Childhood is a trying time. Every kid struggles with things like self-confidence, bullying, and the general awkwardness of growing up. The taekwondo instructors at the Cave of Adullam Training Academy understand this, which is why they put in the love and patience required to turn their recruits into strong young men. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/breaking-through-emotional-barriers/
Welcome to 2016 – where watches make phone calls, shoes lace themselves, and cars transform into giant robots. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/yep-thats-a-real-life-transformer/
Thankfully, this is just a tradition at one of the universities in Sweden and not something that happens nationwide. We don’t recommend trying this in your own neighborhood… unless you want a lot of angry neighbors. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/what-happens-when-you-scream-out-of-your-window-at-night-in-sweden/
73 years ago, Agafia Lykov was born in the remote Siberian wilderness. This is her story. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/surviving-in-the-siberian-wilderness-for-70-years/
NASA uses their reverberant acoustic test facility to simulate the incredibly loud noises one can expect to hear during a launch. Guitarist Rich Evans, however, thought he’d use it for something a little different. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/playing-guitar-in-a-nasa-space-chamber/
Why pay for concert tickets when the real show is happening on the sidewalk for free? Read more: http://www.wimp.com/saxophone-player-melts-faces-after-iron-maiden-concert/
Life is hard for a stray, abandoned animal. They don’t know when or where their next meal will be, and they’re in constant danger of being seriously injured or killed by other animals (or traffic). They also have no access to medical care and no protection from diseases or pests. Hope For Paws, an animal rescue organization from Los Angeles, California, has dedicated itself to the rescue and rehabilitation of such animals. Recently, they found Benji the dog, who had been homeless his whole life. At first, Benji is incredibly nervous, yelping and running away from his rescuers. Once they were able to get him secured, they saw the work they had cut out for them – his fur was badly matted, overgrown, and heavily infested with ticks and lice. Once they groomed him, they found that underneath all that fur was a scared (but handsome) dog. It took Benji nearly five months to get fully used to the presence of humans and other dogs, but today he’s happy, healthy, and waiting to be adopted. According to recent numbers from the ASPCA, there are five homeless animals for every one homeless person in the United States. There’s no way to estimate how many stray dogs and cats there really are nationwide, but estimates for cats alone go as high as 70 million. Only a fraction of those end up in shelters (approximately 7 million former pets and 14 million strays per year). Getting into a shelter isn’t much better – nearly 2.7 million animals are euthanized each year due to a lack of adoptive homes. That’s why we encourage everyone to find a rescue organization in their area and adopt their next pet instead of going to the pet store. H/T: Hope For Paws Read more: http://www.wimp.com/matted-fur-dog-just-waiting-to-be-loved-hope-for-paws-rescue/
That’s the sound of a bunch of hungry (and adorable) kittens. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/noisy-kittens/
We already knew that Lady Gaga was a superstar… this just confirms it. Keep in mind that she was able to sound this good while running around and doing flips for 13 minutes. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/listen-to-lady-gagas-isolated-vocals-from-the-super-bowl-halftime-show/
It’s easy to blame our past for the mistakes we make in the present, but that’s no way to live a satisfying life. Here, British philosopher Alan Watts describes how to “live fully now” with the help of his famous “boat and wake” analogy. Read more: http://www.wimp.com/alan-watts-famous-analogy-for-living-fully-now/