Month: March 2019

On Thursday at least 84 people—including two Americans—were killed during a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, after a grenade-filled tractor trailer truck drove straight into the crowd.  Regional President Christian Estrosi told CNN affiliate BFM-TV, the attack began after the occupant of the truck shot into the crowd. He then drove for 2 kilometers along the…

Meet Graham. He’s the hideously malformed but highly evolved virtual human designed to show us all how far off the biological mark we really are when it comes to surviving automobile wrecks.  For this eye-opening moment in your life, you can thank the combined skills of a trendsetting visual artist and a trauma surgeon-slash-car crash…

Embed from Getty Images     The Cleveland Browns are a bad football team. The Ohio State Buckeyes are a very good one. But could one of the best college football teams really compete with one of the worst in the NFL? Fans seem to think so.  A Public Policy Polling survey released last week reveals that…

Samra Habib, an editor and photographer from Toronto, has spent the past few years traveling and documenting the global community of queer Muslims, a collective bound together by identity and connected to each other through the internet. In 2014, she debuted Just Me and Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project, a collection of images she’s made of…

Just when you thought no Halloween costume could go lower than Steve Irwin getting pierced through the heart by a stingray, some genius went there in the tackiest way possible. Costumeish, the store that released similarly horrific getups like the “Sexy Ebola Costume” and “Bruce Gender Olympian Costume,” recently came out with a costume that mocks…

Click:best pool algaecide While this isn’t the first time the comic has resurfaced on the internet—it was first published in 2014—it is still making a big impact on readers. In an email interview conducted by Upworthy recently, the comic’s creator Mark Glavin explained why it has so much resonance with readers worldwide. “It seems every 6-8 [months]…

Click:gold buyers near me Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, says that if Hillary Clinton is elected as president of the United States, she should be prepared to face down some sincere and severe sexism in office. On Tuesday, the former prime minister gave the keynote address at the #MoreInCommon event in London, discussing women in politics and…

What’s the one thing most to blame for terrorism? At a moment sadly dominated by mass killings and convoluted culture clashes, we’re understandably hungry to find the root of the problem—and to do something about it, the quicker the better.  But the evidence suggests the root of the problem is a big one: speed. Think…

During the spring 2012 sugaring season, Douglas Whynott shadowed Bascom Family Farms, the number one independent supplier of maple sugar. His book, The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family’s Quest for the Sweetest Harvest, he follows the viscous sweetener from the aluminum sap bucket to the top of the pancake. Throughout, Whynott spins an intimate investigation into the little…

Wheelchair racing finals kicked off Friday at the Rio Paralympics with the women’s T54-class 100-meter sprint, in which China’s Liu Wenjun narrowly inched out American standout (and world record holder) Tatyana McFadden for the gold. It was the first of seven wheelchair racing finals at Olympic Stadium this weekend, and you should watch them all, because wheelchair racing—in which athletes…