BY: PILGRIM The Ivory Coast produces 1.6 million tons of cocoa beans per annum, making it the largest cocoa bean exporter in the world. Of course cocoa is the main ingredient in chocolate, a multi-billion dollar industry. However, within the…
The Rise Of Indie Developers Marks A New Frontier Of Gaming
BY: JESSICA BURDE Gaming made The New York Times recently over the internal explosion known as “#gamergate.” For people outside of the gaming community, all this furor is giving a very narrow and two dimensional look at a complicated and…
Catherine Hennessey’s Paintings Show The Transaction of Human Perception And Human Experience
BY: CATHERINE HENNESSEY Human perception is constantly seen through the looking glass of subjectivity, a tint formed by the collision of all colours of previous experience. As humans we are merely a collage of influence— a palate of watercolours through…
These Short Camping Trips Are A Way To Pursue Adventure Without Sacrificing Vacation Time
BY: DEXTER BROWN It’s not uncommon to find Grant Petersen asleep in the wilderness one night and then hard at work in one of the two stores he owns the next day. With a mere bike and whatever he could…
It’s Not A Joke; Cassette Tapes Are Experiencing A Modern Revival
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM When I saw local bands handing cassette tapes to audiences, I was initially dumbfounded. The well-known resurgence of vinyl was understandable; their full, original sound was well-known among music fanatics. But the rise of cassettes seemed to…
Eating Live Fish Might Just Be The Most Sadistic Meal On Earth (Video)
BY: TED BARNABY Ying Yang fish and Ikizukuri are delicacies in China and Japan, respectively. If you’re ever in the neighbourhood and feeling adventurous, these dishes are guaranteed to be the freshest seafood you’ve ever eaten. And I’m not talking…
Graphic Content and The Moral Gap In Western Journalism
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) says news subjects should be treated with “respect and dignity”; however, graphic content has journalists struggling with this task, particularly when covering stories abroad. Journalists, already facing possible scrutiny when…
Countrywide Ferguson Jury Protests Show Collapsing Faith In The Justice System
BY: JOHN DILLON “Hands up don’t shoot” fell from the mouths of thousands of protesters like bricks fell on the faces of the NYPD. Weaving through traffic and drumming on windows they marched through Manhattan’s Union Square. Minutes after a…
This Floating Laboratory Designed Like A Spaceship Will Expose The Secrets Of The Ocean
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS A French architect wants to boldly go where very few have gone before: to the bottom of the ocean. Jacques Rougerie has combined his love for the ocean and architecture to create the SeaOrbiter, a 190-foot tall…
He And She, Ze And Xe: The Case For Gender-Neutral Pronouns
BY: AL DONATO Gender as we know it is a lie. The male-female binary is a social construct, ignoring intersex, trans, genderqueer, and other non-binary individuals whose identities aren’t the same as the sex assigned at birth. Unfortunately, it’s a…
People of Toraja, Indonesia Unearth Corpses, Give Them Makeovers and Walk Them Through Town
BY: PILGRIM In the region of Toraja in South Sulawesi—a province in Indonesia—lives the tradition of Ma’nene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses. During the ritual, 100-year-old corpses are dug up, cleaned off, re-clothed and sent out to hit the…
The True Hippie Died When Narco-Capitalism Hit Goa
BY: TJ MOREY Present day Goa—dancing away into the haze of a drug-induced delirium, you will find a stereotypical hippie clamouring to keep sense of reality, or to whatever he can perceive of it. Mind you, this doesn’t come for…
This Ocean Energy Turbine Could Take The Whip From The Hands Of The Fossil Fuel Industry
BY: DAN BOIVIN We’ve all heard it before, a new technology comes along and promises to shift the balance of power in the world of energy, disrupting the “business as usual practices” we are all too familiar with. But then,…
The Instagram generation perceives every moment as an anticipated memory
BY: LAURA ROJAS Professor Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, did a TED Talk back in 2010 on the difference between experience and memory. His main thesis, and something I hadn’t even thought about prior to watching his…
Let’s Put Canadian Women On Bank Notes Already
BY: SINEAD MULHERN It’s 2014 and the Bank of Canada has yet to print a Canadian woman’s face on any of our country’s bank notes. In 2011, the Bank of Canada put The Famous Five and activist Therese Casgrain on the…
India Officially Recognizes “The Third Gender”. These Photos Show The Face of Transgender Struggle.
BY: SAHAR FADAIAN Cultural taboos, federal regulations, and family rejection have given the Transgender Women of South India little choices for survival. During the years that Sahar Fadaian lived in Bangalore, India she noticed that most “Hijra” have been defamed…
Raëlians believe that alien scientists designed humans. I went to one of their meetings.
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH I’m 15 minutes early for the November Raëlian meditation gathering. I have no idea what to expect. Aside from a few visits to church as a kid, I’ve never attended a spiritual meeting, let alone one for…
These Photos Of Exotic Pets And Their Owners Might Make You Reconsider That Golden Retriever
BY: KAILEE MANDEL Matt & Maura-Eurasian Eagle Owl Eurasian Eagle Owls are arguably the largest species of owls, with an average wingspan of 6.5ft. These owls usually build their nests on the edge of cliffs and prey on mammals the…
Forget Everything You’ve Heard: Satanism Sounds More Like Activism Than Blasphemy
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Satanists are making their way into our schools! Satanists are out to get our children! Satanists are trying to convert our nation’s kids to the dangerous, infective belief in critical thought… oh, the humanity! This isn’t an…
Peaches in panties: How peaches became the sexiest fruit on earth
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Mr. Yao might just be the world’s…ahem…cheekiest fruit vendor. The Chinese owner of online fruit shop, Fruit Hunters, has become famous for dressing up peaches in mini panties to sell as novelty items for Qixi – China’s…