Bethany Mota is only 18-years-old but thanks to the wild popularity of her videos about shopping she’s more popular online than Vogue magazine and has her own national branded line of clothing and jewelry. The Northern California teen is turning a hobby she started at 14 into a million dollar phenomenon before she’s even
Facebook has launched a new trends section designed to tell users the site’s most popular topics of discussion. The new feature, which is being rolled out to all Facebook users, is believed to be aimed at letting the site compete with Twitter’s popular trends. The trends will reflect the most discussed topics on Faebook,
The notion that homes could be fuelled by human waste, might not be an appealing thought, but it could transform people’s lives in developing countries. British scientists have already proved they can charge a phone by using urine to feed microbial fuel cells. And they aim to scale up their innovation to provide much
Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that migrating birds fly in a V formation, but scientists have long debated why. A new study of ibises finds that these big-winged birds carefully position their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird’s updraft—and save energy during flight. There are two reasons birds
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The fact that humans are steadily becoming more sedentary and obese is no secret. This information is all over the news, and there are tips and tricks everywhere to get people sitting less and moving more. While adults are often focused mainly on losing weight as their main outcome, the CDC recently put together some
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(By Joanne Lipman) I had a teacher once who called his students “idiots” when they screwed up. He was our orchestra conductor, a fierce Ukrainian immigrant named Jerry Kupchynsky, and when someone played out of tune, he would stop the entire group to yell, “Who eez deaf in first violins!?” He made us rehearse
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Research suggests that people choose—or are unconsciously drawn to—careers that resemble their own names. The effect is stronger for women’s first names and men’s last names; psychologists hypothesize that women are less attached to their last names because they anticipate taking their husbands’. In a 2002 paper in the journal Attitudes and Social Cognition, psychologists
An abbreviation is an easier and short way of writing a word or phrase. It may consist of 1 or more letters. There are dozens of abbreviations which we use on daily basis but very less people know their actual meanings. In this post, we have tried to list all those abbreviations which we use
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People who regularly visit a place of worship are less likely to get involved in low level crime and delinquency, according to new research. A survey from Manchester University found a direct correlation between higher visits to religious places and lower crime figures, especially in relation to shoplifting, drug use and music piracy. Researchers
If you really love your mother, nothing is too much. But in case your first plain, boring “I’m sorry.” doesn’t work, here are some steps and tips that may help and some warnings! Don’t try to talk to her when she’s mad at you, that will most likely make her more upset. Give her some
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