Posts by Jenifer Sako

The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off marches across the U.S. and abroad. Black citizens have taken to the streets demanding accountability within law enforcement and a review of racist policies and treatment. Out of the shouting, chanting and singing from the streets, a small but meaningful voice reminded...

As a country, we’re going through a time of reflection brought on by the protests of Black citizens of the racism they face by law enforcement and in all areas of their everyday lives. As we strive to have meaningful conversations about race, one of the casualties of the Black Lives Matter movement has been...

We hope you’re bored because these looping GIFs are going to hold you in place for a long time. The longer you look the harder it will be to break away because these get better the longer you fixate. They also look like they were really fun to make! Are you ready for such mindless...

As we go through our cultural examination in the wake of people protesting America’s history of racism and police brutality, statues are the first items getting the heave-ho. Many of the targeted statues have been of Confederate leaders and early American explorers. But as emotions are still heightened and debates around system changes are only...

A good visual aid helps make a lesson stick. So these teachers knew what they were doing when they chose to use these memes to push their content. Good or cringey…it doesn’t matter. The fact is they’re trying and we’re okay with that. Here are 11 that are at least a B. 1. Social studies...

Good teachers know to really relate to kids, they need to speak their language, which means sending them memes. Some of them are funny and others are strange. But it’s sweet to see all of them trying. Because if teachers can do anything right, it’s trying to make sure kids like them… haha, I kid....

Love your neighbor but do it from a distance, please. That’s the message we’ve been getting from the experts who are racing to get the novel coronavirus under control. Scientists recommend a distance of at least 6-feet from any new person you encounter or at least some kind of partition. Here’s what that looks like...

For stores and businesses around the world, reopening is not a simple as turning a lock. Unusual protocols for doing business are necessary now to keep employees and customers safe. Some of these stores are using combinations of technology and barriers to keep viruses away. From around the globe, here are 10 businesses and how...

Slowly restaurants around the globe are reopening after weeks of shutdown mandates. There are many arguments for and against dining in public places, but most restaurants are serving customers while working with widely accepted guidelines to keep everyone safe. From biometrics to barriers, the hope is to keep eateries open, workers employed and service as...

I think we all agree teachers have a tough job. They have things to teach and students who can be resistant to learning. So, what do they do? They make memes. Big memes, small memes, funny memes and meme memes! Okay, we don’t really know what that last one is, but here are 13 pretty...

Actor Josh Gad has embarked on a cool project where he reunites casts from our favorite movies over video chats. His latest brings the cast from the Lord of the Rings movies together and it’s probably the best one. He put out a funny teaser a few weeks ago, which was a reunion in itself....

If you have a couple of hours to kill and need something fun to do, give Google Street View a try. Even before virtual touring became a common solution to what to do over the weekend, spring break and now summer, this Google feature was a cool way to check out almost any part of...

Sometimes it’s fun to check out what kind of houses are for sale in your city by researching different price ranges and seeing what comes up even when you have no intention on buying one. That’s probably what led Twitter user @frazierapproves to this peach of a home outside Pittsburgh, Pa. It looks like a regular,...

Something that we don’t talk about a whole lot is how the roofs of our mouths feel. So, if you have a hard bump there, you may be living under the false impression that everyone does. Why wouldn’t they? When you run your tongue along the roof of your mouth (do it now, I’ll wait)...

Peter and Allison Gordon had a wonderfully romantic marriage before she passed of cancer in 2016. Almost every day for 25 years, he has written a poem for Allison. Even after her death, he continued with his poetry expressing his unending love for her. His children asked him to sort through the notes and what...