If you have been paying attention to the news the past few years, you may have heard of the glowing sea turtle discovered by marine biologists during a diving trip in the South Pacific. Although this turtle was discovered in 2015, biofluorescence—the s…
Man Leaves Fresh Groceries on Front Lawn and Tells Everyone on Facebook ‘Take What You Need’
These are scary times we live in and the state of the world right now has left millions of economically vulnerable people in even worse conditions. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses have had to shut down, and ultimately, millions of people have been put out of work. While some countries such as the…
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For The First Time In 71 Years, The Most Beautiful Flower Garden In The World Has No Visitors. The Photos Are Incredibly Stunning
If you’re an avid lover of flowers, you’ve probably heard of the magical Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse, Netherlands, often referred to as the Garden of Europe. This 32-hectare garden has often been called the most beautiful spring garden in the world, where 7 million bulbs of different species are planted every year. The garden is…
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Denmark Introduces ‘Drive-in Concerts’ During Coronavirus Pandemic
Tune in on your FM radio, and listen from the safety and comfort of your car. For many people, there’s nothing more rejuvenating than attending a live concert where your favorite artists dole out sound after sound of revitalizing music. These things are an essential part of existence for many people, and having them taken…
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Female Genital Mutilation Outlawed in Sudan
A victory for women’s rights has been made in Sudan, where female genital mutilation has finally become outlawed. This dangerous surgery has been widespread, but many believe that it will take more than this new legislation to stop the practice. According to estimates from the United Nations, almost nine out of ten Sudanese women have…
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Gamers Hold Online Funeral for Player Who Died Of COVID-19
A Final Fantasy XIV gaming community recently brought tears to millions of eyes by organizing an online funeral procession for a member who recently died of the coronavirus, identified by the username ‘Ferne Le’roy’ [1]. Most members of the group called ‘Free Company’ didn’t know each other in person, but this didn’t stop them from…
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These Adorable Baby Foxes Showed Up at a Grandma’s House and the Pictures are Everything
If you’re having a bad day, these cute baby foxes (kits) playing without a care in the world would like to cheer you up. When most people think foxes, they imagine sly, mischievous animals always looking for something to steal or domestic animals to bully. Well, for the most part, wild foxes can be a…
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She’s a model citizen, but she can’t hide in China’s ‘social credit’ system
Imagine living in a society where your every move – both on and offline – is able to be monitored by the government. They can see everywhere you go, hear everything you say, and know everything about you, from who you hang out with to what you purchase at the store. Now imagine that they…
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New Zealand’s aim to be the first country to completely eliminate COVID-19 is working
Since the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern put the entire country on a level-four lockdown mid-March, she has received praise for how successfully the nation seems to have beaten the novel coronavirus. Now, just over a month later that intense protocol is paying off once again. (1) Jacinda Ardern’s Plan It has been…
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Drive-Ins Are Doing Better Than Ever As Regular Movie Theaters Close
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, all public spaces have been shut down. Restaurants, bars, shopping centers, and movie theatres have shut their doors, and with social isolation regulations in effect, everyone is looking for ways to entertain themselves while they weather this storm. It goes without saying that as we enter into our second month…
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Poland And Denmark Refuse To Give Bail Out Packages To Companies Registered In Offshore Tax Havens
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden economic downturn that has made many experts warn of a looming recession- even more believe we are already in one. Businesses around the world have been forced to close their doors, and large corporations’ stock is plummeting. This has prompted many governments to roll out stimulus packages and…
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The original Volkswagen Beetle repurposed to create a fashionably old-fashioned mini bike!
Anyone reading this who is a ‘90’s kid will remember the game of Punch Buggy played in the car on long family road trips. Any parent of a ‘90’s kid will remember the fights they had to break up in the back seat when one sibling hit the other too hard or didn’t play by…
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Mom Puts Sign On Daughter’s Back So Others Will Stop Shaming Her At The Grocery Store
Regardless of who we are or where we live, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all of our lives in a significant way. For some, the change hasn’t been too difficult. Those who perhaps already worked from home, or who at least were able to transition to a work-from-home schedule, have not had to grapple with…
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Bowl-Shaped Roofs Collect Rainwater and Cool House
BMDesign Studios is an Iran-based company that has structured homes with a natural insulation and cooling system. It’s called ‘Concave Roof’ and it’s a double-roof system with bowl-shaped slopes to collect rainwater in arid climates where a lack of water can lead to many issues for the population. In places like Iran, precipitation is less…
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Florida Beach Packed with Visitors Within Hour of Reopening Despite Social Distancing Order
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the United States, the first places to close were schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, and basically anywhere where people gathered indoors in large groups. As the number of cases and deaths has continued to rise, more closures have been put in place and social distancing regulations have become increasingly strict….
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Kentucky puts ankle monitors on coronavirus patients who break quarantine
The United States is the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. Indeed, today’s largest economic power was built on the fundamentals of individual freedom and civil liberty, as opposed to strict governmental control. The COVID-19 pandemic that has spread rapidly across the country, however, has become a massive threat to those…
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Move Over Solar Panels – Solar Driveways May Soon Power Your Home
It’s clear as a sunny, summer day that distributed solar power is increasing in popularity. In 2013, a new solar power system was installed in the United States every 4 minutes. [1] By 2015, the number of new solar power systems installed in the United States accelerated to one every 2.5 minutes. [2] And last…
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Meet The Man Delivering Free Weed And Toilet Paper To People In Quarantine
The global coronavirus pandemic has lead to a lot of panic buying. Depending on where you live, you’ve probably been asked to self-isolate or shelter in place for weeks or months now. Even though that much time has passed, there’s still a lot of panic buying going on. We’ve been in quarantine where I live…
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Ellen DeGeneres Blasted for Joking That The Coronavirus Quarantine Is “Like Being In Jail”
“I’ve been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone in here is gay.” American comedian and TV icon, Ellen DeGeneres has come under some fire from social media users for making an ‘expensive’ joke about her coronavirus quarantine experience [1]. The 62-year-old is currently isolating in one of her California mansions with her…
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Dairy Farmers are Dumping Their Milk Down the Drain. ‘Nowhere for it to Go’
Across the world, there is hardly an industry that has gone untouched by COVID-19. The North American dairy industry has taken a particularly painful hit that to the outsider is quite confusing. Last week, dairy farmers across the United States and Canada were asked to start dumping gallons of raw milk down the drain, and…
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Switzerland halts rollout of 5G over health concerns
The technology industry is one that is always trying to better the customer experience, and that is no different when it comes to telecoms. First, we had 3G, then 4G, and now companies are trying to make everything even faster with 5G. 5G networks already exist in North America. Switzerland has been one of the…
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Couple Names Newborn Twins ‘Corona’ And ‘Covid’ After Virus
We can’t say we haven’t been expecting someone to pull this off, but so soon? On March 27, 2020, a set of twins – a boy and a girl – were born at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh, India, and were given some truly astonishing names by their parents, ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’, after the coronavirus/COVID-19…
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The Woman Who Lives 200,000 Years in the Past
In today’s fast-paced modern world, we are incessantly bombarded by information, images, and noise. We live in a state of constant sensory overload and interact with our environment and each other more often through our smartphones than in-person. Since the industrial revolution, new technology has been invented at a dizzying pace, always with the intent…
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Grocery Store Throws Out $35,000 Worth of Food It Says Woman Deliberately Coughed On
During hard times, people will rise up to help others and bring kindness to the world. These individuals make hardships almost worth it — look how much good we can do despite the pain! Yet there’s those that will bring us down: people who will take advantage of the situation or use it to inflict…
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Heartbreaking Pics of Overworked Doctors are Going Viral, Proving that They Too Have Human Limits
While people are (hopefully) staying home to avoid the coronavirus, medical personnel are on the front lines. They are the soldiers braving against a novel enemy, often without adequate supplies and equipment. As more severe cases of COVID-19 come rolling into emergency rooms, doctors, nurses, and technicians are working to the bone to save as…
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Vintage Photos of People Wearing Masks to Protect Themselves during The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In light of the recent global pandemic currently plaguing the world, it’s about time we pulled up the archives to learn what people did to survive during other terrible pandemics. Many who survived the 1918 Spanish flu era wore face masks as one of their defenses, and this might be a helpful tip for our…
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Forget Toilet Paper: Shoppers in the Netherlands are Panic-buying Weed
Many governments are taking drastic measures to contain the coronavirus and keep its citizens safe. The Netherlands is no different. On the 15th of March around 5 pm, their government ordered all bars and restaurants to close from at 6 pm that day until April 6. This edict included certain “coffee shops” that sold more…
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Forget Toilet Paper: Shoppers in the Netherlands are Panic-buying Weed
Many governments are taking drastic measures to contain the coronavirus and keep its citizens safe. The Netherlands is no different. On the 15th of March around 5 pm, their government ordered all bars and restaurants to close from at 6 pm that day until April 6. This edict included certain “coffee shops” that sold more…
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Alabama Man Who Mows Lawns for the Elderly Now Delivers Free Meals and Supplies to People Who Can’t Leave Their Homes
While millions of people across the United States are stuck indoors due to the Coronavirus outbreak, a man from Alabama has continued to mow lawns for free and now, he’s delivering food and supplies as well [1]. Since 2015, Rodney Smith Jr. has been mowing lawns for the elderly, the disabled, struggling single mothers and…
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Some Good News: YouTube Channel Dedicated To Sharing Positive News From Around The World
It’s about time someone blazed a trail of cheer and happiness, especially in this current world of panic-stoking news. The world has had enough bad news and we need a huge break right about now. There’s a fine line between creating necessary awareness and simply causing unhealthy panic about the coronavirus pandemic. People need a…
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3 Elderly Best Friends are Moving in Together During the Coronavirus Outbreak because They Don’t Want to Self-isolate Alone
If there was ever a time to be surrounded by the people you love most in the world, it’s now. These three elderly ladies based in the United Kingdom have decided to move in together to prevent loneliness during self-isolation, and this is probably the best thing anyone could do right now [1]. The coronavirus…
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Fragments of an Ancient Lost Continent Have Been Discovered in the Canadian Arctic
Scientists from the University of British Columbia have discovered pieces of a lost continent underneath Baffin Island, Nunavut, believed to have been buried more than 150 million years ago [1]. Nunavut is a large, remote and sparsely populated territory in northern Canada. The territory has been of particular interest for gem-mining companies seeking to study…
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“I’ll Do What I Want”: Why the People Ignoring Social Distancing Orders just Won’t Listen
The COVID-19 pandemic is being described as the world war of this generation. The difference between the world wars and a global health crisis? We all have the same enemy: the novel coronavirus. As more and more countries go into stricter lockdowns, there is a battle being fought that no one could have predicted at…
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Nobel Laureate: Why Coronavirus Crisis May Be Over Sooner Than Many Think
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic, people all over the world began panicking. News of the virus is impossible to avoid, as it has dominated every headline and news report, and is the topic of conversation in every household around the world. Different news outlets have made varying predictions…
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Nobel Laureate: Why Coronavirus Crisis May Be Over Sooner Than Many Think
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic, people all over the world began panicking. News of the virus is impossible to avoid, as it has dominated every headline and news report, and is the topic of conversation in every household around the world. Different news outlets have made varying predictions…
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