2026

A former BlackRock employee took a $100,000 gamble on socks after deciding to test whether consumers would actually buy her idea. Allison Strumeyer, who co-founded sock brand Doublesoul with her husband Ben, ordered 10,000 pairs as an initial test of the business. Rather than immediately leaving her corporate career, she used the experiment to establish…

Henrietta Lacks (Image Credit: Wikipedia) In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African-American woman, was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. During her treatment, doctors removed tissue from her tumour for research without telling her or obtaining her permission. The cells behaved unlike any human cells scientists had successfully maintained before: they…

A Canadian mother has found an unusual way to make sure her non-speaking autistic son always has a way to communicate with her, even when technology fails. Jessica Fletcher had a complete keyboard tattooed on her forearm after an incident with her 11-year-old son, Hunter, whose augmentative and alternative communication device ran out of battery…