When we were little, our stuffed animals served as fluffy confidantes. They sat with us at our tea parties, they stayed close at night to fend off bad dreams, and they comforted us when we were sick. What they didn’t typically do, however, is teach us important lessons that would ultimately stick with us for […]
There are many wonderful — nay, great things we could say about the late Muhammad Ali. He was a boxer, a poet, a champion for those with Parkinson’s…but to many, he was also a hero. He famously spoke out against racism saying, “Hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which […]
Just like the clothes we wear, toys come and go in our lives. But unlike that old pair of jeans you’ll donate to Goodwill, worn teddy bears and game boards tend to have staying power. If you’d love to find a way to repurpose them, and maybe get a few more useful years, pay attention. […]
The Labor Day weekend is almost upon us which means that it’s getting to be the time of year when we close up our grills and move the party indoors. It usually also means that you can say so long to delicious hot dogs and yummy grilled burgers. But with this recipe, you can forget […]
We’ve all tried to make those cute little origami swans at some point, but if you’re anything like me, most of those attempts ended in miserable failure. It’s pretty rare to find someone who sees origami as more than a casual hobby, especially if you’re not hanging out in Japan. But if you wander over […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); No matter how careful I am while I’m doing my laundry, I always lose a sock to what I believe is a sock monster living behind the washer. And you probably feel my pain. But just because you’ve lost the mates to your favorite pairs of socks doesn’t mean you should […]
On today’s episode of “Barrack Obama is the Man,” our president signs a bill declaring that the North American bison is our national mammal, because why not? The National Bison Legacy Act — which is a real thing that exists — positions the bison as one of our national animals because it played an important […]
The world is a strange, strange place…and judging by this, it always has been. People are just weird, and throughout history, what people have done for fun is even weirder. We might screw around on Twitter and Facebook now which is odd when you think about it, but what our ancestors used to do for […]
It’s no secret that artwork is often symbolic of something much larger than itself. Artists have the unique ability to represent infinite ideas by creating something that’s decidedly finite — something that has boundaries and borders. While the finished product is often no less abstract than the idea it represents, something powerful happens when viewers […]
It’s totally fine to outfit the den in your bachelor pad with a cheap coffee table from Ikea, but when it comes to the crib for a baby, you’re going to want it to be made out of something sturdier than Swedish cardboard. That’s why when Reddit user Mergs21 heard he was going to have […]