18 People Reflect on Why Life is Pretty Awesome
Life can be a drag, amirite? Someday’s it seem out to get you. But self-reflection of all that is good can change your outlook on life. Take these 18 examples of people who share their silver lining. Because let’s face it, life’s actually awesome. 18. A second chance at life In terms of my own...
Scotland Became the First Country in the World to Make Sanitary Products Free for Everyone
You might not realize it, but “period poverty” is a real thing. A study showed that girls and young women in the United Kingdom have a hard time affording sanitary products and the numbers are pretty staggering: 15% said they struggle to afford them at all, and 19% said they’ve changed over to cheaper products...
Why Aren’t They Sick More Often? — How Doctors and Nurses Protect Themselves From Infectious Patients
There’s no doubt that we are living in scary times right now. News about the coronavirus seems to escalate every single day, major events and are shutting down, and travel is being restricted around the globe. We keep hearing about how we can try to stay healthy right now: wash your hands, don’t touch your...
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Violinist Plays During Her Own Brain Surgery
As Dagmar Turner’s surgeons operated on her brain at King’s College Hospital in London, she did the thing that was most important to her–she played her violin. A video made of the surgery shows Turner drawing her bow back and forth across the violin’s strings as the surgeons continued operating behind a plastic sheet to...
Video Shows Coyote Waiting for Badger so They Can Cross the Highway Together
Recently, cameras for Pathways for Wildlife and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) caught hilarious footage of two wild animal buds hanging out one night. An energetic coyote seemed to be waiting for his slow moving badger friend to catch up so they could enter a culvert together to cross under a highway. In fact, the...
Guy Discovers Not All People Have Internal Dialogue and He Says It ‘Absolutely Obliterated’ His Mind
The mind is the most complex organ on the planet! It’s crazy how we remember things, or how logic thinking kicks in when moving from task to task. And what about when the brain triggers the flight or fight response in a moment of fear? The brain is so sophisticated that centuries of experimentation and...
