Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader from Texas, USA who, when she is not preparing any synchronized dancing scheme she is out hunting big game in Africa. The images she posted onto her Facebook page enraged hundreds of thousands of people who started two petitions, one to take Kendall down from Facebook and ... read entire article »
The China Youth Daily magazine reported that around 600,000 Chinese people die every year due to overworking and stressful living. China Radio International, on the other hands, estimates that as many as 1,600 Chinese die every day due to the same causes. The ... read entire article »
A survey, conducted among 5,000 smartphone users worldwide, showed that a staggering 81% of those interviewed want to keep some part of their mobile activities private or concealed, especially from the eyes of their significant other. The top three of thing ... read entire article »
A study published in the American Psychological Association suggests that people going through an emotional breakdown might benefit more from being simply understood and empathized with rather than being forcefully cheered up. Even though our immediate answer to ... read entire article »
The 1970’s was the era when doctors and scientists declared the beginning of the war on cancer. Forty decades later, scientists now say that we will never find a cure to cancer. The new study, published in Nature magazine, reached the conclusion that cancer ... read entire article »
Increased concern hovers over the ocean plastic debris problem and the harm that it does to marine wildlife and sensitive ecosystems. A report released on Monday by environmental organization revealed that 80% of the litter floating around on the surface of the ... read entire article »
Taking its name after author’s Lewis Carroll book of reference, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, those who suffer from the medical syndrome with the same name experience what Alice goes through when she is lost in the magical world: she shrinks or grow, immediately ... read entire article »
It seems that it takes a mathematician to prove to us that all our lives we’ve been cutting cakes the wrong way. The way we’ve been doing it only makes the cake dry out a lot faster than it should. Fortunately, mathematician Alex Bellos comes to our rescue ... read entire article »
Norway has taken initiative to help those, often belonging to Asian cultures, who are being forced into arranged marriages. A smartphone app called ‘Freedom Charity’ offers users information about how to recognize signs of an arranged marriage, what to do and ... read entire article »
3 big names from the different worlds of religion, rock and fashion have been brought together, under one campaign against torture as a method of extracting information. Although, normally, these 3 celebrities would be highly unlikely to be seen together, now ... read entire article »
Scientists supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have engineered a 'super banana' that aims to cure the world of Vitamin A deficiency. The new version of banana is packed with alpha and beta carotene which the body transforms into Vitamin A. ... read entire article »
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is home to some thousands of children who had been forced to drop out of school and live on the streets, begging to earn a living. In an effort to aid them and bring some education into their lives, teachers teamed up with ... read entire article »
George Bush senior proved to all of those who thought that death was knocking at his door that he's still alive and kicking after he skydived from a helicopter on his 90th birthday. The former US president jumped out of a helicopter tethered to a retired member ... read entire article »
Tanishq Abraham has just become, at 10 years of age, one of the youngest children to ever graduate high school. The boy, with an IQ in the 99,9 percentile, is also a MENSA member since he was 4 years old, at that age being the youngest member to have ever ... read entire article »
You most certainly happened to oversleep one time but, after you woke up, you inexplicably felt more tired than usual and couldn't figure out why. Michael Breus, a psychologist with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, explains that our body gets used to a ... read entire article »
In the years between 2007 and 2010, when the Great Recession hit countries and people the hardest, as many as 10,000 people the least, say researchers, have committed suicide following financial problems and other hardships which arise from them. A study spanned ... read entire article »
Gertjie is a four-month-old baby rhino who currently lives at the South African Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center (HESC) but who has a grim tale in his past. The little rhino was found lying next to his dead mother, killed by poachers for her horn. 'It was a ... read entire article »
We call it garlic breath, scientists refer to it as allyl methyl sulfide breath. It's a chemical compound that, together with three other compounds, gives garlic eaters the long-lasting stench. The extended time it takes to go away is a direct consequence of ... read entire article »
1,600 representatives of sheer cuteness are now on a World Tour, storming public places in big cities like Berlin, Paris, Taipei and Hong Kong. Part of a charity campaign that aims to help with the conservation of the endangered bear species, 1,600 panda ... read entire article »
The British government has set out to prevent homeless people from taking shelter on public places in big cities in the most unsual manner: metal spikes, some 2.5 centimeters long, some even bigger, have been placed around buildings, under bridges and other such ... read entire article »
