Female Stars Earn $1 Million Less per Movie Than Males
Hollywood may be known for being socially progressive, but when it comes to equal pay for women, it’s still in the Dark Ages. In general in the U.S. today, according to a report called…
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How School Backpacks Have Changed Over the Last Few Decades
A new school year is upon us, and kids across the country are returning to class wearing their new clothes and flashing new technology. Another aspect of the new school year ritual is breaking…
19 Razones Por Las Que El Viernes 13 aún Nos Asusta
La ciencia logró explicar muchos de los fenómenos que alimentaron el miedo y la desconfianza de las personas. Sin embargo, las supersticiones siguen prevaleciendo en el mundo moderno, por ejemplo, la mala suerte que…
Number of Foreign-Born Citizens in Every State
Immigration is shaping up to be one of the hot button issues in the 2020 presidential elections. Despite being described as a nation of immigrants, the United States in recent years has been divided…
19 Reasons Why Friday the 13th Still Scares Us
Science has been able to explain many of the phenomena that have stoked fears and suspicions in people. Even so, superstitions still prevail in the modern world such as bad luck that would follow…
These Wild Animals Are Disappearing at an Alarming Rate — Here’s What You Can Do About It
In terms of time, humans have inhabited the Earth for a fairly short period. Over this time, people have domesticated livestock, learned to farm, and forged the Industrial Revolution. All of these developments have…
The 20 Most Successful American Fashion Brands
The United States has exercised an outsized influence on popular culture since the early part of the 20th century through motion pictures and the creation of music genres such as jazz and rock and…
5 Countries Manufacturing More Cars Than America
Few experiences are more quintessentially American than jumping into a car, cranking the radio, and driving down an open road. There was a time when that image also meant driving a quintessentially American car,…
The 22 Airlines With the Most Delays
It’s summertime, and the living is easy. But not if you are traveling by plane. With the number of people flying increasing dramatically in the summer, flying can become very stressful. Who needs the…
The 50 Hottest Cities in America
A brutal heat wave is scorching the American Southwest. Temperatures in Phoenix may climb to 113 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday. This would be the 57th day temperatures have exceeded 100 in Phoenix this year.…
15 Places Most Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise
Over the next 100 years, rapid sea level rise will change the landscape of the U.S. and increase the risk of severe flooding for thousands of households. According to the worst-case scenario in a…
Less Unemployment Is the Good News; the Bad News Is That It Means More of This
About 164,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. in July, and the national unemployment rate stands at 3.7% — compared with 5.7% in Canada and 6.3% in the European Union. That’s good news,…
This Is America’s Favorite Cleaning Task, But They May Not Be Doing It Right
Doing the laundry might not be everybody’s idea of a good time, but according to the American Cleaning Institute’s 2019 National Cleaning Survey, some 24% of the people polled named it as the household…
Why Orangutans Are in Danger of Becoming Extinct
Orangutans, the world’s largest tree-climbing mammal and Asia’s only great ape, are in danger of extinction, and we are losing them fast. Orangutans, which means “persons of the forest” in Malay, live primarily on…
This Animal Might Hold the Secret to Curing Autism and Alzheimer’s
The alpaca is an amiable, fluffy furred mammal from the Andes, related to the llama. Alpacas are said to make good pets, but are raised primarily for their soft wool, which is turned into…
The Artists Who Never Got to Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held from Aug. 15-18, 1969, wasn’t the first big outdoor music concert. Monterey Pop in California in 1967 had featured major performers such as Otis Redding and the…
Hero Humanitarian Workers You Should Know About Now
Every year, Americans spend millions of dollars going to movies about superheroes. These comic book characters possess all kinds of special powers that enable them to save humanity. But we don’t have to sit…
Here Are the Colleges With the Most Drug and Alcohol Arrests
The University of Wyoming isn’t particularly known as a party school, but students there apparently do like to drink, and don’t always do it wisely. It has the dubious honor of making the top…
Referring to Yourself in the Third Person Might Be a Good Thing
Speaking of yourself in the third person is the height of pretension, right? Donald Trump, for instance, is often criticized or mocked for the practice. Forbes suggested that substituting the third person for the…
More Fast Food Means More Heart Attacks, New Study Finds
A new Australian study presents strong evidence that people living in areas with a high number of fast-food outlets are more likely to suffer heart attacks than their counterparts elsewhere. The findings were presented…