Mmmmmm…

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Small things making a huge difference

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I would love to have been inĀ  that brainstorming meeting when whoever it was came up with the idea. Very clever; very out of the box.

It’s good to laugh at childish things once in a while

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Usability, inclusivity, industrial design, aging population…

remo.jpg A wonderful example of a simple solution to an age old problem.

You just have to laugh and laugh

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Boob squeeze

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A new take on ethnographic research

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Even teachers need to occasionally have a collective giggle

Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners.

I promise you I knew this all along (AP)

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Never mind that TV show that asks if you’re smarter than a fifth-grader. Is your memory better than a young chimp’s? Maybe not. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

The outrageously politically incorrect adverts from the time equality forgot

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A real eye opener for those of you under 30 years old. See more examples from a new book: You Mean A Woman Can Open It?: The Woman’s Place In The Classic Age Of Advertising