Let’s face it—there are many things we don’t want to do. How many people wish they didn’t have to prepare dinner, do the laundry, write Thank You cards, make their beds, or do their taxes? But it’s not just at home where we must deal with mundane tasks. At the office, we’ve got emails, administrative… Read More »
If you are someone who has lost a loved one, the suffering inside is brought about by the perceived lack of connection you feel you have lost. Then, deep sadness ensues because of the same sense of loss that you experience at that moment. However, if you follow these simple steps on how to use… Read More »
It is a scene which has played out in countless medical dramas. A patient flatlines, the long, piercing tone of the heart monitor announcing to the audience that they have shuffled off this mortal coil. But our team of intrepid medical heroes isn’t ready to give up just yet. As one doctor pounds on the… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 339, click here. 1. An Atlanta Boy’s High School basketball player shooting a free throw against Tech High School in 1921. 2. Homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms on 19 December 1938. 3. The Ethiopian Negus Menelik…… Read More »
Here are this week’s uplifting headlines. 1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week 1. New York passes a bill to ban the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores. The puppy mill pipeline bill aims to “stop the flow of cruelly bred puppies into New York,” according to a press release from the ASPCA.…… Read More »
A post on Facebook says: “Can I ask why illegal immigrants are kept in hotels and are fed and clothed as well as receiving benefits? Why do they need benifts [sic] as well? If the Benefits were to stop, I feel that the influx of people would reduce dramatically.” The post appears to be referring… Read More »
In recent weeks, many accounts across various social media platforms have been resharing an old Times article claiming the AIDS epidemic was triggered by the smallpox vaccine. Although the article is real, there is no evidence for its claims. Published in May 1987, the article claimed the World Health Organisation (WHO) was studying whether the… Read More »
If you’ve ever spent any amount of time discussing snowflakes with almost literally anyone, you’ve probably at one point or other heard that snowflakes are all unique. But… are they? Like many widely-believed notions such as the “fact” that sugar makes children hyper (it doesn’t at all, though in controlled studies where parents are told… Read More »
On November 11, 1918, representatives from Imperial Germany and the Entente Powers gathered in a railway carriage near the French forest of Compiègne [“Kom-pee-enne”] to sign a historic document. This document, signed at 5AM, declared an armistice or cease-fire between the two powers, to take effect at 11AM that morning. And so at the eleventh… Read More »
