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In May this year, Oscar-award-winning actress and author, Dame Judi Dench became the oldest person to be featured on the cover of British Vogue at 85. [1] The last person to hold the title was 83-year-old American actress, Jane Fonda, photographed by Vogue when she was 81. Best known for her iconic roles in “Shakespeare […]
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear lab coats and science goggles. The world’s plastic situation can make environmentally conscious people feel quite small and helpless. In the reality of the outrageous figures and statistics running into billions of tons of toxic waste every year, one can only wonder how meaningful their little efforts could […]
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Drones are some of the coolest things to ever be invented on earth. Excluding their roles in extra-judicial and deadly airstrikes, the world is a safer place because of the existence of these mini flying devices. You can survey thousands of miles of ground without actually going anywhere, disaster relief is faster, filmmaking is better, […]
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It’s almost as if the meaning of true love and all it entails changes from generation to generation. What Baby Boomers consider romance doesn’t work for millennials and let’s be honest, generation Z literally has the weirdest ideas. Everyone’s just doing what suits their time and age and in the end, love is still hugely […]
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Writing is one of the most powerful forms of self-expression known to humanity. It’s amazing what penning down a few words can do for your soul. When words form as your hand scribbles, it’s a different kind of therapy that not everyone can really understand. For 10-year-old Benjamin Giroux, now 14, expressing himself verbally has not […]
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Online picture personality tests may not be the most reliable or comprehensive of tests, but a lot of them may steer us toward some necessary information about our true selves. For most people, no matter how great they eventually become at this exercise called life, they’d never pass up a chance to learn something new […]
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Clothes have no gender, he says… If you’ve ever had a hard time picturing who a ‘nonconformist’ truly is, this guy right here is the perfect picture. Whatever society said about how men and women should dress, he doesn’t care. Mark Bryan has been happily married to the love of his life for 11 years […]
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Having a child is often the most exciting and amazing day of an adult person’s life. A new baby really changes everything about your life for the rest of your life. Every child is different, and sometimes those differences manifest as special needs. According to the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs, […]
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One of the biggest problems the textile industry has faced over the decades is activism over the production of leather from animal hides. [1] Leather is a staple product in the industry, used in the production of everything from clothing accessories and jewelry to furniture and automobile fittings. Animal activists and conservationists around the world […]
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It’s about time! Women need caves of their own, too. We all probably grew up watching our dads hog the spare room or back shed all to himself and call it his “man cave”. My dad would endlessly watch football, read his Grisham novels, and do construction work in his free time, and it was […]
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Whoever said the world was lacking good people? There are still some amazingly kind souls out there who would go and above beyond for others, and these people are the treasures we must celebrate. Electrician John Kinney had only gone to Gloria Scott’s home in Woburn, Massachusetts, to fix a sparking light fixture [1]. He’d thought […]
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For people dealing with anxiety disorders, getting through every day is a painful struggle. The mind is constantly under stress and all you can do is worry and be terrified over the simplest situations. It’s a powerfully limiting mental condition that adds a strain to anyone’s life. [1] Aside from the irrational thoughts of worry […]
