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Can You Tackle the World’s Trickiest Tongue Twister?
Try and say this aloud 10 times fast. Ready? Go: Pad kid poured curd pulled cold. Hardest thing you’ve done all week, right? Psychologists at MIT claim it’s the world’s most frustrating tongue twister...
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How Far We Haven’t Come: All of the Terrible Ways the Media Treated Women in...
When it comes to the portrayal and treatment of women in the media, we’ve come a long way since the Mad Men era. And yet, in 2013, it’s still not unusual to hear messages like “I’m not saying she...
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Men Drop More F-Bombs: A Survey of Naughty Habits in America
While many do-gooders try to shine the light on the brighter side of humanity each holiday season, emphasizing our potential for charity and brotherhood, one survey company decided to delve into...
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‘American’ In Cantonese Sign Language Is the Same As the Sign for ‘Crazy’
Because it depends on economy of expression, sign language is often far from subtle. Many evolve by matching terms and expressions with simple visual indicators tied to popularly held beliefs. Like the...
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Having a Negative Daily Horoscope Makes You More Likely to YOLO
Attention, stargazers: People who believe they can change their fate are more likely to splurge after reading unfavorable zodiac predictions, according to a study published in the December 2013 Journal...
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You Should Probably Chill Out Because You’re Causing Secondhand Stress For...
You’ve heard all about the dangers of secondhand smoke, but there’s another, more insidious danger of the secondhand variety lurking all around us: secondhand stress. This phenomenon occurs in...
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Here Are the States With the Best and Worst Drivers
Louisiana is much loved for its jazz music, tasty crawfish and bacchanalian Mardi Gras celebrations, but now the Bayou State’s got another, less impressive distinction: home to the worst drivers in the...
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7 Graphs That Show the Gender Divide Young Women Are Facing in the Workplace
This month, a video by Pantene that calls out sexist double standards facing women in the workplace went megaviral. The minute long ad aims to break down gender stereotypes (and sell hair products.)...
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Twitter Users Are So Vain They Probably Think This Post Is About Them (It Is)
According to a new scientific study, people who tweet a lot tend to be epic narcissists. #Shocker Researchers led by Shaun Davenport of High Point University conducted surveys with 515 college...
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This Guy Attempted to Find Out Exactly How Hard It Is for Women to Online Date
As it turns out, being female on the Internet isn’t all Instagram likes and daily deals sites. Every day women face harassment both minor and significant through social platforms, dating sites and...
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2014′s Hot New Bridal Trend Is Pizza Selfies
SO WEIRD! One couple LOVED pizza SO much they had it incorporated into their wedding, as a gift!…. – @Iam_Shem pic.twitter.com/9kRWVzGcSt— KiSS 92.5 (@KiSS925) January 22, 2014 Pizza-loving couple...
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Singer Challenges Beauty Stereotypes by Being Transformed With Photoshop in...
In the new music video for her song “Nouveau Parfum,” Hungarian singer Boggie (real name: Csemer Boglarka) shows just how far some Photoshopping can go. The three-and-half-minute clip shows her going...
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It’s So Cold That a Middle Schooler’s Tongue Got Stuck to a Metal Pole
Firefighters in Easthampton, Massachusetts, were called to help extricate a student’s tongue from a metal pole at White Brook Middle School this week, The Republican reports. The student’s age and...
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Poll: Breadwinning Moms Rarely Top Earners By Choice
Women may be the top earners in more U.S. households than ever before, but what does that mean for their happiness? A new poll conducted by Working Mother Media has found that a majority of women are...
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Nonprofit Helps Alcoholics Learn How to Brew Beer
Through a Canadian community services organization, alcoholics are learning how to make beer and wine, an effort to stop them from guzzling products containing alcohol that are not safe for human...
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LCD Soundsystem Lead Singer Wants to Turn Incessant Subway Turnstile Beeps...
For the last 15 years, the former lead singer of LCD Soundsystem has been working to better the underground music scene. No, we aren’t talking about Bushwick warehouse parties. James Murphy wants to...
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Google Doodle? More Like Google Dude-le
SPARK, a “girl-fueled activist movement to demand an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media,” has crunched the numbers on the different types of Google Doodles that the company has...
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San Francisco Techies Now Doing Weird Sex Stuff With Ethernet Cables
The tech boom in San Francisco has sparked a renaissance among the city’s members-only sex clubs, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. One in particular, named Mission Control, has seen its...
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The Best and Worst Places to Cry and Listen to Bright Eyes in NYC
New York is, by and large, a city full of crybabies. The sheer amount of people heaving and sighing their way through Manhattan every day grants the city a kind of anonymity that makes it seem like,...
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