A lot of us have that one movie we’ve seen so many times that we know every detail of every scene. 

For Mary Queen of Scots star Saoirse Ronan, that movie is apparently the 2011 comedy classic Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy. 

On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon tested Ronan’s knowledge of the movie and it turns out she remembers every. Little. Detail.

Details like the nickname given to the flight attendant (“Stove. He’s an appliance,”) and which cast members were roommates in real life (Rebel Wilson and Matt Lucas).

Very impressive.

A lot of us have that one movie we’ve seen so many times that we know every detail of every scene. 

For Mary Queen of Scots star Saoirse Ronan, that movie is apparently the 2011 comedy classic Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy. 

On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon tested Ronan’s knowledge of the movie and it turns out she remembers every. Little. Detail.

Details like the nickname given to the flight attendant (“Stove. He’s an appliance,”) and which cast members were roommates in real life (Rebel Wilson and Matt Lucas).

Very impressive.

Your hands are not the only part of your body that can “jazz.” Well, that’s according to Catherine Zeta-Jones. 

On The Late Show, the actor — who’s currently starring in Queen America on Facebook Watch —introduced Stephen Colbert to “jazz face,” something she mastered on the set of Chicago. 

“You don’t know what jazz face is?” Zeta Jones asked before giving a pretty convincing demonstration. 

Colbert’s attempt at jazz face was… less convincing. 

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2018 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

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Last year a survey from a kid ride-sharing service found that nearly 40 percent of parents with kids between the ages of 6 and 17 spend more than 5 hours a week driving their kids to school and activities. With only 168 hours in a week, offloading that time to a car service can seem like a saving grace. 

So several companies have stepped up to shuttle your kids around for you. Despite Uber and Lyft’s popularity, they and similar ride-hailing apps don’t allow unaccompanied minors. So that leaves parents depending on carpools, favors from other parents, or buckling in for another soccer practice run. That’s where so-called kid-friendly car services offer another way to get kids where they need to go — without parents involved.

Just like Lyft and Uber are car services intended for adults, there are apps made with kids as the primary customer. These can work since the drivers meet state and local requirements for transporting young people. The companies require extensive background checks, fingerprinting, and clean driving records, along with other standards about driving habits and vehicle condition. 

Parents using the apps can track where and when kids got picked up in real-time and see when they make it to their destination. It’s like when a friend sends over their ride so you can track when they’ll finally meet up.

The kid-friendly ride-hailing scene is still fairly small and mostly found in a few major metro areas across the U.S. For those determined to find a Lyft-like service for your kids here are some of the apps available.

A bit less “on-demand” than Uber and Lyft, but the app lets a parent or caregiver schedule pick-ups for kids age six and up, whether it be from school or swim lessons. A CareDriver will pick up your kid and you get notified when you schedule who will be driving. Once the ride is in progress you can track the it and see where they’re headed. 

Similar to HSD, Zūm gives adults scheduling power for planned pick-ups with one-time or consistent rides. The minimum age is five. 

Earlier this month Zūm announced its expansion into the Los Angeles area. It also signed service agreements with more than 100 new school districts in the past year. Schools use the service as a bus alternative.

Another child pick-up service that lets parents schedule rides and track pick-ups, Kango has a monthly subscription fee on top of individual ride fares that parents pay through the app after a ride is complete. Rides are available for children two and older, and booster and car seats are available for no extra charge. 

Several cities have car services for kids that only operate in that location, like Bubbl in Dallas with off-duty police officers as drivers or Kid Car in New York. Then there’s the world of kid carpool services. It takes a village.

BYO Carseat

You can always ride with your kids in a Lyft or Uber, even if you’re traveling with youngsters who require a car seat, though you may have to bring it yourself.

Uber has a special forward-facing car seat option you can request in the app, but it’s only available in a handful of cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. It’s known as “Uber Car Seat” and adds a $10 surcharge to UberX rides.

Lyft also has a car seat mode for children over a year old, but only in New York City. For riders there you can select a “car seat” ride type in the app. It’s also an additional $10 for the seat, which is an IMMI Go forward-facing car seat.

You can bring your own car seat (or booster seat) for your kids to ride in. Uber said riders who have one can put them into cars they order, no extra charge, but your kids are still considered a separate passenger so if you’re in a shared ride your child is charged as a second person.

As you were probably expecting, there’s no easy (or cheap) solution.

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Samsung still hasn’t officially launched a flagship smartphone with a notch, but it sure looks like it’s seriously considering the idea. 

At a demonstration held during Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit in Hawaii on Tuesday, Samsung showed off a 5G phone with a very interesting notch, located in the upper-right corner of the device. 

Very little is known about the device, except that it’s used to showcase 5G video streaming, but judging from the photos, it appears that the phone’s selfie camera is located within the notch. 

And while the entire thing looks a bit crummy (the notch appears too big, and the camera’s location is odd), it actually looks quite cool — if not very practical — when turned on (see photo below). 

Also, don’t forget that the device is a prototype, meaning it’s not polished for mass production. In fact, we may never see it in stores — prototypes often come and go without ever being turned into actual mass market products. 

Still, it’s interesting to see Samsung experimenting with the notch. The company steadfastly refused to cave in to the notch trend, and kept its flagship phones, such as the Galaxy S9 and the Note 9, notch-free. But reports say that the company’s upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S10, will have a “punch hole” cutout in the display to accommodate for the selfie camera. Samsung’s notch-less phones were perfectly fine as they were, but now that other companies, such as Huawei, are copying Samsung’s “round edges” display, the company may be looking to make its lineup a bit more interesting.

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Experts share their advice for parents on how to raise kids with a healthy relationship to technology.

What’s your hottest take? 

Whether it’s putting pineapple on pizza or actually liking Ed Sheeran’s sense of style, everyone has a divisive opinion that’s bound to tear apart families. And why keep your terrible thoughts to yourself when you can share them on the internet in glorious meme form? 

The meme prompts viewers to “find the people” who identify with certain traits, only to present them with a crowd of diverse emoji. 

“Can’t find them?” the meme asks. “That’s because they live among us, looking like normal people. The only difference is they’re going to hell.” 

The meme was born when Twitter user rudy_mustang’s tweet about smoking weed went viral.

“They live among us” is like a more snarky version of the recurring ASCII sign bunnies — but instead of holding signs, the meme directly calls out its viewers. 

Since then, the joke format blew up to personally attack every subculture of the internet. 

Twitter users adapted the format to call out viewers, too. 

Occasionally, though, the meme takes a more wholesome turn. 

Instead of yelling your spicy opinions into the void, just share them through this meme.

There are many great human goalkeepers, but a dog might just join those ranks.

A soccer match between Argentinian teams Juventud Unida and Defensores de Belgrano nearly ended in mild disaster on Sunday, when a Defensores keeper kicked the ball into the back of an opposing player.

With an open goal behind the keeper, the situation could’ve ended in embarrassment. But as you’ll see, a rogue dog on the field managed to pull off one of the saves of the year.

The ball deflected off the well-placed canine, and rolled away from the goal, preventing what would’ve been an easy tap in.

Despite the dog’s efforts, accidental or not, Juventud went on to win the match 3-0. Time to sign the pooch up.

Not yet feeling the holiday season vibes? Let this duet from Saoirse Ronan and Jimmy Fallon grow your Grinch-sized heart.

For the The Tonight Show on Tuesday, the pair channeled a good ol’ fashioned Irish pub lock-in, when everyone in town heads to the local drinking establishment for a little singalong.

The chosen song? Well, seeing as though Ronan, born in America, raised in Ireland, is involved, it has to be The Pogues classic ballad “Fairytale of New York” right? 

And-a one, two, three, four…

Since 2015, Sesame Workshop and LEGO Foundation have worked together in India, Mexico, and South Africa to give children in need the opportunity to learn through play. Now, for the first time, they’re teaming up to address the specific needs of children in crisis settings. 

On Wednesday, the LEGO Foundation announced it would award Sesame Workshop a $100 million grant over a five-year period to support children affected by the Rohingya and Syrian refugee crises. Sesame Workshop will use these funds to provide play-based learning opportunities through mass media programming and direct services, which include a play-based curriculum and safe spaces for children to play. Sesame videos, storybooks, games, and other materials will feature your favorite characters, as well as new characters.

The LEGO Foundation was inspired to make the grant after the awarded Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) $100 million last December to educate children displaced in the Middle East. 

“We were really impressed, first of all, because we feel like this issue needs a lot more attention,” says Sarah Bouchie, the head of learning through play in early childhood programme at LEGO Foundation. “Children in humanitarian settings are not getting the stimulation, growth, support, and play-based learning that we feel they really need.”

A report by the UN Refugee Agency found that 68.5 million people were displaced worldwide in 2017. Children below 18 years of age made up about half of the refugee population.

Sherrie Westin, the president of global impact and philanthropy for Sesame Workshop, points to research showing children need play in order to learn and grow. That can mean building empathy or imagination, or learning about cause and effect by knocking down a toy tower. 

Westin says such “joyful” learning is critical for a child’s brain development, especially during their first five years of life, which is why Sesame Workshop will work with Syrian refugees from 0 to 8 years old, and Rohingya refugees 0 to 6 years old in Bangladesh. Westin says these young refugees, who often endure conflict, neglect, and violence, are at greatest risk for the detrimental effects of trauma, which can have lifetime consequences. Adverse effects include trouble managing and expressing emotions and difficulty regulating impulses. 

Image: Ryan Donnell / Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop plans to test a variety of approaches to learn the most effective ways to reach young children in crisis. Westin says that Sesame’s partnership with IRC is important because it combines mass media and direction intervention. Sesame Street provides broadcast and educational materials, such as storybooks, puzzles, and video featuring the Muppets of Sesame Street, while the IRC offers direct services like home visits.

Westin says that it’s important to tailor materials and models to the region and children’s needs. For example, the majority of Syrian refugee children are in host communities, not camps. As a result, Sesame Workshop will rely on home visits to reach the most vulnerable children and their caregivers. The organization is also in the process of developing an all-new Arabic production of Sesame Street featuring a character who leaves their home and becomes best friends with another character from the region. The intention is to reflect story lines to which refugee children can relate. In addition to Syrian refugee children, Sesame Workshop hopes to reach non-refugee children in Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. 

“It’s really important that we’re reaching refugee children as well as their new neighbors because we’re modeling respect, understanding, and inclusion,” says Westin.

Image: Tara Todras-Whitehill for the International Rescue Committee / Sesame Workshop 

In Bangladesh, the majority of Rohingya refugee children are in camps and have less access to traditional and mobile media. Sesame Workshop will focus on learning materials that cater to the needs of refugee children and direct services. BRAC, an international organization based in Bangladesh that aims to end poverty, has been working with the LEGO Foundation since 2015. It is now partnering up with Sesame Workshop to offer programs that will help nearly 1 million children learn through play. Sesame Workshop is also looking to provide more non-verbal, animated content to reach as many children as possible. 

Image: Ryan Donnell / Sesame Workshop

To test how effective these strategies are, the Sesame Workshop has partnered with a research center at New York University. Westin says they are looking to measure increased engagement between parents and children, developmental progress, and improved verbal communication. Sesame Workshop plans to share its successes and mistakes with the larger humanitarian community so that everyone can learn. 

“Part of the hope is that just as MacArthur inspired LEGO … this will inspire others to invest in early childhood in refugee settings so that we can really transform humanitarian response,” says Westin. “The hope is that this will be sustainable and expansive.”