aphelion. At that distance, the planet shoots around the Sun faster than any other in our Solar System and has the shortest year.

In the course of a year, Mercury experiences intense variations in surface temperature – ranging from 80 °K (-193.15 °C;-315.67 °F) to 700 °K (426.85 °C; 800.33 °F). However, this is due to the planet’s varying distance from the Sun and its spin, which subjects one side to extended periods of extremely hot temperatures and one side to extended periods of night. Mercury’s low axial tilt (0.034°) and its rapid orbital period means that there really is no seasonal variation on Mercury. Basically, one part of the year is as hellishly hot, or horribly cold, as any other.

A year on Venus:

The second closest planet to our Sun, Venus completes a single orbit once ever 224.7 days. This means that a single year on Venus works out to about 0.6152 Earth years. But, once again, things are complicated by the fact that Venus has an unusual rotation period. In fact, Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis – the slowest rotation of any planet – and its rotation is retrograde to its orbital path.

Combined with its orbital period, this means that a single solar day on Venus (the time between one sunup to the next) is 117 Earth days. So basically, a single year on Venus is lasts 1.92 Venusian (aka. Cytherean) days. Again, this would make for some confusing time-cycles for any humans trying to make a go of it on Venus!

Also, Venus has a very small axial tilt – 3° compared to Earth’s 23.5° – and its proximity to the Sun makes for a much shorter seasonal cycle – 55-58 days compared to Earth’s 90-93 days. Add to that its unusual day-night cycle, variations are very slight. In fact, the temperate on Venus is almost always a brutal 736 K (463 °C ; 865 degrees °F), which is hot enough to melt lead!

A year on Earth:

Comparatively speaking, a year on Earth is pretty predictable, which is probably one of the reasons why life is able to thrive here. In short, our planet takes 365.2564 solar days to complete a single orbit of the Sun, which is why we add an extra day to the calendar every four years (i.e. a Leap Year, which 2016 happens to be).

But because our axis is tilted, there is considerable variation in the seasons during the course of a year. During the winter, when one hemisphere is pointed away from the Sun, the Sun’s distance from the equator changes by up to 23.5°. As a result, between the summer and winter, the length of days and nights, temperatures, and seasons will go through significant changes.

Above the Arctic Circle, an extreme case is reached where there is no daylight at all for part of the year – up to six months at the North Pole itself, in what is known as a “polar night”. In the southern hemisphere the situation is exactly reversed, with the South Pole experiencing a midnight sun, a day of 24 hours, again reversing with the South Pole. Every six months, the order of this is reversed.