The gig economy promised hourly workers a lot of freedom traditional employment denies them. You can set your own schedule, work when you want, and get rewarded for hustle in a way an hourly wage won’t do. But in actuality, you’re denied unemployment benefits, carry a more substantial tax burden, fight an over-saturated workforce for …
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Have you ever seen The NeverEnding Story? If you have, then you will remember the horse in the swamp scene. It’s one of the most heartbreaking moments in film history and seeing it as a child scarred many of us for life. An incident very reminiscent of the infamous clip played out near Bognor Regis …
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A couple weeks ago we wrote about the dumbest tourist ever who tried to pet a lion in Tanzania. Now a woman in Romania has proven that you don’t need to travel to Africa to almost get mauled by wild beasts. The incident reportedly happened in Bacau, Romania, in late June. An unnamed woman …
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In a story twist that could’ve popped straight out of a Pixar writers’ brainstorming session, a curious chicken recently went on a journey of a lifetime. And just like the studio’s best animated features, this animal story has a happy ending. Reba is a Rhode Island Red hen living in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, as …
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Spending more time in 2020 thinking about your mortality? Same here. But scientists believe the first person to live to 200 has already been born. Our attitude about life expectancy and the inevitability of death may be more cultural than scientific. Age-researchers say that our genes aren’t programmed to die, but they also are not …
The Masaai Sightings channel on YouTube just resurrected a video from 2018 that went viral for a second time. It’s no wonder, given the title is “Still the dumbest tourist ever?” In the video, tourists film themselves in a Jeep in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. A massive male lion looks for shade right outside the …
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We all know that babies are born with heads too big for their bodies. It turns out, this happens in the animal world, too, to baby owls. Baby owls are born with heads that are so heavy, that they have to sleep face down. How is that not the cutest damn thing you heard all …
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We’re all about zoo animal escapades, like our post about Snowbank, the peacock who escaped a Boston zoo. Here’s another almost unbelievable one, given the notorious clumsiness of pandas. That they’re even considered a bear is laughable. Somehow, a remarkably athletic panda escaped his enclosure at a zoo in Copenhagen, becoming our favorite news story …
You’re familiar with Balto’s story; he was the Alaskan sled dog who raced through storms and danger to bring essential medicine to the small town of Nome. He was a sled dog doing the job he was bred for, but he’s still considered a furry hero. There’s a statue of him in Central Park. You …
There are so many reasons not to go into the ocean. Sharks, pollution, islands of plastic, whales pee in it; the list goes on and on. Granted, I’m an indoor kid, but you have to admit ever since Jaws came out, the ocean has felt less like summer fun, and more like a low-level menacing …
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