By: Andrew Uyeno Currently, a Calgary man is rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Halifax to France. He is attempting this incredible journey to raise $200,000 for cancer research. The strenuous adventure is nothing new for Laval St.Germain, who scaled…
These journalists are cutting through the bullshit and fear mongering of today’s media
BY: Victoria Heath For people who actually want to “change the world,” or at least stop themselves from making it shittier, news today is extremely frustrating. It’s primarily negative, full of the same pointless rhetoric, and riddled with bickering hosts…
Hipster “discoveries” are overshadowing historic culture – and locals are pissed
BY: Victoria Heath Jeffrey Almonte is only 19 years old, but he’s already amassed fame on YouTube and Facebook. A native of East Harlem, Almonte has posted plenty of viral witty and humorous videos on his social media pages, but…
In an extremely saturated industry, this Instagram photographer is going his own way
By: Andrew Uyeno Instagram has become one of the biggest apps in the world. It’s as if everyone with a phone is trying to be the next greatest Instagram photographer and industry influencer. Now companies are starting to pay these…
These 5 cities have the coolest green initiatives
By: Jocelyn Schwalm With just about everyone starting to feel the effects of global warming, sustainability is becoming more and more of a popular concept to incorporate into the structural integrity of cities around the world. Enormous efforts have already…
An intimate look Inside the suitcases left behind by patients of the Willard Asylum
BY: JESSICA BEUKER All photos by Jon Crispin In 1869, the Willard Asylum opened its doors, designed specifically for people suffering from chronic mental illness. Located on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake in Central New York, it was, at…
Our successes don’t make us happy – the journey to achieving them does
By: Adrian Smith In his philosophical novel Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky says mankind “like a chess player, is interested in the process of attainting his goals, rather than the goal itself.” It’s an interesting idea, and perhaps a bit…
Inside the ‘Doomsday Vault’ buried 500 feet inside an Arctic mountain
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Way up North, 1,300 km beyond the Arctic Circle, the farthest North that is possible for any human to fly, lays the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Located on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between…
Forget the senior citizen center – grandmas are spending retirement at the casino
BY: Victoria Heath The year I turned 21, my dad took me to the Hollywood Casino & Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. I had actually been to a casino before during a family vacation to Las Vegas a few years…
It’s time to stop giving in to the imposter syndrome.
BY: Victoria Heath Speaking on a panel before me at a conference in Nova Scotia were five immensely successful, intelligent, and strong women who had made their mark in the field of security, a historically male-dominated, testosterone-filled industry. Even these women,…
Pakistan’s music scene is beyond anything you’ve ever heard.
BY: Victoria Heath In its true essence, music should transcend language, culture, religion and time. It is a window into a place, a community and an individual. More often than not, however, we tend to isolate ourselves musically by listening…
This artist spent $16 Million of his own money to build this.
By: Andrew Uyeno Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff has given us all the chance to finally walk on water. The Bulgarian artist has finished one of his greatest masterpieces yet, on the Lake Iseo in Italy. They are calling it “The…
How a blind farmer continues to work with help from his 5-year-old daughter.
By: Andrew Uyeno Photo: Rhuby Capunes / Facebook There is nothing like a bond between father and daughter. A video that was posted onto Facebook by the user Rhuby Capunes shows that exact bond. This five-year-old girl is shown in…
You can marvel in the beauty of these glaciers before they melt away forever.
By: Lauren Ali ALL IMAGES BY CAMILLE SEAMAN We’ve all heard the same stories about climate change: “Everything is melting;” “Polar bears have no homes and are drowning;” “Sea levels are rising but it’s not a good thing.” Honestly, we…
How politics, religion and education have been taken over by bullshit
By: Victoria Heath Leo Tolstoy, the Russian literary once wrote, “Yes, it is possible to sabotage the things that can erase us, but not without joy on our side. The complexity of the present time seems to demand an awakening…
A town in Lithuania holds an annual beauty pageant to find the prettiest goat
By: Andrew Uyeno Forget dog and cat pageants—the new animal beauty contests are for goats. Okay, it’s not a worldwide trend just yet, but the village of Ramygala in Lithuania has been celebrating the beauty of goats for seven years.…
Make good $$$ as a professional odour tester, chocolate taster and other strange careers
BY JACK M. Tired of the nine-to-five grind at the office? No future at the factory assembly line? Bored with that commission-only job in retail? Or maybe you’re still looking around for your first real job after finishing school. If…
The Cecil Hotel’s chilling history is the stuff of nightmares
BY: M.TOMOSKI I should never have drank the water after checking into that unholy mess, but how was I to know? The nightly rate was low, the doorman was friendly enough, and the lobby a glorious homage to a time…
Watch this poet deliver a powerful commentary about life in the heartless corporate cage
BY: JESSICA BEUKER “You were wearing pants with lint stuck to both knees, like little children you are afraid to have one day. It was professional enough. You borrowed your sister’s shirt, because the iron burned a tortilla-shaped hole in…
These famous figures accurately predicted future technology
By: Jocelyn Schwalm They say hindsight is 20/20, but what about foresight? Knowing what is to be invented before its time requires a clear view into possibilities and an instinct for success. In 1888, the concept of the future debit…