Jonathon Rivait and Andrew Barr at The National Post writes: “Athletes are not the only people who compete in Sochi,” anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny said this week. “Officials and businessmen also took part in the Games and turned them into a source of income.” He was speaking as he launched an interactive website — Sochi.FBK.info …

Video games healthy?

If you’re still thinking of endless games of Frogger on the basement sofa, that doesn’t sound quite right, but with the rise in active gaming, there are plenty of ways to increase your heart rate without leaving the comfort of your living room.

Can’t enough of canines?

There’s plenty to sink your teeth into in this poster from Pop Chart Lab, featuring 180 breeds of hounds, terriers and animals you’d swear weren’t really dogs.

Sloths aren’t exactly the jackrabbits of the rainforest, but it appears they could be picking up plenty of fascinating fungi on the slow road through their fast disappearing habitat.

Teaching is one of the most humanitarian, transformative careers. One good teacher can positively influence thousands of lives over the course of his/her career, but on the same token, one bad teacher can do a lot of damage. In the statewide lawsuit, Vergara v. California, students have banned together to strike down the state laws …

With cruise ship “outbreaks” regularly appearing in the news, awareness of Norovirus — an extremely common and highly contagious virus that causes gastroenteritis — has been significantly raised. But before you reconsider that long-awaited cruise vacation because of gloom-and-doom reports on television and in your daily paper, know these facts: Norovirus is not a “cruise …

Peter Kuitenbrouwer has a wonderful photo essay describing a Tintinnabulator in Toronto. Toronto is home to one of only 4 bell towers of its kind in the world and one day a few weeks ago, the bells stopped ringing. Enter the Tintinnabulator, a tradesman responsible for setting things right and getting the clock and its …

We all have a font we prefer to read, so why not a font through which we prefer to read?

That’s the idea behind these frames from Japanese startup Oh My Glasses and Wieden-Kennedy Tokyo, which will be offering Helvetica and Garamond styles — light, regular and bold — starting at the end of this month.

Get ready to think far outside the box if these crazy interview questions are anything to go by.

Considering a career in pharmacy (but not of the Breaking Bad variety)? Then check out the possibilities in this career path with some help from Schools.com, because there’s far more to the profession than working the counter at the local Rite-Aid. Via Schools.com. Career-oriented infographics.

It’s funny that children spend their entire youth being told not to engage in “potty talk,” only to arrive in adulthood where only the vocabulary has changed (and that’s not even true in many cases). We’re not here to buck the trend, merely to bring a little perspective to our, um, “adult” conversations with the …

Woodland salamanders are small, lungless amphibians that live in moist, forest habitats throughout the US and the world. Salamanders often serve as vital links in forest food chains—their population size and recovery from major disturbances can help predict the health of forest ecosystems. “One of our primary interests is in conservation of amphibians and the …