When I Started Looking At This Map About American Schools, I Did *Not* Expect That Bar To Go Up

After Brown v. Board of Education (more on that below), America specifically ordered many school districts to desegregate (aka stop having just one type of person at the school). This was supposed to make it more likely that African-American kids would be in schools with non-African-American kids … this is desegregation. It made it official:…

Pets

Couple in Japan invents a nearly perfect cat litter box that solves many common problems

Culture

79-year-old man publicly sings Barry Manilow’s ‘Mandy’ to his dental hygienist and nails it

Animals

Woman says we are ‘severely underreacting’ to octopuses, then proves she’s not wrong

Culture

James Cameron never would have agreed to use ‘My Heart Will Go On’ in ‘Titanic.’ One mistake changed everything.