Neglected Horse Sues Former Owner for Over $100,000 in Damages
An Oregon woman who allegedly left her horse outside during the winter without adequate care and shelter, causing it pain and suffering, is now being sued by the animal for more than $100,000 in damages. It’s not every day you hear about horses taking humans to court, but in states like Oregon this sort of thing […]
Chinese Companies Equip Workers with Brainwave Reading Helmets to Increase Productivity
It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but according to recent news reports, Chinese companies are using special helmets to monitor workers’ brain activity in order to reduce stress, manipulate break times with the ultimate goal of increasing productivity. The South China Morning Post recently reported employee brainwave monitoring in China is […]
Hood Houses – Used Jacket Hoods Recycled Into Cozy Homes For Stray Cats
South Korean ad agency Cheil Worldwide partnered with Molly’s Pet Shop, a popular pet shop chain, to provide stray cats with comfortable shelters on cold winter and spring nights, by recycling old jacket hoods into cozy homes. Called Hood Houses, the ingenious cat cribs were created to raise awareness about South Korea’s stray cat problem, and also […]
Resourceful Chinese Ingenious Use Perpetuum Mobile Device to Fool Their Pedometer Smartphone Apps
In China, health insurance companies apparently offer discounts to people who can prove they get enough exercise every day by using their mobile phones to monitor their movement. Only instead of actually going for walks, some people use ingenious perpetuum mobile devices to cheat the system. I first learned about China’s “mobile phone cradles” a […]
Controversial High School Class Has Students Hatching and Raising Chickens Before Killing and Eating Them
For the past 60 years, every generation of freshman students at Izumo Agricultural and Forestry High School, in Izumo, Japan’s Shimane prefecture, has taken the “Class of Life”, a controversial six-month course during which the students help hatch and raise chickens, before having to slaughter and eat them. Last year, the Class of Life at […]
This Pocket-Friendly Machine Signs Your Name for You, Costs $365,000
Whether you’re a celebrity or a famous author who spends a lot of time giving autographs, or just a busy businessman who doesn’t have time to sign mountains of documents, you can now spend $365,000 on a state of the art Signing Machine, and it’ll do it for you. I bet you didn’t even know […]
Russia’s Recently Completed Floating Nuclear Power Plant Dubbed a “Nuclear Titanic”
While countries like Germany or on track to completely phase out nuclear power plants by 2022, Russia’s is building more of them and even making them floatable so they can provide power to remote areas. However, not everyone is convinced that placing a powerful nuclear reactor on a ship is such a good idea. Looking […]
Millions of Ladybugs Are Converging on a Remote Radio Tower in Australia and Nobody Knows Why
A remote radio tower near Mount Burr in South Australia has attracted millions of ladybugs for reasons no one seems to understand. The unusual sight was recently reported by wildlife photographer Steve Chapple, who posted several photos and a video of it on his Facebook page. Contacted by ABC News Australia, Mr. Chapple said that […]
French Museum Discovers That More Than Half of Its Artworks Are Fake
In what the local community has named a ‘catastrophe’, a museum in Elne, Southern France, dedicated to the work of painter Etienne Terrus recently discovered that at least 82 of its 140 artworks were actually fakes. The Terrus museum in Elne had bought the paintings, drawings and watercolors over a period of 20 years, for […]
Turkish Soccer Fan Banned from Stadium Rents Crane to See His Team Play Live
A die-hard fan of Turkish soccer club Denizlispor recently made international headlines after renting a crane so he could watch his team play in a league game, after being banned from the stadium for one year. 37-year-old Ali Demirkaya, a.k.a. ‘Amigo Ali’ is well-known as one of Denizlispor most fanatic suporters, and this weekend he […]
South-Korean Woman Allegedly Dates Almost 200 Men in Less Than Two Years
Popular South Korean TV show Mars People XFile recently featured a young woman who claimed to have dated nearly 200 men in the last two years, purely for materialistic purposes. The young and attractive woman, named Han Mirim, gives speed dating a whole new meaning, admitting that she sometimes broke up with men on the […]
Utah University Installs ‘Cry Closet’ for Stressed-Out Students
Stressed-out students at the University of Utah can now let loose without having to worry about judgmental looks from their peers, thanks to a small ‘cry closet’ that allows them to cry in private. With homework, tough exams and student debt as high as it is these days, college an get pretty stressful, and sometimes […]
Woman Turns to Unlicensed Friend for Cheap Filler Injections, It doesn’t Go Well
Elizaveta Tkachenko, a 30-year-old woman from Russia, wound up in the emergency room earlier this month, after getting unknown substances injected into her face by an unlicensed aesthetician. Tkachenko, a resident of Stavropol, had decided that she wanted to enhance certain facial features with the help of cosmetic filler injections, only instead of going to […]
Let This Blind Skateboarder Show You That Nothing Is Impossible
Blind people can still lead normal lives and do most of the things that perfectly healthy people can, but one would imagine that riding a skateboard isn’t one of them. Well, this 20-year-old blind skateboarder proves otherwise. Known as The Blind Rider, Marcelo Lusardi lost his sight completely two years ago, when he was diagnosed with Leber […]
Schools in the UK Are Removing Analog Clocks Because Students Can’t Tell Time
A head-teachers’ union in the UK recently reported that youths have become so accustomed to using digital devices that they are having trouble correctly reading time on analog clocks, forcing schools to replace them. According to Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders, children and young teens aren’t as […]