Lori White

60 models. 12 sizes. One photo project to change how we view the human body.

Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr was a tech innovator whose inventions quietly changed the world

41 seconds is all you need to learn how to keep a choking baby from dying

A Canadian shelter sells older cats like used cars, and it's pretty effective ... and hilarious.

Don't be that guy: a better alternative to ghosting your way out of a relationship.

If you've been so lucky as to date while texting has existed, you might have met (or become) a GHOST. Once upon a few dates, I became a ghost. We had fun, the dates were great, and I had no complaints. But I just wasn't feeling it. It feels weird to …

The newest fad in people helping people: Little Free Pantries.

Jessica McClard jogged around her neighborhood in Arkansas and saw these: These are Little Free Libraries. Neighborhoods and communities build them and then stock them with books. All the books are free, and it's an open-source operation — neighbors…

The newest fad in people helping people: Little Free Pantries.

Jessica McClard jogged around her neighborhood in Arkansas and saw these: These are Little Free Libraries. Neighborhoods and communities build them and then stock them with books. All the books are free, and it's an open-source operation — neighbors …

This story of lost Syrian refugees in a Canadian train station is going viral.

This is a story of a family from Syria who got to experience the full force of Canadian kindness. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, 4.8 million Syrian refugees have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and …

60 models. 12 sizes. One photo project to change how we view the human body.

Categories are great for some things: biology, herbs, and spices, for example. But bodies? Well, putting bodies into categories just gets weird. There are around 300 million people in America, but only 12 or so standard sizes for clothing:…

What do highway signs have to do with saving the bees? If you're in California, a lot.

California is using its highway system to save lives. Human lives, yes. But first ... bee lives. Bees are in danger. Their population is rapidly declining. Why care? Well, without bees using their sweet feet to pollinate all those delicious plants we …

9 stunningly beautiful libraries to see before you die.

In movies, libraries are often beautiful, magical treasure troves. But what's a library in real life? Run-of-the-mill book storage, you say? Image via Christopher/Flickr. NOT SO FAST! Libraries are magical archives of humanity. And some of them are …

14 beach body cartoons that are just the right amount of real.

Beach body season is upon us! It's time to drink ice cold lemonade, decide what is really going to be the song of the summer, don some swimwear, get some sun, and try to avoid annoying ads like this! Image via My Body Does/Instagram, used with …

She worked with the civil rights movement in 1964. Here's her truth now.

Shaun King, a professor and leader in the modern movement for racial justice, said in a Facebook post: "If you EVER wondered who you would be or what you would do if you lived during the Civil Rights Movement, stop. You are living in that time, RIGHT …

9 emotional tributes from real people to their beloved pets.

Losing a pet can be really, really tough. In 2002, President Bill Clinton talked about the sudden death of his dog Buddy, who was hit by a car. He said it was "by far the worst thing" to happen to him since leaving office, and he shared this …

8 striking nude photos of people over the age of 60.

You might have seen this powerful image from Tucson photographer Jade Beall circulating the web. This is Gerry and Darwin, and they're fierce. It's a beautiful image. And there are a lot of folks online who agree. All photos by Jade Beall …

An unlikely antidote for a tough news day? A coloring book page.

I'm not the only one who watches the news (or my Facebook feed, Twitter, AP news alerts, MSNBC, etc.) and feels my blood pressure rise, right? It's a rough world out there right now. But artist Andrea Pippins has a solution: An adult coloring …

America, we're better than this. And these moments prove it.

The internet is plastered with headlines about how our country is falling apart. But I believe we're better than that. There are so many tiny reminders every day that there's a silent majority of great Americans doing important, kind, beautiful …

This woman sold $20,000 worth of stationery, and it's helping women everywhere.

For Lauren Shuttleworth, the mission of her social enterprise, Words With Heart, is — well — close to her heart. "I was volunteering at a school in Kenya a couple of years ago and was hugely affected by the number of girls I saw dropping out of …

One person's trash is this woman's quilt. See this successful business made out of scraps.

In Nigeria, Olutosin Oladosu Adebowale has built a business by creating beautiful products — out of trash. What is this? It's a quilt! A quilt made from scraps of discarded fabric. Olutosin's inventive quilts, shopping bags, and more are crafted from …

Despite death threats, she's still teaching. And a global online community has her back.

Sister Zeph remembers the moments that changed the course of her life. For nearly 20 years, she has been a teacher running a school for girls in Pakistan, but she recalls the day that started a chain reaction for her. When she was 13 years old, she …