BY: TYLER FYFE Thousands of dollars in renovations and several trips to Ikea later, the Works family found that although their life now looked like the picture-perfect images of home-décor magazines, between the marble-countertops and stainless steel appliances there seemed…
New solar powered floating farm can produce 8,152 tonnes of vegetables and 1,703 tonnes of fish a year
Javier F. Ponce and his team recently developed a sustainable floating garden system, run off of solar power, and estimated to produce over 8,152 tonnes of vegetables and 1,703 tonnes of fish a year. Ponce is an architect and founder…
Couples who camp together have better sex (and more of it)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Sometimes sex lives can become more habitual than sensual. If your sex life feels like work, you may just need a vacation. According to new research, the best way to break your habitual lack of satisfaction is…
The couple from Idaho who changed the way we think about wild wolves (Photos)
As a child, Jim Dutcher had a fascination with nature—particularly the backcountry of the mountains and the animals that lived within them. Once, while exploring the woods, he encountered a curious grey wolf for the first time. It seemed unafraid…
Bastardilla is the female street artist making Colombia confront gender inequality
BY: LAURA ROJAS Colombia is often recognized for its vibrant art scene and culture, with big names such as painter Fernando Botero and Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez calling Colombia home. But aside from excelling in fine arts, Colombia’s…
This couple bought a cave for $1 and turned it into an incredible tiny home
BY ZOE MELNYK With a steep housing market and difficulty finding a stable job, young people are turning to cave homes for a more affordable alternative. This young couple in particular, Alexis Lamoureux and Lotte van Riel, managed to buy…
How Archie Karas turned $50 into $40 million at the casino
Gambling has been around since the dawn of man. It’s likely the wheel was invented because someone bet it couldn’t be done. Still, hearing about winning big at the casino is as rare as seeing a white person with dreads…
France just made it illegal for supermarkets to waste food, punishable by $75,000 or jail
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the past few months France has established a number of green initiatives in response to a severe air pollution spike and an increasing demand from activists and an ecologically-concerned population. In the wake of their green roof…
Meet the man who quit money 15 years ago and hasn’t looked back since
BY: Jack M. Daniel Suelo may be the happiest man on Earth. He was born Daniel Shellabarger 54 years ago and spent much of his life in Arvada, a mid-sized community near Denver, Colorado. Fifteen years ago, in his late…
New cannabis coffee lets drinkers start their day on a “high note”
BY: MATTHEW CHIN With the legalization of recreational marijuana use in some states, the pot industry is rapidly expanding. In a study by The ArcView Group, the marijuana industry is one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. with…
This start-up allows you to quit your job and become a working nomad
BY: MATTHEW CHIN In a job market with global unemployment feared to increase from the current 201 million unemployed by 11 million by 2019, the opportunity to work while travelling can feel far out of reach. With many workers feeling like…
Street artist turns trash into animal sculptures to remind us that pollution kills (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Artur Bordalo is a Portuguese street artist who began to keenly observe the way humans recklessly dispose of their garbage. He looked at the bald tires and tattered furniture that was littered around the neighbourhood alleys…
This man exposes the fucked up industry that milks living bears’ organs to mix with vodka (Video)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA In Vietnam, bear-bile is in high demand. Mixed into vodka as a status symbol, or ingested to reap a number of falsely-believed ‘medicinal benefits’, bear-bile serves a completely useless industry of ignorance and severe animal cruelty.…
The world’s most dangerous drug could turn anyone into a puppet without you even knowing
BY: VICTORIA STUNT You’re alone in a grey city plaza in the centre of Bogota, Colombia when a man comes to sit beside you. You get to chatting and after a while, he offers you a cigarette. You accept, and…
How Medellín used urban planning as a weapon to fight violent cartels and won
BY: VICTORIA STUNT A little girl, about three years old, is the only passenger on a miniature merry-go-round. The tiny horses are delicately painted. A tattered “Pilsen” beer umbrella is used to shade them, instead of the usual over-decorated roof…
Watch two death-defying daredevils fly jetpacks through the skies of Dubai in 4k
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet are one of the few people in the world with working jetpacks— and they have taken flying them to a fucking art form. Rossy, a forerunner in the field of propelled-human-flight, created…
A stalker stole my identity on Facebook, threatened my life and no one did shit
BY: NICOLE SCHMIDT It’s late. The sun had dipped behind the buildings of the London Ontario skyline hours ago and a dimly lit moon is suspended in its place. Illuminated by nothing but the faint glow of the sky, the…
Best friends build a village of tiny houses in the middle of nowhere
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA On the Llano River in Texas stands a line of houses testament to a 20-year friendship. Four couples decided that the suburban grind was getting in the way of what matters most in life—friends and family.…
Video games increase learning capacity, hand-eye coordination and response time
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Contrary to popular belief that video games can only have a negative effect on your brain and attention span, a new study has discovered the opposite: video games positively impact cognition, perception and attention. Researchers at the…
Design student invents a contraption that creates water from thin air
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS An industrial design student in Vienna has created a product that uses the air’s moisture to fill a water bottle attached to a bike, but he has higher hopes than just fuelling bike riders travelling long distances:…