Learn better business skills from fictional characters like Batman and Walter...
Everyone knows that the most complex characters are flawed ones, like Tony Stark or Don Draper, but can these characters also teach us valuable lessons that will improve our business acumen?Consulting...
View ArticleYou don't need to speak French to love the first 'Little Prince' trailer
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic story about a lost intergalactic space traveler, is beloved worldwide for its whimsical illustrations, its poignant philosophical reflections on...
View ArticleJust shut up and watch the new 'Mad Max: Fury Road' trailer
Wow.When the first footage of Mad Max: Fury Road premiered at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, it was all anyone who was there could talk about. While the rest of us wondered what all the hype was...
View ArticleBASE jumper's eerie Instagram post came just before his death
Gareth Jones was a world traveler. He went BASE jumping in Southeast Asia, speed flying and cliff-diving in Australia, rock climbing and paragliding in Europe—and he captured it all on his Instagram...
View ArticleNew BBC theme park could mean mecca for 'Doctor Who,' 'Sherlock' fans
If only there were a way to hop in the TARDIS and travel to 2020.That's the year the BBC and Paramount Pictures are planning to open what will likely be every Doctor Who fan's mecca: a billion-dollar...
View ArticleHarry Styles calms fan down from Harry Styles-induced panic attack
The members of One Direction strike hysteria in the hearts of fans, but however much love we have for Harry Styles, hysteria itself isn't actually any fun to experience. Far from being a pulsating...
View ArticleRussian church won't let the Eye of Sauron loom over Moscow
A Russian art group's plans to install an Eye of Sauron high above Moscow to celebrate the release of the final Hobbit movie have met with their own deadly Balrog—the Russian Orthodox Church.The...
View ArticleSerial listeners on Reddit memorialize Hae Min Lee with scholarship fund
The podcast phenomenon Serial is coming to a close this week, and we may never know if Hae Min Lee, the 18-year-old murder victim at its center, received justice. Regardless of the outcome, Reddit's...
View ArticleDarth Vader reimagined as a samurai is incredible
Who hasn't wondered what Star Wars would be like if it were set in Imperial Japan? Thanks to toy behemoth Bandai, now we know. The Japanese toymaker has finally released its highly anticipated Samurai...
View ArticleLet Bill Nye explain evolution to you using only emoji
Can a cute little emoticon help you understand how molecules interact and reproduce? Absolutely—as long as Bill Nye is the one explaining the process.Nye, the famed science communicator whose TV show...
View ArticleChris Pratt jumped on stage at the 'Parks and Rec' wrap party for a special...
Friday marked the end of an era: the last day of filming for the final season of NBC's cult hit Parks and Recreation. During the day, the cast and crew took to Twitter for a nostalgic look back at the...
View ArticleMondo ends its 'Lord of the Rings' poster series in style
Yesterday, beloved cult film poster company Mondoreleased the last of its epic Lord of the Rings posters. The five final pieces come courtesy of artists Aaron Horkey, Ken Taylor, and Nicolas...
View ArticleStudent's crowdfunding campaign raises over $40,000 for her town's homeless...
The holidays aren't even here yet, but this story about a British student who crowdfunded £27,000 ($42,000) for a homeless man has us feeling the spirit of the season.Dominique Harrison-Bentzen, 22,...
View ArticleLittle girl shows off her love of strong heroines in adorable scrapbook
Raising a smart, scrapbooking young-adult literature fan? That's what we call doing parenting right.Myke Cole is a military reservist and security contractor with experience in counterterrorism and...
View ArticleThis woman pretended to be a ghost on Tinder—it worked
Making people think you're a ghost is probably the best (and only) reason we've ever heard of to re-establish your Tinder account. That's what Grace, a.k.a. Twitter user gspels, decided to do this...
View ArticleNASA's Kepler mission discovers new exoplanet
It's been a big month for NASA. First the Orion mission revived the possibility of manned space exploration, and now the revamped Kepler mission has discovered a new exoplanet 180 light years away...
View Article'Love Actually' and 'The Walking Dead' unite in 'Dead, Actually'
Rick Grimes is better known to Walking Dead fans as the unstoppable leader of a ragtag team of survivors in Georgia's very own zombie apocalypse. But as this new parody video shows, he has a softer...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling's tweets on representation at Hogwarts provoke major fan backlash
Were there Jewish students at Hogwarts? Does it matter? To the Harry Potter fans outraged over a response J.K. Rowling gave to the question on Twitter, the answer is undeniably yes. Seventeen years...
View ArticleTrans teen leaves a heartbreaking final note on Tumblr
Leelah Alcorn's three-year struggle to assert her transgender identity in a staunchly Christian household came to an end Sunday, when she was struck and killed by oncoming traffic on I-71 near...
View ArticleThe library in this breathtaking 'Beauty and the Beast' photo shoot is real
The Benedictine monastery Admont Abbey in Salzburg, Austria, is home to one of the largest and most breathtaking libraries on earth. It's often been compared to the storied library from Disney's...
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