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ENCOURAGEMENT Delta Airlines posted a photo of a note left in one of its aircraft by the pilot who dropped it off for storage a year earlier. The airline said, when First officer Chris Dennis took the plane to Victorville, California for storage, he had heard rumors of a two-week shutdown. He left a…

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…

12-year-old Brandon Smith might typically spend his birthday playing golf or going to an amusement park. During the quarantine for the coronavirus, Brandon learned more about the world. On his birthday, Brandon’s father posted a tweet introducing his son and asking people to send a reply stating where…

On July 20, 2018, the Walt Disney Company fired film director James Gunn – the director of two very popular movies based on the Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel comic book property – from their employment due to a series of offensive jokes he posted on his Twitter account in 2008 and 2009, posts he apologized…

Parisa Dudley said she believes her son learned important lessons when he returned an envelope of lost cash to the owner. Dudley said her son Foster found a bank envelope with $900 at a department store. There was a receipt from a local credit union along with a person’s name and signature. Dudley asked…

Fear can drive people to do strange things. As Hurricane Dorian swept past the eastern coast of Florida, one Jacksonville resident took extra measures to protect his car. Jessica Eldridge reported that her husband Patrick decided to park their Smart car in the kitchen of their home. She posted pictures…

The Me Too movement started when actress Alyssa Milano asked anyone who has been a victim of sexual harassment to tweet “Me Too.” The results were overwhelming. “She woke up the next morning to 55,000 replies and the hash tag trending No 1 on Twitter.” Her tweet has propelled a movement that is reshaping…

Eric White dropped out of high school and was homeless at the age of 15, but his life is drastically different today, after he persevered on and refused to give up. White’s parents divorced when he was in ninth grade, and he was forced to drop out of school to help his mother pay the bills. When his…

On July 5, 2017 a surprising trend appeared on Twitter. That day, many people began using the phrase “I, the Lord” in their feeds. Twitter reported that the phrase was used 15,700 times on the day the trend started. Many of the references were from the book of Jeremiah, with others found in Exodus 20:5,…

A Minnesota teenager who asked her celebrity crush, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, to prom was surprised when the star actually responded. Stillwater High School Senior Katie Kelzenberg asked the actor to go to prom with her in a twitter video. She dressed like Johnson and showed off her collection of Johnson-related…

In a Wall Street Journal article, lawyer Mike Chase commented about the calls for criminal action in our current political climate. It seems that each side in the political debate is anxious to see those on the other side locked up. On his twitter feed Chase posts one statute or regulation per day and…

A few years ago, the productivity expert, Merlin Mann, coined a phrase that is gaining traction more and more—“inbox zero.” It’s all about staying on top of your email inbox in order to reclaim your attention and retake control of your life. An inbox overflowing with unread messages is not only distracting…

Researchers discovered a genetic mutation that makes a person’s body clock run longer. They say it is like having perpetual jet lag. Alina Patke, who supervised the effort said she tends finds it easy to stay up late, but found she does not have the mutated gene. She said, “An external cycle and good…

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…

On November 11, 2016, many users logged onto Facebook only to find out they were dead. A message at the top of their Facebook page read, “We hope people who love [insert name here] will find comfort in things others share to remember and celebrate [his/her] life.” Some users went to twitter to show that…

A banking corporation conducted an unusual contest to inspire people to save money. The Ally Bank placed one hundred “lucky pennies” on the streets of ten U.S. cities. The pennies are similar to ordinary pennies, but are custom copper-colored discs bearing the bank’s lowercase ‘a’ logo and a redemption…

As the Cold War began to ease, the Pentagon redirected the use of its network of low-frequency underwater microphones. They had installed the microphones in the 1950’s to detect Soviet submarines. Now they could be used by scientific institutions to track the movements of whales. In 1989 William Watkins…

When Greg Carlson’s Las Vegas taco shop was burglarized, he deiced to turn the footage into a television commercial. Security footage shows three men breaking into the closed restaurant and ransacking it, looking for cash or other valuables. Carlson was alerted by an alarm system, and found the glass…

Despite going through two years of hardship, a church in Cape Cod Massachusetts has plans to rebuild after an arsonist burned their old building to the ground. The church broke ground on a new and larger building exactly two years after the old building was destroyed. Pastor Myron Heckman told a local…

An official in the Vatican says Jesus was a master communicator, and could easily be called the world’s first tweeter. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s equivalent of a Culture Minister, believes that if a pastor or other believer is not interested in communication, they are defying their duty.…

An anonymous millionaire with cash to spare is giving an unusual gift to the people of San Francisco. The man, who would only say that he is a successful real estate investor between the ages of 35 and 45, is hiding envelopes containing cash and then leaving clues about his drops on Twitter. The people…

Bubba Watson won the Master’s Golf tournament twice. The prestige of winning the coveted green jacket given to the tournament champion makes Watson one of the world’s premier golfers. How does Watson view himself? His self-description on Twitter reads simply, “Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro-golfer.”…

A study by the University of Illinois has found that Christians are happier and more socially connected than atheists are on Twitter. The team that produced the study says they looked at data from almost 2 million tweets from 16,000 users, and looked specifically at the differences in the way the two…

At the second Inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 21, 2013, vocalist and performer Beyoncé Knowles delivered a moving rendition of the National Anthem. It was immediately regarded by news organizations as a historical moment. US Magazine called it “Beyoncé’s proudest moment ever” and Business…

Michael McDowell, a popular NASCAR driver took some time away from the social media before the busy racing began. He told his supporters on Facebook and Twitter that he would refrain from using social networking sites for thirty days as part of what he called a “social media fast.” McDowell says he got…