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Emma Stone, a famous actress, somehow did not accept 17-year-old aspiring filmmaker Jacob Staudenmaier's invitation to prom. But she did throw him a very flattering compliment.

When it finally happens, the end of the world will likely begin like this: with wailing sirens tearing through the night sky sending chills down your spine as you contemplate if you've lived a good and meaningful life. 

Puppies are incredibly high on the cuteness scale—like, well over 10/10, as fans of Dog Rates will be quick to remind you. A puppy being sworn into public service? That's off the charts, verging onto Internet Hall of Fame levels of wonderful. 

The year was 2010, and Mike Sorrentino was basically the most famous man in America, or at least New Jersey. 

It was that moment in time, right after Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had defended his choice to be on President Trump's business advisory council which inspired this tweet: 

It doesn't happen often that your douchey hipster aesthetic leads to functional delight. 

Throw away your coffeemaker and roll up your yoga mat. This baby (a contender for the world's cutest baby, we'd wager) has nailed the perfect morning routine.

'Choco-Story' is a Chocolate Museum and Experience in NYC. Jacques Torres of Jacques Torres Chocolate is a master pastry chef and chocolatier who wanted to share his love for chocolate to others. At Choco-Story, you will get to learn about the origin of chocolate, taste chocolate, and even make your own chocolate. Read more...

Bella Hadid loves ordering Postmates, and she definitely knows what it is. 

Move over, S-Town: Berniemania is ready to take over as the podcast du jour.

What if, instead of playing Pokémon Go and using its legion of obscure creatures to navigate augmented reality, you could instead do it using classic characters you love even more, like, say, the Smurfs. 

Before we begin, let's make something clear: if you ask someone for nude photos and they do not say yes, do not keep asking. Because anyone on the receiving end of such a request is not obligated to answer. Ever. That said?

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During the Great Depression, the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration assigned photographers to crisscross the country and record how people lived and worked throughout the nation.

In September 1938, while traveling through Louisiana documenting sugar plantations, rice farmers, and oyster fishermen, photographer Russell Lee stopped off at Danos’ Nightclub, a roadhouse off Highway 1 in the tiny community of Raceland.

As it happened, he showed up on a Friday night... Читать дальше...

Trying to avoid sexual harassment in the workplace? Here's some easy advice: Don't act like the president. 

There are a zillion apps to help you find friends with benefits, but what if what you really want is just regular, old-fashioned new friends?

Samsung only just showed off its sleek new Galaxy S8 last week —and the phone won't even get to the public until it starts shipping on April 21—but that hasn't stopped Samsung's fanatics from focusing on the company's next move.

Stephen Colbert spends a lot of time skewering Donald Trump. And he should! But, to ring in the weekend on Friday's Late Show, he thought he'd instead roast Trump's sons/archetypal movie henchmen Eric and Don, Jr.

Of the 112 Supreme Court justices in American history, four have been women. Statistically speaking, they get interrupted. A lot. By men. 

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On Oct. 3, 1930, Columbus Marion Joiner, an exploratory oil driller or “wildcatter,” discovered what would turn out to be one of the largest oil fields in the United States.

The East Texas Oil Field, stretching some 45 miles long and five miles across, quickly attracted thousands of drillers and sprouted forests of oil derricks.

The town of Kilgore had more than a thousand wells drilled into its downtown area alone, and struggled to accommodate the... Читать дальше...

A Connecticut woman's life was saved after her Fitbit detected an alarming rise in her heart rate. She immediately went to the hospital where doctors told her she had a deadly blood clot in her lungs

This is not the first reported time that the device has aided doctors. In 2016, doctors were able to determine how to treat a man based off the data from the app. Read more...

The Qube tent has redesigned the traditional camping shelter to pop up quickly and connect via tunnels to multiple other tents. Read more...

On a sleepy street in suburban Pasadena, California, 19-year-old Monika Beuzet is inside her friend’s apartment. A reggae track by Snoop Lion plays as she sits at a desk with her black iPad.

When someone you love passes away, turning to Facebook can be a profoundly helpful way of processing that loss and expressing your grief. But, for the deceased's nearest and dearest, social media can be deeply overwhelming and upsetting in the immediate aftermath and even the long after a person's death. 

As a rule, British politicians tend to be fairly stuffy on Twitter.

They're so conscious about saying the right thing that they often end up spouting generic statements that don't really say anything at all.

SEE ALSO: 23 times Danny Dyer was hands down the funniest British person on Twitter

Ed Miliband used to be a bit like that. Back when he was the Labour leader campaigning for the 2015 general election, a typical tweet of his would look something like this:

I’m proud... Читать дальше...

The Labor Department claimed Friday that Google has fostered an "extreme" gender pay gap across its entire workforce.