Children's books and stories may seem prosaic and irrelevant to adults, but quite the opposite, we can get just as much inspiration from them as we would in any other literary work.

Remember, fairy tales were aimed to teach children valuable morals, even though some people seem to think of them as silly stories. But, originally, they weren't sprinkled with fairy dust. They revealed some harsh realities to help children became aware of the world they live in.

The potency of a great kid’s book is the all-around cleverness of its concept: how precisely the book knows its reader, what they’ve already read and loved (or rejected), and how exactly it speaks directly to her buried fascinations or fears.

Nearly all the same conditions—saturation, impatience, jadedness, ingenuity, exactitude—make the business of designing a knockout corporate website, company brochure, or infographic equally fraught with challenges.

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Nobody wants to see trash lying around on the streets (or anywhere for that matter), but sometimes we're just too lazy to throw our own trash in the proper place. And it can accumulate and lead to drastic consequences affecting the environment which later on comes back to bite us.

So in an effort to instill awareness about littering to the people in Kiev, Ukraine, CleanMyMac X created an anti-littering campaign involving a pile of trash scaring people on the streets.

Can you scare people into being litter-conscious? We’ve been trying to figure out just that with our CleanMyCity prank inspired by CleanMyMac X. Whenever unsuspecting folks would drop a piece of litter onto the pile, the “junk” would suddenly rise up and chase them back.

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You might have heard this expression when someone is about to say something vulgar or profane, or to utter a curse, as a means of warning others about the intention so that people would not be surprised or offended once it has been said. But how did this expression actually come about?

The phrase “Pardon my French” or “Excuse my French” is used after cursing, as a feeble attempt to disguise it as being a French word. It is often used to excuse yourself when there is someone visibly offended by your use of profanity. It can also be used right before you curse, as a warning to those who are part of the conversation.

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Delving into the world of horror films can bring a new level of excitement and thrill to fans. With the I Like Scary Movies exhibit, they can actually experience a bit of what it feels like to be in their favorite horror film. And this fall, the exhibit will feature Friday the 13th, along with others like A Nightmare on Elmstreet and IT.

I Like Scary Movies gives fans the unique opportunity to interact and enjoy the films that they love in a completely new way with amazing photo opportunities to share with friends.

This time around, horror hounds will be able to visit Camp Crystal Lake for something new and quite unexpected. I Like Scary Movies has been described as 'the experience that all scary movie fans have been dreaming of, and the perfect thrill for those who relish in the eerie ambiance of the season'.

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Narrative endings are very difficult to craft from a writer's perspective because usually a writer comes up with several ways to end a story, but it's a struggle to find the one most fitting to tie up the plot, bring the message home, and make an impact on the audience. Toy Story 4 would have received a widely different reaction if they had gone for this alternative ending.

The film's director, Josh Cooley, seems to acknowledge this in the brief commentary which leads off the clip. "Finding the ending of a movie is extremely hard," he says, demonstrating his complete mastery of understatement. "Especially a Toy Story film, where you want it to be really impactful and really emotional. This one came pretty close."

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After the success of the television series, Downton Abbey had an encore with its movie, which was initially released a couple of days ago. But due to the success of its cast, the series creator Julian Fellowes said that the production of the movie was a logistical nightmare.

Speaking on CBS Sunday Morning, Fellowes said: "To the wider public, none of the young ones were really known, and now they're all famous around the world.

"They were doing shows on Broadway and movies and series in Hollywood and plays in London and God knows what.

"They all had to be extracted for a kind of 12-week period, and I think that was a logistical nightmare, but we happily got there in the end."

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It's been almost six years after the blockbuster success of Disney's Frozen and now, we are going to be treated to a sequel where the Frozen world will get that much bigger. But as we wait for its worldwide release, Disney is giving us a few snippets here and there about what we should expect. And on Monday, they will drop a new trailer on Good Morning America.

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There are so many cool materials and technology being featured in almost all the Marvel stories, but two stand out among the rest as being invulnerable weapons: adamantium and vibranium. But between these two metals, there's actually just one that's truly invincible.

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So we have all probably heard that Spider-Man will be taken out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the time being. There isn't really a clear reason as to why Disney and Sony weren't able to come up with an agreement on the matter. Here are some details on it and what's going to happen now that Spidey's gone from the MCU.

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The lotus is featured in many depictions of South Asian mythology wherein many of the gods and goddesses are placed atop the lotus. It is perhaps because the lotus has become the symbol for purity and thus, the gods and goddesses who, like humans, have the need to sit would be exalted by seating them on a lotus.

Read more on this at DNA India.

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Halloween is fast approaching and many people are getting into the spirit of the occasion. One dog in particular has been making rounds on Twitter, in a viral video showing the little adorable canine wearing a Chucky costume. -via Screen Geek

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When we watch blockbuster movies, especially ones akin to an epic, the stories often focus on the journey as a whole instead of the little moments that would seem trivial in comparison to the significance of the characters' quest, especially that of the main protagonist, to go or do something.

But that's what James Gray's "Ad Astra" tries to redefine. Though it's an epic of astronomical proportions, he is still able to hone in on the smallest essence of the characters.

At a time when people are wondering if big-screen epics can still afford to tell personal stories, Gray has told a personal story that demanded to be a big-screen epic.

“Ad Astra” is nothing if not a movie about how difficult it can be for people — especially men — to recalibrate their ambitions and realize what’s truly meaningful in their lives. Kids are by no means a magic bullet.

Over the course of its grand and mesmeric trip through the cosmos, “Ad Astra” pushes to restore a certain perspective to the hero’s journey — to make people step back and see themselves with the same terrifying smallness that confronted NASA astronauts when they first looked at our planet from another world.

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Since Overwatch will be coming to the Nintendo Switch next month, many fans are excited to see what's in store. However, some of them expected a little more from the game as it will be crossing over to Nintendo, like say, having Zelda's Link as a playable character.

Yesterday, a five-person team of animators and visual artists posted a video titled "[NOW PLAYABLE] Link Overwatch" on Vimeo. The 50 second clip is a meticulous recreation of Overwatch's Play of the Game highlight reel intros that features Link designed in the title's colorful and exaggerated art style.

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The mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's sudden disapperance over the Pacific is still something that leaves us dumbfounded. We can only speculate what must have happened to the first female aviator to cross the Atlantic solo, when she and her navigator Fred Noonan went missing.

But now, the former Navy officer Robert Ballard who is known for his discoveries on the wrecks of the battleship Bismarck, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, and RMS Titanic, will investigate on the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart's wreckage and hopefully make clear the details of what happened once and for all.

Following decades of speculation by TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), Ballard and his futuristic ship the E/V Nautilus have made for Nikumaroro, an island in the Western Pacific.

Why there? National Geographic – who provided funding – reports on Dr. Ballard’s mission, writing that “At the time of Earhart’s disappearance, the tide on Nikumaroro was especially low, revealing a reef surface along the shore long and flat enough for a plane to land.”

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Our parents would often think and tell us that playing video games is detrimental to our physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being, and perhaps at a certain point, they are right and it becomes that way. But setting some proper limits, video games and online gaming in particular, could have some surprising benefits. BitRebels lists some of them here.

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