Skinny Puppy, the Canadian industrial rock band, has sent the Pentagon a royalties bill after having learned that their music was being used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Cevin Key, the band’s keyboardist, told Canada’s CTV News that “a former Guantanamo Bay guard and fan of the band contacted the musicians to let them […]
Frightening footage showing the moment a small plane crashed in Hawaii was released this week. The footage, obtained by ABC News, shows the moment of impact in the ocean. The video was taken by a passenger on the plane who started filming just moments before the plane had to make an emergency landing in the […]
One of only three people in the world born with an unusual genetic ailment, Lizzie Velazquez fell victim to online bullying in the form of a YouTube video that labelled her as “The World’s Ugliest Woman.” Receiving over 4 million page views before it caught her attention, Velazquez attempted to have the video removed. […]
“I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time,” Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious TED talk. (Really, it’s hilarious.) “I’m like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali.” With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for […]
Pope Francis, famous for picking up the phone and cold-calling Catholics out of the blue, telephoned an order of nuns in a convent in Spain to wish them a happy new year. There was no answer, and the apparently frustrated Pontiff left a voice mail. “What are the nuns doing that they can’t answer? I […]