South Africa produced the world’s best winemaker of 2015. Abrie Beeslaar, cellarmaster at Kanonkop, South Africa’s renowned wine estate in Stellenbosch, has just been crowned as the International Winemaker of…
Each year since 2007, DJ Earworm (real name Jordan Roseman) has taken the biggest tunes of the year and combined them into one ultra-catchy, viral-ready mash-up called “The United State…
Progress is usually measured in calendar years, not calendars themselves. But this may be an exception. For more than 50 years, Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli has released an annual calendar. Typically…
Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a big announcement on newsfeeds across the planet. And it’s not entirely about the Facebook baby. Yes, the Facebook founder and his wife, Priscilla Chan, just had…
Japan is already one of the safest countries in the world for humans, and now it’s about to get a lot safer for turtles too. The Suma Aqualife Park in…
Twitter was in a state of confusion over the past weekend in South Africa, when people started reporting UFO sightings around the country. Images and videos, along with the hashtag…
Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas. Global – When they finished making “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 50…
For the second year in a row, residents of Lexington, Kentucky can pay their parking fines with canned goods for local food banks. The city’s local parking authority is allowing…
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. A homeless man living in Canada certainly proved this after going viral for his special talent. Ryan Arcand of Edmonton,…
Before she turned 11 years old, Bella Gonzales made herself a promise while driving around with her mother: this year, for her birthday, she wouldn’t take gifts for herself. This…
Where mind meets heart
“It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf and tell it to be quiet.” — Jennifer Ritchie Payette