Posts by Jenifer Sako

In Oklahoma Man news, police say a recent stop resulted in the arrest of a person possessing a rattlesnake, a gun, an open container of whiskey and a rod of uranium. Police pulled over the black Ford Explorer Stephen Jennings was driving for expired tags. Jennings was eventually charged with possession of a stolen vehicle,...

The PAC Dance Team of Arizona’s Walden Grove High School recently went viral with a perfectly executed The Avengers dance routine. This comes a year after they went viral for a Harry Potter themed dance. In fact, this is their third time their choreography and costumes have taken over the internet – so they’re very legit....

Black and white are pretty straightforward until you see the colors on a Benham Disk. Then, it could be any color–green, yellow, blue, red or even violet. See what I mean in the video below: This disk has confounded people for over one hundred years. It’s a black and white disk of paper. How are...

Pumice, if you didn’t know, is a volcanic rock that is light enough to float. A raft of pumice as big as Manhattan is drifting in the Pacific Ocean, and it could be bringing healing marine organisms as it heads toward the Great Barrier Reef. The famous reef has been heavily damaged by several recent...

Chinese citizen Huang Yu dug up his beloved deceased pet cat for cells to give to biotechnology firm Sinogene. Now he is owner of China’s first cloned kitten. When his cat, Garlic, died, Huang was devastated. So, he searched for a company that could create a new Garlic. The firm, based in Beijing, charged Huang...

Carmine, who is five years old, started kindergarten this year. He also has autism, which made his first day that much more special – and a little scary. That’s why his father, police officer Andy Matteline for the City of Woodson Terrace in Missouri, left his hospital bed and his cancer treatment, to walk his...

For people with visual impairments, a simple trip to the store can become a significant ordeal. Even in familiar areas, things change, and the traditional tool – a white cane – has its limitations. Now, a new development in canes may change the way people with blindness move through the world. https://www.instagram.com/p/BlEi4lNFJZa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link It’s called the...

Nothing brings people together like a musical performance. Singing along with a few thousand of your best friends to a great song makes for a positive outlook and other warm, fuzzy emotions that carry over to the next day and beyond. We’ve all been there. Research validates those good vibrations. Psychologists, Melissa K. Weinberg and...

Deepfakes are part of the latest and creepiest wave of new technology. Though they don’t seem to be especially helpful to anyone, deepfakes nonetheless look like they’ll be around for awhile. Now, it’s easier than ever to produce your own deepfake (yay) with an app called Zao, created by Chinese developer MoMo. According to Insider,...

In the last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of London, the Earthwatch Institute declared bees as Earth’s most important living beings. Unfortunately, many species of bees are also endangered. Wildlife experts studying bees say the loss of around 90% of hives in some regions may be due to loss of habitat and flowers, plus the...

After the stock market crash of October, 1929, the entire country was plunged into a disastrous economic downturn lasting until the 1940s. In those years, families suffered destitution, starvation and breakdowns. It was the worst economic depression the industrialized world had ever seen. Here are 10 photos that illustrate the devastation of the era. 1....

For about fifteen years now, scientists have been warning the interested banana-eating public about a future without their favorite fruit. That future is almost now. The fish and wildlife conservation office of Colombia, known as ICA, recently confirmed the banana-killing fungus was detected in the northeastern area of the country. Called Tropical Race 4, or...

We are ever evolving. The things we thought were funny a few years are now getting some side eye. We’re not saying erase our entertainment history. But, can we learn and move forward? Let’s review, unless you just can’t revisit bad taste (and assault). And, that’s okay too. 1. The ongoing and pointless body-shaming of...

A woman suffers a traumatic brain injury, develops amnesia, then falls in love with the stranger who was her husband. It sounds like a soap opera plot, but it is the true life and love story of Laura and Brayden Faganello—a couple fated for each other. Recently, Laura posted her engagement announcement on Facebook. What...

Over the 30 years The Simpsons has been on the air, no subject or motif has been off limits for the writers. Recently, foodie tourism hit their sights; Season 29 featured a delicious trip to New Orleans in an episode called “Lisa Gets the Blues.” In the episode, Homer and family eat their way through...