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Some Offices Are Using Greta Thunberg’s Disapproving Face to Get Workers to Use Less Plastic

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has found herself in the world’s spotlight over the past several months as her previously solitary climate strikes caught on across the globe. The teenager is encouraging others in her generation (and beyond) to treat climate change like the crisis that it is – and some companies in Israel are...

If Your Mom Told You It Was Okay Never to Shave Your Thighs…You’re Not Alone

The day you start shaving is a big one in the life of any young girl. Chances are you’ve been asking for awhile, you’re nervous but excited and sure that somehow this is going to make you less awkward in gym class. Your mom, on the other hand, is full of warnings that make you...

This Guy Used to Make Fun of Tiny Dogs, Until a Chihuahua Saved His Life. Now, He Rescues Them.

Apparently, there is a certain set of people who think small dogs are dumb. Or, maybe, not very manly. My fella was once verbally harassed in a McDonald’s drive thru for having my papillon on his lap, so this is definitely real. Luckily, my husband is confident and my dog was awesome, so whatever. Bobby...

Here’s Every State, Ranked by How Miserable Its Winters Are

It looks like it’s going to a loooooong, cold, crazy winter from late 2019 into the early months of 2020. This article ranks all 50 states in terms of how bad, or, let’s just go ahead and say miserable, their winters are. These rankings come from Thrillist and take into account temperatures, weather patterns, how...

A ‘Friends’ Reunion Special Is Officially in the Works

Remember that selfie that Jennifer Aniston posted about a month ago that got people all riled up? https://www.instagram.com/p/B3o8vWDhlOh/ Well, it looks like Friends fans have good reason to get all fired up. News recently came out that a Friends special reunion show is in the works, and millions of people across the globe could not be happier. There’s...

Record Cold Temperatures Do Not Mean Climate Change Isn’t Happening

Baby, it’s cold outside! We aren’t even into December yet, but much of the country has already seen frigid temperatures and huge snowstorms this fall. So, predictably, some climate change deniers and skeptics have rushed out (as they are wont to do) and cried from the rooftops that global warming and climate change don’t really...

10 Facts About the Haunted Hotel Stephen King Stayed in When He Came up with “The Shining”

I’m a horror fanatic, and the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is definitely on my bucket list to visit someday. The hotel was author Stephen King’s inspiration for The Shining, which was published in 1977 and was made into a great horror film in 1980. King published Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, in 2013, and...

The “Turkeys Away” Episode of WKRP in Cincinnati Still Totally Holds Up

In 1978, WKRP in Cincinnati accidentally came up with a TV show classic that has wowed holiday season audiences since airing. The show’s creator, Hugh Wilson, could never have predicted that people would continue to recite the episode’s standout line decades after it was first uttered. Written by the late Bill Dial, “Turkeys Away” came...

A Second Woman Pulls Parasitic Eye Worms out of Her Eye, and Doctors Fear It’s Just the Beginning

My husband likes to watch shows like Monsters Inside Me, and let me tell you – I’ve never been as paranoid to climb in a lake or take a hike in the tropics as I am after living with him for six years. And this species of worm that infects human eyes seems like it...

Pixar Is Making a Movie About Death, and the First Trailer Is An Emotional Roller Coaster

If you’re any kind of Pixar fan, then you, like the rest of us, have begun to realize that their writers and creators sustain themselves on the tears of their viewers. Between the beginning of Up, pretty much every moment of Toy Story (all of them), the short film Lava, and BingBong’s death in Inside...

Teenagers Are Using TikTok to Make History Less Boring — And It’s Working

TikTok isn’t history class (it’s probably not allowed in most history classes), but teenagers all over are using the newish social media platform to prove the adults around them wrong (again). Many of the commentaries are a bit simple, but hey – you have to remember that some people are hearing about these events for...

Meet Mojito, the Golden Retriever Puppy Who Emerged a Lovely Shade of…Green

In a twist that seems more worthy of Oz than plain old Earth, a regularly-colored golden retriever has given birth to a green puppy. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4C6INKAE4p/ Just one – the other eight members of the litter were all hued similarly to their parents (and presumably, their parents before them). Little Mojito was born just before Halloween...

The Trick to Solving a Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian professor named Erno Rubik, and get this – he didn’t realize he was making a puzzle at all until he accidentally scrambled it up and couldn’t fix is. “It was a code I myself had invented, yet I could not read it,” he famously said....

A Million Cannibal Ants Have Escaped from an Abandoned Nuclear Bunker

In a bizarre, isolated microcosm of nature, hundreds of thousands of worker ants have been forced to survive by eating the “corpses of their imprisoned nestmates” after they found themselves trapped in an abandoned nuclear bunker in Poland.  Apparently, some individuals fell through a vent in the ceiling and were unable to climb back up...