Your Life in Weeks [CHART]

They say that your school years are the best years of your life, but those years are certainly not the longest. In fact, the amount of time the typical American spends surviving middle school and searching for a lifelong partner seem like mere instants compared to the length of an entire human life. What would… Continue reading Your Life in Weeks [CHART]

One Little Book to Sum Up the History of All the Major Events on Earth

Just because a book is really small doesn’t mean it’s short on important things to say. A new thumb-size text by designer Evan Lorenzen looks to outline the history of life on earth and even a glimpse into our future through minimalist artwork. The Mini Book of Major Events starts with the first known forms… Continue reading One Little Book to Sum Up the History of All the Major Events on Earth

Water Is Life: The ‘Drinkable Book’ that Decontaminates Water

Did you know that 3.4 million people die each year because of a water-related disease? Science has shown us that without water, there can’t be life. Despite this, so much of the water on our planet is contaminated without people knowing it. To combat this, scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Virginia… Continue reading Water Is Life: The ‘Drinkable Book’ that Decontaminates Water

This Is Your Social Life Now Thanks to Facebook and Instagram [VIDEO]

Are you an Instagram, Facebook or Vine addict? Or potentially even more dangerous, do you often share your Instagrams and Vine selfies on Facebook and Twitter too? Animator and YouTube star sWooZie has put together a hilarious bit on how we interact with social media and in turn our friends. The animation was inspired via… Continue reading This Is Your Social Life Now Thanks to Facebook and Instagram [VIDEO]

Instagram in Real Life

Instagram now has over 150 million users and starting to change how we look at our own life each day. So London-based artist Bruno Ribeiro decided to take this a step further by Instagramming every day objects in our daily path, with some colorful filtering, by leaving the super-sized photos juxtaposed on top of the… Continue reading Instagram in Real Life

How Long Does It Take for a New Song to Become a Classic?

Do you think new music is getting better or worse than the creative songs of our past? Often times new friendly and catchy tunes instantly appeal to our senses, yet get on our nerves after excessive play. When this happens, we “wish we were” still living back in the day, listening to classics from musical… Continue reading How Long Does It Take for a New Song to Become a Classic?

How Could Our ‘Curse’ Be So Beautiful?

Our favorite childhood toy; the pair of shoes we won’t throw away; our first kiss: these moments and things have meant everything to us for as long as we can remember, but we don’t know exactly why. Though we use these random encounters and objects to construct our stories, each of us can perceive the… Continue reading How Could Our ‘Curse’ Be So Beautiful?