Young job-seekers in China are shelling out about four to seven dollars a day to sit in rented offices and act like regular staff. The “pretend-to-work companies” supply desks, Wi-Fi, and even boxed l ...

In Minneapolis, the Lowry Hill East neighborhood has a fun tradition where people gather every year to sharpen a huge No. 2 pencil. This giant pencil, over 12 feet long, sits in a community garden and ...

In China, young people are starting to keep jars of activated yeast as pets because they’re easy to care for. These “static pets” only need flour and water to stay alive. People enjoy watching the yea ...

A couple who have written around 30,000 wills have shared some of the most unusual requests they’ve seen. One woman asked for her ashes to be made into a diamond for her daughter to wear as a ring. An ...

  Video games are bad for your eyes? Not so fast. Japanese scientists at Kwansei Gakuin University created a virtual reality game that might actually improve eyesight. The game makes players focu ...