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50 Ideas for a Lucrative Side Hustle

You know how to do something people would hire you for, if they know you are available.<p>If you're looking for ways you can earn a few extra bucks with a side hustle, you'd likely encounter hundreds of strategies for make some money. However, depending on your unique needs and your skills, earning a …

Doing Yoga Poses Could Have Some Surprising Health Effects

Here's what the science says.<p>Can we really unlock our personal power by adopting 'powerful' body postures? Unfortunately, the findings that link …

Time does not mend a broken heart as scientists find condition causes long-term damage

Songwriters, poets and novelists have long mused over whether time truly heals everything.<p>Charles Dickens toyed over whether the bitter Miss Haversham would ever recover from being jilted at the altar, and for many historians, Queen Victoria's black dress came to symbolise her irreparable suffering …

Introducing the jacket that could spell the end for hand luggage

Designed with 14 deep pockets, two additional detachable pocket panels, the “stylish” Airport Jacket promises to help passengers travel with up to 15kg of luggage for their trip, without the burden of steep baggage fees or a suspiciously bulky look.<p>The proposed multi-purpose jacket, the brainchild …

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Look Inside Spain’s Bizarre Baby Jumping Festival

This unorthodox baptism dates back to the 17th century and has roots in paganism.<p>Once a year in mid-June, devils run wild in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia.<p>A blend of Catholic and pagan rituals meant to represent the triumph of good over evil, the festival of El Colacho dates back to …

Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button

The internet can be a beautiful and horrible place at the same time. It’s weird, and sometimes you feel like you want to leave. Sadly, there’s no easy way out — or there wasn’t, until now.<p>Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.me, a web app that offers a way to wipe your …

A Saudi Woman Who Got Behind the Wheel and Never Looked Back

OSLO — Manal al-Sharif was 14 when she burned her brother’s Back Street Boys cassettes, then her mother’s fashion magazines. She gave up drawing human figures and reading her prized Agatha Christie novels — forbidden, she had learned, under the puritanical strain of Islam sweeping through her …

A girl says her short hair got her soccer team disqualified — so her teammates grabbed scissors

Mili Hernandez has short but poignant answers for the myriad questions she’s been receiving this week about her hair.<p>Why does the 8-year-old from Nebraska keep her locks trimmed to a not-quite pixie cut? It stays out of her face during a match, she told the Omaha World-Herald.<p>And why did her …

‘Exodus’ at 40: Bob Marley’s Plea for Peace and Black Liberation After Facing Death

Bob Marley and the Wailers’ epochal album amplified Marley’s message of Black unity and liberation, emphasizing peace and love for humanity—all after he was nearly killed.<p>Bob Marley’s <i>Exodus</i> is one of the epochal albums in the history of popular music. There are a select few albums that are as …

Meet Jessica Watkins, The Only Black Woman In NASA's Newest Astronaut Class

She could be the sixth black woman to become an astronaut.<p>Watch out, universe. NASA’s newest class of astronauts includes one woman with some serious black girl magic.<p>NASA announced its first class of astronaut candidates since 2013 on Wednesday. The twelve candidates from various backgrounds and …

The Only Thing Better than Camping Is Not Camping

A guide to being outdoorsy without ever having to sleep outdoors.<p>When I saw the most beautiful nature view I’ve ever beheld in my life, I kind of wanted to die. I had just hiked up a mountain for five hours in the sunshine with a full backpack on my shoulders; I had climbed the last 90-minute …

A New Deal photographer’s forgotten Portland

“This is about how a city can shape a person. And how a person can shape a city.”<p>I stopped wearing heels when I moved to Portland, Oregon.<p>The Southeast neighborhood surrounding my new apartment was dominated by huddled groups of wanderers camped on sidewalks, their wire-wrapped crystals splayed …

Warriors Hold Victory Parade: Pictures

Charlton 'drawn twice' in EFL Carabao Cup draw

Charlton Athletic appeared to be drawn twice in the draw for the first round of this season's EFL Cup after a technical error occurred during the …

Woman offers to house 46 Grenfell Tower victims in empty studio flats

The manager of a student accommodation company has offered 21 studio flats to temporarily house victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.<p>Laura-Jayne …

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Journey Across Canada by Train

Riding the rails from Toronto to Vancouver is a once-in-a-lifetime smorgasbord of scenery.<p>I’m an introvert. A real rather-do-anything-than-make-small-talk introvert, not just someone who prefers TV to cocktail parties. So what am I doing having breakfast with three strangers—and enjoying it?<p>Blame …

Your five-year-old is already racially biased. Here’s what you can do about it.

Administrators at Fox Chapel Middle School in Spring Hill, Florida recently fired a teacher who gave her sixth graders an assignment asking them to consider how “comfortable” they would be in the company of various people. Some of the 41 scenarios identified these “others” in terms of race, …

Womentum lets anyone donate to female entrepreneurs around the world

<i>As part of an as-told-to essay for College Game Plan's How I Got In series, Babson College's Prabha Dublish reflects on her college journey.</i><p>From<p>Seattle, Washington<p>My short & sweet<p>West Coast-born entrepreneur with a passion for social impact finds her perfect match in Boston.<p>My application process<p>I …

McDonald’s pulls out of Olympics contract to end 41-year sponsorship

• US fast-food giant, an IOC partner since 1976, had deal to Tokyo 2020 • McDonald’s quits three years early ‘to focus on different priorities’<p>The US fast-food giant McDonald’s has ended its 41-year sponsorship with the International Olympic Committee, pulling out of its contract three years …

England Women have battle of their own against New Zealand’s Black Ferns

Another crucial fixture is kicking off in Rotorua International Stadium on Saturday before the British and Irish Lions face the Maori All Blacks. England Women will face New Zealand’s Black Ferns in their final match of the International Women’s Rugby Series.<p>The Series has been billed as an …

Why Fathers Leave Their Children

Millions of poor children and teenagers grow up without their biological father, and often when you ask them about it, you hear a litany of male barbarism. You hear teens describe how their dad used to beat up their mom, how an absent father had five kids with different women and abandoned them all.<p>…

Neuroscience Tells Us How to Hack Our Brains for Success

Tricks like visualization and writing down your goals have a strong basis in science.<p>What’s the secret to success? Some would argue that insanely successful people possess traits like having a vision, showing gratitude, being honest, learning from failure and having a high emotional …

The Queen and Prince William visit sports centre that helped Grenfell Tower survivors

<b>The Queen and Prince William have visited a sports centre that has been transformed into a makeshift hostel for survivors of the Grenfell Tower blaze.</b><p>…

‘The rhythm of Jamaica has always had an influence on my music’

Growing up, saxophonist YolanDa Brown’s Jamaican parents always told her their homeland was like paradise – and the food, beaches, culture and music were everything she’d dreamed of<p><b>In Jamaica you’re immediately hit by the music and the smell of food</b>. The rhythm of Jamaica has always had an …

Women’s Cricket World Cup: Australia favourites but England could go close

Women’s cricket has made overdue forward steps since the last time England hosted the World Cup in 1993 and the tournament feels in robust shape<p>When the Australian fast bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick retired in 2007, having enjoyed a successful 16 years of international cricket, she was asked where she …

Singapore Changi Airport is getting its own amusement park - complete with a rainbow waterfall and maze!

Forget duty-free shopping or buying last-minute snacks when you're waiting for a flight - Singapore's Changi Airport has taken airport entertainment …

David Cameron's ex-speech writer: Churchill would likely be appalled by today's tedious political sound bites

“Strong and stable leadership”. “For the many, not the few”. “Coalition of chaos”.<p>These modern political soundbites, created for the recent general election campaign, have been repeated to the point of mind-aching tedium. Each phrase was intensively crafted by political strategists. Each word was …

25 of the world's most bright, colorful places, from Venice to Rio

(CNN) — In a world where phones offer a filter, sticker or effect for every photo, images can become more dramatic than the real thing.<p>But there are still places that even Photoshop can't improve on, where nature's palette concocts colors that seem unreal, or where designers have turned ordinary …