We’ve all attended presentations that were less than stellar, not just because of the speaker’s stage presence due to a sub-par set of presentation slides.

Canva offers some amazing options to deliver your message in a clear way that still holds visual appeal for an audience, and Peg Fitzpatrick offers an easy guide to getting it right.

As school ramps up again, and the family is thrown into the tight schedule of a new school year, nothing is more inviting at the end of the day than a meal that’s already cooked.

Not everyone has time to chop up ten ingredients in those hurried mornings, but at four ingredients or less, these forty-four meals collected by Homemaking Hacks are the perfect way to start — and end — every day.

After the “zombie ant fungus” kills a victim, it grows a stalk called the stroma, which protrudes from the ant cadaver. A large round structure, the ascoma, forms on the stroma. Infectious spores then develop in the ascoma and are released onto the forest floor below, where they can infect foraging ants from the colony. …

When one first sees this portrait collection of solitary forest dwellers by Danila Tkachenko, it’s hard not to call Thoreau to mind:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

There’s nothing more refreshing than taking a dip in the local watering hole, right?

Wrong, particularly if you’re a germaphobe, because that chlorine smell isn’t the comforting smell of clean water, it’s the smell of chlorine interacting with body nasties like urine, feces and sweat, many of which are never entirely conquered by the mighty chemical.

So, you’re throwing a fancy to-do that requires something a little classier than a keg and a bowl of chips and salsa. What’s a low-maintenance kinda host to do?

If you don’t have a fancy-schmancy friend to call or time to do some serious research on the internet, then check out this infographic from Shape.

While your college freshman might not cry the way they did on the first day of kindergarten, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t love a reminder of home in the form of a care package or two to help make the transition that much easier.

Turns out, the appeal of Robin Williams goes beyond our own species.

Back in 2001, Williams met Koko, a gorilla taught to speak American Sign Language, and she, too, had a rollicking good time with the comedian. There’s even more to the story than just a celebrity meeting, though.

As if we didn’t have enough shamefully pampered pooches out there, here comes just the thing for the small dog who has everything and will absolutely need to visit the chiropractor for weeks if they have to sleep on the floor of a tent ONE MORE TIME: the pet camper.

After each mass shooting of the last few years, a tidal wave of conversation occurs about the understanding mental illness washes over the public, but with the passing of Robin Williams who suffered from severe depression, there’s a different feeling in the air about the topic.

If you’ve lived with mental illness or a loved one who has it, you know the stigma well…painfully well, so this new openness is hard to trust, hard to believe in.

We’d like to crack the door open a bit more, though, with this NPR interview with photographer John William Keedy, who has finally decided to share the pictures he uses to share with the world his reality of living with an anxiety disorder.

With all of the cliques and popularity competitions, high school is not usually the best place to find yourself. So why would it make sense that 18-year-olds fresh out of high school should start college and declare what they want to do for the rest of their lives? In Australia and many European countries, there …

Few of us had ever had a tour of Pyongyang, unlike other popular destinations such as Paris or Barcelone, but the elusive capital city of North Korea is open to all in one sense, thanks to the filmmaking talents of JT Singh and Rob Whitworth who blend a combination of timelapse, slow motion and acceleration to give us a peek.