Minneapolis-based creative agency Carmichael Lynch created a spin-off collective whose sole mission is to make really inspiring tomfoolery. The bug memorial project is absolutely brilliant and does the job it was intended to do. Make a dude like me smile on a Tuesday.

What Dad doesn’t want to be a Hero-Dad? Even shitty Dads want the hero accolades without putting in the time and emotional effort. For me, there is no greater joy than having your kid envision you with a cape. For this brief time in my life I can actually be a super-hero in somebody’s eyes.

If part of the thrill of your beach vacation involves watching bikinis get blown off by the force of a jet engine then you’re probably lampin’ at Maho Beach, the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Photographer Josef Hoflehner has put together an incredible series of photos illustrating the balance the exists between calm and chaos on the infamous Maho Beach.

Check out the full set here.

As a parent of young children you tend to have a naive belief that you can shield your kids from any storm that comes brewing. The idea that pain is inevitable for your child can often be too much to bear. So we don’t. The reality is that life is hard and littered with painful surprises. It is our job to allow our kids to feel pain, teach them how to navigate through it and ultimately find their own way out of it. You can be sure that our little …

Every now and then I get on my rant about how lucky we should feel that bugs are so abysmally tiny. The fact of the matter is if ants were the size of kittens we would be polishing their antennae and offering our children to toil in their underground sugar caves. Instead of melting into a pile of pure terror (à la Kent Brockman) Flickr photographer twomeows has decided to offer a more aesthetic appreciation with her macro photoset illuminating the seducing allure of our future arthropod executives.

This excerpt was pulled directly from reddit in a thread designed to explain complicated things as if you were explaining it to a kid. For those looking for clarity around what “Obamacare” actually contains, check it out:

Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased:

The National Eating Disorder Association has designated this week to spreading awareness of the many destructive illnesses that 40 percent of Americans have themselves experienced or know someone who has experienced. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and yet don’t have the social understanding that many other illnesses do. My family and loved ones has struggled intensely with the effects of eating disorders and it has been an incredibly difficult illness to contend with. It is a sneaky, destructive disorder that can turn relationships upside-down and ruin lives. …

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