An ongoing concern at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity is the presentation of overweight people in the media. They write…
Read moreObese people are highly stigmatized in the United States and suffer from inequalities in employment, education, and…
Watch this three-year-old experience drifting…
Don’t worry, it’s on a closed course, so no other cars around.
Here’s what he was experiencing as seen from outside the vehicle…
Read moreHow do you respond when you try to say you’re sorry to someone but they don’t seem to care?
Probably just like this cat…
(via Tastefully Offensive)
Read moreIn 1961, the first person to ever be killed by the East German police as he attempted to escape was shot as he swam across the Spree, a river along a portion of the erstwhile Berlin wall. Over the years…
Read moreRedditor Ooosh-E took the RIAA’s list of the top-selling 250 musicians in the United States and then labeled each state with the most successful musician who was born there….
The blank states are those with no musical act in the…
Read moreAn ongoing theme in the work of artist Craig Davidson is how elaborate a child’s imagination can be with only the simplest of props. And since his paintings are imaginative in and of themselves, his work is enjoyably meta —…
Read moreThe Animal Rescue League of Berks County has a novel program. They let any kid in grades 1 through 8 come and read to cats at the shelter. According to ARL, the program serves the dual purpose of improving the…
Read moreIn this series of cute and genuine man-on-the-street interviews with older couples in Dublin, we get to hear how these relationships have lasted in love. The advice ranges from the general and obvious — Talk things out — to…
Read moreIn a story very similar to yesterday’s video of a losing team letting their disabled opponent have his moment of glory, here we have a team’s manager, senior Kevin Grow of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, who has Down syndrome. He recently…
Read moreArtist October Jones (who you may know as the guy behind Text from Dog) regularly turns his boring commute into a creative session by drawing cartoon characters’ heads on Post-it notes and photographing them over fellow commuters’ heads. The…
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