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Canada's new prime minister just named the most diverse cabinet in history — here are some members

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Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was sworn into office on Wednesday.

At the ceremony he revealed his 30 cabinet ministers — 15 of whom are women.

Not counting Trudeau, the 31st member, that means 50% of Canada's privy council is female.

Trudeau made a number of other changes.

He renamed the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration to the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.

The Ministry of Environment became the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. And the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development was renamed the Ministry of Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

The new cabinet is also the most diverse Canada has ever seen — and not just because of the 15 women. From an indigenous attorney general to a minister who was once imprisoned and wrongly accused of terrorism, here are a few of Canada's fascinating new ministers.

SEE ALSO: 'We all underestimated Justin Trudeau' — here's what analysts are saying about Canada's surprise Liberal victory

Jody Wilson-Raybould — Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice

Wilson-Raybould is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation and was a regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations in British Columbia.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Wilson-Raybould was also a provincial Crown prosecutor.



Harjit Sajjan — Minister of National Defence

Sajjan has served in the Canadian army and as an officer in the Vancouver police department.

Sajjan, born in India, was the first Sikh to command a Canadian army regiment.



Kent Hehr — Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence

Hehr represents Calgary Centre. He became a quadriplegic after being shot as a bystander in a drive-by shooting in 1991. Gun violence and LGBT rights are issues he consistently emphasizes.



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Burying dead bodies takes a surprising toll on the environment

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The ritual of burying a dead body is so deeply ingrained in religious and cultural history that few of us take a moment to question it.

But when you dig into the statistics, the process of preserving and sealing corpses into caskets and then plunging them into the ground is extremely environmentally unfriendly.

Toxic chemicals from the embalming, burial, and cremation process leach into the air and soil, and expose funeral workers to potential hazards. And maintaining the crisp, green memorial plots is extremely land-and-water-use heavy.

For this reason, scientists and conservationists have been looking into more eco-friendly ways to die.

"The best way is to allow your body to feed the earth or ocean in a way that is sustainable for future generations," Susan Dobscha, a professor of marketing at Bentley University and editor of an upcoming book about the green-burial industry, called "Death and a Consumer Culture," told Tech Insider via email.

Here are five reasons why modern burial practices are bad for the environment, along with some safer, more natural and conservation-focused alternatives.

The embalming process is toxic.

Embalming is the process of pumping a chemical cocktail of formaldehyde, phenol, methanol, and glycerin into the body through an artery to delay the body's rate of decay. This could be used for display purposes during funerals, long-distance transportation, or for use for medical or scientific research. It is also said to give the body a life-like appearance for public viewing.

Formaldehyde is a potential human carcinogen, and can be lethal if a person is exposed to high concentrations. Its fumes can also irritate the eyes, nose, and throat. Phenol, similarly, can irritate or burn the flesh, and is toxic if ingested. Methyl alcohol and glycerin can irritate the eyes, skin, nose, and throat.

According to an article published in the Berkeley Planning Journal, more than 800,000 gallons of formaldehyde are put into the ground along with dead bodies every year in the US. That's enough to fill one and a quarter Olympic-sized swimming pools each year.



Many materials go into a burial.

According to the Berkeley Planning Journal, conventional burials in the US every year use 30 million board feet of hardwoods, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 104,272 tons of steel, and 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete.

The amount of casket wood alone is equivalent to about 4 million acres of forest and could build about 4.5 million homes.



Memorial parks use a lot of space and resources.

After a body is sealed in a hardwood or metal casket, it is often placed in a thin concrete vault, which is then placed in a "memorial park."

These parks generally have sprawling, pristine lawns that require a ton of water, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides to keep them a vibrant green. These chemicals can seep into water supplies or harm wildlife, such as bees.

They also use up a ton of land. If you added up the entire square footage of all the cemeteries in the US, according to Dobscha, it would measure 1 million acres of land.



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Inside Facebook's big plan to bring Internet to the world

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Facebook is on a mission to bring internet to the world. The company stands to make a lot of money by connecting the four billion offline people around the globe. 

This summer, the social networking giant made two breakthroughs in its plan: prototyping a solar-powered, internet-delivering aircraft, as well as a lab-tested laser that can transmit data from that aircraft at 10 gigabits per second. Together, the two could offer wireless internet to even the most isolated regions.

Facebook also recently announced a deal with French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications that will use satellites to beam internet across 14 countries in Africa.

Facebook's progress earned it a spot on our recent list of the most exciting innovations of the year. Let's take a closer look at its ground-breaking tech.

Traditional models of connectivity use a tower that propagates radio signals to people's devices.



However, this approach can be expensive, so mobile operators are less inclined to build the tech in low-population-density areas.



When Facebook first set out to bring internet to the world, the team took a hard look at cell towers and other existing infrastructure and decided they wouldn't work.



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See the creepy winners of Eli Roth's Instagram horror movie contest

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The typical horror movie hovers around the 90-minute mark, but as a group of filmmakers just proved, you don't need more than 15 seconds to freak viewers out.

Eli Roth, the director behind "Cabin Fever" and "Hostel," held a contest for the scariest Instagram video over Halloween weekend and just named the winner, who'll get $10,000 and the chance to have their clip developed into a short by Roth's CryptTV digital networkSorted under the hashtag #15SecondScare, the clips were all seriously creepy.

""I was absolutely floored at the submission quality for #15SecondScare," Roth told Tech Insider. "The production quality, the creative story telling — it was absolutely amazing. We got submission from all over the world and I think it shows just how creative young filmmakers can be in this format."

A winner and five more finalists were selected by an illustrious panel of judges including Quentin Tarantino, music producer deadmau5, “Key and Peele’s” Jordan Peele, “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens, “Enter the Void” director Gaspar Noé, “Paranormal Activity” producer Jason Blum and Roth himself.

Read on to see the top six scariest clips according to the judges. But be warned: Some of these clips are pretty gory and graphic.

6. Nick Lines' "Shriek!" has no shortage of blood.

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5. The details in "Away from Prying Hands" by Hugo Breant are stunning.

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4. This short by Jorge Jaramillo is totally animated.

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The new face of Abercrombie & Fitch is a Kanye West-endorsed model who made history for Burberry

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Neelam Gill is about to become a household name.

The model, who appeared in a history-making Burberry campaign, is now the face of Abercrombie & Fitch. (She was also tabloid fodder earlier this year ,when she was linked to former One Direction member Zayn Malik.)

Her ad campaign is part of Abercrombie's mission to become tamer and more appealing to its target demographic.

But Gill is more than a pretty face.

Get to know the 20-year-old new face of Abercrombie & Fitch.

SEE ALSO: A longtime Victoria's Secret model told us her surprising diet philosophy

Gill is from England.

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Gill was scouted when she was 14 — but she waited until after high school to start modeling.

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People made fun of her. "I had glasses and braces," she told Elle. "I was not one of the hot girls in school ... I didn't even tell people in high school that I was interested in modeling, or that I'd been scouted, because when people found out, they were like, 'What? Her?!' There was a joke about me in school: 'Oh, Neelam's a model—she's a foot model! Maybe she can be a hand model!' because nobody could believe anyone would want to [cast] me."

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9 apps famous Instagrammers use to make their photos look incredible

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Whether you're obsessed with Instagram or just enjoy taking pictures with your phone, chances are you could learn a thing or two about what goes into editing great photos.

It's time to learn from the best.

Tech Insider talked to six famous Instagrammers about their favorite apps and editing tricks for getting great photos.

There's one app that famous Instagrammers we talked to all seemed to swear by: VSCO.

The app Instagrammers told us they liked best was by far VSCO. The app is free to download on iPhone and Android and offers paid in-app purchases to unlock additional filters, or as the app calls them, presets.



VSCO's presets are designed to emulate the classic look of film cameras.

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Cory Staudacher, who goes by @withhearts to his 634,000 followers on Instagram, described VSCO as "my go to editing app for filters and adjustments. I love adding the classic film look with a simple VSCO filter."



Photographers love the app for bringing out the natural "tones" in their work.

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"For mobile editing, all I really use is VSCOcam to be honest," said Benj Haisch, a photographer with 186,000 followers on Instagram. "[It's] the best mobile editing platform in terms of toning photographs on the market."



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The one day a month when women most love sex, and other fun facts about making whoopee

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When it comes to having better sex, getting pregnant, or avoiding pregnancy, women have a new best friend: their smartphones.

Fertility-tracking apps like Glow are quickly becoming the newest addition to a woman's fertility management.

Glow was founded in 2013 by PayPal cofounder and investor Max Levchin.

In the two years since it launched, Glow has helped with 150,000 pregnancies, according to new data it shared this week. All told, Glow has logged the data for 47 million female fertility cycles. It also tracks things like mood, frequency, and quality of sex.

So it analyzed the data and came up with these interesting insights about women's sex lives.

SEE ALSO: The most popular times to have sex, and other fun facts about making whoopee

Want more sex? Move to Canada. Canadians have sex 45% more often than the average Glow user.



But beware: Canada is also a great place to get pregnant. Canadian women get pregnant 21% more easily than the average Glow user.



Australians are also having a lot of sex — 37% more than the average user.



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14 incredible facts about Texas

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They say everything's bigger in Texas, and we're here to show you it's true.

If the Lone Star State were its own country, it would have the 12th-highest GDP in the world.

Some of that growth is attributed to Texas' bustling energy businesses, which has been front and center over the past year with the lower oil prices.

With that in mind, take a close looker at the inner workings of this major economy below.

SEE ALSO: Wall Street's brightest minds reveal the most important charts in the world

Texas has enough crude oil reserves to fill up almost 1,588 Empire State Buildings.

Texas has 10.47 billion barrels of crude-oil reserves, or 439.740 billion gallons. This is 31.4% of the US's reserves.

The Empire State Building's volume is 37 million cubic feet, or 276,779,000 gallons.

Source: US Energy Information Administration



There are enough registered machine guns in Texas to arm every student enrolled at Harvard and Dartmouth.

There are 28,690 registered machine guns in Texas.

There are about 21,000 students enrolled at Harvard and 6,298 students enrolled at Dartmouth.

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Thirty-five North Dakotas would still have fewer businesses than Texas.

There are 2,164,852 firms in Texas.

There are 61,546 in North Dakota.

Source: US Census



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The PGA's tournament in Shanghai always produces golf's most amazing — and sometimes awkward — pictures

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Many of the world's best golfers are meeting this week in Shanghai at the HSBC Champions, the final leg of the World Golf Championships, events featuring golfers from the world's top tours.

One of the traditions at the HSBC Champions is for several of golf's biggest stars to meet with the media and pose for photographs, producing a series of images that never disappoints.

What makes these photos so amazing is the mixture of very elegant and traditional Chinese outfits and gear mixed with professional golfers who we only ever see in their traditional golf attire covered in sponsors logos. 

And some of the golfers handle the transition better than others.

In 2009, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson pretended to play Chinese chess for the press.



In 2010, organizers upped the ante by giving the golfers swords! (L to R: Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer)



Nothing says a fight to the death quite like a couple of smiling golfers (notice the golf grips (notice the golf grips being used by both golfers).



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This solar-powered bus is shuttling a biology lab throughout NYC

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The last thing you expect to see while walking to work in the trendy Flatiron District of New York City is a multi-colored, solar-powered bus from the 70s parked in front of a Club Monaco.

But this isn't just any ordinary bus.

Its insides are tricked out with $100,000-worth of microscopes and laboratory equipment, with scientists and school teachers scanning large monitors beaming magnified images of crustaceans — a hidden biology oasis.

The so-called BioBus is a mobile research lab and an educational tool. On this particular weekday in November, the scientists and high school teachers aboard had one mission: to identify the tiny creatures floating around the East River using their DNA.

BioBus is the brainchild of Ben Dubin-Thaler, a biologist who envisioned the idea after finishing his PhD from Columbia University.



He theorized that performing hands-on, live experiments would foster excitement about science.



And what better way to engender excitement than to bring a fully functional biology lab to classrooms and instructors throughout New York City.



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7 online certifications that can lead to a major salary bump

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young man on laptopA certification can strengthen your degree, and maybe even improve your income.

Better still? It can do all this without you ever having to set foot inside a classroom, as all of the seven certifications listed below are offered online.

Take a look, and start moving ahead today.

SEE ALSO: 25 college majors with the highest starting salaries

1. Project management

Aside from IT, project managers work in engineering, healthcare, and construction. They are responsible for overseeing the completion of a project — on budget, and on time. It's a high-pressure career, but the salary is great (average $89,000 for entry-level). Fortunately, you don't have to quit your day job to earn your certification. The average cost varies widely, but reputable UC Berkeley lists it as around $5,600. Here is a list of online project management programs where you can study.

 



2. Microsoft certified IT professional

My friend Chad, who has a degree in IT, obtained this Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification on his own, reasoning that "I thought it might be helpful." Upon completion, he showed it to his manager...and was immediately promoted and reimbursed for the cost of obtaining the certification. The cost? A very affordable $150 for the first level (Microsoft Certified); then you can take more courses and build into Professional (MCITP), Architect (MCA), Professional Developer, etc.

How much can you expect to earn from certifications? From Microsoft:

"In high-growth industries, entry-level employees who hold a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certification or Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification can earn up to $16,000 more, annually, than their peers."



3. CPA

An accountant with a Bachelor's degree can expect annual earnings of $63,550 per year. But what if that accountant passes the licensure exam and becomes a Certified Public Accountant? Here is an interesting breakdown from the folks at Becker Professional Education:

"Over the course of a 40-year career, a CPA can earn as much as $1 million more than a non-certified accountant. Here's an example:

• Two non-Certified Public Accountants with Bachelor's degrees begin working at the same time at the same large public accounting firm in Audit/Assurance Services at the same annual salary of $68,000.

• One earns the CPA credential, creating a 10% salary differential of about $7,000 more than the other (CPA's can earn between 5% and 15% more than their non-credentialed counterparts).

• Over time, more frequent and higher-level promotions can widen the salary gap to as much as $50,000.

• Over a full career that can mean an additional $1 million or more in lifetime earnings."

The licensure exam is very rigorous, but what a difference in income obtaining that license makes.



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What it's like to ride the 'Train of Death' from Mexico to the US

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MFrankfurter_Destino_10Photographer Michelle Frankfurter had traveled to Mexico, the US-Mexico border, and Central America for years, working first as a photojournalist and then as a human-rights worker. During her travels, she heard about a particular route that hopeful migrants take to reach the United States. In 2009, she set out to follow it.

Following the path described in Sonia Nazario's award-winning book "Enrique's Journey," Frankfurter headed to southern Mexico and followed the path north.

In six journeys, she rode the treacherous El Tren de la Muerte (The Train of Death), came into contact with the drug cartels, and befriended numerous migrant families, many of whom never made it to the US.

Frankfurter has shared some of her photos with us here, but you can check out the rest at her website or in her book "Destino," available now.

The first step of the journey for Frankfurter and thousands of migrants is crossing the Suchiate River between the Guatemalan border town of Tecún Umán and the Mexican town of Hidalgo in the southern state of Chiapas. Migrants ride rafts made of tractor tires across the water.

 



After crossing the river, migrants hike 150 miles on foot to avoid Mexican migration checkpoints and reach Arriaga, a city in Chiapas. Here, a Salvadoran woman feeds her 18-month-old son at a migrant shelter in Chiapas after making the trek.

 

 

 



Frankfurter began the most significant part of her journey in Arriaga. Here, most migrants catch a freight train illegally to start their trek north.

 

 

 



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Inside Airbnb's playbook for taking over every city

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Hot off a victory in San Francisco's elections, home-sharing startup Airbnb isn't taking a break.

San Francisco residents voted Tuesday not to pass Prop F, a ballot initiative that would put a cap on how much homeowners could rent their homes.

During an election debrief turned victory speech, Airbnb's head of global policy, Chris Lehane, issued a thinly veiled threat to other cities.

In sum, Airbnb says it has figured out how to mobilize its home-sharing network, and its membership numbers are almost totaling the NRA. Now that it successfully rallied its San Francisco user group, it's going to do the same in 100 cities across the US in the form of "clubs."

Here's the playbook of how Airbnb beat the San Francisco ballot initiative, and how it plans to make sure that never happens again:

SEE ALSO: Airbnb can't make up its mind if it's a friend or enemy of hotels

The presentation kicks off by suggesting that the local ballot initiative wasn't just a one-time thing, but part of a larger movement.



Message No. 1: Airbnb helps individuals who are struggling to make ends meet.



Message No. 2: Airbnb helps people travel on the cheap.

The three countries it is not in: Syria, Iran, and North Korea.



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This orchestra only plays music with instruments made out of vegetables

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Vegetables contain more than your daily vitamins and minerals — they're fine ingredients for music, too.

For 17 years, the Vegetable Orchestra has been jamming with pumpkin drums, celery guitars, and turnip bongos.

Their third and latest album, "Onionoise," sounds like a mix of industrial, ambient, and techno. 

They experiment with new instruments all time, which, as you will see, are pretty inventive.

Based in Vienna, Austria, the Orchestra tours all over the world, and has played more than 300 concerts. Last year, they even broke a Guinness World Record for most concerts by a vegetable orchestra.



Just hours before every show, they go to a local farmers market. The produce must be organic and super fresh, otherwise it may break during the performance.



Then they get to work.



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NFL QUARTERBACK POWER RANKINGS: Where all 32 starters stand entering Week 9

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The NFL season is now eight weeks old, and Carson Palmer and Drew Brees are moving up, while Colin Kaepernick is not.

Using two different advanced stats and a metric from fantasy football, we came up with a formula to rank all 32 NFL starting quarterbacks.

The formula uses Football Outsiders' DYAR metric, ESPN's total QBR metric — both look at a quarterback's overall effectiveness in different ways — and the percentage of teams that own each quarterback in ESPN's Fantasy Football game.

Think of the fantasy data as a job-approval rating, an indication of how fans think of each quarterback's potential moving forward.

In the case of injuries, we will continue to rank the injured starter unless he is out for the rest of the season or there is doubt about his role once healthy.

Here is how the 32 starters are ranked so far.

32. Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers

Last week: 28

Team record: 2-6

DYAR rank: 32

QBR rank: 25

ESPN Fantasy Owned: 32.8%

One thing to know: Kaepernick has been benched and it looks like his time with the 49ers will soon be over. That means draft bust Blaine Gabbert will make his debut on this list next week.



31. Nick Foles, St. Louis Rams

Last week: 32

Team record: 4-3

DYAR rank: 27

QBR rank: 29

ESPN Fantasy Owned: 8.3%

One thing to know: The Rams have won two of their last three games despite Foles completing just 53% of his passes with two touchdowns and four interceptions in that stretch.



30. Sam Bradford, Philadelphia Eagles

Last week: 31

Team record: 3-4

DYAR rank: 28

QBR rank: 32

ESPN Fantasy Owned: 38.4%

One thing to know: Bradford says the mistakes are what is hurting the Eagles, according to Philly.com: "We've said that after several games. We need to find a way to eliminate the self-inflicted wounds. When we do that, we're a pretty good offense. And when we continue to make mistakes we've made since Week 1, we've put ourselves in bad situations."



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The 10 best cities for young people to buy a home

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Owning a home doesn't have to be a far-off dream, even if you're still in your 20s.

In a recent report, Credit Karma determined the 10 most affordable US cities for millennials (ages 18 to 34) to buy a home. The report estimated the average number of months it would take to pay off a mortgage by analyzing the median income of young people and the average size of open mortgages in the 100 largest US cities, among other factors.

(Read the full methodology.)

Buffalo, New York secured the top spot, where it will take young people about 107 months (nine years) to pay off their mortgage. Compare that to Los Angeles, where it could take as many as 534.2 months, or 44.5 years.

Read on to see the full list, plus median home values from the Census Bureau's 2014 American Community Survey:

SEE ALSO: The 13 best big US cities to live in if you want to get rich

10. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Median home value in Milwaukee: $111,900

Average millennial salary: $35,463

Average size of open mortgages: $119,116

Average months to pay off mortgage: 153.6 (12.8 years)



9. Memphis, Tennessee

Median home value in Memphis: $91,800

Average millennial salary: $31,113

Average size of open mortgages: $103,349

Average months to pay off mortgage: 152.7 (12.7 years)



8. Indianapolis, Indiana

Median home value in Indianapolis: $117,000

Average millennial salary: $35,174

Average size of open mortgages: $116,503

Average months to pay off mortgage: 149.4 (12.5 years)



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The 7 coolest things we've seen come out of the new 'Halo' game thus far

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The new "Halo" game on Xbox One, "Halo 5: Guardians," has barely been out for a week, but it's already got a Reddit forum full of madness created by players.

What kind of madness? This kind of madness!

And that's just the tip of the intergalactic war iceberg! Join us below for a smattering of some of the coolest stuff we've seen come out of "Halo 5: Guardians" thus far.

In one game mode called "Warzone," players must defend a "core" from being destroyed by the opposing team. This team tried using a Warthog vehicle with a mounted turret to stop their opponents. Bad idea!

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During a match of that same game mode, one player was creeping on a launch pad when he's accidentally shot into the sky. Thankfully, this is a blessing in disguise since he's able to smash the ground from 50 feet up, much to the chagrin of an enemy player.

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Sometimes, amazing things happen in "Halo" by accident. Sometimes, you're just trying to drive around in a Ghost when you drive over something and your vehicle flips out.

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Seattle’s disgustingly awesome 'gum wall' is about to get melted away

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For 20 years, visitors to Seattle's famous Pike's Place Market have been sticking gum to what has become simply known as "The Gum Wall." 

Like everything else that's beautiful, it's about to die. On Tuesday, to be precise.

Here are a few images of what we're losing.

The Gum Wall is in the heart of Seattle's tourist district.



It's beside the Pike's Place market.



That's the place where presidential candidates try to catch fish.



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The 30 most successful Columbia alumni of all time

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Columbia University is known for its top-ranking schools of law, business, and education — not to mention the undergraduate college itself.

With so many prestigious programs, it's no surprise Columbia has produced a wide array of successful grads over the years, from sibling actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

Keep scrolling to see the most successful Columbia Lions of all time.

SEE ALSO: The 29 most successful Princeton alumni of all time

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President Barack Obama began his undergraduate career at Occidental College in Los Angeles but transferred to Columbia, where he graduated in '83 with a degree in political science. While in school he was "somewhat involved" with the Black Students Organization and participated in anti-Apartheid activities.

Source: Columbia University



Sibling actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal both studied at Columbia: Jake attended for two years in the late '90s before dropping out to pursue his acting career, and Maggie graduated with a BA in literature in '99. Jake gained critical acclaim for roles in films like "October Sky,""Donnie Darko," and "Brokeback Mountain"; Maggie is an indie-film darling known for "Secretary" and "Sherrybaby" and also costarred in 2008 blockbuster "The Dark Knight," which grossed $1 billion worldwide at the box office.

Source: The Guardian, Biography.com, IMDb, IMDb



Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Ira Gershwin took pre-med classes at Columbia around 1918 but never graduated. Instead he went on to compose, with his brother George, the music to some of the world's most popular musicals like "Funny Face,""An American in Paris," and "Porgy and Bess."

Source: The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song



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5 insane innovations in BMW's latest luxury car

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Tesla Motors gets a lot of love for its high-tech cars, but BMW has some strong offerings of its own.

The company's latest 7 Series sedan is packed with innovations (some of which aren't legal in the US yet, unfortunately).

Tech Insider got a chance to check out the car in person on Thursday, and try out some of its highly-touted tech features.

Check it out.

The BMW Display Key is a gorgeous FOB with a color touch display.

You can see lots of information about your car right from the key FOB, and you can even start and kill the engine right from the tiny screen.

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You don't need any cords to recharge the key FOB's display. There's a wireless charging pad in the console.

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The new 7 Series' in-car system can be controlled with simple hand gestures.

In the Vine below, you can see how easy it is to raise or lower the music volume, or mute sound altogether. (Click to hear it.)

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