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Guess What? Working More Than 40 Hours a Week Is a Waste of Time
Here’s something that you are going to very tempted to tell your boss. According to 150 years of studies — yes, 150 — on productivity, having employees work more than 40 hours a week does more harm than good to the bottom line.
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Former World’s Ugliest Dog Using Bad Looks For Good
We were all sad to hear that Yoda, the world’s ugliest dog of 2011, recently passed away. But there are still plenty of homely canines among us, including 2007′s World’s Ugliest Dog, Elwood.
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Fourth Grade Girl Talks Herself Into First Ski Jump
Facing your fears is part of being human. We’ve all had to talk ourselves into doing something, whether we actually verbalized the encouragement or just played it silently in our brain.
The fourth grade girl in the video below is a verbalizer. With a camera running, she methodically convinces herself she has what it takes to make her first ski jump.
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Watch A 10-Year Old Girl Set Weight Lifting World Record
Naomi Kutin, a 10-year old from Fairlawn, N.J., recently set a world record in the raw squat at the RAW Unity weightlifting championships in Texas. Big deal, right? How many 10-year old girls even lift weights? Well…
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Cutest Elvis Impersonator Ever Becomes Viral Hit With ‘Jailhouse Rock’ Dance
William Stokkebroe is 2 years old and loves Elvis Presley. So much so, in fact, that after watching his parents Kristina and Peter dance professionally for the past couple years, he felt the need to unleash his own boogie routine to ‘Jailhouse Rock’ on the dance floor.
Long story short, he’s now one of the cutest viral video stars of today.
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Brad Pitt Takes Ellen DeGeneres on a Moving Tour of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward
New Orleans’ Ninth Ward lost more than 4,000 homes in 2006′s Hurricane Katrina. For the last four years, Brad Pitt has been helping to rebuild the area through his “Make it Right” foundation.
Pitt took Ellen DeGeneres on a tour of the progress on ‘Ellen.’ What they saw may surprise you.
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Michael Bay Is Turning the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Into Aliens For Some Reason
What do you get when you take the mutant out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?” That would be Michael Bay’s upcoming live-action movie adaptation of the popular pizza-loving crimefighters.
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Viral Video Star Sarah Churman Hears With Two Ears for the First Time
Six months ago, 29-year-old Sarah Churman charmed the internet and brought tears to many an eye after her emotional response to hearing herself speak for the first time after having a hearing device implanted in her ear went viral. Now she’s back, and hearing even better.
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Blonde Hilariously Explains Meaning of ‘Miles Per Hour’
During a road trip, Travis Chambers proposed a math problem to his wife Chelsea. “If you are traveling 80 miles per hour, how long does it take you to go 80 miles?,” he wonders.
While that would seem a ridiculous question to ask an adult, given the ease in which the answer can be calculated, there was a reason Travis asked.
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Florida Police on the Lookout for a Giant Slice of Pizza
There is a six-foot-tall slice of pizza on the loose in or around Lakeland, FL. Described by police as having pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers and black olives, it’s actually a promotional costume for the local Papa John’s.
As you can see in the surveillance tape below, the slice was swiped by a man who appears to be around 18 with a serious taste for pizza.
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George Clooney Arrested While Protesting In Front of Sudanese Embassy
George Clooney and several others were arrested in Washington, DC on Friday while protesting the Sudanese government.
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At What Age Do You Think Adulthood Really Begins? – Survey of the Day
Is the bad economy delaying adulthood for our nation’s youth? A survey from the Pew Research Center suggests that it might be.