IKEA Monkey

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The world's last male northern white rhino has died leaving only two females left to save the species from extinction.

Looks like development executives at Hulu heard our suggestion that the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and ‘90s, the closest thing to an actual witch hunt we’ve had in contemporary America, would make for compelling TV. As detailed in The Hollywood Reporter, though, the idea the streaming service is running with won’t be…

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The São Paulo apartment was designed by David Ito Arquitetura

By now we’ve learned that living in a city apartment does not preclude one from decorating with vibrant colors and bold patterns, as we’ve seen in countless homes across the world, from Kiev to Barcelona to Shanghai.

The latest example comes out of São Paulo, Brazil, where local practice David Ito Arquitetura has designed a 260-square-meter (2,800 square feet) flat that prioritizes an open layout, natural light, and the controlled use of color.

The home’s expansive floorplan and floor-to-ceiling windows certainly made for an ideal canvas to work with, especially in the massive living area. Here, a dining area and lounge flow into the terrace-turned- sunroom, which becomes a secondary social space with a minibar with fun patterned backdrop and another lounge. A sheer curtain can close it off from the living room when needed.

Separating the social zones from the private quarters is a ribbed wall featuring an accordion door, which opens to reveal a bright white kitchen. Green and white triangle floor tiles add a little graphic energy to the otherwise simple space.

The bedrooms continue the balance of color from the living area and are characterized by white walls and warm wood flooring and built-in furniture. Colors are added in small doses, as in the blue bedside tables, bespoke storage consoles in the dressing room, and bathroom tiling. Take a look.

Via: Design Milk

Correct us if we’re wrong, we thought that the whole point of Blue Apron was to avoid grocery store shopping. Ingredients for an entire meal delivered right to your door, in perfect amounts! But now, as Uproxx points out today, “the new plan for Blue Apron is essentially an inverse of its original model: putting meal…

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Guy in a Frozen costume pushing a police van out of the snow.

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Please join us, print a bracket out, and yell in the comments.

You’ve been stressing out over the wrong bracket. The NCAA tournament is fine, the Kanye West bracket was fun, and mascot brackets are classic, but in 2018, we’re only here for MEME BRACKETS.

The committee, which included Matt Ellentuck, the SB Nation writer, and literally nobody else (which is why he forgot a few good ones), selected the 64 best memes he could think of, and broke them down like the NCAA would in a tournament-style bracket.

Yell at him for whatever you disagree with.

The four No. 1 seeds were in this order: Crying Jordan, Distracted Boyfriend, Kermit Sipping Tea, and Why You Always Lying?

Here’s how the bracket turned out:

Please print this bracket out by clicking file->save as->then printing, fill it in with whichever memes your heart desires, and let us know your biggest upset, Final Four, and Champion in the comments.

Before anyone gets upset, this is the Roll Safe meme (a lot of people don’t know it by name):

The committee would like to acknowledge the many snubs that were inevitable given Earth’s rich meme history. Honorable mentions include: Spider-man, Darth Kermit, Mr. Krabs, “Did you practice that shot?,” Arthur Fist, Harambe, Rick Roll, Supa Hot Fire, Damn Daniel, LeBron James kid, and the 2016 Monmouth Hawks (a true forever snub).

Honestly, some of these were truly regrettable, but what’s a bracket without controversy.

I would like to take a poll though! Please tell us who your champion was, so we can determine the definitive best meme:

Here’s the original tweet, where you can read some other Twitter users’ brackets:

And here are a few of my favorite brackets:

A Grumpy Cat lover!

Fergie in the Final Four!

Snapchat Hot Dog Champion?

Hot Felon in the Sweet 16.

The Dress cutting down the nets!

Tea Lizard winning the first-ever bracket.

The dude that lost sleep over this bracket.

An upset fan.

The literal study hall proctor who drew out the bracket!

In the future, the Queen will reign in pay on "The Crown." That is, of course, according to producers from the show, who admitted at the INTV conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday that star Claire Foy was paid less than co-star Matt Smith during the first two seasons of the award-winning Netflix drama.

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia.

Sarah’s favorite thing about Jessica was her height. “At 5'11", no one wanted to mess with her,” she says. “Even though she was the younger sister, she always watched out for me. I felt more confident when I was with her.”

Four years ago, following a long battle with a severe prescription drug addiction, Jessica took her own life. She was one month shy of turning 23.

The last thing Sarah ever said to her was, “I hate you and wish you were dead." Like most sisterly bonds, theirs could be turbulent. The pain of this last exchange kept Sarah bound to her bed for months, guilt-ridden and depressed. Her own trauma was worsened by watching her parents fall apart—her father cried every morning, while her mother suffered from recurrent nightmares.

She still finds it difficult returning to the family home, where her sister's belongings are scattered around. Sometimes, the visualization of her sister dying carousels around her head, over and over. “I’ve lost my past, my present, and my future,” she says.

Dr. Jan-Louise Godfrey, a psychology professor at Swinburne University and expert in child bereavement, believes that disenfranchised grief—grief that goes unacknowledged by society—can have huge mental health ramifications. This is especially the case for individuals dealing with the suicide of a sibling because while there's adequate support for the parents, little is known about this specific group.

Overall, there is a tendency for siblings to hide their grief in an attempt to minimize the trauma felt by their parents, Dr. Godfrey says. This inability or reluctance to express themselves can stunt the mourning process itself, as the sibling left behind can "struggle to integrate the experience.”

Bronwen Edwards, founder of suicide advocacy group Roses in the Ocean, has experienced this struggle firsthand: In 2008, her 43-year-old brother took his life. “Sibling survivors get no support,” Edwards says. “[We] completely fall through the cracks. There are some bereavement support groups, like StandBy Response, which offers great support, but they aren’t everywhere.”

Without an outlet or structured support, manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can result in a sibling. This includes anxiety, depression, and disordered eating. Dr. Godfrey says that while there may have already been underlying predispositions for these mental states, her research shows the trauma of a sibling’s suicide correlates with higher rates overall.

This was the case for Kerri, who was 18 when her younger brother, Joseph, took his own life. Now 25, the design intern says she sidelined her grief by taking care of her father, who she worried might take his own life in the aftermath. While trying to battle his declarations of “I can’t go on any longer,” and “I don’t want to eat,” Kerri’s own feelings of loss were suppressed, eventually manifesting as an eating disorder as she shrunk from 90kg [198 pounds] to 43kg [94 pounds].

“I ended up in the hospital dying from anorexia,” Kerri says. “They kept me in for two weeks on machines, then I moved to a residential home for two months of treatment.”

It wasn’t just Kerri’s attitudes toward food that was turned upside down; the death of her brother inverted the family structure, too. Kerri essentially became a carer for her father in the absence of her mother, who felt a need to be out of the house with friends in order to cope. Her dad, on the other hand, “had to be alone.”

Liz Adams, an Australian psychologist, recently completed a doctoral thesis on the impact of suicide on families. It was inspired by her 16-year-old son Peter, who took his life in 2001. More than anyone, Adams understands how the vacuum created by suicide can affect family dynamics. “You can get a child that becomes the carer of the parent because the parent loses the plot and collapses,” she says. “The assumed attitude is that the child is resilient.”

Alternatively, the parent can become an overbearing caretaker. Or a statistic: A 2011 Swedish study of 11 million people found that “suicidal behavior is aggregated in families,” which means that as well as increasing overall mortality rates, parents are more likely to take their own lives if their child has suicided.

The data also revealed that brothers and sisters are three times more likely to take their own lives after the loss of their sibling thanks to “genetic risks”—how biologically related they are—and “shared environmental factors,” such as family or housing situations.

Long-term developmental issues can result, too. Dr. Godfrey lists three fundamental ways a young person can be affected by the loss of a brother or sister. “Independence, the formation of romantic relationships, and career progression.”

“We’ve found that teens [who have had a sibling suicide] seem to leave home later and start their early adulthood later,” Dr. Godfrey says, explaining that they feel a need to be around for their parents. This can come at a huge cost if young adults are, in turn, less involved in normative activities like spending time with friends and establishing new relationships.

For many, losing a sibling to suicide means the partial loss of their identity. In 2007, 29-year-old Jolene lost her brother to suicide. If she ever forgot the sound of his voice, his laughter, or their past conversations, she says, “I’d be losing myself.”

Jolene says different combinations of therapy got her through the toughest parts of recovery, but as well as the conventional route she recommends sibling survivors cry, scream, and forgive themselves.

“Find a source of strength or find a distraction,” she says. “Don’t be afraid to be alone when your thoughts and your heart keep you awake. Let them through—feel them. Let them devour you... because it will pass. It will hurt, but it will pass.”

*All names have been changed to protect privacy.

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We all saw this at the SB Nation office and now you do too. It can’t be unseen.

Ellie Hall of Buzzfeed stumbled across this perfectly human-faced dog, and I promise you it’s not Photoshopped. It’s just a kind-eyed dog, living its life on the porch and perhaps selling some insurance.

Immediately people began to see whatever person they wanted to inside the dog.

Others were just content being freaked out.

It’s a labradoodle thing.

Understanding the human-faced dog is a lesson in the breed itself. Over the years we’ve seen several examples of dogs with human faces, and the vast majority are labradoodles. It comes down to the eyes, which tend to be more human-esque than any other breed.

So it leaves us with stuff like this.

Here’s to human-looking labradoodles. May we remember your contributions to the world — but only long enough that we get freaked out again in the future.

Why three men allegedly chose to travel some 500 miles (805 kilometers) from a rural farming community of less the 100 residents in Illinois to bomb a particular mosque in suburban Minneapolis isn't clear.

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SPANAWAY, Wash. (AP) — A member of the U.S. Air Force in Washington state fatally shot his two young children and his wife before killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.

The police needed help and Jason Triplett wouldn't let it go.

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Magnum Tubs are the carton version of Magnum ice cream bars and come in four flavors: Milk Chocolate Vanilla, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, Milk Chocolate Hazelnut, and White Chocolate Vanilla.

They carry a suggested price of $5.49 per 14.8-oz container, but I received these courtesy of Magnum.

The signature feature of each Tub is that there is a shell of chocolate surrounding it with an especially thick chocolate (or white chocolate) lid that must be cracked before you can dig in. Additionally, there are chocolate shards embedded in the ice cream (similar to Haagen-Dazs' Trio line). The containers are flattened along to sections of the sides so that you can better squeeze them and crack the chocolate shell.

If you've had a Magnum ice cream bar before, the Tubs offer the same indulgent experience but with a little more emphasis on the ice cream rather than the chocolate. But that doesn't mean that there isn't an abundant amount of rich chocolate or textural variety. Between the thick and thin chocolate pieces, there's a good deal to crunch on.

While all four flavors are quite good, they each offer something for different tastes.


The Milk Chocolate Vanilla is the classic. If you like Klondike bars and Eskimo Pies, this is basically a premium version of the same. It offers a similar combination of crispy shards (plus the harder chunks of chocolate "lid") to go along with rich vanilla ice cream.

Dark Chocolate Raspberry is your jam if you like chocolate-covered berries. The raspberry ice cream is creamy but also quite tart and is contrasted by the dark chocolate. There's a definite raspberry flavor to it rather than a generic berry-ness. The dark chocolate is mildly sweet and pleasantly bitter.

Milk Chocolate Hazelnut is my favorite of the bunch. It's got some of that Nutella feeling but with a stronger chocolate component. You also get some extra crunch with small gravel-sized pieces of hazelnuts.

White Chocolate Vanilla is nice if you like your ice cream super creamy and super sweet, as the white chocolate provides both in spades.

When it comes down to it, Magnum Tubs offer very much of the same tastes and texture as Magnum ice cream bars. I actually like the Tubs a bit better than the bars as I'm not in danger of losing any of the chocolate, which, despite my best efforts, sometimes falls of the bar as I bite into it.

Nutritional Info - Milk Chocolate Vanilla Magnum Tub
Serving Size - 2/3 cup
Calories - 350 (from Fat - 200)
Fat - 22g (Saturated Fat - 14g)
Sodium - 50mg
Carbs - 36g (Sugar - 31g)
Protein - 4g

Nutritional Info - Dark Chocolate Raspberry Magnum Tub
Serving Size - 2/3 cup
Calories - 340 (from Fat - 220)
Fat - 24g (Saturated Fat - 15g)
Sodium - 30mg
Carbs - 35g (Sugar - 26g)
Protein - 5g

Nutritional Info - Chocolate Hazelnut Magnum Tub
Serving Size - 2/3 cup
Calories - 370 (from Fat - 230)
Fat - 26g (Saturated Fat - 14g)
Sodium - 55mg
Carbs - 34g (Sugar - 30g)
Protein - 5g

Nutritional Info - White Chocolate Vanilla Magnum Tub
Serving Size - 2/3 cup
Calories - 350 (from Fat - 190)
Fat - 21g (Saturated Fat - 13g)
Sodium - 60mg
Carbs - 37g (Sugar - 34g)
Protein - 4g