When interviewed, a 70 year old man, who was once a feral child that lived alone with wolves in the mountains between the ages of 7 and 19 stated “he was disappointed in human nature and wished he could return to the mountains and leave society”.
Within the first 5 years of the…
Within the first 5 years of the “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk” campaign (begun in 1983), the U.S experienced its lowest number of alcohol-related fatalities since the DOT began keeping records, and more than 68% of Americans reported trying to prevent someone from driving after drinking.
Surgeon Tryouts in Japan
A Japanese hospital has an entrance test for aspiring medical students – they must perform 3 tasks in 15 minutes using surgical instruments – make miniature paper cranes, reassemble a dead bug from parts and make miniature sushi using a single rice grain. 40 students are selected.
A School’s “Adulting” Class Teaches Students Skills Like Paying Bills and Cooking
I wish my school had offered classes like this when I was younger. Not that I wasn’t taught essential life skills by my parents and siblings, but I just feel like it would have been worthwhile to spend more time on things like how to open a bank account in high school than certain other topics I could mention (trigonometry, anyone?).
One high school in Kentucky makes a point of teaching students basic life skills so they’ll be better prepared when they go out into the real world. At Bullitt Central High School in Shepherdsville, students were offered the chance to attend a one-day conference at the school that taught them how to do things like change a tire, pay taxes, and how to cook.
Today the YSC held an “Adulting Conference” for our Seniors. The Seniors were able to choose 3 of 11 workshops to…
Posted by Bullitt Central High School on Wednesday, December 12, 2018
The conference offered 11 different workshops throughout the day, of which students were allowed to choose 3 “to gain more knowledge and skills pertaining to their lives once they leave…BCHS.” The workshops were set up after students realized that they weren’t always leaving high school with a firm grasp on important skills that would benefit them later in life.
Bullitt Central High School seniors got a break from their normal classes on Adulting Day >>https://t.co/QKucOCbokv
— wave3news (@wave3news) December 13, 2018
The woman who organized the event, Christy Hardin , said:
“I think that the idea occurred to me originally, I saw a Facebook post that parents passed around saying they needed a class in high school on taxes, and cooking. Our kids can get that, but they have to choose it. And (Adulting Day) was a day they could pick and choose pieces they didn’t feel like they had gotten so far.”
I think this is a great idea, although I would also like to point out that a lot of high school used to offer Home Economics courses that have since been cut for various reasons, and that those classes filled this sort of niche. So we’re kind of fixing a problem that used to have a solution until we got rid of the solution…
Let us know what you think in the comments.
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A Study Shows That Cats Are Less Stressed When They Have Access to Cardboard Boxes
If you have a cat, you’ve probably suspected this for a long time, but now we know that it’s official: cardboard boxes help alleviate cats’ stress.
Researchers from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands conducted the study on shelter cats to see if access to cardboard boxes genuinely helped lower their stress levels in a scientifically measurable way. The scientists used 19 shelter cats in the study, 10 of which were given access to boxes, while 9 were not.
The study showed that the cats who had access to the boxes showed a faster recovery ability and adapted more quickly to their new environment than those cats that didn’t have access to boxes. The researchers noticed major differences between the two groups just three or four days into the study.
The researchers explained, “Stressful experiences can have a major impact on the cats’ welfare and may cause higher incidences of infectious diseases in the shelters due to raised cortisol levels causing immunodeficiency. Though several studies showed preference for hiding places and stress-reducing effects of hiding boxes on cats in combined studies, none of these studies determined if proper hiding enrichment would be effective in a quarantine cattery.”
The study lasted 14 days and the cats who had access to the cardboard boxes had a lower mean CSS, which means they had lower stress levels than the cats without the cardboard boxes. Also, the 10 individual cats with the boxes showed little difference in their stress levels while the 9 cats with no access to boxes showed high variance in their levels.
Bottom line: if you have cats, you’ll probably make them feel a lot more comfortable if you toss some old boxes around the house. It makes sense – in the wild, cats are pretty small, and would likely spend quite a lot of their time hiding out of sight.
So help your kitties keep those stress levels down!
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‘Peaky Blinders’ Was Named the Best TV Show of the Last Decade
I’m way behind on all the TV I’m supposed to have been watching, and it pains me to admit it, but I’ve only seen a few episodes of the hit show Peaky Blinders. I mean, I’ll get to it sooner or later, I hope. And, by all accounts, I definitely should – because it was named the best TV show of the last decade based on a poll by LADbible.
The poll included more than 29,000 voters, and Peaky Blinders, which is now five seasons into the action, got 29.4% of the vote, beating out Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Chernobyl as the best TV show of the decade.
Peaky Blinders debuted in 2013 on BBC Two and the fifth season hit the screen in the fall of 2019. The show is set in Birmingham, England, after World War I, and it revolves around an ambitious gang that seeks to control Birmingham’s underworld. Cillian Murphy stars as the gang’s leader, Tommy Shelby.
The creator of the show, Steven Knight, talked about where he thinks the series will ultimately go: “The destination for the whole show has always been the start of the Second World War, so the show is the story of the family between the wars. I really want to end it with Tommy being alright. I want Tommy to be good and on the side of the angels.”
That sounds like there will be plenty more seasons of Peaky Blinders in store for viewers.
What was your favorite TV show of the 2010s? Share with us in the comments!
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Enjoy These Funny Editorial Mistakes From the Last Decade
Well, these are…unfortunate.
Hey, writers make mistakes. But if they have any values, they admit their errors, apologize, correct them, and move on. Here are some of the funniest and most interesting editorial mistakes and fails from the 2010s…
Let’s see what went down.
1. That is lengthy.
Yikes. The correction at the end of the op-ed is a lengthy one.
https://t.co/bGcdrIXtHN pic.twitter.com/I4Dr1oUglj
— Queenie Wong (@QWongSJ) October 31, 2019
2. Oops…
A+ correction pic.twitter.com/LveoknpEkG
— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) November 22, 2019
3. That’s a big difference.
My story about @PeteButtigieg ends with him referring to the “failures of the Obama era.” That’s an inaccurate quote — the result of transcribing a noisy recording at a loud rally. His exact words were “failures of the old normal”
— Evan Halper (@evanhalper) November 11, 2019
4. Wouldn’t want that to happen.
good new yorker correction pic.twitter.com/FetNQcw56M
— Parker Higgins (@xor) June 14, 2019
5. Thank you for that!
just a spectacular correction here pic.twitter.com/BUq8txOYZB
— Edd Dracott (@EddDracott) November 16, 2019
6. How’d that one get by the editor?
Lmao at this @nytimes correction pic.twitter.com/FfTYUnp1dT
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 23, 2019
7. Don’t say that to Kansas Citians.
Happy Tuesday pic.twitter.com/8ELhosHk99
— Nathan Lawrence
(@NathanBLawrence) July 3, 2019
8. WOW.
Greatest. Correction. Ever. pic.twitter.com/smNLzUHwAT
— Daniel Brogan (@dbrogan) November 11, 2019
9. Hahahahaha. Sad!
This might be the funniest correction I've ever seen. https://t.co/LlT5ELQTph pic.twitter.com/5GnEOVv2uc
— Simon Hurtz (@SimonHurtz) March 10, 2016
10. Well, isn’t that interesting…
Still the funniest correction, ever.
pic.twitter.com/8UnDNEK02K
— RedSarah #Richard4Deputy
(@redsarah99) July 6, 2019
11. Good move on his part.
From the @NYTimes Correction File: sweetest, loveliest, slyly funniest correction of late: pic.twitter.com/EB5aLgYezH
— Sara Catania (@Catanify) March 31, 2016
12. Not “eaten to death.”
this is the funniest correction to a story I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/yasvWdHim7
— Tyler McCall (@eiffeltyler) April 3, 2019
13. A pretty big difference.
My new favourite newspaper correction pic.twitter.com/wGaFcuAMeh
— Paul Cunningham (@cunninghampaul) August 2, 2018
14. Briney Spear.
A most excellent celebrity name misspelling in the WSJ pic.twitter.com/FpOllQrvtE
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) October 6, 2018
15. How many of you have made this mistake?
Love you, @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/wxxD5vdUzO
— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) February 8, 2019
Big fails!
But, like I said: admit it, fix it, apologize, move on.
Unlike some folks in government and media, these people all admitted their mistakes. Imagine that!?!?
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Anti-Matt Tweets for Anyone Who’s Ever Had Bad Experiences With a Matt
My name is Matt and I apologize for all my fellow Matts who have wronged you and treated you like garbage in the past.
I’ve met plenty of douchebag Matts in my life, so I feel your pain…
There are a ton of anti-Matt tweets out there, so let’s see what people are saying about these…Matts…
1. No more of that.
in 2020 we are not talking to any guys named matt
— suck my fucking dick buzzfeed (@unrealizzztic) December 31, 2019
2. This one will be different.
my friend: so the new person you’re dating is another white guy named matt whose parents pay his rent?
me: yeah, but like, there’s something different about this one.
narrator: there was in fact not anything different about this one.
— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) November 24, 2019
3. A whole laundry list.
boys that will definitely ruin your life:
1. any boy named kyle
2. all matts
3. chads (or anything with -ad)
4. any variation of zachary
5. any guy whose name starts with j— suck my fucking dick buzzfeed (@unrealizzztic) October 8, 2019
4. Those are your choices.
Dating apps be like:
Matt, 30, financial analyst, enjoys craft beer and hiking
Matt, 33, holding a dead fish: “let’s eat pizza and watch the office”
Matt, 28: “if you don’t work out we won’t work out” “go birds” 6’1” because apparently that matters”
— jb (@jessbee_) December 26, 2019
5. How much will you get?
have you or a family member ever dated a guy named matt. you maybe entitled to compensation
— sarah nicole ryer (@sarahnicoleryer) October 15, 2019
6. I can’t decide which one is the worst.
My decade in dating:
2010: serial killer
2011: human dial tone
2012: dial tone
2013: best friend
2014: best friend
2015: slut
2016: slut
2017: slut
2018: guy who compared me to a mailbox
2019: 15 guys named Matt— linda (@lwatts_93) December 28, 2019
7. Count it as one.
fun fact: ur body count doesn’t increase if u have already previously had sex w someone w that name. so for example, my body count this year was 1, bc even though i slept w 17 guys, they were ALL named matt.
— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) December 25, 2019
8. Sup, bro!
90% of guys named Matt have their name on twitter and instagram as mattyice
— sara no h (@sargoldsteiin) March 12, 2014
9. This band is gonna be HUGE.
what up we’re 5 White Dudes in a Band, this is our drummer Mustache SticknPoke, our bassist NailPolish Earring, lead singer Denim Glasses, and 2 guys named Matt. Altogether we have 3 famous dads, 6 DUIs, and 4 pics of us on a couch outside.Our EP ‘My ex is crazy’ out on bandcamp
— gluten-free baguette (@DerivativeSin) April 23, 2019
10. Nice work.
I have slept with enough guys named Matt to populate a small town in Ohio
— Amy Cardinale (@thingsamytweets) September 20, 2018
11. Which one are you, again?
the hardest part about working in tech is telling the difference between all the white guys named matt
— kiersten (@kierstennamber) July 30, 2019
12. How can you tell them apart?
Frat boys will find out you like Kpop and be like "WTF dude 12 guys in one group lol how do you tell apart they look the same" even though they had 4 white guys named Matt in their pledge class of 15.
— long island’s boy (@stephengriswold) December 20, 2018
13. You’re doing a great job.
i do believe i was put on this earth to systematically ruin the lives of white men by dating them, to ensure that guys named matt have full blown panic attacks every time they get a text message.
— Dana Donnelly (@danadonly) October 24, 2019
14. At least 100 of them.
There's too many guys named "Matt" at this Whole Foods.
— Eden Dranger (@Eden_Eats) March 6, 2018
15. I can’t wait for this to happen.
When I am king, all welcome mats will be replaced by guys named Matt who lay down in front of doors saying "welcome" to whomever approaches.
— Some call me RZA (@jrza206) July 17, 2015
I will try to get my fellow Matts to be better in 2020…
But I can’t make any promises…
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Vinyl Record Sales Surpassed CDs Last Year for the First Time in Decades
As someone who has collected vinyl since high school, I think this is awesome. Don’t get me wrong, I like CDs and cassettes too (I don’t currently have any 8-tracks), but I prefer vinyl records.
I just honestly believe they sound the best out of all formats.
In 2019, people bought $224 million worth of vinyl records. This was the first time since 1986 that vinyl outsold CDs.
That’s a long time for a medium to spend on the outs before it stages a takeover from its replacement format, don’t you think?
Vinyl has been competing with CDs, cassettes, and now with digital music for many years, but a resurgence in the popularity of records along with annual events like Record Store Day have made vinyl a hot commodity again over the past several years. Records have gone from practically obsolete, to objects of desire once again.
In the week that ended on December 26, 2019, 1.243 million vinyl albums were sold – the first time that’s happened since Nielsen began tracking music data in 1991.
And it isn’t one generation that’s making up a bulk of the vinyl sales; Millennials and Generation Z folks are just as likely to buy records as Baby Boomers and Generation X’ers. Plus, people are buying records from artists across many generations. Currently, some of the biggest-selling vinyl artists are Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, The Beatles, and Queen.
Just for fun, I’d like to include some of my favorite record stores across the country. Check these folks out online or in-person if you’re in the area!
Creme Tangerine Records in Costa Mesa, California.
Premium Sound in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence, Kansas.
Go buy some records!
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Gummy Pickles Are Here, and They Actually Taste Like Pickles
Yummmmmmmmmm…
If you’re a pickle lover, there’s something on the market that you might want to check out. I count myself a pickle lover, and when I recently met someone who told me they thought pickles are disgusting, I decided I didn’t want to have any contact with them anymore because that is BLASPHEMY.
But let’s move on because there is a gummy pickle on the market that you should try.
NOT QUITE NEWS: A company called Vat19, clearly catering to the needs of the pickle-obsessed from around the world, have…
Posted by Mix 106.5 on Monday, November 25, 2019
These gelatinous gherkins come to us from a company called Vat19. Here’s a description of the product from the website:
“Previously, if you were a fan of brined cucumbers and delicious gummy goodness, snack-searching would put you in a real pickle. But with the Gummy Pickle, you get the best of both worlds.
This all-gummy “vegetable” is flavored like a sour dill pickle with the chewy texture of gummy. While still slightly sweet, the predominantly pickle flavor and realistic appearance will trick your taste buds into thinking you plucked it right from the jar.
If you’re a pickle fan, you’re sure to love this gummy treat—warts and all.”
Vat19 has a bunch of cool and quirky products for you to buy, including Pizza Cotton Candy, a Ramen Noodle Candle, and the World’s Largest Gummy Worm. Yeah, I think I’m gonna become a regular customer of this site…
WEIRD FOOD ALERT: Gummy pickles! They look & taste like regular pickles, but they have the texture of traditional gummy bears. Would you eat one – YAY OR NAY?
Posted by Hungry Girl on Thursday, May 3, 2018
Here’s a video to further convince you that you need this in your life.
What do you think? Are you gonna give these gummy pickles a shot?
I’m gonna go for it!
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