11 stunning island and beachfront homes for sale across the US for under $1 million

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  Kelle Repass

Why take a vacation to an island when you can live on one? Turns out, you don't always need to spend a fortune to live in paradise. We teamed up with Trulia to find some of the most affordable island and beachfront homes in the US, and there were plenty for sale under $1 million. There's a contemporary home surrounded by palm trees in Honolulu, Hawaii; a Southern-style country house complete with picket fence and front porch in Savannah, Georgia; and a modern condo right across the bay of San Diego. [Read More]

3D Print a Crossguard Star Wars Lightsaber

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  184 words  |  Tandra Barner

December 8, 2014 2:56 PM EST The crossguard lightsaber introduced in the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens raised eyebrows among skeptics as much as it elicited drools from those excited by the weapon’s redesign. Attacks on its impracticality were so widespread that Stephen Colbert took time out of one of the final episodes of the Colbert Report to defend the genius of the design. But now you can test it yourself, as a group of designers has shared instructions for 3D-printing the controversial laser sword. [Read More]

5 Must-visit gyms in Lagos

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  255 words  |  Patria Henriques

1.i-Fitness gym i-Fitness gym is one of the most widely spread gyms in Nigeria. It has over 15 branches in Lagos only. They provide a wide range of different sessions or classes that you can sign up for. 2.Bodyline fitness gym ADVERTISEMENT It’s also one of the leading centres in the fitness world, with qualified training personnel and sophisticated training equipment. It’s located in Ikoyi, quite accessible to those who live on the island. [Read More]

5 natural ways to make your lips soft and pink

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  536 words  |  Martina Birk

Everyone can admit to this. And it is counted among the reasons why a lot of people would do almost anything to make their lips soft and pink. However, in other to make it easy for you, if you're one of those who would want to have a soft and pink lips, we decided to t show you five make it happen. Here are 5 natural ways to make your lips soft and pink ADVERTISEMENT [Read More]

5 pictures that prove Ayra Starr and miniskirts are inseparable

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  110 words  |  Billy Koelling

We compiled a list from her Instagram of some of her shortest skirts. 1. Here Ayra is wearing a leather skirt and a crop top and a thigh-high leather jacket. ADVERTISEMENT 2. For her latest concert, Ayra wore a patterned skirt, crop top and hoodie. The skirt is so short it looks like a bandage. 3. ADVERTISEMENT Ayra reminds me of girls in the Winx Club in that white pleated skirt. [Read More]

A New Book Tells a Palestinian Story from Behind the Wall

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1835 words  |  Patria Henriques

If it's hard to make people care about someone they've never met, it's even harder when that someone is behind a wall. But in A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the journalist Nathan Thrall makes a virtue of that. The book reports a profoundly difficult story—a father searching for his five-year-old son at the scene of a fiery school bus crash—made more difficult by where it occurs: On the Palestinian side of Israel's separation barrier. [Read More]

A strange and beautiful sunset is happening in New York City this week here's how to see it

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  455 words  |  Tandra Barner

On four days — two before the summer solstice and two after — the sunset aligns perfectly with the city's gridded streets. The phenomenon's name is a portmanteau of Stonehenge, which prehistoric people likely built to line up with the sun, and the island of Manhattan. Unlike Stonehenge, however, Manhattanhenge is a beautiful accident of city planning. If you're in the right place at the right time, you can watch a floating, orange-hued orb of plasma (our sun) slip perfectly between miles-long corridors of skyscrapers. [Read More]

Advocates See Echoes of Trump in Bidens Asylum Actions

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1020 words  |  Patria Henriques

Since President Joe Biden signed an executive action last week cracking down on asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant rights groups and lawyers are drawing on a familiar playbook for how to respond. “We’ve been here before in the Trump era,” says Lindsay Sara Toczylowski, executive director of Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) in California. “We know that in the coming days we are going to see people who have been deported without due process. [Read More]

AI Monitoring in Schools Can Come at a Great Cost

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1377 words  |  Billy Koelling

Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among American youth between the ages of 10 and 14. The problem of youth suicide has only gotten worse lately, in part due to a nationwide shortage of mental health professionals, particularly in schools, where if available, an on-staff psychologist, counselor or social worker can help identify at-risk youth, and take steps toward an appropriate intervention. As a remedy, school administrators, faced with daunting funding and staffing shortages, have increasingly looked to technology to help them manage the youth suicide crisis. [Read More]

Akira ToriyamaBeloved Manga Artist and Creator of 'Dragon Ball'Dies at 68

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  251 words  |  Patria Henriques

Akira Toriyama, creator of the beloved manga and anime Dragon Ball, has died, his production studio said in a statement Friday. He was 68. The artist behind the long-running media franchise that popularized Japanese manga abroad, passed away on March 1 from an acute subdural hematoma, according to the statement. First appearing in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1984, Dragon Ball follows protagonist Son Goku’s martial arts training and quest to find the seven titular orbs and summon a wish-granting dragon. [Read More]