Posts by Jenifer Sako

A Reddit user recently posted adorable pictures of baby foxes playing on his grandmother’s porch. The babies live in the nearby woods, and one of them got curious enough to explore the porch. A baby fox showed up to say hi at my grandmother’s house byu/Vechrotex inaww The owner of the home, Redditor Vechrotex’s grandmother,...

Banking on how difficult arresting 1 million+ people at one time would be, conspiracy theorists and internetizens are banding together to do something bizarre: They plan to rush the highly classified and remote United States Air Force base known as Area 51. The idea is to uncover all the secrets held within the facility located...

Watching your child walk onto a plane for a flight as an “unaccompanied minor,” can give you major stress. Now imagine that your child also has autism and may have problems communicating with passengers and crew at 35,000 feet. A mom recently lived out this scenario. But before she sent her son on his first...

Who doesn’t love the excitement of a good fireworks show? Your dog or cat, that’s who. Which explains why July 5 is the busiest day for animal shelters throughout the United States. The spectacular fireworks shows used to celebrate the nation’s freedom means a night of confusion and fear for many pets who will do...

In 2010, the education initiative known as Common Core State Standards dropped cursive writing as a requirement for students. Which is unfortunate, some say, because without a working knowledge of cursive, reading historical papers, old letters, and documents could grow out of reach. Can you imagine not knowing how to read something written in your...

A recent report compiled by the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund gives us some sobering information about the threat of plastic pollution. Almost half of the plastic trashing the world today was produced after 2000, and 75% of all the plastic ever made is already waste. Which means we need a solution – fast. The...

Flying is not the luxury travel experience it once was, but if you have the cash for a seat (or suite) in first class, you will be inside a whole new world at 30,000 feet. Not only is your personal airplane space a whole lot bigger, you get a flight attendant solely dedicated to providing...

Few things are more relaxing than your sweet pet cat curling up in your lap and letting out a nice, low purr. But do you know what that sound really means? Most house cat behaviors are habits that have been with these animals since before they become domesticated thousands of years ago, which makes what...

If you fly with any frequency, it will happen. You think you’ve left plenty of time for yourself to get to the airport, but traffic, or a flat tire, or any of life’s little surprises gets in the way, and you just don’t make it. You’ve missed your flight. From the parking lot, you can...

As a kid, did you ever think using giant LEGO bricks to build houses and stuff would be cool? Well, people driving through the Wuppertal, Germany, are living the dream. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqf_rg4Ax-J/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Sort of. A few years ago, the city commissioned German street artist Martin Heuwold of MegX to turn one of its concrete (and thus...

When you find yourself with nothing to do, even for a few minutes, what’s your favorite remedy? Are you like most people and reach for the nearest device? What’s better for your brain, however, is something more low-tech. The tactile repetition required by crafts such as knitting or crochet has shown to be much more...

Paradise is a library – shelf after shelf of books, study rooms and tables in the corners, and the reference section where no question goes unanswered.  But, just when you think free books couldn’t get any better – it does. Little Free Library is an alternative to the city library. There is no librarian. You...

Believe it or not, Pixar’s greatest movie, Up, is ten years old. For those who haven’t seen it, the story is about a crotchety old balloon salesman who fulfills his lifelong dream of tying a bazillion balloons to his house so he can fly away to the jungles of South America. He never expects to...

Food labeling is about as clear as mud when it comes to expiration and best-by dates. But when the labels is on our beauty products, it gets even more murkier. You may have noticed that there is rarely an expiration date or freshness date on beauty products. All we get is a little can with...

Depending on your personality, shopping at Costco may be the most fun you can have with shrink-wrapped pallets or completely exhausting. Either way, as a Costco shopper, you are one of the chain’s 94 million members who pay a fee to get their hands on items in bulk and at a big discount. The basic...