BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS There’s a scene in the documentary Artifact where Thirty Seconds to Mars is deciding whether or not to take a deal their record label had offered. When Jared Leto and his two band mates tried to end…
Man breaks record for largest Christmas lights display in the name of altruism
BY: SINEAD MULHERN It’s like a scene straight out of Dr. Seuss’s Whoville. A man named David Richards has created a Christmas light display so big it could rival Martha May Whovier’s. It’s also broken a Guinness World Record. The…
Happy holidays from the Satanists!
BY: MICHAEL LYONS It’s that magical time of year, when we gather around a roaring fireplace to hear that story we all know and love: On a night many years ago, a star was shining in the sky. Inspired by…
Circus animals are banned in the UK
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Circus-performing animals in the UK are being given an early retirement thanks to a new ban passed by the British parliament. Starting December 2015, all wild animals will be banned from circuses in the UK— no exceptions.…
Why North America needs Krampus, the Christmas devil who drowns children
BY: AL DONATO He’s a black furry goat demon who throws duffle bags of kids into rivers and chills out with Santa Claus. What’s not to love? Krampus, a horned, pointy-tongued creature hailing from European legend, is like the Batman…
The world’s largest solar farm has nine million panels and is the size of a suburb
BY: TED BARNABY Over the last two years, nine million solar panels have been laid out across the California desert, constituting the world’s largest solar farm at nine and a half square miles in total. The Topaz Solar Farm, owned…
These independent comic book publishers are exposing the forgotten history of Canadian culture
BY: DANIEL KORN When asked who their favourite superheroes are, most people would answer with the typical DC or Marvel staples: Spider-Man, Superman, maybe Iron Man or Rocket Raccoon thanks to the newer movies. But not Hope Nicholson; she’s more…
As the Greenland ice sheet melts, so does Greenland’s culture. (PHOTOS)
BY: SEBASTIEN TIXIER When Sébastien Tixier travelled from 67 ° to the 77th parallel north to record the transformations, he found his fantasy cliché images of white landscapes dissolve before his eyes. Things are not always as we expect them…
The Gadhimai Festival is a bloody sacrificial ritual where 200,000 animals died in 2 days
BY: LAURA ROJAS Every five years, the sacrificial Gadhimai Festival takes place in the village of Bariyapur, a community located in southern Nepal near the Indian border. The festival claims the lives of thousands of animals in the name of…
Why this health-conscious woman switched to a diet of dog food
BY: DEXTER BROWN The paleo diet is all the rage these days, but the pricey meat, eggs and vegetables it requires can easily put a strain on tight budgets. After being on it for a year, writer Anne Kadet was starting…
This video game is designed to draw real blood from players
BY SINEAD MULHERN Jonathon Root and James Jarvis are testing out a new (and extreme) form of gaming that they think can be put towards a good cause. In a nutshell, they have hooked up an intravenous blood collector machine…
This woman remembers every day of her life in perfect detail: superpower or burden?
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In 2000, a woman named Jill Price sent the following note to a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine: “I am 34 years old and since I was 11, I have had this unbelievable ability…
Under the thumb of debt: modern music funding is in a sad and sorry state
BY: DANIEL KORN A few weeks ago, Jack Conte – co-founder of crowdfunding platform Patreon and well-regarded independent musician in his own right – wrote an article regarding the loss that his band Pomplamoose took on their last tour. The…
In 2018, New York City will get the world’s first underground park
BY: TED BARNABY New York continues to perpetuate its self-claimed tittle as “greatest city in the world” with the construction of the world’s first underground park. The underground park—complete with sunlight, trees, grass and all natural green space—is rising from…
Why staying with locals will always be better than staying at an all-inclusive resort
BY: SINEAD MULHERN The bartender pops the cap off a Heineken and sets it down in front of me. The green bottles behind him sit like a row of bowling pins each with a different city printed on its label.…
Photography of Tokyo in motion shows us the terrifying speed of modern life
BY: MATTHEW PILLSBURY Photographer Matthew Pillsbury dropped his tripod amidst the torrents of Tokyo’s cosmopolitan daily life. He created exposures to record up to 15 minutes of activity. He chose Tokyo because of the city’s astounding technological advances. The Japanese…
Art Spiegelman created the only graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, and it’s on display in Toronto.
BY: SINEAD MULHERN This winter, Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will be displaying rarely-seen art from illustrator and Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman. The exhibit titled, Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective, comes to the AGO on Dec. 20, 2014…
Scientific study confirms politicians are just as full of shit as you thought
BY: TED BARNABY The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology recently published a study that confirms the long time public suspicion that political parties will refute well-established scientific evidence (like climate change) if they do not like the proposed solution…
The seven incredible health benefits of doing a headstand
BY: TED BARNABY The headstand is a popular pose amongst Yoga enthusiasts, and with good reason. The inverted pose isn’t just done for fun, or because it looks cool. Headstands generate a surprising number of health benefits, both physical and…
Skyrunning is the brave and burly cousin of trail running
BY: GLEB VELIKANOV Try to imagine yourself running above the clouds, unobstructed by trees or landscape, the wind cooling your skin while the thin air makes your lungs burn, adding a challenging, adrenaline-spiked twist to trail running. Such a sport…