BY: CAROLINE ROLF Only a decade or so ago, it was normal and necessary to have an office, perhaps a cubicle or an open-office layout. This is where meetings took place, co-workers caught up and ideally completed work. However, with technology…
This 11-year-old has a multi-million dollar lemonade deal – and she’s using it to save bees
BY: JESSICA BEUKER PHOTO BY: Sandra Ramos While most 11-year-olds spend their afternoons playing at the park or kicking around a soccer ball with their friends, Mikaila Ulmer is busy running her own business. Ulmer recently launched BeeSweet Lemonade in Texas—using…
An interview with the photographer who smuggled photos of the world’s most secretive nation (photos)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN North Korea is infamous for strange tourist stories. Visitors of Pyongyang return convinced that their entire experience—perhaps the entire city—is staged. The buildings, streets, restaurants and homes are mostly vacant, save the actors hired to impress the…
Miami is more than some collagen-lips, condominiums and copious amounts of drug clichés
BY: EDITORS In the 1970s while the rest of the country was rattled by The Great Inflation, unemployment rising into the double digits, the city of Miami was just beginning its rise to neon-decadence fuelled by an emerging underground economy…
The world’s first app-enabled urn sees your deceased loved one return to life through nature
BY: DANIKA MOIR Ever thought about what happens to your body after you die? I have. If you choose to be buried, you end up rotting in the ground in a box. If you’re cremated, you could either be put…
A new bill would allow men and women to earn money for unpaid caregiving work
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Women have always been disproportionately affected by consequences of unpaid caregiving work. Today, women make up nearly half of those working paid jobs in the United States. As a result, women who take on a caregiving…
Meet the olympic snowboarder/ Nitro Circus rider who train-hops and hitchhikes across America
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram In 2012, Trevor Jacob—an American Olympic snowboarder and Nitro Circus Rider—cut up his credit cards, ID, packed a small bag of essentials and walked to the nearest highway. Jacob hitched rides at first,…
Proof that Iceland is the ultimate destination for the adventure-seeking
BY: KRISTEN BLANTON October 30, 2014 – November 14, 2014 We fly into Iceland, just for fifteen days. The sky painted black by the season. I’m never ready. Not for the bounty, or beauty or the mind’s eye and disaster…
Looking back on Toronto’s largest riot between Nazi supporters and Jewish baseball players
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Canada was not a friendly environment for a Jewish person in the 1930s and 1940s. When my zayde was young, he recalled, he had to plan his route home from school carefully. Certain…
Thanks for being a vegetarian: you’re literally helping end climate change
BY: ALEX BROWN In 2014, filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn released Cowspiracy, a controversial documentary exploring one of the leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions: animal agriculture. The narrative drove home a widespread apprehension to confront the issue. Many…
An intimate look into the Asian village where women hold the power
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Located in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, and known as ‘God’s own garden’, sits one of the most pristine villages in Asia – Mawlynnong Village. The village is home to the Khasi people, who continue to…
How supermarkets trick us into buying more than we really need
By: JACK M. Gone is the day when a grocery store was a place where you’d just go to pick up your weekly groceries. Times have changed, and today’s supermarkets use every trick in the book to get you…
Will Weed Tampons Really Cure My Period Cramps?
BY: STEFANIE AWRONSKI Some of us women have been blessed since puberty with the gift of monthly menstruation or periods. Many of us deal with it just as a monthly annoyance. Others however suffer with some nasty side effects, such…
Shutting down clinics won’t stop abortion – women are turning to dangerous DIY methods
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Abortion clinics are closing in the United States at an alarming rate. In five states—Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming—only one clinic remains. And the Supreme Court is expected to consider whether or not a…
This epic video perfectly captures the illuminating spirit of the open road
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Photo and video by: Guillaume Beaudoin Every day, people get up, grab their backpack and go out to travel the world. Not only do they survive, they thrive. Travelling means visiting the places you’ve only seen in…
Salvador Dali’s erotic cookbook gives new meaning to food porn
BY: M. TOMOSKI From furnitures to films and exotic pets, Salvador Dali lived in a world that only he could imagine. So it’s no surprise that his food also derives from there. Published in 1973, “Les Diner des GALA” is…
These millennials hacked the insanely expensive rental market by taking over a deserted hotel
By: JACK M. Home ownership for many people is fast becoming a dream that’ll probably never come true. With interest rates at all-time record lows, mortgage rates have also fallen to record lows. And low mortgage rates mean more…
Your comfortable lifestyle is made possible by creating tons of waste, says study
BY: CAROLINE ROLF It is difficult to deny that we are the most wasteful people in the history of the planet, especially when we consider how little we hold ourselves accountable for the ramifications of our daily consumption and waste.…
Rage Yoga will help you find inner peace with swearing, rock music and beer
BY: JESSICA BEUKER When suppressed anger bubbles up from inside and teeters you on the brink of your sanity, you may just need yoga. But not just regular yoga—all of the Oms, ahhs and relaxing music in the world could…
Cast Out in the Land of Chaos: A two party system doesn’t want your vote it wants your loyalty
BY: M.TOMOSKI There was no way into the event or any of the surrounding shops except through a funnel of cruisers a quarter mile away from the place where the Golden Don was holed up behind a wall of Secret…