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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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A Facebook Billionaire is Handing Over Millions to Africa’s Poorest Countries

Helping a third world country pull itself out of poverty and shake the status of being a third world country is easier said than...

3 Virtual Reality Technologies To Compete With Oculus Rift

By now you've probably heard the news that Facebook bought virtual reality headset Oculus Rift for a cool $2 billion. It came as quite...

12 Life Lessons From Facebook Fails

There are a lot of dumb people in the world. Like, a LOT. Many of them happen to be on Facebook regularly posting dumb...

Tech Whistleblowers Reveal Psychological Tricks Used to Manipulate You

A book written by Nir Eyal, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, almost seems like it could've come out of a cliché dystopian sci-fi story. The book...