BY: ZOE MELNYK 13-year-old Logan LaPlante discovered a way to revolutionize the idea of education through a new brand of homeschooling called hackschooling. Hackschooling stresses that passion is the best teacher, and although hacking is generally met with a negative…
Gay conversion therapists are convincing victims they have a “cure” for being gay
BY: MICHAEL LYONS [Warning: This article mentions torture and sexual abuse.] Can gay people be “cured” with reparative therapy? The long answer is one that’s tangled with a history of spiritual, legal, medical and social discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual,…
Student co-op housing is lightening the weight of crippling debt
BY: DANIEL KORN Common wisdom dictates that when it comes to institutionalized post-secondary education, you get what you give. It’s the time to open yourself to new experiences, knowledge, and people, so it’s no surprise that students often find that…
These mind-bending paintings will snap your perception in two
The beautiful paintings of Canadian artist Robert Gonzales have a way of twisting your perception gently before snapping it in two. There is a blurred boundary between the multiple stories that are told, compelling the viewer to skip back and…
This man built an isolated house in the middle of a raging river (video)
In 1968, Milija Mandic and his friends ventured out into the middle of the river Drina in Serbia to build an isolated dream club-house. Though the cabin has been knocked over six times from flood and storm, Mandic has persistently…
Frozen diseases are becoming unearthed due to global warming
BY: SINEAD MULHERN A group of 16 Canadian archaeologists dug up a 700-year-old virus encased in frozen caribou dung in the Northwest Territories. While this might sound like a load of shit, when they sent it to a lab for…
Alaska’s Mt. Marathon is the ultimate race for danger-seeking outdoor adventurers
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Loose rock, steep climbs and slippery mud are just the basics of what runners racing Alaska’s Mt. Marathon Race will encounter. This is an adventurous race for weathered and serious runners. This race in Seward, Alaska is…
This 19-year-old invented a prosthetic arm that you can 3D print for free
BY: DANIEL KORN Need a hand? 19-year-old Easton LaChapelle has a mechanical one for you that is more advanced than standard limited-motion prosthetics. Oh, and its 3D printing schematics are available for free, courtesy of his accessible technology start-up Unlimited…
This 28-year-old snuck into Ivy League schools to life hack a free education
BY: JESSICA BEUKER From the moment your parents tell you you’ll one day move out and go off to college to the time spent sitting in your high school guidance counselor’s office looking through university brochures, higher education is going…
These bi-racial twins are living proof that race is a social construct
BY: JESSICA BEUKER People, too often, are obsessed with categories. We have this innate desire to place people into little boxes: male or female, gay or straight, black or white. This system however, is not only flawed, but also damaging.…
How these 7 high-profile leaders and CEOs faked their way into million dollar positions
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Between credential inflation, tuition hikes, professors claiming poverty level wages and a generation of increasingly fed up and chronically stressed out students—the prospect of enrolling in post secondary education looks bleak. All of this, let me remind…
These darkly humorous photos show the reality of being married with kids (Photos)
Susan Copich is a former actress and a mother of two from New York, who has taken a dark but humorous approach to family photography in a series of photos she calls “Domestic Bliss”. “If you’ve met me, I have…
These cyber-thieves have stolen up to $1 billion from world banks and haven’t been caught
BY: ZOE MELNYK Hundreds of millions of dollars were recently stolen from banks across the world by criminals without the use of traditional guns and ski masks. In fact, they have never even set foot in the banks they’re stealing…
These wind turbines disguised as trees could populate city streets.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Jerome Michaud-Lariviere has invented The Wind Tree, a windmill that looks like a tree. Made of metal, it has 72 fake leaves that are actually turbines, and looks like a piece of art. The most significant part:…
If you’re sick of suburbia and paying heating bills, Earthships might be your way out
BY: DANIEL KORN Earthships, created by architect Mike Reynolds, are houses constructed with a combination of natural and recycled material that have been built for minimal reliance on public utilities or fossil fuels. Structural walls are typically made of recycled…
Behind the scenes of the world’s largest fetish convention (Photos)
Each year thousands of people flock to Fetish Con, a sexual wonderland that embraces every desire from S&M, to exhibitionism, to tickling, and verbal humiliation. For 15 years this convention has provided a safe space where amateurs and seasoned kink…
Why an out-dated Sex Ed program is dangerous to student health
BY: SINEAD MULHERN In 1998 I sat cross-legged in my grade one classroom in Alberta during my first ever lesson about sex. Our teacher was teaching us proper body part names. She sat at the top of the classroom having…
Incredible photos of Shaolin monks show the ability of mind to overcome anything
Photographer Steve McCurry took these photos from the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province. They document the rigorous and sometimes brutal training routines that monks must endure in order to elevate themselves to the higher planes of consciousness. Shaolin monks have two…
This former engineer quit his job to travel the world in a van
BY: ZOE MELNYK After years of dreaming about traveling the world, Mike Hudson finally made the decision to quit his job as a systems engineer and begin life on the road in a renovated LDV Convoy. Hudson began implementing his…
This imagination exercise can help you become healthier, more creative and less depressed
BY: CONNOR BRIAN It is necessary to know that two distinct selves exist within us: the active conscious and the remembering unconscious. The conscious self possesses a very unreliable memory, while the unconscious registers everything, without our knowledge, even the…