Tag: Entertain

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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Microsoft’s Holoportation is Every Star Wars’ Fan Fantasy

No doubt, one of the coolest scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy came when R2-D2 delivered a hologram of Princess Leia talking to...

Microsoft’s Psychotic, Racist Twitter Bot was a Fail. What Does it Say About us?

We often hear about the danger of artificial intelligence turning ugly, and Microsoft just saw a prime example of it with their teenage-aimed A.I....

Prank Shows Bible Passages as Quran & People Can’t Tell the Difference (Video)

The Quran takes a lot of flack for being a book that promotes some pretty messed up stuff. Here is the thing though, the...

The 25 Best Photographs Taken in 2015

2015 will certainly be remembered as a year of major advancements (gay marriage becoming legal in the United States, for example) as well as...

Cockiest Fugitive Ever Didn’t Like His Mugshot So Sent in a Selfie

This fugitive from justice is operating on a whole other level of cockiness. Donald "Chip" Pugh wasn't happy with the mugshot cops were using...

This Football Player’s Good Deed Just Restored Our Faith in Humanity

Like any parent of young children, Megan Shufflebarger is used to shopping with her kids and hearing them marvel and tug at her whenever...

Hacker Group Anonymous Reveals the Identities of Ku Klux Klan Members 

The hoods are off! Renowned hacker group Anonymous is marking the November 24th anniversary of the Ferguson protests by revealing the names of 1,000...

Chickpeas for Peace! Restaurant Gives Discounts to Arabs and Jews Eating Together

Mending the wounds of centuries of Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn't an easy task, but one Israeli restaurant is doing its part - one plate of...

This Prankster Transforms Cars Into Cardboard Custom Rides

If you leave your car parked on the streets of Amsterdam, you might just wake up the next morning to find it looking like...

Selfie Deaths Now Outnumber Those Caused by Shark Attacks

The kid in the GIF above didn't lose his life, but he came incredibly close by trying to snap a selfie with a moving...

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,...

Grab a Tissue, This ATM Dispenses Life-Changing Surprises

It's always nice to get an earnest thank you, no matter what the circumstances. A new video of TD Bank paying some thanks to...