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- Stupid ‘Sunburn Art’ Trend Puts People at Risk of Skin Cancer
- World’s Most Exclusive Site Can Only Be Accessed by One Person per Minute
- Teen Dies of Leukemia, His 7 Friends Look After His Lonely Mother for 11 Years
| Stupid ‘Sunburn Art’ Trend Puts People at Risk of Skin Cancer Posted: 06 Jul 2015 05:58 AM PDT Thousands of Instagrammers around the world are risking skin cancer in a bid to follow the latest online craze – 'sunburn art'. One of the unhealthiest trends to hit social media in recent years, sunburn art involves using sunscreen or stencils on parts of their body to burn various designs into their skin. The sunburn patterns range from straight lines to floral themes and abstract shapes. Some designs cover a small patch of skin, while others span the entire body. |
| World’s Most Exclusive Site Can Only Be Accessed by One Person per Minute Posted: 06 Jul 2015 05:08 AM PDT With his online experiment, Reddit user Justin Foley is demonstrating the power exclusivity. He's proving how people will fall for pretty much anything – or nothing – by merely tagging it 'exclusive'. Foley set up a portal called 'mostexclusivewebsite.com', consisting of just a few lines of text and a counter. Access is granted to only one person at a 60-second interval. With the click of a button, you will be added to a virtual line of over 2,500 people (at the time of this writing), waiting to gain access. If you close the website window, the ticket is lost. "The internet was designed to be open and accessible; what if I made a design that was the antithesis of one of the defining qualities of the internet?" Foley told The Washington Post. He added that about one in nine people are making it inside the website – the rest leave before their number is called. And Wired.co.uk explaines why: "The website is simple, and the concept both alluring and incredibly frustrating." |
| Teen Dies of Leukemia, His 7 Friends Look After His Lonely Mother for 11 Years Posted: 06 Jul 2015 04:49 AM PDT This heartwarming tale from Hefei, in East China, proves that true friendship has the power to transcend death. For the past 11 years, Sheng Ru-zhi, a lonely mother who lost her son to leukemia, has been looked after by seven of his friends! It all started in 2001, when Zhang Kai, a teenager, was diagnosed with the deadly disease. Seven of his closest friends from school constantly visited Zhang at his home, taking care of both mother and son. When Zhang passed away in 2004, the devastated Sheng thought she'd have to spend the rest of her life in solitude. But the seven friends had other plans. They continued to visit her as usual, caring for her as Zhang would have. Sheng still remembers the moment she realised she wasn't going to spend her life alone after all. "I was alone at the time," she recalled. "They came into my house and filled it with life again." |
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