BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ten years ago, Netflix streaming didn’t exist. If you wanted to watch a television show, you had to tune in on a specific time of the week, where you would watch one episode of the show and…
A dream vacation just became one man’s full-time job
BY: CAROLINE ROLF What if you had the opportunity to walk across Norway on foot, exploring the country’s incredible streams and mountains? This would be the ideal vacation for most adventurers, and it just became a full-time job for…
This new preschool will teach kids to grow their own food
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The traditional school structure has long been one of “textbook” learning rather than hands-on learning, where practical experience acts as the teacher. Paired with a societal shift towards convenience and technology, we have cut off some of…
This slam poet delivers a powerful message to rape survivors
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1998, Bitch Media published an article titled, “The Collapsible Woman: Cultural Response to Rape and Sexual Abuse.” The article detailed the ways in which the media is quick to label survivors as being debilitatingly sensitive and…
And the (Ig)Nobel Prize in wacky science goes to…
By: JACK M. We’ve all heard of the Nobel Prize, that prestigious annual award given to those individuals or teams who have made a significant contribution to the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, medicine, peace and economics (although the…
This Toronto bar lets you play with Legos while you drink
BY TREVOR HEWITT I’m hunched over in a corner of the Gladstone Hotel’s Melody Bar taking deep sips out of my copper beverage. I’m desperately pulling a thin piece of Lego from a thicker brick, but they’re not separating. “You…
This couple transformed 300 acres of desolate land in India into a thriving wildlife sanctuary
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1986 Anil and Pamela Malhotra ventured to India to attend the funeral of Anil’s father. They were horrified by the river pollution and deforestation in Haridwar, and couldn’t understand the general apathy towards the issue by…
This Canadian island is welcoming Trump refugees
BY: M. TOMOSKI Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent, threatening to leave the country when democracy doesn’t quite match your personal preference has become something of a tradition in America. In 2000, several celebrities, including Eddie Vedder and the…
Transhumanism—a future where intellect will be boundless and death will be optional
By: JACK M. Sometimes referred to as H+, Transhumanism is a worldwide, inter-disciplinary, avant-garde intellectual movement whose beliefs and goals are that humans can be, and someday will be, transformed into a super species, a vastly improved version of…
This tattoo trend will literally leave a deceased loved one under your skin
BY: CAROLINE ROLF After the loss of a loved one, it’s common to keep a belonging of theirs to cherish the departed forever. Some choose to express their sympathy with a memorial tattoo. Dedicating a piece of ink to the…
Ontario plans to launch a basic income project this year to give Canadians free money
BY: ALEX BROWN Ontario recently announced plans to launch a basic income pilot project at some point this year, known by some as the free-money initiative. The radical concept is gaining popularity as experimentation continues in European countries like Germany,…
This guy hand-built an eco-friendly cob house for only $250
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Michael Buck wanted to prove that paying for a house shouldn’t take a lifetime or require burdensome loans. So the 59-year-old British farmer and retired art teacher decided to build a cob house in his garden—for a…
Why melancholy is needed to embrace the full spectrum of human experience
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I realize now, after reading excerpts from Eric G. Wilson’s Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy that melancholy has an active quality to it. In his book Wilson argues we as a society have developed a strong…
The Republican Party is drowning in its own vanity and leaving the people of Flint behind
BY: M. TOMOSKI The frost on the windshield had finally cleared when the car ahead stopped at an overpass on the edge of Greektown. A hand reached out through the driver’s window and offered a coat to the young man…
This designer will show you how incredible Indigenous fashion is without cultural appropriation
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Bethany Yellowtail uses elk teeth to line the gown sleeves and adds intricate floral beading that has been in her family for generations. Her work is an elegant fusion of classic style and the fundamentals of her…
Are millennials pieces of shit or saviours of the world?
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Generation Xers and baby boomers have, for some time, drawn the millennial caricature. Its features become embellished by stuffy editorials and “studies” done by companies who hold more money than they do credibility. The millennial generation is…
JK Rowling is about to drop some knowledge on you about the value of failure (Video)
BY: EDITORS Bereavement, loneliness, lofty social expectation, and bullying; through my own fractured childhood, I became aware that the fabric of life is riddled with moth holes. JK Rowling taught me that not only is inadequacy nothing to be ashamed…
A collection of postcards from famous writers including Jack Kerouac and Kurt Vonnegut
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Truman Capote to English professor Boris Groudinko (1960s) Dear Boris – Have settled on this beautiful island for the summer. Wish you could spend your holiday with me. So glad you got the dictionaries. Will write you…
Is McDonald’s new design fighting gentrification in London or offending its citizens?
BY: CAROLINE ROLF If the mass-produced toxic food wasn’t bad enough, fast food giant, McDonald’s, may have another reason to apologize. In a poorly thought out marketing attempt aimed towards the inner city life troubled by tagging in Brixton, south…
This 73-year-old built a 60ft steel whale-home to sail back and forth across the Atlantic
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Beached somewhere in the Scottish Highlands along a sea’s loch, 73-year-old Tom McClean stands ankle-deep aside his 20-metre steel whale, feeling out the water’s swell and waiting for the perfect moment to take her seaborne once more.…