There have always been people in need, but during the coronavirus pandemic, more people are struggling than ever. Fortunately, hard times are often met with good people helping others in often creative ways. Such as a high school grocery store. Linda Tutt High School in Sanger Texas opened a grocery shop to help provide for students, staff...
In 1965, Life Magazine published a photo essay called the “Drama of Life Before Birth”. The composition depicted the unseen-before flow of baby development in utero by the late photographer Lennart Nilsson. The issue sold out within several days. Before then, the creation of a child in the womb remained a phenomenon hidden from the...
Rebecca Brauen is a baker who doesn’t shy from experimenting with new and delicious flavors. So when the resident of Yukon, Canada, wanted to make something unique for her daughter, her creative juices began flowing. She wondered if she could make cinnamon buns, but without the cinnamon. Enter Lemon Cinnamon Buns! “I surprised myself with this idea,”...
One wouldn’t imagine using fire to preserve wood, but the ancient Japanese technique does just that. Shou Sugi Ban is an exterior siding method; it charrs the wood, cools it, cleans it, and finishes it with oil. Traditionally, they use Sugi wood (also called Japanese cedar). Nowadays, Shou Sugi Ban is used as an environmentally-friendly...
They don’t warn you how demoralizing aging is. Things you used to do with ease, without even thinking, suddenly take hours. Little tasks become mountains. Activities you love become impossible. You may be treated like a child by people who are a quarter of your age. In addition, there are so many other undignified changes...
Violence against women is a global issue, but some countries have it worse than others. In Turkey, for instance, 42% of women over 15 years of age have experienced physical or sexual abuse. [1] One artist wanted to raise awareness of domestic violence and created an unbelievable memorial in Turkey. He paid tribute to the women killed...
Providing sustenance for people in need is an ongoing debate, with no clear solution on the horizon. So one man decided to make a difference on his own. John Fallon turned a traffic island into a garden and farms thousands of pounds of produce. He then delivers it to homeless shelters in Massachusetts. Turning a Traffic Island into...
An adorable tortoise named Freddy lost her shell in a forest fire in Brazil, and became the first ever tortoise with a 3D-printed prosthetic shell. Fred is a survivor, of not just of the fire, but also of two bouts of pneumonia and 45 days without food. By then, a volunteer group called the ‘Animal...
One Million Moms, a conservative advocacy group created by the American Family Association has launched a petition that threatens to boycott Oreo, and its parent company, Modelez International. The reason? Oreo’s new pro LGBTQ+ ad campaign. Oreo’s #ProudParents Commercial The campaign in question includes a post of an Oreo cookie with rainbow filling and a commercial. The video depicts...
The first banana bread recipe came to light in 1933 when it appeared in the Balanced Cookbook by Mary Ellis Ames, but became more popular in the 50s with the release of the original Chiquita Banana’s Recipe Book. So it wasn’t shocking when Ruby Vaughan stumbled across a banana bread recipe in the Omaha World-Herald newspaper in 1958, and had never...
When you buy new bags, shoes, vitamins, or even beef jerky, they come with strange little silica gel packets. Most of us toss them away as instructed. We don’t know anything about these packets, aside from the warning “do not ingest” written on them. However, they can actually be extremely useful. Here are 17 ways to reuse silica...
The world has had a troubled year so far between the pandemic, locusts, and fires — life feels bleak, and we’re only in October. Still, there are many things to smile about. Like freshly brewed coffee, music that vibes exactly with your mood, warm towels from the dryer, or the eagerly-awaited season of your favorite...
