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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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Senator Argues Against Himself With Asinine Gun Control Comparison

With the Orlando Pulse nightclub tragedy that took the lives of 49 innocent people dominating headlines, both proponents for and against gun control heavily...

An Internet Troll Fooled CNN That A Killer Asteroid Was Heading Our Way

If you happened to be on CNN's iReport yesterday you might have noticed a story with the title, "Giant asteroid possibly on collision course...

How Would A Russian Cyberattack Play Out?

Russia and the U.S. could launch cyber attacks, but what does that look like exactly?