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Chinese Rich Kid Offers $170,000 to Rent a Girlfriend for Upcoming Spring Festival

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST

This Chinese man is so rich he is willing to shell out one million yuan (US $170,000) just to rent a girlfriend. The news was first reported on China's leading social networking website, Weibo. The post came from an account called 'Host of Henan newscast’.

Paying a girl to date you might give people the wrong idea, but this case appears to be different. According to the posting, the man wants to hire a girl just to accompany him to his family reunion during the upcoming Spring Festival. Perhaps he doesn't want to be alone during the Chinese holidays?

The listing included a photograph of the dude, sitting behind a pile of cash. I suppose he wanted to go all out to prove that he is serious. He put up a list of requirements: the girl should be under 25, over 1.68 meters tall, less than 50 kilograms, and "sweet," with at least a bachelor's degree. He will pay 10 percent extra for a girl with a doctorate degree or a virgin. Among other promises is a chartered flight from Shenzhen to Zhengzhou and back.

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Mr. Incredibeard and His Truly Incredible Beard Styles

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST

29-year-old Isiah Webb is blessed with amazing genes that have helped him grow a truly legendary beard. It's rare to find men these days with such a thick overgrowth of facial hair. But Webb isn’t content with just having a long beard. He has transformed it into various weird shapes and styles, posted pictures online and watched them go viral.

Webb calls himself 'Mr. Incredibeard'. "Beards run in my family, so I've always really known; it's kind of tradition," he said. "One of my ancestors, Jay Gould, was a railroad tycoon with a pretty awesome beard, and we actually look alike in many ways. Maybe one day I will be able to make a few billion dollars as a beard tycoon."

I must say, he does look like he's well on his way to becoming a 'beard tycoon', if there really is such a thing. He wears it in so many creative ways – a bowl to eat noodles from, a 'bearded elf beard', a 'stairway to heaven beard', and even a 'fries & a beard shake'. Yes, he actually uses his beard to hold a burger, some fries and a shake so that his hands are completely free. I think that's just for the photograph though, I don't suppose he'd really eat food off of his beard. Oh, wait, he would.  Isiah puts up these photographs every Monday, on his various social media profiles.

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Meet Steven Kutcher – The Guy Who Gets Insects to Act on Camera

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 01:00 AM PST

Have you ever wondered how the insects in movies do exactly what they're supposed to? How do they know they're even in a movie scene and play along with the plot? Like the spider that bites Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in Spiderman. The bees that swarm Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo. The spider that walks four feet and slips into a slipper in the cult classic, Arachnophobia. Or the giant mosquitos in Jurassic Park.

It turns out that there's actually a person behind all these shots, manipulating the insects to do his bidding. That man is Steven Kutcher, 69, an entomologist who has been working in Hollywood since 1976. He has been a part of over 100 feature films, numerous commercials, music videos and TV movies.

"I think of myself as a bug wrangler, a consultant. I'm not the cheap guy who trains dogs and chickens and happens to have a tarantula," he said. "I'm both a scientist and an artist. I think Steven Spielberg said I was the first entomologist in the film industry. I brought the science of insect behavior to the film industry." It's pretty obvious that Mr. Kutcher takes immense pride in what he does.

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