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Unpopular opinion: I don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it’s okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die. I think this goes for art too; you can just make the kind of art you find interesting and you don’t have to plan some great arc to your literary career.

18 Slightly Interesting And Outright Bizarre Things To Move Your Mental Gears - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.

As Tannen points out, women are often told that the way they talk (saying sorry, upspeak, vocal fry) makes them seem less confident or competent in the workplace. But the problem, says Tannen, is that the social pressures are sort of conflicting. On the one hand, women are expected to come across as non-threatening — saying sorry comes in super handy there — but they're also told saying sorry makes you sound less confident. WTF. In the end, you have to decide for yourself what's right for…

“This is what my mom always told me when I was younger, and I must say, it is indeed true.”

Are you sitting down right now? I hope so.

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Andrew Rader, PhD, is a lot of things. The man is a SpaceX mission manager, MIT-credentialed scientist, game designer, author... And he's also a history fan. In fact, he's so fascinated with the subject, he even created a Twitter account to share the weirdest and most wonderful history-related content he stumbles upon.

All of us want to do good! And this online community is exactly the place for all of you do-gooders whose methods are a little disorganized.