What’s a tiny house? It’s a house that’s extra small, costs very little to build, and uses a lot less energy to live in. They’re more affordable and often adorable. And if the stats below are any indicator, we might be seeing a lot of more of them in our neighborhoods soon.
In the aftermath of the Zimmerman trial, there’s been a lot of discussion about what coulda shoulda woulda happened. People have lots of opinions on whether race played a role in the case, and there’s just a lot of emotion in the air. One thing I’ve noticed is the tendency for folks to immediately claim solidarity with the victim, and publicly air their support and feelings.
This video may make people uncomfortable, but it probably needed to be said. I’d love it if you could share it too, so more people are challenged to think differently about it.
Read more: http://upworthy.com/a-perspective-on-george-zimmerman-that-every-person-should-hear
When the lights come on in a culture or even just a little village, often there is no way to turn them back off. It’s happened in nearly every corner of every country of the world, and sometimes, it has to happen over and over again until it sticks. Because yeah, there really is no going back.
There is a movie about Cesar Chavez and his life in theaters this year, and it’s something I have been looking forward to for a long time. History is my thang, y’all, especially labor history, and this looks to be amazing. More about that below the graphic, if you’re interested.
You might not laugh very much and you might not cry, but I promise this incredibly inspiring talk will make you think really hard and see life a little differently.
At 3:40, she says something so obvious that I’ve not thought about — something that’s going to make me change how I parent my kids. I didn’t see what happened at 5:43 coming, and I certainly didn’t expect her to react the way she did. And at 10:39, I knew her life would never be the same.
Read more: http://upworthy.com/on-mothers-day-she-was-on-the-bathroom-floor-hungover-and-pregnant-7
Check this out: Your meaningful-video addiction has some major health benefits. But don’t take my word for it. Pay close attention at 4:44 and see if you can’t relate.
BONUS: He also gives us a happiness brain hack at 7:15 that totally works!
Read more: http://upworthy.com/turns-out-happiness-is-sorta-like-a-muscle-and-heres-how-you-can-exercise-it-2
As someone who is not American, I first heard about “purity balls” (eesh, that name) for the first time in 2014. It shocked me that fathers and daughters attend these dances to pledge her “purity” and virginity until she is married, giving her little choice or education on, you know, the importance of her own personal choices.
Then I saw this trailer for the documentary “Daddy I Do,” which highlights the bigger issue: the serious lack of sexual education in America. Watch filmmaker Cassie Jaye explore the issue in the video below.
Read more: http://upworthy.com/daughters-are-pledging-their-virginity-to-their-fathers-like-its-no-big-deal
“Mansplaining” happens when a man thinks he knows all about something, anything, and everything better than a woman — only because his maleness makes him smarter. Subconsciously or not, it’s nonsense.
This kind of misogyny shouldn’t be so prevalent, but as you’ll see in this short by Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein, it’s still a way to think that needs to fade out of style.
17 million videos shared. 10 billion views. $113.6 million donated to ALS research and treatment.
I never think too much about animal rights, and I don’t even own a pet, but as soon as I heard the case Steven Wise makes and saw the video below, it all made perfect sense.
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Go figure. 20 different people, and 20 different ways of looking at it.
Don’t miss the end! The perspective on pork is totally worth sticking around for.
Ever have someone tell you that they work better at night than they do during the day? Or maybe you’ve crammed for a test (or most of them) into the wee hours of the morning? It’s pretty great that that’s an option, but it’s also easy to forget that it’s not for more than a billion people out there. They’re missing one major thing.
Read more: http://upworthy.com/the-sun-has-a-bright-idea-for-a-bunch-of-people-who-are-stuck-in-the-dark
Sometimes it seems like this is what some companies say in their boardrooms.
Anna Akana’s got some strong words for herself. Her 16-year-old self. She’s learned a lot since then, and only a time machine would make it possible for her to lay all this good truth on her younger self. Oh, well, she can just send this tough-love video.
Warning: Straight talk sometimes requires NSFW language.
Tragic. Devastating. Absolutely heartbreaking. There is nothing I can tell you that will do justice to the lifetime of light and laughter Robin Williams brought to so many of us. I can just share sadness with the world at such an unexpected loss and help shed some light on something many of us aren’t comfortable talking about: depression. Depression is a serious medical illness. It’s not a passing bad mood or temporary sadness. It can be debilitating, and it happens to so many people. If you’re struggling with depression, please know there is no shame in reaching out for help in managing a legitimate illness.
Below are two videos. The first is an eight-minute clip from an interview with Robin Williams in 2010. The subject he discussed was suicide. It seems that one tactic he relied on was trying to compartmentalize suicidal thoughts and put them in a category where they were unspeakable. Unfortunately, for many people that tactic will only work for so long.
The second clip is the news about Robin’s death, as well as a retrospective of his career and photographs of him.
Most of us have sped at some point in our lives. Many of us still do. Going 10 or 15 mph over the speed limit seems pretty harmless … until you look at it a little differently.
If you take a look at politics, it’s easy to see that humans are very much a what-are-you-gonna-do-for-ME kind of species. People usually make decisions based on what they’re going to get out of it. Apparently chimps aren’t quite the same. I was really blown away by the chimps[1:41-2:08]. Does anyone know the best place to find a chimpanzee friend?
Read more: http://upworthy.com/researchers-find-that-chimps-are-better-people-than-a-lot-of-actual-people
Chris Nowinski is a Harvard grad turned pro-athlete who has been raising awareness of the global concussion crisis within the sports industry and its link to brain trauma. Of course adults and kids shouldn’t stop playing sports, but it’s important to understand the risks of certain types of sports before you sign yourself or your kids up.
We are actually talking about the first country to be underwater because of global warming — this is really happening, and it becomes more real every day.
Seconds before potheads all around the U.S. exhale a mixture of smoke and I-told-you-so, CNN’s go-to doctor revealed that after doing some actual research, he is taking back all those negative things he said about medical marijuana. Skip to 2:03 to see an example of the evidence Gupta encountered that made him start supporting the marijuana plant. The debate that takes place in the second half of the video is able to cover much more ground when the both sides agrees to the basic premises at 4:19 and 4:39. It’s actually the best argument for and against pot that I’ve heard in a long time.
I love rap music, and I love the creative freedom that exists within the arts. I am also no fan of art being taken out of context in order to be unfairly criticized. That said, I have been in cars, at parks, and at parties where I hear someone’s young kid recite a lyric that they too have heard in the wrong context (or, perhaps more accurately, at the wrong age). I offer this video to us all not as a cheap slap in the face to the music and culture that I love but as a mirror to ourselves, asking us where we are drawing our lines.
