We all know that yawning is contagious — but there’s more to it than that. It turns out that whether and how likely you are to ‘catch’ yawning reveals something huge about your personality… It turns out that the more psychopathic…
Preschoolers collect all manner of weird and wonderful objects during the course of the day — and these items, stuffed into their little pockets, are the subject of San Francisco photographer Melissa Kaseman’s sweet photo series entitled “Preschool Pocket Treasures”. In it,…
You may of heard the sad news of Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dying on Tuesday. The cause of her death was sepsis, and the announcement was a “major milestone” for this little-known but common condition, according to Thomas Heymann, executive director of the Sepsis Alliance.…
It’s common knowledge that microwave’s cook food by passing radiation through them, causing water molecules in the food to rapidly heat up. You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to realize that you certainly wouldn’t want that radiation passing through you.…
A vegetarian diet is good for you right? Wrong, if the findings of a new study are to be believed. A long term vegetarian diet causes genetic mutations which increase the risk of heart disease and cancer, say scientists from Cornell University in…
The 1984 film The Neverending Story is undoubtably a classic. It’s a gripping story within a story about a boy reading about a magical world named Fantasia that is under threat of being destroyed by The Nothing. The film’s hero Atreyu was played…
We love a good life hack — particularly when it involves using something that seemingly has no use at all, like silica bags. These little bags of beads that are found when you buy shoes, handbags, and electronic items are…
When Dalton Ross left his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee to study abroad at Belmont University in London, UK, he knew his mom would miss him, so he decided to do something about it. He sent his mom Susan Talley a life-sized…
Getting water stains on your beautiful wood table is annoying to say the least. But there is a bizarre and cheap solution to this problem that doesn’t involve the use of chemicals. Just use mayonnaise. That’s right. In the program “Home Made…
With its amazing facilities and fantastic job perks, Google is a highly desirable place to work. But it also has a gruelling interview process — so much so that some questions were banned by the company because they were too difficult. Career…
If you were a dog, you wouldn’t want to leave the park either. Who would exchange those huge spaces for the tiny confines of indoor life? Not this clever pooch. He came up with an ingenious way to stay in the…
You just know when it’s time to settle down and have a family. And so it was with Austin-based comedians and best friends MK Paulsen and Ella Gale, who decided that it was time to take the next step and have a baby…
Not many women choose the life of a nun, after all, it takes immense discipline, dedication, belief, and apparently, a good knowledge of marijuana. Meet The Sisters of the Valley, a group of nuns based in Merced, California. They’re the subject of a…
One family’s hopes of a peaceful, sweet newborn photoshoot were quickly washed away when the little tyke decided to have a little… fun. Abbie Rogers, from Abbie Rogers Photography, captured the priceless moment a newborn urinated on his parents mid-photoshoot. “It happens a…
We all know you can’t have it all. Except perhaps, when you can. Meet 28-year-old Pietro Boselli, a university advanced math lecturer and now, the new face of Armani. You may remember Pietro shot to fame last year after adoring students found…
Don’t let Sophia the life-like robot’s sweet face fool you — she wants to “destroy humans”. One of the creator’s of the “sexy robot” was left red-faced when CNBC captured the slip-up. David Hanson, founder of Hanson Robotics, was demonstrating the android at the South by Southwest…