In a novel effort to rank residents’ collective feelings of well-being each day, the mayor of Lithuania’s capital Vilnius plans to recruit locals to report their mood via cellphone. Residents will rank their happiness on a scale …
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Laser-Etched Fruit Labels Will Make Stickers Obsolete
Bye-bye icky food labels. Now food information will be written directly on the skin
Before Snowden: Other Fugitives Who Have Gone on the Lam From the Feds
Edward Snowden isn’t the first fugitive who’s trotted the globe in a high-profile attempt to flee the feds
VIDEO: Sydney Cafe Lets You Pay with a Kiss
One café in Sydney, Australia is pulling an unusual marketing proposition: your coffee is free if you kiss. Now as far as to who you commit the bill-paying with, that’s entirely up to you.
Bracing for a Holy Wine Shortage in Venezuela
Venezuela’s Catholic Church is suffering a wine shortage just as the rest of the country struggles to find basic supplies like toilet paper.
Coin Toss Determines Mayor in Philippine Town
On Tuesday morning in the small town of San Teodoro, a Phillippine election came to a screeching halt when two local candidates running for mayor tied during an election.
New Zealand Updates List of Banned Baby Names
In New Zealand, you can’t name children after punctuation marks, or call them V8, Anal or 4Real
Paris Employs Four Sheep to Keep the City’s Grass Mowed
Instead of using lawn mowers, Paris is using something more environmentally sustainable to care for its green spaces: four large Breton ewes
Follow Me: Photographer’s Girlfriend Takes the Lead
Russian photographer Murad Osmann shares photos on Instagram of his travels around the world with his girlfriend, Nataly Zakharova, always leading the way. Osmann shoots the photos either on his iPhone or digital SLR camera and …
WATCH: Malala Yousafzai Gives Her First Public Address Just Months After Being Shot in the Head by the Taliban
It’s been four months since the Taliban attacked Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who had spent years advocating for education rights for girls, shooting her in the head as she made her way home from school. Yet …
You May Now Call a Police Horse ‘Gay’ in the U.K.
A British law which had been used to prosecute a variety of poorly defined offenses will be amended, to the joy of British free speech advocates.
Ancient Conehead-like ‘Alien’ Skulls Unearthed in Mexico
The cone-shaped heads discovered in the Mexican state of Sonora are no “SNL” sketch