Actor and director Ben Affleck is joining 20,000 other volunteer activists who have signed up to live on less than $1.50 a day for one week. People who sign up for The Live Below the Line campaign, which runs from April 29 to May 3, pledge to not spend more than $1.50 each day on food as a way to raise awareness for the 1.4 billion people globally who currently live below the line of extreme poverty. Those who sign up for the campaign can also select one of several international humanitarian initiatives helping to fight world hunger to make a donation to. So far, more than $175,000 has been raised … Discuss

Peter Braback, the CEO of Nestlé, has just about had it up to here with this world's bunch of lazy lowlifes who expect someone to just give them water, like it's a basic human right or something. Braback believes that water should be privatized like any other food, as opposed to certain organizations—who shall remain nameless—who just go around handing it out or digging wells of it for people. What do they think? That water is, like, earth's most plentiful natural resource or something? To hear some of these people talk, you'd think water just rains down from the sky ... Discuss

Toy Stories is an incredible new photo series from Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti that shows children from around the world posing with their favorite possessions. Over a period of 18 months, Galimberti traveled across the globe, meeting children, playing with them and asking them to choose their favorite toys. A few interesting anthropological notes: he said that children in poorer countries found sharing their toys easier, and were quicker to play. Also, as you'll see, economic status factors heavily into what toys children prefer to play with. You've got to see this ... Discuss