Author: Elsa
A woman finds a starving, beaten and dying dog by the side of the road. It’s a pit bull and it’s in a very bad way. She takes it into Dr. Andy Mathis at the Granite Hills Animal Center. He considers putting the poor thing down – it’s been abused badly and might not pull through a painful recovery. But Dr. Andy refuses to give up on him… He and his colleagues named the mutt Graycie Clair and set to work. It was a long road because of how badly treated she had been before reached the clinic. But one step at…
Most 12 year-old girls dream of getting married one day. Thea Bryllupet is no different. The thing is, that day isn’t all that far away at all for her. In fact – it’s today. She may not be in her teens yet, but she’s marrying a 37 year-old man in Norway. How is this possible, you might ask… Well, it’s not. Not in Europe or the US, at least. But across the world tens of thousands of underage girls are forced in marriage every day and it’s vile. The people behind this awareness campaign, Plan International, decided to use a…
Bernalillo County deputies Garcia and Roridguez are used to people just thinking that, as cops, their one purpose is to arrest people and give them citations. But they see it differently. They’re employed to protect and serve. And that can be in a whole host of different ways. The pair pulled over a drunk driver recently who was driving dangerously. They were shocked to discover his children, hungry and wearing soiled diapers, in the back seat. After arresting dad, they started doing what comes naturally to them. Protecting and serving. They changed the kids’ diapers and fed them… “We had to remove him…
Domestic abuse is a plague which affects the whole world. It shames humanity and is a problem we all need to be aware of. It’s a big issue in the US and all over, but certain areas suffer worse. Take the former Eastern Bloc country of Serbia, for instance. Half of all women will suffer from violence at the hands of their partners at one time or another. And domestic violence accounts for 30% of all murders in the country. Shocking. To raise awareness, one brave woman decided to document her wretched time with DV and show others just how…
The unique acrobatic dance stylings of Ukrainian professional dancers Valeriy and Yulia really do need to be seen to be believed. And luckily for you – you can seen them below. But whether you’ll believe that they’re real is another matter! Their effortless skill and grace and power is truly an outstanding thing of beauty. The sheer core strength, back muscles and balance needed is crazy here. Not only that, but for Valeriy and Yulia to pull off this fabulous act, they both need to place so much trust in one another. We’re not sure too many people are really capable of…
What would the world be like if men had periods? Well the water charity Water Aid decided to find out. They conducted a poll and asked two thousand people what they thought guys would be like if they started having monthlies. And a whopping THIRD of everyone asked said that the dudes would openly laugh and joke and even brag about them… To extend the idea, they thought it’d be funny to make an advert aimed at men if they were to have periods and the results are great! This is EXACTLY how they’d be! The funny commercial has a…
We could be closer to a cure for cancer than ever before after cancer doctors and researchers uncovered something that’s being described as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the race to cure the deadly disease. ‘T Cells’ are now thought to be the key. They’re immune cells that the body already has and it’s thought that they can be programmed to attack and kill off metastatic tumors and blood cancers. “In the laboratory and in clinical trials, we are seeing dramatic responses in patients with tumours that are resistant to conventional high-dose chemotherapy,” says Dr. Stanley Riddell from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research…
The video we’ve got for you below might well just show the biggest zit ever seen on a human being. The guy on the end of it had unknowingly harvested the gigantic pimple over the course of a DECADE. Seriously. He was aware of a small lump and it slowly grew. One day it started hurting and visibly had pus just under the surface. So he and his wife decided to film The Big Squeeze (how romantic, huh?). But they never expected to get so much goo out of it! This is no ordinary little blackhead. This video isn’t to be…
If you’ve got young children or you ever look after friends’ or relatives’ young ones, then you’ll know just how fun it can be to talk to them. But it can also be confusing at times. You’re not always on exactly the same level, are you? And we’ve a really great example of that right here. It starts with a dad picking up his young daughter from school and asking her what she’d learned that day. An experience that millions of fathers across the world have every single day. But this question ended in a very awkward answer indeed! Stick…
A bridge is just a bridge, isn’t it? A structure designed to link two areas together that are separated by an expanse of water. No big deal. Sure, they are when you use them. But for architects, engineers and people in remote areas, they can be a lifeblood. Take the woven bridge at Q’eswachaka, for example… Found in deepest Peru in South America, the rope bridge has been made and remade regularly using ancient Incan engineering techniques and is in need of constant repair and maintenance. In fact, it’s rebuilt every single year. And once the work is completed – the…