Category: Odds and Ends

ShareTweetPin A kind stranger has changed one Atlanta Uber driver’s life for the better after paying off her college debt. The passenger, Kevin Esch, first heard the single mom’s story when she picked him up for an Atlanta United game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. On that serendipitous day, the driver, LaTonya Young, had explained that she was working as a hairstylist by day and Uber driving by night. As Esch dove deeper into Young’s life story, he discovered that the 43-year-old had dropped out of high school at 16 after having…

ShareTweetPin Tim Tebow is officially a married man. While all the fangirls may be mourning the loss of one of America’s most coveted bachelors, the former NFL quarterback couldn’t be happier to have found his “forever” at last—as he indicated in an Instagram post captioned by that word alone. “Forever @DemiLeighNP”, he wrote in an Instagram post on January 20th, featuring a photo of the 32-year-old gazing at his smiling sweetheart, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters. Forever @DemiLeighNP pic.twitter.com/HZyBAkMKNu — Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) January 21, 2020 24-year-old Nel Peters shared a different photo…

ShareTweetPin Every imperfect and normal family wants their kids to turn out right. So, we establish goals for character development and try to create an environment where our kids can mature. Church, school, sports teams, family relationships…each of these provides a context where our kids can learn to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Unfortunately, our “good” objectives might have absolutely nothing to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we inadvertently end up raising pagan kids instead of Christians. Too many times, (Christian) parents have it as their goal…

Digital books may have a few advantages over ordinary ones when it comes to kids remembering their contents, according to a new study. Animations, especially ones keyed to verbal interactions, can significantly improve recall of story details — but they have to be done right. The research, from psychologist Erik Thiessen at Carnegie Mellon University, evaluated the recall of 30 kids aged 3-5 after being read either an ordinary story book or one with animations for each page. When asked afterwards about what they remembered, the kids who had seen…

In the song Soon You’ll Get Better on her latest album, Taylor Swift They found out the disease had returned during the filming of her Netflix-produced documentary Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, and things only became more difficult when her brain tumor was discovered: “While she was going through treatment, they found a brain tumor. And the symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we’ve ever been through with her cancer before. So it’s just been a really hard time for…

Liam Hemsworth and Gabriella Brooks are really heating up! The couple looked very comfortable showing off their new romance in a fresh set of photos published by Australian news outlet New Idea on Sunday, which featured the two sharing kisses on the beach in Byron Bay, Australia. Ooh la la!! The actor, who turned 30 years old on Monday, wore printed swim trucks while the 21-year-old model rocked a striped bikini for the fun seaside outing. Judging from the pics ( Read more: https://perezhilton.com/liam-hemsworth-gabriella-brooks-pda-pics/

Months after the tragic passing of his beloved wife last year, Dog The Bounty Hunter, unfortunately, fell on hard times. Per a September interview with The New York Times just now making the rounds, the 66-year-old was extremely candid about the sad state of his personal affairs, finances, and how he fell on hard times after spouse Beth Chapman lost her battle to cancer on June 26, 2019. At the time, medical bills and family expenses were skyrocketing. Combined with the stress of tending to his ailing wife, the entire situation really put the…

“Never work with animals or children” the old saying goes. Biologists don’t have much choice in the matter, but astronomers might be thought to be safe from misbehaving fauna. If science’s role is to overturn assumptions, however, it’s time to expose this one, revealing it’s not just clouds that can make a night’s observing tricky. Lead engineer at Australia’s Stromlo observatory Jamie Gilbert put out a call… – …and the answers showed he was not barking up the wrong instrument. Along with stories of starlings nesting inside a telescope dome…

A cat in Russia has been given a second chance at life after being given prosthetics for all four of its paws in what has now become the second such surgery in the world. Dymka, whose name translates as “Mist” or “Haze”, was admitted to a Russian pet hospital in October 2018 for severe frostbite, ultimately resulting in the amputation of all four paws as well as its ear and tail. It is unclear what led to the condition, but veterinarians say it is not uncommon to see frostbitten animals…