For years now, the Honda’s Clarity line has been about figuring out the best way to bring to hydrogen fuel cell cars to market. As you probably guessed, it’s been a pretty slow process. To wit: Honda launched its Clarity Fuel Cell in California in la…
Humble’s Intergalactic Bundle, Nordstrom Rack’s Clear the Rack sale, and Anker PowerCore battery packs lead off Wednesday’s best deals.
Still bummed there won’t be a Hellboy 3? There’s no better way to ease the pain than by consuming mass quantities of an off-brand Fireball inspired by the “red hot” comic book character. Actually, I can think of several better ways, but most of them involve chainsaws, starting fires, and blood moons.
Prey animals are capable of defending themselves in an amazing of ways, but when it comes to mounting a sophisticated biological counter-attack, sea urchins have taken it to another level. When attacked by predatory fish, these humble echinoderms release a hostile cloud of tiny jaws that act independently of the…
Filmmaker Devin Graham and Cinechopper got together to perform some cool trick shots using drones. Cinechopper customized the drones to carry and drop bowling balls, which allowed them to do some stuff in a bowling alley and much more.
Then they took the drones outside to do things like drop basketballs through hoops, catch wiffle balls with a net, and even destroy a snowman. Could this be the first step toward drone sports?
In the future, they won’t need humans at all. They will just do all of their trick shots on their own, while humans pay to watch them do their thing. This definitely looks like a lot of fun.
[via Laughing Squid]
Lincoln has revealed its next taste of American Luxury in the shape of the 2018 Navigator, a full-size SUV that doesn’t stint on chrome. Unveiled today at the New York International Auto Show 2017, the 2018 Navigator borrows heavily from the Navigator Concept shown off last year, though drops some of the more eye-catching details of that show car. Nonetheless, … Continue reading
Rage Against The Machine isn’t necessarily kids’ music, but drop the lyrics, add a Spiderman drum set, and you’ll be ready for rock-and-roll playtime.
A little trio called The Wackids did just that, and their cover “Killing In The Name Of” is now appropriate for any rockin’ four-year-old.
For your convenience, we’ve included the original music video for “Killing In The Name” below. You can barely tell the difference! (Note that unlike the cover version, the original song has some lyrics that are not suitable for all playdates.)
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Luisana Lopilato, Michael Bublé’s wife, has confirmed the couple’s eldest son Noah is doing well after undergoing cancer treatment.
During a press conference in Buenos Aires in Monday, the Argentinian actress said that while Noah’s recovery will be a “long process,” her family is happy and “looking forward to thinking about the future, to see our children grow.”
“Thank God, my son is well. When things like those that happened to us occur, your take on life changes,” she added (via People). “Now I value life much more, the now and the today. I would like to thank people for their support, for the prayers they said, for their love, and I want them to know that they reached us and that it helped us a lot to come through this.”
Lopilato explained that her faith also played a big role in helping her through the difficult time.
“My faith in the fact God had a miracle helped me. I became strong so my son would get better. I transmitted that to all my friends and family,” she said. “As a family we were always very united and we fought this together. We did everything we could for our son, so he would come through this.”
Lopilato and Bublé first revealed their son’s cancer diagnosis in November 2016, with a post on the Canadian singer’s Facebook page. At the time, the couple put their work on hold to focus on their son and his treatment.
In February, the couple, who are also parents to 1-year-old Elias, released a statement to E! news confirming Noah was in recovery.
“We are so grateful to report that our son Noah has been progressing well during his treatment and the doctors are very optimistic about the future for our little boy,” they said. “He has been brave throughout and we continue to be inspired by his courage. We thank God for the strength he has given all of us.”
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Controversial Dutch TV show “Neem Je Zwemspullen Mee” (”Bring Your Bathing Suit”) has enraged its audience with a sexist new segment.
On Monday, the satirical game show aired a horrendously offensive feature in which four men had to guess whether a woman was pregnant or fat.
“New program on NPO 3. Here four men have to guess whether this woman fat or is pregnant. Fun. Really fun.”
People are rightfully enraged, taking to Twitter to express their disappointment and call out the show.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves! What is this public meat inspection? KRO-NCRV: Get ‘Bring Your Bathing Suit’ off the tube!”
“SERIOUSLY!?!?! Who invented this?? KRO-NCRV: Get ‘Bring Your Bathing Suit’ off the tube!”
The show’s network host, KRO-NCRV, defended the segment in a statement earlier this week. “This satirical setting is a way to laugh off all kinds of prejudices,” they said.
This is also not the first time the show has come under fire. Last year, the show’s pilot episode featured a segment in which white contestants had to guess whether a man was Chinese or Japanese.
Since the show, which also had a segment where men guess whether a woman’s breasts were real or fake, aired on Monday, there has been a petition to have it removed altogether, especially since it’s shown on a publicly funded network in the Netherlands.
“KRO-NCRV decided that the budget of public broadcasting can be best spent to be downgraded to a game involving women as pieces of meat,” the petition reads. As of Wednesday morning, the petition had more than 2,500 signatures.
H/T The Cut
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Topshop appears to have a bit of amnesia when it comes to promoting a healthier body image.
The brand is being called to task once again for using dangerously thin-looking mannequins ― this time, by a 15-year-old.
Mom Zoë Mason shared an image taken by her daughter at a Topshop in Hereford, England on March 30. In an accompanying Facebook caption, Mason explained that her daughter and a friend went out to do some shopping, but came home with “words full of crossness” instead after seeing the displays.
“’It’s not surprising that so many of my friends think they are fat or just don’t like their bodies,’” Mason said her daughter declared as she showed her the severely thin mannequins. “’Are girls not meant to be happy whatever size they are? Are we not meant to even f**cking EAT?!’”
The teen also declared she would stop shopping at Topshop and that the message the mannequins send makes her “want to scream.”
If the outrage sounds familiar, perhaps it’s because Topshop came under fire at least twice before for using unrealistic-looking mannequins. In 2014, an image went viral of a woman who is a U.S. size 4/6 standing next to a Topshop mannequin built with legs half the size as her own. At the time, The Huffington Post UK reported Topshop defended the mannequins, saying they are not meant to represent real bodies.
In 2015, another customer posted a photo of a troubling mannequin to Facebook. The retailer defended itself by absurdly explaining the mannequin was “stylised to have more impact in store” and “needs to be of certain dimensions to allow clothing to be put on and removed easily,” but its statement also promised Topshop would not place any further orders on the shape in question.
But alas, here we are again, having the same argument and fighting for the same change two years later. What will it take for brands to stop promoting an unhealthy, unrealistic body image?
Perhaps, as Mason told the Huffington Post, it will take continued pressure from the young people they’re marketing to.
“Eating disorders are on the rise, and they are affecting girls and boys at much younger ages,” she said. “With the amount of research we now have available to us, I feel that big companies still perpetuating this idea that tiny is the idea is socially and morally irresponsible. It doesn’t take much to make young people feel differently about what they see.”
Topshop declined to comment, and Mason said she and her daughter haven’t heard from the company. For now, Mason and her daughter intend to keep up the conversation, “joining the existing voices wanting the media and the fashion industry to be held accountable and to give our young people diverse body images.”
Good for them. It’s discouraging to see a major brand struggling to get something so simple right. But as long as there are people like Mason’s daughter around to call brands out on their shortcomings, we feel better about the future.
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