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Ahh, the friend zone. You’ve probably heard this term being tossed around one too many times. The thing is, it’s complete sexist bull. And here are 7 reasons why this term should be permanently deleted from your vocabulary. #1. Because it’s sexist…
Adele’s back again, and her new single, “Hello,” is (surprise, surprise) another sad song to a former lover. It clearly struck a nerve with Alabama student Mary Caldarella, who decided to use the lyrics to troll her ex-boyfriend, Matt. Caldarella’s SMS screenshots have gone viral on…
Iron Man may have superpowers, but it’s the actor behind the suit — Robert Downey Jr. — who is the real-life hero. Vicky Keyte’s 7-year-old son Daniel has cystic fibrosis. Recently, a boy in his class told him that all children…
If there’s one thing that we all have in common as a human race, it’s our insatiable curiosity for the deep dark underbelly of society. After all, crime happens everyday and can be committed by anyone. If you want to…
We all know that “the good old days” were more than good, they were awesome. People had a sense of style, taste, and class that seems to be missing these days. #1. A young, dashing Harrison Ford. #2. Audrey Hepburn at…
This is the kind of initiative we should be seeing everywhere: a program run out of the Siloam Mission in Winnipeg, Canada, hires homeless people to clean up the downtown streets and pays them $11/hour for their efforts. It’s become so successful that it fills…
Forget standing desks, because the latest revolution is working lying down. A back injury suffered by Altwork co-founder John Speicher prevented him from working at a computer, but it also gave him the idea for this awesome invention. Designed in Sonoma Valley, California, the…
Everyday for five years, 93-year-old Louise Edlen waved to the bus of students from Arlington High who passed her house on their way to and from school. She became known as “the grandma in the window.” But one September morning, grandma…
This is the tender moment newlywed Greta Hokanson shared a dance with the man who saved her life when she was just 16. Greta was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006, and the only cure was a bone marrow transplant. None of her…
Adult life is HARD. But perhaps we sometimes overcomplicate things, too. Writer Chaz Hutton’s brilliant series of simple illustrations on sticky-notes perfectly sum up the difficulties of being an adult — with no more than a few strokes of his pen. Using…
Simon Schaffrath and his wife are expecting, and so to celebrate, he decided to make a series of very creative photos, using his wife’s body as a canvas. Each photo has a special message for his unborn son, who is called Theo.…
Kids have pretty crazy imaginations, and furniture store IKEA has harnessed the power to create 10 bizarre yet awesome cuddly toys, based on the drawings of 10 children. Ikea’s annual Soft Toys for Education campaign asks kids to submit their weird and wonderful animal…
The days are getting shorter, the nights longer, and the weather colder. It makes you just want to stay in bed all day. Well, you’ll be pleased to know that you can — with this Japanese kotatsu. It consists of a…
Sometimes, we aren’t as thankful as we should be for all the blessings we’ve been given. We have food, water, shelter, and much more besides. Christmas is often a time when we’re most reminded of this, with the in-your-face advertisements…
For anyone who’s ever been confused about what sexual consent means, the UK’s Thames Valley Police has just launched a brilliant YouTube campaign explaining it using a quintessentially English tea analogy. The video, titled “Consent: It’s as Simple as Tea,”…
#1. July 1863 — Battlefield at Gettysburg. Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where more than 50,000 Union and Confederate troops were killed, injured, or captured during the Civil War. #2. April 1906 — Destruction after the…