--- description: Every Friday we round up some stories you might have missed this week and publish them in one neat little post. title: Mother Made Son's Grave into a Sandbox to Help His Brother Grieve More Easily image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # ICYMI: Mother Made Son's Grave into a Sandbox to Help His Brother Grieve More Easily by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2014 9:26 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2014 9:26 PM CUT A mother lost her son after going into premature labor, and she had a sandbox made at the grave to make it easier for his 3-year-old brother to mourn. ([People.com](http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20796530,00.html "undefined")) In honor of March 14, Buffalo Bills players spell out Pi with their numbered jerseys. ([Buffalo Bills Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/BuffaloBills/photos/a.75862470658.111835.72631215658/10152242031690659/?type=1 "undefined")) Some scientists think a pygmy T-rex roamed the Arctic. ([National Geographic](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140313-new-species-dinosaurs-tyrannosaurus-rex-animals-science/ "undefined")) Trend alert: How baby boomers are planning eco-friendly funerals. ([New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/fashion/baby-boomers-are-drawn-to-green-and-eco-friendly-funerals.html "undefined")) A true romantic, a blanket octopus has a tentacle that it fills with sperm, rips off, and gives to a female, which then squeezes it over her eggs like “a tube of toothpaste.” ([NPR](http://skunkbear.tumblr.com/post/79492757666/the-mighty-tremoctopus-behold-and-heres-some "undefined")) This London modeling agency representing women with multicolored hair and piercings bills itself as the “anti-modeling agency.” ([The Daily Beast](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/11/london-s-anti-agency-a-new-breed-of-modeling.html "undefined")) An interactive map of the world’s billionaires. ([Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2014/03/11/meet-the-richest-billionaire-in-every-country/ "undefined")) Watch this beautiful data visualization of air traffic over Europe. ([Fast Company](http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027643/24-hours-of-flight-paths-over-europe-visualized-in-a-gorgeous-video "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/25313/icymi-mother-made-sons-grave-into-a-sandbox-to-help-his-brother-grieve-more-easily/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/25313/icymi-mother-made-sons-grave-into-a-sandbox-to-help-his-brother-grieve-more-easily/"},"headline":"ICYMI: Mother Made Son's Grave into a Sandbox to Help His Brother Grieve More Easily","datePublished":"2014-03-14T21:26:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:49.714Z","description":"Every Friday we round up some stories you might have missed this week and publish them in one neat little post.","url":"https://time.com/25313/icymi-mother-made-sons-grave-into-a-sandbox-to-help-his-brother-grieve-more-easily/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/25313/icymi-mother-made-sons-grave-into-a-sandbox-to-help-his-brother-grieve-more-easily/","name":"ICYMI: Mother Made Son's Grave into a Sandbox to Help His Brother Grieve More Easily"}}]}] ```