Dina Rickman
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This mother fought back against a bodyshaming dress code in the best way possible
This permission slip for a sixth-grade (11-12 year old) school pool party was brought home by Jennifer Smith's son earlier this month → Read More
12 jaw-droppingly beautiful pictures of space
1. (Picture: Nasa, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team) A pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. Nasa believes the smaller galaxy has passed through the larger one, causing the ripple effect. → Read More
Jordan Peterson: the controversial professor described as the most influential public academic in the world
Who is Jordan Peterson? Jordan Peterson has 12 Rules for Life, but you can tell most about the man from two of them. Rule six: set your house in order before you criticise the world. And rule eight: tell the truth. Or at least don't lie. → Read More
Florida shooting: Eight things banned in America that aren’t guns
America's latest mass shooting has once again sparked the contentious argument surrounding tighter gun control laws. In many US states, including Nevada, you don't need a permit to buy a gun - nor are you required to get a licence, register a firearm and there's no limit on the number of guns you can buy at one time. → Read More
Hanukkah 2017: What is the meaning behind this Jewish festival and why is it sometimes called Chanukah?
They say every major Jewish holiday can be summed up by the following quote: 'They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat.' In the case of Hanukkah, the story is that of the Maccabees, a guerrilla army of Jewish rebels based in Israel who revolted against the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus who had - as the saying goes - tried to kill us. → Read More
Hanukkah 2017: What is the meaning behind this Jewish festival and why is it sometimes called Chanukah?
They say every major Jewish holiday can be summed up by the following quote: 'They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat.' In the case of Hanukkah, the story is that of the Maccabees, a guerrilla army of Jewish rebels based in Israel who revolted against the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus who had - as the saying goes - tried to kill us. → Read More
Eight spectacular ways to quit your job
1. Deactivate Trump's Twitter account A former Twitter customer support worker deactivated the US President’s account on his last day of work for 11 minutes. Twitter released a brief statment "We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer-support employee who did this on the employee's last day. We are conducting a full internal review," Twitter said in a tweet. 2. Live on air This is… → Read More
11 jokes only grammar nerds will understand
1. I will literally DIE if you don't stop using hyperboles incorrectly 2. I before e... except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbour 3. The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. 4. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. 5. Two quotation marks "walk into" a bar → Read More
Eight things banned in America that aren’t guns
America's latest mass shooting has once again sparked the contentious argument surrounding tighter gun control laws. In many US states, including Nevada, you don't need a permit to buy a gun - nor are you required to get a licence, register a firearm and there's no limit on the number of guns you can buy at one time. → Read More
Yom Kippur 2017: What you need to know about the holiest day of the Jewish year
Yom Kippur, otherwise known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Although it falls on a different date ever year, it always comes 10 days after Jewish new year – known as Rosh Hashanah – and is usually in September. This year it starts on 29 September and ends the following day. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning on of Ten Days of Repentance where Jews are given the… → Read More
Rosh Hashanah 2017: When is it, and what does it celebrate?
What do honey, fish and hollowed out rams horns have in common? They are all integral parts of Jewish New Year, otherwise known as Rosh Hashanah, which starts on 20 September and ends two days later. Literally meaning "the head of the year" in Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah is usually celebrated in September, although its exact date moves every year as the Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle.… → Read More
Facebook: good for democracy or a way to wage psychological warfare on voters?
Professor Michal Kosinski is famous for two things: pioneering research that – if you believe the hype – put Trump in the White House and took Britain out of Europe, and being offered a job and threatened with a lawsuit by Facebook on the very same day. → Read More
Restaurant owner fed emergency workers for free during Westminster attack
A Muslim-born restauranteur has told how he fed hundreds of emergency service workers for free in the aftermath of Wednesday's terror attack. When police ordered Ibrahim Dogus to evacuate and close his three restaurants in the wake of the incident, he decided to keep Troia, on Belvedere Road yards from Westminster Bridge, open so police officers had a place to eat and keep warm. → Read More
Honeymoon ideas: try the British Virgin Islands if you like cocktails, pristine Caribbean beaches and private islands
The mythical perfect honeymoon. Every couple has their own internal checklist, but if you're in the market for beaches so pristine you'll feel guilty about Instagramming them, private islands and intimate hotels where you can quietly argue with your new spouse without the entire staff knowing about it, the British Virgin Islands certainly fit the bill. → Read More
Facebook promoting fake news isn’t the problem – you are
BREAKING: the internet. In the seven days it has taken the world to digest the results of one of the closest – and most controversial – American elections of all time, the blame game has begun. And for many of those seeking to understand, explain or excuse Donald Trump’s win, the answer is simple: it was all Facebook’s fault. → Read More
Inside the thousand-strong protest outside Trump Tower: 'We'll be back everyday until he gets the f**king message'
Trump Tower sits somewhere between Prada, Armani and Gucci in New York's Manhattan. On Wednesday night, the shutters were down on the designer shops and garbage trucks filled with sand, police officers and barricades were out to separate the president-elect's New York home and campaign base from the thousands of angry protesters outside. → Read More
Can you pass GCSE maths?
An OECD report claimed the UK economy could grow by $3,650 trillion if every pupil reached a basic level of numeracy. In the wake of the news, we ask - can you pass a maths GCSE? These 10 questions are adapted from an Edexcel paper from 2014. Grade boundaries based on Edexcel. → Read More
Companies with women in leadership roles crush the competition
"Women do not participate in the global economy to the same extent as men do," according to a study on gender diversity in corporate leadership. But that doesn't mean women shouldn't participate more. → Read More
The worst places for youth unemployment revealed
While the global financial crisis may be over, its effects are still keenly felt by young people across the world. According to a new report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a United Nations agency, young people are struggling to find work across the globe. → Read More
Oxford University interview questions (and how to answer them)
Oxford University has released some sample interview questions to mark its admissions deadline closing this week. Rather than having definitive answers, the questions are designed to see how applicants think and respond to new ideas and concepts, and how they draw from their previous educational experience to do so. As Oxford's admissions chief, Dr Samina Khan, puts it: "We know there are still… → Read More