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…
Hackschooling lets students choose their own curriculum proving that passion is the best teacher
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…