On Friday, Snoop Dogg and The Game, rappers and Los Angeles natives both, led a march to the Los Angeles Police Department’s doorstep, to show they have had enough. At 6:30 a.m. local time, The Game posted to Instagram saying, “make the Californian & it’s (sic) law branches aware that from today forward, we will be UNIFIED as minorities…
What Goes into A Racist Sandwich?
Is racism as American as peanut butter and jelly? One humble food podcast is peeling apart the layers of bread to find out. “Racist Sandwich” is a podcast all about race and food.The name is a reference to 2012 national media firestorm that began in Portland, Oregon, when a public school principal dared to suggest…
Truck Attack On Bastille Day In Nice Kills 84
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…
Engineers Designed The Perfect Human Form To Survive A Car Crash
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…
Can A Great College Football Team Actually Beat A Really Awful Pro Team?
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…
Meet The Woman Creating A Digital Neighborhood For Queer Muslims
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…
This Kim Kardashian Robbery Costume Is As Twisted As It Gets
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…
This Comic Will Leave You In Tears If You Love Your Pet
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]…
Australia’s First Female Prime Minister Has A Stern Warning For Hillary Clinton
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…
There’s A Surprising Connection Between Terrorism And Engineers
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…