by Victoria Foster | Mar 8, 2018 | Curious News, Dangerous News, New, News
Some time in January, a fight broke out in a Colorado bar. Not the kind of scene where you’d expect to find a four-year-old child. Yet, there she is in the video as her father holds her with one hand and swinging punches with the other. The police of Jefferson County,...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 8, 2018 | Curious News, Nature News, New, News
Cameras are everywhere. They’re in your pocket, on the ceilings of businesses, and on street corners. So why aren’t there more pictures and videos of ghosts? If Bigfoot exists, why hasn’t some hiker been able to get a clear shot? Well, don’t...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 5, 2018 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Inspiring, New, News, Useful
When a lot of people think of heroes, their thoughts turn to firefighters, medical personnel, soldiers, and others who rush into danger to help others. Librarians don’t ordinarily make the list. But librarians have a long history of standing up to injustice and...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 3, 2018 | Curious News, Inspiring, New, News, Useful
You saw the photo. A dedicated teacher in Ghana, trying to show his students how to use Microsoft Word… On a blackboard. The hand-drawn pictures of that all-too-familiar (for those of us in wealthy nations) user interface were amazing. But still. It’s sad...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 2, 2018 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Disaster, Inspiring, Nature News, New, News
Amid freezing weather conditions, snowbound Scotland needed a hero. And they found one in Edinburgh bus driver Charmaine Laurie. Britain spent the first day of spring shivering beneath nearly two feet of snow. Up north in Scotland, roads were blocked, schools closed,...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 2, 2018 | Curious News, Funny, New, News
According to Delta Dental, the amount of money the Tooth Fairy leaves is a good indicator of how the economy is doing. When markets are up, Ms. Fairy is generous. When there’s a bear on Wall Street, payments go down. But 2017 seems to have bucked the trend....