Tag: Culture

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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Black Appropriation is the Newest Shade in Swedish Spray Tans

Believe it or not, a company in Sweden is now selling a 'dark chocolate' tanning solution that offers white people with an identity crisis the option...

Welcome to The Library Where You Check Out People, Not Books

Generally speaking, most libraries operate around the same way. You fill out a form to get your library card, find the book you want,...

This Utopic Town in Spain Has No Need For Police Thanks to its Robin Hood Mayor

As of January of this year, the unemployment rate in the United States is 5.7 percent and in Spain it's around 7.6 percent. But...

An Inside Look at Iceland’s LungA Festival 2013

LungA Festival may just be the greatest festival that you've never heard of. You can probably chalk that up partly to the fact that...

Tribe’s Kids Can Literally Swim Underwater Like Mermaids & See Like Dolphins

Every kid (and let's be real, probably every adult) dreams of being able to swim like a mermaid, or see through the ocean like...

Not Allowed To Bike, These Afghan Girls Rip It Up On Skateboards Instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLb-ABe-aVE You'd be hard pressed to find an activity that represents American counter-culture more than skateboarding. In its early 1960s roots, the sport was seen...