BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS What weighs nearly 36,000 kilograms, stretches over 12 metres in length, was born 30 some years ago and is white all over? If you guessed Migaloo the albino humpback whale you’re either an Australian who’s really into…
These are the 116 images NASA sent into space 30 years ago to explain our world to aliens
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Trudging through interstellar space at a steady 17 kilometres per second is, quite possibly, Earth’s best chance at extraterrestrial contact. Enter the Voyager 1 spacecraft. In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to study the…
This 27-year-old left school at 18 to travel the world and get a different kind of education
BY: TREVOR HEWITT At the age of 18, Christian Lindgren dropped out of school, let his lease run out and began travelling the globe. Fast forward nine years and Lindgren has visited 97 different countries—from Nigeria to North Korea. “Travelling has…
These eerie miniature sculptures are traveling the world to warn us about climate change (Photos)
BY: M. TOMOSKI Photos by: Isaac Cordal His installations have been seen on city streets across the world from London to Amsterdam, Montreal, Paris, Bogota, St. Petersburg and many more. They come as a surprise to passersby who stumble upon…
Fuck freewill – this lifehack will give you ultimate freedom
We all have them, but we seldom escape them. Like the undeniable pull of a black hole, habits direct our life – all of our life. You might know this person; maybe they have drunk Coca-Cola every day since they…
Hippie vans, off-grid and tiny homes: the New American Dream is measured by Instagram likes
By: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Rachel Bujalski was sharing a tiny apartment near Venice Beach with four other girls and paying $1,200 a month before she discovered how to live for free in California. She would still live…
22-year-old nails 4 world-first BMX tricks in a shape-shifting skatepark of optical illusion
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Peering over a 40 foot-high ledge, balanced on his front tire, Scottish BMX rider Kriss Kyle counts the seconds it takes for his beads of sweat to topple to the ground. It may seem contradictory but Kriss Kyle…
How citizens of Amsterdam used illegal protests to create the world’s most bike-friendly city
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The world’s top city for cycling wasn’t always so bike-friendly. A recent photo series shows certain intersections in Amsterdam around the beginning of the 20th century, then again in the ’70s and ’80s, and finally today—representing the…
Climate Change skeptic witnessed the largest evidence of climate catastrophe and caught it all on video
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photographer James Balog was with his crew in Greenland when they captured a massive chunk of glacier snap off and fall into the ocean. Balog and his crew were in the area hoping to capture some moments…
These adult colouring books will lower your stress and boost your creativity
BY: MELISSA BOODOO As you grow older, the beloved childhood hobby of colouring in as many colouring books as your heart desires gets forgotten. Societal views associate colouring books with children, making the older generation turn away from them –…
Photographer takes his rescue dog on epic adventures to let her experience ultimate freedom
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer Troy Moth freed his adopted dog from her past and took her on an adventure that is one for the books. Moth’s dog, Nikita, would tremor in the corner anytime he would show her a leash.…
Photographer and pilot capture amazing views of the world from up high
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Alex MacLean Photographer Alex MacLean uses his camera to show points of view that are not often seen — aerial views. MacLean says he flies in his airplane over what he wants to capture and…
Coyotes and wolves are mating to produce a glorious super-breed of majestic “coywolves”
BY: ROB HOFFMAN If there were any animal in the canine family that could touch the crushing majestic force of the wolf, it would be the coywolf. Coywolves are the product of natural coyote-wolf breeding habits, which have resulted in…
These 5 TED Talks will teach you how to learn more effectively and awaken your inner genius
BY: CONNOR BRIAN In the age of the Internet most of us are constantly plugged in, suckling on the voluptuous tit of information, filling ourselves sickly until the lessons we have learned overflow and spill out the rim of our…
Photo series shows our phones literally sucking away our souls
BY: MELISSA BOODOO Genuine human connection is getting harder and harder to find these days as we depend more than ever on our phones, laptops and computers as our main source of communication and entertainment. Why bother taking a streetcar…
This Muslim woman shuts down haters by donating $1 to UNICEF for every hate tweet she receives
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ She is a sociologist with a PhD at Monash University, but her intellectual level doesn’t stop people from undermining her based on her religious status. Susan Carland converted to Islam at the age of 19, and at…
Staggering landscape photos prove that Iceland is a travel photographer’s wet dream
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Photos: Jakub Polomski Rolling in a 4×4 SUV through the jagged coastline beside fields of lava, over rushing riverbeds, and beneath cascading waterfalls photographer Jakub Polomski fell in love with Iceland. Travelling over 4,000 km he experienced an…
New, paper-thin solar cells could bring electricity to 1.3 billion people in developing countries
BY: DANIKA MOIR By the end of the 1970s, it cost $40 for one watt of solar energy. By 2013, the price was drastically decreased to just $0.74 per watt. For those citizens in developing countries who wish to have…
Cabin Porn will make you lust for Mother Nature and inspire you to build your own getaway
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Cabin Porn images courtesy Little, Brown and Company, © 2015 by Zachary Klein In the middle of windswept plains, embedded within a staggering mountain view sits a cabin so beautiful that it could have stained the bed sheets…
Photographer hikes 130 km in Northern Sweden to prove a point about workaholic-worship
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ The West is full of workaholics, glorifying “business” and moving at a pace that often forgets to slow down now and then to actually live. Photographer Adelina Darvina realized she had allowed her busy schedule to consume…