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Why The Weather Channel is providing 9 hours of election counter-programming. As your heartbeat ticks upward watching cable news, as you jolt awake at 2 a.m. from a Nov. 9 nightmare, and as you chew your fingernails to the bone watching volatile election forecasts every hour on the hour, please know: You're definitely not alone. The Weather Channel is taking election anxiety seriously this year by doing something pretty cool on Nov. 8, 2016. More than half of us — Democrats and Republicans alike — say that stress over the presidential election this year has been “ very or somewhat significant ," according to a study by the American Psychological Association. Experts in the mental health field have reported  increases in election-related anxiety  in their patients.   “More than one client of mine has talked of physical nausea that they relate directly to current political happenings,” Melissa Lester Olson, a psychotherapist in Georgia, told  Time , notin...

Moscow-based comic artist Bird Born explains why adopting a dog changed his life. Rescuing a pet is an amazing and heroic undertaking. 7.6 million pets  go into shelters each year, according to the ASPCA. And of those pets, about 2.7 million pets are rescued by humans who give them forever homes. Moscow-based comic artist  Bird Born  experienced firsthand the power of welcoming a pet into your family when he adopted a dog. Then his journey to understand his newest animal friend inspired an adorable and incredibly moving comic, too. Follow this artist's journey to help his new friend feel welcome in his home: SHARE All illustrations by Bird Born, used with permission. SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE Rescuing animals is a big commitment, and of course it doesn’t come without challenges. When adopting any animal, there's fear and unce...

There are few things in life as relaxing as cuddling up with a good book. And it's even better with a classic novel, right? But classics can sometimes be ... kind of funny. In a hilarious series of comics, illustrator John Atkinson gives us some less-than-classic descriptions of the classic books you probably had to read in high school. In 1926,  The New York Times  described Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" as "a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame." Atkinson's description? "Lost generation gets drunk. They're still lost." Yeah, he gets it. Here are some of his favorite versions of the abridged classics: Of course, classics are classics for a reason. Many of these books are timeless favorites. We love them and many of us will read them repeatedly. But having a laugh about the things we enjoy can totally be good for the soul. Sourc...