BY: CONNOR BRIAN How do you define beauty? Beauty is a quality that philosophers, artists, and intellectuals sacrifice themselves for and nearly bleed out to understand. Your conception of beauty drives every sexual tendency and choice of self-expression you will…
Green-thumbed billionaires are fighting climate change by dumping fossil fuel stocks
BY: TYLER FYFE In the 1980s South African apartheid was still at its peak. Legislation enacted by the white regime made protesting race laws by demonstrations or picketing punishable by imprisonment or whipping. So investment protest was born on American…
This odd bird lives likes a human with the family that rescued it
Penguin the Magpie was rescued as a baby by a boy named Noah and now the strange little bird has become part of the family. It comes and goes like a first year college student living an hour away from…
This artist uses a 200-gallon fish tank to create majestic landscapes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Artist Kim Keever turns Mother Nature into a fantasy with the use of water, paint and a fish tank. These unique works of art use a 200-gallon fish tank that is filled with water. Keever uses all…
How a selfie turned a high school dropout into one of Nat Geo’s greatest photographers
BY: TYLER FYFE Cory Richards is not your typical high school dropout. He was nearly homeless when he decided to use photography to educate himself . So far he has been to all seven continents, witnessed Polar bears standing on the…
4 best friends started the hippest vintage motorcycle and surf festival in Europe
BY: TYLER FYFE Blatantly ignoring the speed limit on a serpentine stretch of blacktop is the most effective therapy I’ve ever found. It’s a familiar meditation for The Southsiders— a group of 4 best friends who have been driving their custom Cafe…
Schools in Bangladesh are being built on boats to keep education active during floods
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ As climate change escalates, places like Bangladesh are in serious trouble. With 1,174 people per square kilometre – Bangladesh’s population density is the highest on a global scale. The rising sea levels are causing floods, destroying communities,…
These people are living like caged animals in Hong Kong’s cubicle homes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated areas. In a city where pedestrians are crammed like sardines, utilization of space is crucial. When apartments are cubicles stacked one on top of the other and…
My first time hiding legally purchased weed from a California State Trooper went like this
BY: TYLER FYFE We were somewhere in Southern California speeding down the blacktop in a rental car when we saw the sirens of a State Trooper. We still had a brown paper bag full of the weed we had bought…
Pope Francis is crucifying tax-evading churches that don’t help the needy
BY: SWIKAR OLI With each speech, Pope Francis is looking less and less like his predecessors and increasingly like a political leader. His latest target? Money-hungry churches. The pope told the Portuguese Catholic broadcaster Renascenza in a recent interview that…
Take a peek inside this magical 1969 hippie tree house village in Hawaii
BY: CONNOR BRIAN At the edge of a long winding beach road, on the shaded jungle island of Kauai, sat a tiny village paradise where clothing was optional, weed was smoked openly, and where love and freedom were the only…
Driver narrowly escapes from the heart of a forest fire and captures it all on video
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The Golden State is currently under fire. Enduring the most severe drought in over a century, forest fires have broken out across the west coast, charring the once green and blue hillsides into a dusty beige. Driving…
The 9 most powerful paragraphs in literature will give you a compass to enlightenment
BY: TYLER FYFE Those who read understand— literature is meant to nourish a starved reality with fresh perspective. Because outlook is a fragile thing. The mundanity of work, the blandness of a tired relationship, the familiarity of experience can lead…
I thought I was possessed, but I just had OCD
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN I would wake up every day with an exhausted stream of worries running through my mind. The same worries I was preoccupying over the night before and a month before that. I was living my life in…
Volkswagen just re-released everyone’s favourite hippy-van…but now it’s electric.
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Rumours have begun to circulate about the re-emergence of the iconic VW hippy-van, a beloved road-trip staple and unparalleled adventure machine. Board member, Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neusser spilled the beans at the recent New York Auto Show that…
Apparently Hitler made the Nazis get high as fuck on crystal meth before battle
BY: M. TOMOSKI It’s said that when Viking berserkers went into battle they would do so in a fit of rage which caused their enemies to soil themselves. Many historians believe that these crazed warriors were able to dig deep…
Drone footage of unparalleled Serengeti wildlife will get nature enthusiasts hot and bothered
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Filmmaker and photographer, Will Burrard-Lucas, managed to capture this unbelievable footage of the Serengeti’s stunning landscape and unparalleled wildlife in a matter of two weeks—a notion that would surely draw an insurmountable chorus of sighs from the…
An oil company accidentally admitted to global warming in this 53-year-old advertisement
BY: EDITORS In 1962, Humble Oil and Refining Company printed an advertisement in Life Magazine that at the time seemed harmless enough. But 53 years later the advertisement carries a much different connotation. Today fossil fuel use accounts for 57%…
California’s burning but suburban lawns are more lush than ever
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS California has often been seen as a land of wild possibility, whose city streets unravel for the ambitious like the scarlet rug of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. The promise and pull of a coastline peppered with long legs and…
This adventure kayaker’s unbelievable photos take zen to a whole new level
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Tomasz Furmanek gets in his kayak one leg at a time just like everyone else. Except once he’s in the kayak, he takes photographs worthy of a 30-second open-mouth drool that most kayakers could only dream of.…