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Top 5 This Week on the Web
/ July 17, 2015
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Social reform, heroic rats, and cops that prove there is still good in the world, here’s some if this week’s notables:
Top Cop
Who knew an officer of the law could make your day by buying you diapers? Officer Mark Engravalle gets the award for ‘biggest heart’ this week, after being called to arrest Sarah Robinson for shoplifting, but instead hearing her out and buying what she needed.
Rat and Roll
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre have found reason to love rats, training them to detect land mines to aid in mine-removal projects across the country. Cambodia is still littered with landmines after emerging from decades of civil war, including the 1970s Khmer Rough “Killing Fields” genocide, leaving it with one of the world’s highest disability rates. …It almost makes you want to high-five a rat. Almost.
Not Cool Internet
In a week we we’re seeing porn encouraged as entertainment and considering the cultural implications of the trend, an alarming statistic has emerged revealing ‘teen’ to be the most searched-for genre of porn 2 years running. Concerning for both its underage exploitation and proliferation of sexual perversion, the numbers show a need to consider how we’re spending our web-time, and what we believe is sexually acceptable.
When Moving Out Makes You Money
According to a new report from the University of Melbourne, there is an an optimum time to stop getting your ‘rents to do your washing, and step up to plate of independence. If you want to make more cashola in the long-run, you need to boost between 21-24, but not before 18, or you may be worse off. …what if I’m over 24?
Dress-Ups are Totally O.K.
Pull out your Superman cape and find your face paint – lycra is back baby! You thought you had to give it up after your 8th birthday, but no. If crowds at this years Comic Con are anything to go by there is no reason why you can’t be Sailor Moon for the rest of your life. Enjoy some of the fanatically fantastic in this slideshow.
