Imagine your life became one permanent adventure; one where you were free to travel to remote locations undeterred by a lack of accommodations or the need to make next month’s rent. You don’t need tens of thousands of dollars to…
If aliens exist, the Fermi Paradox is the reason we haven’t found them
BY: DANIEL KORN “Where are they?” This is the question that physicist Enrico Fermi asked his colleagues at lunch one day in 1950, after a jovial discussion about the prevalence of aliens in popular culture at the time. We’ve discussed…
This international festival takes place in hammocks hanging from the Italian Alps
BY: TED BARNABY Since 2012, Monte Piana, Italy has been the meeting grounds for highlining thrill-seekers everywhere, resulting in one of the world’s most unique festivals: the International Highline Meeting. As you may have noticed from your local parks this…
This 80-year-old woman gave birth to her son when she was 74.
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Anyone who has a child knows that their work is cut out for them taking care of the little guys. 80-year-old Omkali Singh is going through just that right now. Her son, Amritwana, is six. This Indian…
Miracle Village is the quiet Florida town populated almost entirely by sex offenders
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Nestled in Florida’s south, in the impoverished area of Palm Beach County and in the midst of sugar cane fields is a place called Miracle Village. It’s a place with a description that doesn’t really match its…
This man lost his wife and his job, so he took an epic motorcycle journey until the road ran out (PART 2)
31: Skagway, old port town of the Klondike Gold Rush. We met some super fun local girls who were incredibly cool and showed us around. 32: We returned the favour and I gave one of them a few rides! Thanks…
This man lost his wife and his job, so he took an epic motorcycle journey until the road ran out (Photos)
BY: TED BARNABY About four months ago, 26 year-old Sebastiaan de With and his friend, Stuart Philkill, returned from a motorcycle trip that captured the interest and imagination of young adventurers across the world. The photo gallery—highly popularized by Reddit…
People are actually wearing Kurt Cobain’s suicide note on their T-shirt for style points
BY: SINEAD MULHERN One of the Internet’s latest incomprehensibly stupid people has taken Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter, printed it on T-shirts and sold it on Etsy. Twitter exploded after one user tweeted a photo of the shirt along with the…
These pro skiers took to the hills naked for their latest shoot (Video)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN These skiers took the term “ski bum” literally. Valhalla now brings a feature film of 20 naked skiers tearing down the backcountry terrain in B.C. The video opens with a shot of the men and women from…
This company will turn your loved one’s corpse into a diamond after they die
BY: DANIEL KORN My uncle had this dog, a King Charles cavalier spaniel, who died when I was a kid. The next time we visited him at his house in Ottawa, my mom noticed he had this urn on his…
24 photos of the coldest village on Earth
Located a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle, and in the dead of the Russian Tundra, Oymyakon is the world’s coldest village on earth. It isn’t exactly a top priority travel destination, but for photographer Amos Chapple it was…
You can live for free in this beautiful gypsy cave-village in Spain (photos)
BY: TED BARNABY In the hills above Granada, Spain, lives a bright community of cave-dwelling free spirits occupying the tall white rock of Sacromonte. Their homes are a mix of rustic, simple beauty, and claustrophobia. Windows are often scarce in…
If this is how you text, you’re seriously messing up your spine
BY: DANIEL KORN Our modern lives revolve almost entirely around our phones and we’re still trying to figure out the effects of this new, connected, mobile existence. Researchers have been looking into how our frequent cell phone use affects our…
This disturbing photo-shoot of heroin junkies will make you re-think modern fashion (Video)
BY: LORAL AMIR AND GIGI ARTZI In the series “Downtown Divas” Loral Amir and Gigi Ben Artzi photographed heroin-addicted Russian prostitutes that they found beneath a bridge, in a city that for the safety of the women, must remain unnamed.…
These tree houses will make you want to give up on society and move to the woods (Photos)
Every child envisions building the most epic tree house of all time, but most creations end up being little more than crooked nails and soggy plywood that make you scared for your life to stand on. These warriors of the…
How artificial intelligence is the next stage of evolution
BY: BRIAN CAPITAO The brightest mind in physics has declared the end of the world at the hands of Artificial Intelligence. It sounds like science fiction, but is in fact the real world we live in. Doomsday reports proliferated in…
Cuddle cafés: you can now pay to snuggle with strangers
BY: SINEAD MULHERN You can now rent a cuddle partner when you’re at a peak of loneliness. Cuddle-based services that charge clients by the hour to cuddle with a stranger have hit Toronto. Vancouver company, Cuddlery, is arriving in Toronto…
Why people who sleep in are actually smarter than early risers
BY: TED BARNABY Believe it or not, researchers have actually determined that people who stay up late and sleep in all morning are typically more intelligent than those early to bed and early to rise. The original hypothesis was formed,…
Your electronics are designed to break
BY: DANIEL KORN Since buying into Apple’s infrastructure way back in 2004, I’ve had a lot of iPods crap out on me. The battery died on my Click Wheel iPod shortly after my warranty was up. I replaced it with…
How to quit your job and live on the beach for $650 a month
BY: TED BARNABY In a tough economy, retirement has become a major issue among the aging population, many facing the question of whether they’ll even be able to settle down at all. However, a long forgotten solution to the North…