BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Dreaming of a white Christmas? Or maybe waiting for Santa Clause on a beach is more your style. ‘Tis the season to give, celebrate, and visit with friends and family. It also happens to be the season…
Brothels, bars and mines- eerie photos of California’s ghost town show us what life was like in the 1800s
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town – Bodie, California – was discovered in 1859, and for the next 50 years it was home…
In a war-torn country, these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to save thousands of innocent people
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE In Syria bombs are being dropped daily onto innocent civilian villages, flattening thousands of homes and burying helpless townsfolk underneath the rubble. In the face of the blasts and fires that rage in the aftermath of the…
The world’s weirdest mammal could provide a new, effective treatment for diabetes
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS There’s no animal quite as memorable as the platypus. This slippery, aquatic holdover from the age of the dinosaurs sports an infamously improbable array of anatomical features that set it apart from just about every other…
Couple built their own solar electric VW bus and travels the west coast with their kids
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Brett Belan has always been passionate about clean energy. He gained an interest in building power plants as early as high school, and his passion has only developed and grown from there. With a Bachelor’s degree in…
The Adulting School is opening soon – and people are both excited and pissed off
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I can vividly remember my first week of university residence. Well, the parts that weren’t seeped in vodka and jagger bombs anyway. Our floor had one laundry machine, which was operated by our student cards. One evening…
Japan says no to animal cruelty by closing its last remaining fur farm
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP If you live in Japan and want a locally made fur coat, you’re out of luck. Animal activists in Japan can count 2016 as a huge success, as the last fur farm in Japan finally closed its doors…
Old people are lighting up and getting high more than ever before
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Time to stop drowning yourself in body spray, buying Visine in bulk and carrying around a smell-proof baggy wherever you go, because guess what: your parents and grand-parents are getting high as hell too. In a new study…
Save Our Snowmen campaign addresses climate change in the best way possible
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Winter, in my humble (yet not so popular) opinion, is the greatest season. Despite all of its shortcomings – the days are shorter, the trees have lost their leaves, it’s cold as fuck – it’s still the…
Meet the Hyperloop: The future of high-speed travel
BY: PHILIIPPE DE JOCAS It’s hard to remember that, at one point, rail travel constituted the height of mobility; the iron horse and its kingdom of rails dominated the world’s transit scene for the better part of a century. But…
Studies show that Earth will face mass extinction in the next 50 years
If you thought there was no way 2017 could be worse than 2016, unfortunately you are probably wrong. That is unless the new US government actually starts making strides to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While the recently signed Paris Agreement…
Study confirms that doubling your income doesn’t do shit for your happiness
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The old saying “money can’t buy happiness,” may actually be true. A new study reveals that having a loving partner has a much better impact on happiness than doubling your income. In the study, conducted by the…
If you’ve always wanted to join the mile high club, there’s an app for that
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Love is in the air. You no longer have to be travelling with a partner to join the mile high club thanks to the new app, AirDates. The app, which is basically the Tinder for the sky, will…
GMO Plant In Argentina Is Being Dismantled Thanks To Protestors
From the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, the March On Washington in the twentieth century to the current Dakota Access Pipeline protests in the twenty first century, the power of individuals standing up for what they believe in has…
Meet the man who is sailing solo around the world with just a chicken and a puppy (photos)
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP For most, travelling is a goal. We work, save and plan so for a couple of blissful weeks a year we can indulge in the adventure we crave. For some it’s relaxing on a beach in the…
Paris is spreading the love by selling their old love locks to raise money for refugees
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The City of Love has found a new way to spread the love. The famous trend of attaching locks to bridges in Paris has been a symbol of love for citizens and tourists since 2008. Last year,…
The bullshit reasons why contraceptives are so expensive
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE There have been countless debates in countries all over the world on the costs of contraceptives for women. Prices are sky high and getting a hold of these products is an infamously awkward and time-consuming experience. Condoms,…
Beware of the most ridiculous laws around the world that could get you locked up abroad
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Any good traveller does a bit of research before they go to a new destination. Looking into the local languages, food, customs, and the best tourist destinations are pretty standard travel practices. What about local laws? Most likely,…
New app lets you buy restaurant leftovers for under $5
BY: AISHA ILYAD You may ask yourself what on Earth restaurants do with their leftover meals? There are many types of food that don’t last for more than a day and are useless after one night. “Food for all” and…
Scientists have created a new drug that treats pain without any addictive consequences
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY It is a primal human desire to want to alter our consciousness through the use of substances, but when one becomes dependent on said substance that is when trouble ensues. In the past, we have thought of…