Follow CNNStory highlightsMore unique vending machines are popping up in the United StatesMachines in high traffic areas offer everything from shoes to sunscreenGolden Nugget casinos have ATMs that dispense goldIn Beverly Hills, fresh cupcakes are available via machine 24/7If you’ve traveled to Asia at all, the center of all things techy and kitschy, you’ve no doubt witnessed some of the odd stuff sold in vending machines there. (Japan, in fact, has the highest concentration of vending machines in the world, with one per every 23 people.) Drop your coins in the slot and you can retrieve everything from fresh eggs to pet rhinoceros beetles.There’s even a new machine in Singapore that dispenses free bottles of Coke in exchange for a hug (yes, you have to actually wrap your arms around the machine).But unusually stocked vending machines are showing up more and more frequently in the United States these days, particularly in airports and other areas heavily trafficked by travelers. Art museum showcasing the works of everyone from Georgia O’Keeffe to John Singer Sargent, you may be inspired to start a collection of your own.

Thirty five percent of 424 traumatised students fully met the DSM IV criteria for PTSD with high levels of Depression and anxiety. Only 11% of participants reported no symptoms at all. Females reported more symptoms than males. In other words, there have been around 1,000 events since the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago. So the odds of a nearby gamma ray burst aren’t zero, but they’re low enough that you really don’t have to worry about them. Unless you’re planning on living about 5 million years in some kind of gamma powered superbody..

“It wasn’t the result of some guy trying to be, you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and live out some kind of movie and romanticize a street life.”During his time in prison, Levi dedicated himself to the exploration of Judaism, a process he said he had begun as a teenager, listening to his grandmother tell biblical stories about Moses and King David.While he was still behind bars, he changed his legal name to Levi and began his more formal religious education.But this was not, says Levi, a stereotypical jailhouse conversion.”Going to prison just freed my schedule to continue to do what I was already doing,” Levi explains. “Unfortunately some people think that going to prison is when the light switch went off in my head and I had an epiphany, but that wasn’t the case at all.”After being released from prison in 2009, Levi fulfilled a promise to himself to visit Israel. He arrived in September of that year, underwent a formal conversion and began to study Judaism with rabbis associated with the more stringent ultra orthodox sects of the faith.