Kickass Mom of the Day: Indiana mom Stephanie Decker was hailed as a hero by no less than President Obama after she sacrificed her legs to save her kids from tornadoes that leveled her town two months ago. Her doctors predicted it would take a year for her to walk again on prosthetic legs.
This is her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today.
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Don’t you get tired of BREATHING over and over again?
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Pinky Promises.
As childish as they seem, they’re legit. It is to me. The worst promise you can break to me, if you break my pinky promise. A pinky promise is not allowed to be broken if each person has taken the promise to their own will. Making a pinky promise is legit bro, don’t break it.
Does It Matter Where You Go to College?
Meet Ben. He’s a high school senior from a middle class family in Massachusettes who is choosing where to attend college next year. He’s down to two schools: prestigious Boston College, or the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his state’s top public campus. Even with the generous financial aid package from BC, he would still graduate with a big mound of loans. UMass, meanwhile, would be more than $15,000 a year cheaper.
Which should Ben pick? Prestige or price?
With the cost of higher education climbing every year, and student debt surpassing $1 trillion, more and more young people will have to decide whether to make that trade-off. It begs the question: Does it really pay to go to an elite university, financially speaking? Researchers have been investigating this issue since at least the 1980s. And their findings tend to show that when it comes to future earnings, where you go to college counts.
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Thinking inside the box…literally
We’ve got four more at a larger resolution over at Honest Ads 2: 8 Realistic Ads for Instagram, Top Ramen, Cinnabon and More by Chelsea Fagan and Matt Stevenson
Be sure to read the bottle in the 5-hour Energy ad. The photoshop job was so good that at first glance I didn’t notice that it said “tastes like fruity jizz,” among other things.
Take a second and think about the one thing that promotes attraction the most. I’ll give you a hint. The answer is not physical looks, wealth, having things in common, or even the person’s personality. I know, it’s crazy right? The answer is actually proximity. Study after study finds that most people tend to become attracted to people who are physically close to them. The theory is called the mere exposure effect, and it states that we tend to become attracted to a novel stimuli if it was repeated over and over again. I am sure you once saw a very attractive person who caught your attention while passing by your car, then you never saw him/her again. Why do most people forget about that very attractive person a few days later? Simply because they never see that person again. If the stimuli wasn’t reinforced we tend to forget about it even if we liked it. It really is true. Just talking to someone a lot can do so much. You may not even see it coming. But If you spend a considerable amount of time with someone, you could be friends one day, and before you know it, you’ve completely fallen head over heals in love with each other. Maybe this has happened to you. You can’t fight it, but why would you want to? It’s a beautiful thing, really.