Food is one of the benchmarks of the ancient and modern Italian culture, and as such, they have it in excess and mouth-watering varieties. The best chefs in the world arguably come from Italy. It’s a wonder that a country so “crazy about food” still has millions of people going hungry, with about 5.1 million...
From green infrastructure to tiny houses, architects and designers are reinventing the definition of a home. And just when you think you’ve seen it all, people are creating shipping container homes. There are about 14 million containers ‘out-of-service’ in the world, and people are using them as building blocks to create houses, cabins, offices, and...
Have you always dreamed of a life at sea but also fear being so far from home? These Manila-based architects might have the solution you’re looking for with their floating houses. The best part? They are a fully sustainable way of supporting at-risk coastal communities. (1) The Sustainable Floating Houses Project In Manila With the...
Everyone loves a good revenge story. Especially when it comes to payback on a cheating spouse or partner. There are tales of the hurt spouse breaking up, breaking the cheater’s possession, or sending evidence of the misbehavior to their friends and family. But one woman took her scheme against her boyfriend’s mistress to the next...
Body modification has always been a way for people to express their individuality. Whether it’s a small piercing like a nose ring or really intense scarification, we all find ways to express ourselves. Some may say that people take it to the extreme, but ultimately that is their right to do so. However, while generally...
Gender fluidness has taken the world by storm of late. Including now with a recent petition against Kmart Australia. The online petition calls on the retail clothing store to stop separating boys’ and girls’ clothes and have just one “kids” section. The petition has collected almost 700 signatures at the time of writing this article....
Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, is the oldest wild bird. And at age 70, she hatched a healthy chick on February 1 of this year. Laysan albatrosses tend to only live for 12–40 years, but researchers found Wisdom in 1956, and she has been alive and kicking ever since. She lives in the wildlife refuge of the U.S....
An old pecan farm in Atlanta grew wild from neglect. There were plans to build townhouses that never panned out. So, the land waited for years, close to the Lakewood-Browns Mill community, a food desert where one-third of its inhabitants live in poverty. Then Atlanta came together with the Conservation Fund, local nonprofits, and volunteers...
As we inch closer and closer to the summer, you are probably anticipating spending plenty of time in your backyard and outdoors. One thing you’re probably not excited about? Mosquitoes. Thankfully, there is a cheap, easy way to keep your back deck free of the annoying, biting little creatures: Your very own DIY mosquito trap....
The North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN) recently launched a campaign called #SpeakingUpSpeaksVolumes to support the LGBTQ+ community. The campaign suggests that people drop gendered terms like mom, dad, husband, or girlfriend and use gender-neutral terms instead. (1) Health Network In Australia Asks People To Drop Gendered Terms The new campaign started by the...
A homeless man in Conifer, Colorado, finally was able to get off the streets and live in an RV on property he purchased himself. Not long after, however, by-law officers all but kicked him off of his property. Unfortunately, his isn’t the only tale like this. Homeless Man Kicked Off Of His Own Property After...
A story is doing the rounds at the moment that your brain keeps working after you die. But what’s really going on, and is it true? Researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK studied about 2,000 cardiac arrest patients over four years. They published their findings in the journal Resuscitation. Of the 2,060 people...
