BY: ZOE MELNYK Ben Lecomte, 47, will attempt to be the first man to swim 5,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean in hopes to raise awareness about water pollution and the importance of living sustainably. This will not be Lecomte’s…
I ran away from home and learned more about life than all 4 years of high school combined
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH No one expected this from me. I wasn’t a goody-goody, but I was a decent kid. I had straight A’s, took AP classes, was the president of the suicide prevention club, wrote for the school paper, and…
Non-conformist teenagers formed a punk society in the abandoned buildings of Leeds (Photos)
The economic recession can be most witnessed in Leeds, Yorkshire where many young people share a single bedroom between up-to-ten people and a few dogs. Born from harsh job market and financial strain, the deeply-rooted punk community began crafting homes…
You will soon be able to charge your phone by jacking off
BY: DANIEL KORN PornHub—yes, that PornHub—is releasing a product that will allow men and women to charge any device by making a quick, arousing trip to the bathroom. It’s called the WankBand, and it’s a piece of wearable technology that…
In 2014, K-Cups buried in landfills would circle Earth more than 12 times
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the words of my favourite fictional TV mom and coffee addict, Lorelai Gilmore, “ I need caffeine. Whatever form you’ve got. I’ll drink it, shoot it, eat it, snort it, whatever form it’s in. Gimme.” I…
Protests ignite across Canada in response to Bill C-51
REPORTING/ INTERVIEW: ROB HOFFMAN On Saturday, March 14th protestors flooded the streets of downtown Toronto in opposition to the Conservative Party’s “anti terror” Bill C-51. Protestors gathered at Queen and University, about 500 strong, before preceding into the entertainment district…
8 reasons why Hemingway was the most interesting man in the world
BY: TED BARNABY Ernest Hemingway completed seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works in his lifetime—and three more novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction works that were published after his death. He received the Nobel…
This Dutch village with canals instead of roads is the unspoiled definition of serenity (Photos)
BY: ZOE MELNYK PHOTOS BY: MARTIEN JANSSEN Located in the Dutch province of Overijssel, this quaint little town, also referred to as “Venice of the North,” relies exclusively on sidewalks, biking trails, and narrow rivers to navigate through the village.…
This sex expert shows women how to weightlift and move furniture with her vagina
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Kim Anami’s last name means “unnameable one” in Sanskrit. It’s a name she’s chosen for herself. Unnameable seems like the appropriate choice. Throughout her life she has become too many things to just be one: a mother,…
This innkeeper is offering her $900,000 lakeside inn to the writer of the best 200-word essay
BY: JESSICA BEUKER If you can write, then you can become the owner of a 210-year-old inn that sits peacefully in the lakes and mountain district of Western Maine. Normally this B&B, straight out of a Nicholas Spark’s novel, with…
How do we fix the rampant sexism in the tech industry?
BY: DANIEL KORN Diversity is important. Everyone pretty much understands this when it comes to strategies for success —investment brokers advise their clients to have a diverse portfolio, artists are encouraged to learn as many different mediums and styles as…
There is now a treatment that lets you change your eye colour from brown to blue.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER People have long been obsessed with blue eyes. On my trip to Japan, I had people on the street stop me so that they could take a picture of my blue eyes—numerous times. I had a friend…
This artist drew self-portraits on 50 different drugs (Photos)
BY: DANIEL KORN Bryan Lewis Saunders is a Tennessee-based performance artist, poet, and illustrator who has drawn at least one self-portrait every day since March 30, 1995. As of now, he has over 8,700 self-portraits, collected in stacks of hardbound…
What if we explored our hometowns with the same eyes we travel with? (Video)
Filmmaker, Sebastian Linda, asks a profound question: “What if we lived in the same way we travel?” When you’re on the road, life seems to function with a heightened sense of excitement, lucidness and serendipity—no matter what you do, or…
These new apartments with moving walls could re-organize your life.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In an age of 500 square foot condos, here’s a radical idea: the creation of a house whose walls literally move in order to create a larger space. The story of PKMN Architecture’s “All I Own House”…
This neuroscientist thinks he can perform a human head transplant by 2017
BY: DANIEL KORN There’s a Philosophy 101 thought experiment called Theseus’s Ship. The paradox goes like this: say I have a wooden sailboat, and I want to replace every plank of wood on the thing one-by-one. The planks are made…
St. Elmo is an American ghost town decaying in the heart of Colorado
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Deep in the Colorado Rockies is the abandoned mining town of St. Elmo. Old wooden sidewalks creak and dance-halls where sounds of lively music and foot stomping used to flood out onto the streets are now silent,…
Since 3-years old, this girl has had an extraordinary connection with animals (Photos)
Since she was 3 years old, Amelia has exhibited an extraordinary connection to nature. Her mother, Robin Schwartz, has photographed the candid moments and compiled them in a book called Amelia and the Animals. Schwartz writes about the natural manner…
Is “The Great Distraction” keeping us passive and uninformed?
BY: RYAN BOLTON We all love a good distraction. I’m pretty sure that’s why social networks were invented. I’m pretty sure that’s why BuzzFeed and Kim Kardashian have colossal followings. That’s why there are soap operas, One Direction and Kanye…
These photos show you the dark underbelly of Sao Paulo’s graffiti culture
For many of you who aren’t familiar with the underground graffiti world, it is as much an extreme sport as it is an art. Choque Photos is friends with many graffiti writers and captured some amazing action shots of the…