BY: ROB HOFFMAN There’s a reason most van-lifers reside along the stretch of U.S. coast between southern Washington and San Diego. If you’re Canadian or belong to the American Midwest, your road-trip hourglass contains half as much sand as someone…
Employees spill the 10 easiest ways to score upgrades and free stuff from your hotel
BY: ROB HOFFMAN There’s something oddly alluring about hotels. Maybe it’s all the marble or the thick mahogany pillars that decorate a foyer at Caesar’s palace, or our associating hotels and the type of person that can afford to stay…
This is the first state in India to switch to 100% organic farming
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA People living in Sikkim, India don’t have to make a trip to Whole Foods to get their hands on organic produce. That’s because the entire state now only farms organic food, the first in all of India.…
Turkish artist captures a surreal bird’s-eye view of Istanbul through the use of a drone
BY: LAUREN ALI In his photo series called ‘Flatland,’ Aydin Büyüktas photographs the scenic overview of the city of Istanbul through the use of a drone. The dizzying, distorted angles and beautifully warped buildings create intriguing images that monopolize your…
Why you can’t let the end of your formal education limit your passion for learning
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Our attitudes toward education have been doomed since pre-school. When we finally mastered tying our shoelaces, we got a gold star. If we grasped finger-painting, we got to march across a stage in June, signifying the…
How a maternity waiting village in Africa could save hundreds of lives
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Maternity Waiting Village at the Kasungu District Hospital in central Malawi is not your typical hospital. Instead, it emulates the communal spaces of traditional African villages. According to Quartz, maternity waiting homes have been promoted for…
How Instagram’s Aesthetic Culture Changes Who You Are
Sometimes, on a good day, our lives cross paths with a compilation of visuals so satisfying—complex in allowing desire to wrap around the fading ordinary—that we cannot help but feel some sort of way at the sight of calculation: the…
Why Psychopaths Are Great “CEO Material”
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO For anyone who has ever worked in a hostile corporate environment, the intense personalities of executives are all too familiar and far too scary. These peoples’ personalities can be described as devious, competitive and lacking empathy. They…
Every issue of London’s controversial psychedelic underground magazine is now available online
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The University of Wollongong is the only source on the Internet to features every page of the counterculture magazine, OZ—an influential, yet highly controversial psychedelic underground publication that ran in London between 1967 and 1973. The magazine…
Milan will pay you to bike to work instead of using a car
BY: JESSICA BEUKER More than 5.5 million people around the world die prematurely each year due to air pollution. And it seems that hammering the urgency of this environmental issue into people’s minds isn’t enough to pull the majority from…
The ultimate man cave has been relocated from the dingy basement to the boundless sky
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Man or woman, sometimes you just need to escape daily stresses by retreating to your own private sanctuary. Maybe that features a faux-fur rug and a dartboard, or Dwayne Johnson posters and fully stocked bar. No matter…
Photographer captures his journey through Antarctica on a ship constructed over 100 years ago
BY: LAUREN ALI René Koster is a travel photographer who voyaged to Antarctica on a historical ship that was constructed in 1911. Harbouring a great interest in past expeditions once travelled by sailors over a hundred years ago, Koster set…
Climate change warning labels on gas pumps will change the way you think about fossil fuels
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS In January, I dropped by Patagonia in Toronto to see a charismatic, fervent little man named Rob Shirkey speak about his organization called Our Horizon. Our Horizon is a non-profit organization based out of Toronto that aims…
This author drilled a hole in his head to stay permanently high
BY: ADRIAN SMITH Joe Mellen laughs from his side of our Skype call when I ask him what the sensation feels like today, “I’m not aware of the difference anymore. It was 45 years ago.” He had run into Bart…
Music education is more than an aid to academics, it’s essential to the human experience
BY: CAROLINE ROLF It is no secret that public music education needs a revamp. I have been thinking this since my first music class in public elementary school – each student in my grade three classroom was handed a shiny…
Inside the formerly abandoned “Wizard of Oz” theme park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER *All photo © Seph Lawless The Land of Oz theme park opened in 1970 and stayed open for a decade before closing the doors to the Emerald City. It’s opening saw over 20,000 visitors and guests “experiencing” the…
The Weed Revolution will, in fact, be televised
BY: TYLER FYFE Bernard Noble’s eyelids peel back to the sound of a loud speaker. At 5 a.m. he swallows a ketchup cup of assorted medication. He remembers the day the levee failed and a wall of saltwater, cinderblocks, and…
Selling the Circus in Dixie: When Black Lives Matter Becomes Black Votes Matter
BY: M.TOMOSKI It’s hard to keep your eyes off a bunch of grown men losing all inhibition and sense of dignity when running for what ought to be the most respectable job in the world. Up until now, the Democrats…
Photos of Africa’s wildlife roaming free in the last protected areas of our world
BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Laurent Baheux Laurent Baheux is a French photographer currently capturing images of animals in the last few protected areas on our planet. In 15 years, he travelled through the African Safari and East Africa and…
Scientists are now making human body parts using 3D printers
BY: STEFANIE AWRONSKI 3D printing has had an impressive and decorated existence. The ridiculously cool invention in its 30-plus year run has seen the creation of things as trivial as action figurines, but also wheelchairs for two-legged animals, casts and…