Your Favorite Team’s Mascot Could Actually Save The Real Animal
Every time a fan cheers for their favorite team, there is a good chance they are cheering for a lion, a tiger, a wolf, or a bear, and a researcher just realized that deep emotional connection could become one of the most powerful conservation tools the world has ever seen. A new study published in […]
A YouTuber Just Helped Solve A 2,000 Year Old Mystery
A mysterious bronze device pulled from a shipwreck over a century ago has puzzled historians, archaeologists, and scientists for generations, and the person who finally helped crack its biggest secret was not a professor or a researcher but a YouTuber quietly building a replica in his home workshop. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in a Roman-era […]
The 5th Day Of Work Is Basically Useless According To Science
Put down your Friday afternoon spreadsheet. The largest long-term study of the four-day workweek ever conducted has confirmed what workers everywhere have quietly known for decades: that fifth day is mostly wasted time. The report from nonprofit advocacy group 4 Day Week Global tracked workers in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and Ireland over 18 months […]
School Goes Viral Where Every Person Learned A New Language
Something remarkable is unfolding at a small elementary school in New Hampshire, and it started with one seven-year-old boy who simply wanted someone to talk to. Ben O’Reilly is deaf and has additional special needs, and as the only deaf student in his entire school district, his early days at Campton Elementary were marked by […]
Chicago Just Gave 315k Students A Free Library Card
More than 315,000 students across Chicago just gained access to one of the most powerful resources a young person can have, and all it required was the school ID already sitting in their pocket. Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Public Library have partnered to automatically enroll every student in the district as a library […]
A Delivery Driver Went Out Of His Way And Strangers Raised Him $76,000
Dan Simpson has delivered pizzas for Domino’s for 14 years, and he was weeks from retirement when a doorbell camera in Boise, Idaho, caught something the internet could not let pass. A customer named Brian Wilson had ordered a pizza and a Diet Coke. When Simpson arrived, he explained that the restaurant had run out […]
This Applebee’s Manager Moved 50 People To Safety Before A 130 MPH Tornado
Aubrey McKenzie has been afraid of storms her whole life. During an afternoon, an EF-2 tornado with winds reaching 130 miles per hour ripped through Three Rivers, Michigan, and McKenzie, the manager of the local Applebee’s, did not have the luxury of being afraid. She had 50 people in the building. Within a minute and […]
The Devil Wears Prada Is Back, Lady Gaga And Doechii Just Gave It A Perfect Anthem
Twenty years after Miranda Priestly first terrorized her assistants and defined a generation’s relationship with fashion, The Devil Wears Prada is finally returning to the big screen on May 1 and it has arrived with an absolute hit of a song. Lady Gaga and Doechii have released “Runway,” the lead single from The Devil Wears […]
Electric Air Taxis Are About To Start Flying Across 26 States
Flying taxis have been a promise of the future for so long that many people stopped taking the timeline seriously. That changes this summer. The Federal Aviation Administration has selected eight projects spanning 26 states to begin operating electric air taxis and advanced electric aircraft in real commercial airspace, with flights set to begin by […]
Cardi B And Mamdani Is Launching A Free Childcare Program, With A Jingle Contest To Match
Only in New York. Cardi B has teamed up with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to help launch the city’s new free childcare program for 2 year olds, and their collab is exactly as fun and wholesome as it sounds. In a reel posted to the NYC Mayor’s Instagram, the Grammy-winning Bronx native and […]