How quickly can something go viral? If you kill a beloved animal, you can count on it being faster than a bow arrow can fly. Dr. Walter Palmer is all over the web after he hunted down a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe. You have probably seen this instantly famous image flooding your social...Read More

The strangest things tend to go viral on social media, so it’s not too surprising when a dead raccoon is elevated to news coverage. On July 9th, a dead raccoon lay on the sidewalk in Toronto for more than 12 hours before the city’s animal services finally scooped it up to take it to a better place. Before...Read More

A perennial complaint from Facebook users is that they don’t have much control over what appears in their news feed, the main flow of posts on their Facebook homepage or app screen. The social network’s mysterious computer algorithm analyzes thousands of signals, then spits out what it thinks you want to see based on the...Read More

Fonts are already known to cause emotional reactions but can they be used to recreate the frustration of being dyslexic? That was the task final year design student Daniel Britton set himself after being diagnosed as dyslexic and realising that his friends and teachers couldn’t appreciate what it meant. The font, in which he removed...Read More

It’s said you can’t keep a good man down — unless of course you’re trampling on his rights for equality so says Indian online lifestyle magazine Maggcom. In a controversial move, the publication recently launched an online campaign called #DontMancriminate, which aims to promote equality for men and women alike, with the emphasis on men....Read More