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Everything in life is better with friends, everything apart from work - if new research is anything to go by. The unsurprising revelation was made by Dr. Sangyoon Park, assistant professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong. While the answer to this question is pretty obvious, he set…
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We are in a global climate change emergency. Annual ice loss is at an "unprecedented" rate, and this summer, the Amazon rainforest, often dubbed as the "Earth's lungs", has been ravaged by fire. Now, people all around the world are taking action in an attempt stop the crisis before it's…
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Some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, leading to the revival of diseases that are avoidable thanks to vaccines. Now, following the worst measles outbreak in decades, a new law in the state of New York has come into effect to prohibit unvaccinated children from going to school.…
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Greta Thunberg - the teenage climate activist from Sweden, who condemned world leaders for not taking enough action as far as tackling climate change is concerned - was earlier today named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award. The honour is an immense one, not least…
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There are few things more soul-destroying than a debilitating hangover. Head throbbing and throat drier than the Sahara Desert, sometimes hangovers can be so horrendously all-consuming it feels like they'll never end. When the inside of your skull feels like it's being battered with a thousand tiny hammers, the last…
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A woman who urged her boyfriend to commit suicide is set to be released early from prison due to good behaviour. This comes after the parole board denied a bid to reduce her sentence. 22-year-old Michelle Carter has had her release date moved up to the 13th March from the…
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A woman who claims to be America's highest-paid prostitute has said that business is booming thanks to the Storm Area 51 event. In case your memory needs refreshing, this was a Facebook event in Nevada that two million people agreed to attend (although only 150 turned up), which encouraged alien…
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A plane was forced into an emergency landing after a passenger lit a joint mid-flight. The incident took place on board an American Airlines flight from Pheonix to Minneapolis. Passengers were not informed as to the specific reason for the emergency landing. The pilot simply said they had to land…
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A movement titled #NoFutureNoChildren has teenagers pledging not to have children until governments begin to take climate change seriously. Emma Lim, an 18-year-old student from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, launched the movement in an attempt to make officials see how climate change affects young people. Bill Nye Drops F-Bombs…
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2019 has already seen some seriously inspiring campaigns come together. You just need to look at the millions who have been mobilised to protest against Brexit and climate change to know that a well-organised movement can be mightily impressive. However, 2019 has also taught us that, if you aren’t careful,…
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We’ve all known someone whose farts are so noxious that they should be illegal. However, no matter how many times they clear a room or cause involuntary gagging, the chances of any imminent arrest seems scarce. That, however, could be about to change thanks to an unintentionally hilarious Scottish court…
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A woman in South Carolina who pleaded with officers that she was “too pretty” to go to jail for a drunk driving charge has been spared a prison sentence after striking a controversial plea deal. 34-year-old Lauren Cutshaw, a local real estate agent, was stopped near the town of Bluffton…
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Area 51, an air force base in the middle of the desert in Nevada, has always been like Mecca for conspiracy theorists, who speculate that it's jam-packed with government secrets and alien tech. But now it's more famous for a viral social media initiative, which charged participants with storming the…
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A young climate change activist has vowed not to have children until governments take serious action to tackle the problem. Eighteen-year-old Emma Lim, a student at McGill University in Montreal, launched the #NoFutureNoChildren movement. Because of the crisis the planet is currently facing, she does not believe that it is…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been forced to apologise after a yearbook photo emerged of him in 'brownface'. The image, which was published in a recent article in Time Magazine, shows Trudeau wearing brown makeup and a turban while dressed as Aladdin at an Arabian Nights-themed gala at West…
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A good idea can come from the most unlikely of places. It doesn't matter who comes up with a brilliant plan or awesome concept: it's the creativity behind it that matters most. A 92-year-old could come up with the best grime album you've ever heard. A teenager could invent something…
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While not every hero may wear a cape, they all need a weapon. Thor has his hammer, Iron Man has his suit and Patti Baumgartner from Montana has her hairdryer. Admittedly, two of those can do significantly more damage than the other, but that’s not to say that they aren’t…
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A couple has chosen to keep the gender of their baby a secret from family and friends to protect their child from "unconscious bias". Hobbit Humphrey and Jake England-Johns revealed their decision on BBC One's Inside Out last night. The couple, who are both circus performers from Bath, said that…
