Month: June 2021

Free-to-use app Agora is organizing a photography competition which had asked photographers to capture “Friendship”. World’s Best Photos of #Friends2020 had the prize money of $1,000 and more than 16,000 photographers took part in this competition.

Among the thousands of global submissions, 50 finalists were shortlisted. While each image captures a unique friendship, each photograph is truly heartwarming. Friendship goes beyond human relationships and the photographers did not fail to capture such moments shared between animals and humans or those between two animals.

Credit: F. Dilek Uyar

Credit: George Ako

One of the participants of the competition mentions “Friends come …

For years now Blackhall Colliery in Durham County had a mystery: The mystery of the unclaimed wads of cash left around the village. You would think that it would be a secret guardian angel probably trying to give the tooth-fairy a run for her money. But as it turns out to be, it was simply a pair of do-gooders trying to help their village.

Since 2014, Detective Constable John Forster and his colleagues have been trying to get hold of the anonymous person leaving money after an honest countryman discovered and brought to them a wad of cash with £20 …

It all started in 2013 when UPS driver Sean McCarren created a Facebook group to pay tribute to their furry friends who add smiles and sunshine to even the dullest of days.  Not surprisingly, the group grew in leaps and bounds and UPS Dogs now has over 1.5 million likes on Facebook and 543K followers on Instagram.

You won’t just find adorable pups on the feed either, drivers are met with a host of different creatures on their delivery stops, such as squirrels, raccoons, deer, geese, goats, sheep, chickens, cats and the odd alpaca or two. Of course, the drivers …

With the advent of the internet and with the advancement in video streaming services, we are all slowly moving away from books. Or so it seems. You will often hear adults complain that children nowadays do not read as many books as they did before. Now, all of it might seem like some kind of a generational gap, but if you really look around yourself, you might find it to be all too true. Yes, people seem to be reading less in general. On public transport or in your school, most children are glued to their phone screens. So, is …

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo, comes to us one of the most profound Greek philosophies- know thyself. It is a Delphic maxim according to Greek writer Pausanias. And in the city of Athens, about a hundred miles southeast of Delphi, Socrates once said, “I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous when I do not yet know that, to investigate irrelevant things”.

Knowledge begins within us. We are the language of the question posed and the answer is given. Unless we know how to understand it, …

Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, addresses the problem of homelessness and calls it a matter of disgrace. He points out that the richest nation in the world should not fail to provide basic human needs to so many of its citizens. To make things better, he has decided to transform more than two hundred buildings and properties owned by the state of California into shelters for the homeless. The plan includes fairgrounds, buildings owned by the state, armories, and undeveloped lots. 

Last year after coming to power, Newsom introduced housing schemes that included the building and installation of mobile homes …

Jasmine Cornett has no idea how someone knew that her uncle was missing, and had actually found him out after 2 decades of anonymity. Back in 2018, she received a message from LinkedIn which had information about her uncle. The message also had a video that featured her uncle Wayne. The message linked her to Miracle Messages, a non-profit organization that works towards reconnecting long-lost family members to each other.

According to Cornett, “I had lived in the San Francisco area my entire life, and he was just sitting on the steps of the busiest BART station. I probably passed …

Bees are quite an important species of insects on this planet. Their importance is mostly felt in crop production, pollination, and other aspects of agriculture. Bumblebees have always provided us with an indelible link to the production of food and yet are constantly threatened in the 21^st century. Ironically, there are over 20,000 species of bees throughout the world, of which 4000 are native to America. Now, it isn’t exactly good news that we are ripping the hand that is feeding us, is it?

Needless to say, our lives would be in quite a dire state if bees were …

Who said only humans could be creative? Give supplies to the wasps and see them get creative! This wasp colony built a rainbow nest using the colored construction papers given to them. The nest looks stunning with all the color and vibrancy!

Mattia Menchetti, a Biology student conducted a fun-filled experiment. The main requirements for this experiment were a swarm of wasps and some colored construction paper. The result of the experiment will blow your mind though!

Presenting to you a beautifully crafted wasp nest that is rainbow-colored.

The European paper wasps use plant stalk and dead wood fibers to …

Belieb it or not, Justin Bieber may not be so bad after all.

Despite the not so smart things Justin has done in the past, I think it’s important to remember that he is a young man who was given a lot of power, wealth, and fame at an early age. Imagine what those things can do to the ego of a young mind.

Justin recently cancelled the “meet and greet” portion of his show and fans are outraged…but here’s why:

“I enjoy meeting such incredible people but I end up feeling so drained and filled with so much of …