BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO As Gandalf lead the fellowship across Middle Earth, Akhil Suhas is channeling the character to lead us across New Zealand, the trilogy’s real life setting. “I wanted a recurring subject in my photos and with so many…
Double dick syndrome: the ugly truth about diphallia
BY: DUSTIN BATTY Diphallia, penal duplication, or more simply, double dick syndrome, is a medical condition wherein the subject is born with two penises. This condition may sound like a dream for some, especially since the man known only as…
London’s pollution fine will prevent air pollution in the city
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT London’s pollution has been a big problem. Some of you may remember the news last month about London exceeding its air pollution limits for 2017 in just five days. Fortunately, they have now announced that they’ll be…
Tiny House Communities: Best of
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For years a staple of the American dream was the big house in the suburbs. Bigger was better, even as family size continued to shrink. Today, home ownership is still very much seen as the holy grail…
Urban garden: herb garden ideas for your organic garden
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP After you learn how to transform that old patch of dirt in your backyard into an urban garden, you’ll have to decide which type of garden you want. Will it be flowers? Veggies? Fruits? How about herbs? An…
The Sahara desert welcomes back once extinct antelope species
BY BROOKLYN PINHEIRO In another win for the animal kingdom an antelope that was once extinct in the wild is grazing in the fields of the Sahara once more. It has been 20 years since the Scimitar-horned oryx roamed in…
Being kind: 10 easy steps to practice kindness everyday
BY: MAILE PROCTOR No matter what resolutions you made for 2017, there’s something we can and should all commit to this year and every year: being kind to others. According to a survey, 76 per cent of respondents said the…
Euopean Bellringers are using magic and noise to scare the winter away (photos)
Slavic culture is known for its ethnographic narratives; the mixture of profane, magic rituals and legends. Croatian culture is no different. In the end of the winter, when the trees are preparing to blossom, the winter is gone and the vision of…
Quiznos is adopting more ethical standards for its treatment of its chickens
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Oftentimes, we omnivores forget exactly what goes into what we eat from day to day – including the horrific treatment of animals in factory farms. While many food producers and restaurants don’t pay much mind to it…
This study is asking for help around the world to save at risk Natural World Heritage Sites
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP In the first ever global quantitative assessment of how humanity is negatively affecting Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS), things definitely could’ve looked better. NWHS are globally recognized sites that hold some of the world’s most valuable and…
Germany’s crowdfunded train takes to the rails
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Rail travel kicked off in Europe, and it’s no surprise that even now, though cars and trucks continue to rule the roost in Canada and the United States, Europeans ride the rails more often than their…
This Ottawa hospital was once deemed extraterritorial so a royal baby wouldn’t have Canadian citizenship
In 1943, an Ottawa hospital’s maternity ward was deemed “extraterritorial” so that a royal baby being born there would have full Dutch citizenship. During the second world war, the German military invaded the Netherlands. In the process, many cities were captured and…
Eco spaces and eco gardens: the 10 best sustainable initiatives around the world
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Eco spaces and eco gardens are the future of cities. As more cars fill up the streets, more condo buildings tower above us and pollution becomes more prevalent than ever before, cities around the world are searching…
Why I rarely want to talk about mental health because of my gender
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY It’s remarkable how much mental health is becoming more open and less stigmatized. The popular tweet across the globe that surfaces on the International Bell Let’s Talk Day is typically: “It’s okay not to be okay.” Truer…
Healthy eating habits: new science makes healthy eating easier
We’ve all tried to lose weight at some point or another in our lives. And every time the dietary advice is the same – eat healthy, limit your sugar intake, and consume more fruits and vegetables. Yeesh. Who hasn’t been…
Refreezing the Arctic, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love geoengineering
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS In the wake of the November 9th election, President Trump caused a furor when he announced that the United States would immediately withdraw from the historic Paris Accords upon taking office, sending shockwaves through the global…
Redditors shared their drug-related stories and they are hilarious
Drugs alter the chemical state of a person’s body and mind and essentially, doing drugs is bad for you. And we’re not talking about prescription drugs, but the addictive ones. There are the legal addictive drugs and illegal addictive drugs.…
The POD Initiative is creating a tiny home village for homeless women, and it could be just the beginning
BY: TIM O’NEAL Portland, Oregon, like many large cities, struggles with supporting its homeless population in a dignified way. According to Multnomah County, there are almost four-thousand homeless individuals sleeping on the streets on any given night in and around…
Annual Tribal Canoe Journeys are bringing back the lost traditions of Native Americans
BY: DUSTIN BATTY Many Native American cultural traditions have been lost due to the relentless impositions of Western culture during colonial times. One tradition that was at risk of being lost was the use of canoes by many West Coast…
A job in the UK will pay you to eat chips
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Imagine being paid to eat chips all day, every day. Seriously. A job ad in the UK is seeking people who can taste test Walkers chips for a living – well, a part-time living. PepsiCo UK, the American…