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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Actor Orlando Bloom posted a picture his new tattoo on Instagram. What he didn’t know was that the tattoo artist misspelled his son’s name. The tattoo was of his son’s name in Morse code, but was missing a single dot, so instead of Flynn, the tattoo said Frynn. Several of his Instagram followers alerted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “For some time now, scientists have known that using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can be addictive. Every time someone’s phone pings…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Sometimes when we look around at others, we get the idea that everybody else is better off, and have a better life that we do. Social media exaggerates this feeling as we see the people with their perfect families, beautiful homes, and fantastic jobs they post online. “But the truth is,” says Joshua…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
While Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt found himself out of the game, with a season-ending injury, he decided to do something different with his spare time. J.J., known for his charity and Foundation work, and his tireless efforts to help and raise support for victims of Hurricane Harvey, gave…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Greta Thuynberg, a Swedish teenage activist in the climate change movement recently awarded prize from the Nordic Council in recognition of her “breathing new life into the debate surrounding the environment and climate at a critical moment in world history.” Even though it came with a $52,000.00 prize…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Noa Pothoven, a 17-year-old girl from the Netherlands, was sexually assaulted at a school party when she was 11 and raped by two men at age 14. She began to struggle with anorexia and depression and was placed in a group home for mentally ill children, where her condition worsened. She stopped eating…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studying 1,787 adults ages 19 to 32 discovered a connection between time spent on social media and loneliness. Users who spend more than two hours daily on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram are more than twice as likely…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Konnor Sauve gave his classmates a shock at the end of his graduation speech when he revealed that he was the anonymous person behind an Instagram account where he had been posting heartfelt thoughts about students for 43 weeks. Sauve, the co-valedictorian of east Valley High in Washington said he was…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Two Canadian researchers are sending a robot hitchhiking across Canada in order to gauge people’s feeling about them. Dr. David Harris Smith and Dr. Faulke Zeller built a device they call the HitchBOT and are hoping drivers will help it travel the 4,000 miles across Canada. The robot is a collection…