Discover the Two People Who Made GPS a Reality
There have been hundreds of thousands of advancements in the past several decades that have changed and improved the way we live our lives every single day, and GPS definitely fits into that category. Whether it’s helping us get where we’re going anywhere in the world or helping police find missing persons, to a hundred...
6 Things That Help Parents Raise Compassionate Kids
Some things can’t really be taught – to some extent, our personalities are formed the moment we enter the world, and though our parents and other adults in our lives can guide us toward being our best selves, we’ll never really change. That said, children are very malleable, and almost no one is born wanting...
Why Everyone Wants in on the “Fall Guys” Phenomenon
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a quirky little game that The Steam calls “a free-for-all struggle through round after round of escalating chaos until one victor remains.” It allows up to 60 players online at a time and has an energy and bright colors reminiscent of Animal Crossing or Rocket League that’s made the game an...
10 Pieces of “Trash” That Became Someone Else’s Treasure
There are tons of reasons that a person might be ready to get rid of something super cool from their home – maybe they got something new, maybe they’re getting divorced, maybe they’re moving and can’t fit it in, maybe they’re downsizing – and since forever, people have been donating old items or selling them...
12 Cool Items People Found While “Stooping” in NYC
New York City is one of those places people love to visit, and where even more people love calling home. There are so many amazing things about living in the city, but one thing that’s not typically available is a garage (tag, yard) sale – there just aren’t garages readily available! That doesn’t stop New...
13 Images That Prove One Person’s Trash Really Is Another Person’s Treasure
We’ve all heard about garage sales (or yard sales or tag sales, depending on where you might live in the country), and surely we’ve all visited a pawn shop or a thrift store or had something handed down in our family through the years. They’re a cheap way to find something we need that’s new-to-us,...
14 Iconic Musicians Photoshopped Side-By-Side With Their Younger Selves
It is a fact of life that everyone ages, but before you go thinking that’s a reason to be melancholy or sad, think about this – getting older is better than the alternative. So, while it’s fun to visit the past and see what these popular musicians looked like then and now, let’s remember to...
These 3 Acts of Kindness Might Restore Your Faith in Humanity
It can be hard some days to remember that people are inherently good. The news is constantly pummeling us with atrocities, and most of tangle with people every day, in real life or online, who make us almost wish another giant asteroid was incoming. These 3 stories will make you feel the opposite, though, and...
These 16 Food Charts Mights Help Shift Your Perspective on Eating
I don’t know many people who haven’t struggled with their relationship with food at some point in our lives. We want to be healthy and to live long lives, but in this day and age we have so many delicious choices – many of which aren’t great for us – that it can be hard...
18 Food Charts That Might Change the Way You Think About Your Diet
If there’s one thing I can say that I’ve learned for sure as a woman who has been many different weights at many different times in her life, it’s that diets that require you to deprive yourself of everything you love will never work long term. Human beings want to enjoy our lives, not just...
Another Person Shows Us Firsthand Why Putting Gorilla Glue in Your Hair Is a Bad Idea
I don’t see how anyone who has ever used Gorilla Glue could think it was a good idea to put it near any single part of their body, never mind their hair. I hate when it gets on my fingers, which is sometimes unavoidable, but my hair? I would assume that shaving my head was...
23 Simple Life Hacks Everyone Should Know
The best and most effective solutions to everyday speed bumps are often the simplest. It’s almost elegant, sometimes, how one person can come up with a way to streamline a small annoyance with a hack the rest of us have missed. If you want to be the most prepared you can be for any ol’...
Why the Bond Between Mothers and Sons Is So Special
Parents adore all of their children, regardless of gender. That should extend to sexual preference and gender identity as well, and I hope one day that it will. That said, there does seem to be a special bond between parents and their offspring of the opposite sex – dads and their daughters, moms and their...
The Difference Between Voltage, Current, and Electric Field
Have you ever looked at the back of a lightbulb, a power cord, or the like and wondered why all of the numbers and words back there looked like gibberish? Or maybe you understand a little of what the words mean as far as how you apply it, but as far as what they actually mean,...
Guys Buys Regular Milk to Prove Lactose-Intolerant Roommate Was a Thief. Was He an A-Hole?
Living with other people is tough. We learn this early in life, if we have siblings, but sometimes living with friends (or strangers) as a young adult is even tougher – you don’t share blood and DNA, and you’re paying your own way, so it can be hard to make concessions. This guy lives with...