Last year, The Economist proclaimed, “Long summer holidays are bad for children, especially the poor.” This was not the first time such a claim had been made about how kids lose much of what they’ve learned over the year during breaks from school. Lawmakers, too, are concerned. Each year, bills introduced at the state level...

Velcro was invented in 1941, but after losing its patent in the 1970s, the market was flooded with other “hook and loop” fasteners that, while not Velcro brand, were quickly labeled as such by the public. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlTFP1h04e/ Basically, anything that sticks together without adhesive is Velcro, right? Maybe, but once a term becomes “genericized” in...

Imagine this: You’ve just received your college degree and are chomping at the bit to get into a job that features your skills. You’ve done everything right. Great grades, solid references, a sparkling new resume, and a boatload of internships to prove your experience. You’re scanning open positions online and come across your dream job!...

There are many, many things one can overhear through walls that are a bit too thin: funny things, inappropriate things, embarrassing things, perhaps even illegal things. And let me tell you, these 15 Redditors have pretty much heard it all. 15. I’m grateful I forgot that book. In college, I lived in a crappy apartment...

The National Aquarium of New Zealand has taken drastic measures in an attempt to get their penguin population to shape up – they’ve started a running list of the naughtiest penguins of the bunch and post them on Facebook. No public shaming would be complete without a list of crimes, but let’s face it –...

Let’s just start with this – most of us don’t have the time or interest to go checking (or caring) who might have decided they no longer want to see what we have to say on Facebook. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1W1A35CNwt/ That said, most of us also have moments of morbid curiosity that we’ll occasionally give into. And...

If you dry clean your clothes often, you likely end up with a surplus of extra hangers on a regular basis. But those hangers don’t have to end up in the trash. Depending on what type of hanger it is, you can find a way to recycle it, Lifehacker reports. Hangers come in three basic types: wire,...