Close your eyes and think back to your school days. Start with high school, then junior high, and keep going until you reach that very first day of kindergarten.
Aug 17 26August 17, 2026
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This article originally appeared on 07.27.16 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…
Aug 17 22August 17, 2022
This article originally appeared on 11.09.15 Hedy Lamarr was a movie star, and a total hot commodity in Hollywood. If you look around the Internet, you'll find lots of images of her makin' out with famous dudes from the '40s. But Lamarr was also an…
Feb 11 22February 11, 2022
Annie Reneau 09.28.21 When Benny Mendez asked his middle school P.E. students why they wanted to participate in STOKED—his new after school program where kids can learn to skateboard, snowboard, and surf—their answers surprised him. I want to be able…
Sep 23 21September 23, 2021
This article originally appeared on 08.29.15 These mustached Canadians decided to treat older shelter cats like used cars. Why? Because in a world where around 8 million pets enter shelters and only around 4 million get out, that's a lot of sad…
Jul 08 21July 08, 2021
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 …
Aug 05 16August 05, 2016
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…
Aug 03 16August 03, 2016
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 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 …
Jul 29 16July 29, 2016
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:…
Jul 27 16July 27, 2016
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 …
Jul 26 16July 26, 2016
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 …
Jul 22 16July 22, 2016
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 …
Jul 21 16July 21, 2016
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 …
Jul 15 16July 15, 2016
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 …
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 …
Jul 12 16July 12, 2016
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 …
Jul 08 16July 08, 2016
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 …
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 …
Jun 17 16June 17, 2016
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 …
Jun 14 16June 14, 2016
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