Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Following in your parent’s footsteps by adopting their profession is pretty great. But it’s even better when you get to work alongside them after doing so! Holly Petitt and Keely Petitt are a mother and daughter duo. But something about them makes them much more unique than the average parent-child pair. The mother and daughter…

Any parent of teenagers knows how hard it is to get them out of bed in the morning. Teenagers love sleeping in on weekends, which is why it has come as such a welcome surprise that a story is going viral about a group of teenage boys who got up at 4:30am to shovel snow…

Organizing a wedding can be stressful, especially when you’re choosing bridesmaids and groomsmen, but one woman had the perfect solution to deciding. Fifth grade teacher Alexandra Stamps didn’t hesitate to ask her students to be her bridesmaids and groomsmen on her special day. The Science and Technology Elementary School teacher from Wichita, Kansas, married fiancé…

Jimmy Fallon apologized after a resurfaced video of him wearing blackface sparked outrage on social media — although it wasn’t the first time the video had circulated online. On Tuesday, a short video of the “Tonight Show” host impersonating Chris Rock in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch from 2000 went viral along with the hashtag…

When a winter storm threatened to dump several inches of snow on western Pennsylvania, a high school football decided it was in everyone’s best interest to cancel practice. So instead of lifting weights in the weight room, Bethel Park High School football coach Brian DeLallo instructed his players to “find an elderly or disabled neighbor…

The Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson and her sister Sophie broke a court injunction in order to protest fracking on a farmer’s land. Thompson trespassed on the farmer’s property and was given the shock of her life when the farmer approached her and sprayed her and her sister with foul-smelling manure. According to a report published…

The legendary voices of John Denver, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash and Roger Miller come together for this rare performance of the classic hymn ‘I’ll Fly Away.’–This beloved song was written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley. It was published in 1932 and became a hymn frequently performed in church services all over the world. In…

Woman writes this online after finding a disabled veteran in the parking lot A woman was trying to leave a Walmart parking lot after a long shopping trip when she noticed an old man in a wheelchair struggling to move. The elderly man was in the way as the woman tried to back her car…

Four Louisiana police officers were working their shifts as normal, and when they became hungry, they decided to go to Outback Steakhouse to grab a bite to eat for dinner. What they didn’t know was that as soon as they walked in the door, the manager and server took notice of their uniforms and planned…

People at times are struggling with a lot of adversity in their personal lives but will put on a brave front for the public. Country singer Luke Bryan has dealt with his fair share of grief but how he deals with it all, is very inspiring. In 2007, Luke Bryan received devastating news. His sister…