Friends are genetically similar, says study

Next time someone rejects your offer of friendship on Facebook or (god forbid), IRL, don’t feel too bad: it might not be your looks or personality they found offensive, but your genome. A new US study claims that friends are more genetically similar than strangers. Researchers looked at tissue samples of around 2000 people from…

INSTAGRAM: Top 12 London-based tattoo artists you should be following

Sure Instagram has revolutionised the way we can make sharing a photo of a salad so achingly cool (#clean #cleaneating #healthy), ensure any scene from 2014 looks like it was taken on a really lame camera decades before and tilt-shift the sh*t out of our pets. But you know where it's made a huge, life-changing, money-making…

Could you leave Facebook for 99 days?

We never know how we feel about Facebook these days. We’re constantly telling ourselves we hate the never-ending stream of Candy Crush invitations, invitations to club nights we’re never going to go to, because they’re in Newcastle, and the whole everyone knowing our business thing. However, we know that if we left it for a…

13 lies we tell ourselves about online shopping

1) Lie: I have nothing to wear Truth: I have at least 74 dresses that I COULD wear, but I've worn them all once this year, so everyone’s already seen me wearing it on Facebook. Really, I just need something different to wear for a new profile picture. 2) Lie: My wardrobe could really use…

Spotify reveals the top 10 wedding first dance songs

Wedding days come with a lot of dilemmas. It might not be as tricky as finding the right dress, working out how to keep warring relatives away from each other for the length of the ceremony, or walking away from the whole shebang for less than £10,000, but picking a song for your first dance…

President Obama’s Funny or Die interview is nominated for an Emmy

Could the President of the United States be going for an EGOT? President Obama already has two Grammys, albeit from when he was still a senator, for narrating the audio versions of his books Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, in 2006 and 2008 respectively. Now he has the chance to add…

Photographer mashed-up cat faces with their owners and the results are creepy

You know how they say pets look a little like their owners? Well awesome surrealist photographer Sebastian Magnani has taken that idea to a whole new level by combining a number of photographs of cats with selfies of their owners. The results? Well, take a look for yourself at the gallery below, but we think…

Emoji Yoga is now a thing

So, yeah, Emoji Yoga is a thing now. Including everything from the smiling pile of poo to dancing ladies, you can now actually try out Emoga for yourself, in London (of course). According to the Evening Standard, the class starts with 'a poo (turd) emoji task warm-up position.' Participants then stretch out for a screaming…

The brilliant camping stove that boils water and charges your phone at the same time

The days of flat phone batteries on camping trips are over, thanks to the BioLite CampStove. Not only does it boil water like a regular camping stove, but it simultaneously enables you to charge any USB-compatible phone. The nifty little device is any minimalist camper's dream: it's conveniently small, self-contained and simple to use. It comes with a…

You can rent a bike wherever you go with Spinlister

Bicycles can be rented in thousands of cities across the world from someone just like you, as a result of peer-to-peer sharing website Spinlister. With a similar vibe to popular short-term lodger site Airbnb, Spinlister also allows you to rent surfboards, skis and snowboarding equipment from regular folk in over 100 different countries. The web…