New research on the health of immigrants has found that foreign-born Americans tend to live longer than their American-born peers. Why? Because people born in the United States smoke more, drink more, eat worse, and kinda just laze about.
Did you know that in China, some
76,000 children go missing each year, with as many as one
million currently listed as lost? Sad but true. However, one lost boy has finally made his way back home with the help of Google Maps.
No matter how famous you are, you should never piss off the help especially when they know where you sleep. Case in point is this unbelievable story shared by Adam Sandler during an appearance on Jay Leno. And you'll never guess why she did it:
Here's proof that any monkey with a camera can take better shots than you can. These snapshots by Mikki The Chimpanzee are part of an interesting project done by Russian-born American conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. The purpose is to document how the monkey learned to use a polaroid, analogue, and antique large-format camera. The pics below were were snapped at Moscow’s Red Square and other city sights.
CNN has an update on Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old who made headlines in 2012 who nearly died of a rare flesh-eating bacteria infection following a zip-lining accident.
Remember back in 2012 when everyone was excited over the butt-kicking, redheaded heroine from Brave? While the movie turned out to be a bit of a let down, the traits of the central character stood out among the other less gutsy princesses in Disney's lineup. However, Disney has since revealed their decision to give the tomboyish princess a typical girly makeover, which included
a sparkly dress, small waist and more makeup.
In this latest sketch, the increasingly shrinking host Jimmy Kimmel introduces to the world and adorable toddler named Wesley (who just so happens to be Kimmel's nephew).
These landscape pics taken above were snapped using ONDU pinhole cameras which are made entirely of out of wood and don't have any electronics. The cameras come from Slovenian industrial designer and self-taught carpenter Elvis Halilović, who has been making pinhole cameras for the last seven years.
See this pic above? While it might initially look like a bunch of
spots, a closer inspection will reveal that it's actually a dalmatian.
Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal. Reportedly an all cash acquisition, Tumblr will maintain control of its operations.
It will come a time when we might just be able to upload our brains to the Internet. In fact, there are many who are already thinking about this.
There's going to be more wearable tech coming out, now that Google Glass has gotten the ball rolling. This one here is called CastAR. and it takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face.