Teen Who Was Told She Would Never Speak Is Now A Talented Singer

This young woman has something to sing about. Born with a birth defect, Amber Simone Chinn was not expected to breathe, much less speak, on her own. But now, the 19-year-old is a powerful singer, and a video of her performing has gone viral, WGRZ reported. Chinn was born with craniosynostosis — a defect in which the joints between the

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This Man Was Body-Shamed, And Now Hundreds Of Women Are Throwing Him A Party

This is a great Internet story: When an unnamed man was shamed for dancing in public, a tribe of body-positive women launched a Twitter search to throw him the ultimate dance party in California. They found him — and he said yes. It all started when an anonymous person posted a surreptitious shot at the man, with photos attached, on

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That Emotionally Manipulative Facebook Study Was 2014’s Most Popular Paper

A Facebook study that manipulated your newsfeed to make you sad or happy was the most popular research of 2014, according to a company that tracks online discussions around scientific articles. The study, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” topped Altmetric’s ranking of the academic research that received “the most attention online” in 2014. Altmetric considered how

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