Seventeen-year-old Dasia Taylor aspires to a career in medicine. But then she changed the future when it comes to stitches by inventing sutures that change color when it contacts an infection. She started the project using beets as a natural dye for the thread. Taylor won awards at several regional science fairs for her invention,...

What is your ideal vacation? Although most answers vary from tours across Italy, hiking through the Rockies, or a wooden cottage in the middle of nowhere, most include sipping on the beverage of choice. For many people, it’s wine. And if that includes you, you might want to consider a trip designed for wine lovers...

Social media provides a space for people to connect, to share what’s important to them, and to interact with the world around them through their computers. Unfortunately, it also provides a platform for bullying, bigotry, and hate. People with disabilities are already more frequent victims of bullying. Social media has made this problem even worse....

It’s a question that everyone inevitably asks themselves at some point in their life: Why do bad things happen to good people? Many start looking for answers to this question later in life but, others begin much earlier. One of those people was Holly Butcher, a 27-year-old from Australia who died of cancer. After her...

One Twitter user sparked a discussion after the following post. “If a girl suddenly acts as if she knows you in public and acts like you are friends, go along with it, she could be in danger”. Many women responded to this thread. They shared their experiences with harassment by creepy men or helping others...

Imagine arriving in a new country where you don’t speak the language and have next to no money in your bank account. That’s exactly what Diana Trujillo’s situation was when she first arrived in America from Columbia. Today, she is the Mars Rover Flight Director. This is how she got there. (1) How Diana Trujillo...

The average life expectancy in the United States is currently just over 78 years old [1]. Thanks to many modern inventions, humans today are living much longer than they did one and two hundred years ago. Some experts believe, however, that in the future some people could live to be 1000 years old. Sound crazy?...

In Denver, Indiana, neighbors witnessed an interesting sight. A group of 30 bikers in jeans and leather vests stood in line for an eight-year-old girl’s lemonade stand. It was the Milwaukee Iron motorcycle group, and they came to thank the little girl’s mother and nurse, Daryn Sturch, who had helped them after a highway accident....

When the right person hugs you, it’s like medicine. I’m so grateful for those few people in my life who are good for my soul. Steve Maraboli A friendship that is true and good for your heart and soul often takes a long time to be built. This kind of friendship, be it romantic or...

Nothing beats having a world-class smile. Pretty much everyone wants to have big, beautiful, pearly whites that they feel confident in showing off every time they smile and laugh. Getting white teeth without expensive dental procedures or chemical-filled products, however, can be tricky. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to clean yellow teeth naturally at...

Animal cruelty comes in many shapes and forms. And more recently, a trend in tattooing your pet has somehow started. As you can imagine, having an animal you claim to love and allowing it to suffer just to have some pictures on its skin is definitely animal cruelty. And, this woman who tattooed her cat...

Do you have white pimples around your eyes, or have you ever seen another person with them? It turns out these aren’t really acne at all – they’re milia. (1) This is what you should and shouldn’t do to help get rid of them.  Milia: White Pimples Around The Eyes Milia are little white bumps...