BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO What if, as an artist, you got to have your work displayed around the world, only to have it all end up in a trash can? How much value can something disposable have? And why are Apple…
Having multiple sex partners has made this married couple happier than ever
BY: EMILY PLEASANCE Busy with his newborn baby, Luke Patrick arrives late to our interview. He and his wife of 12 years, Megan, are a Canadian couple who moved in 2012 from Canada to the French Riviera, where they live…
GravityLight to replace kerosene: company proposes a new alternative to where electricity isn’t an option.
If successfully integrated, a new electricity alternative will help one in five people around the world—that’s 20 percent of the earth’s population. It’s called GravityLight, and it essentially works in harmony with the earth’s tow, eliminating the use of kerosene…
Why Seventh-day Adventists live longer than any other group in America
By: JACK M. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was founded about 150 years ago in America by Joseph Bates. And other than observing the Sabbath on Saturday (it actually begins at sunset on Friday), its theology and practices are not…
After the drug companies didn’t need them, these lucky chimps spend their days in Chimp Heaven
By: JACK M. The discussion of the use of animals in biomedical research is as contentious and controversial as it is divisive and alienating. The subjects involved range from frogs, mice, cats and dogs, up to and including the…
Scientists may have just found the key to reversing the aging process
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO What if there was a pill you could take that extended your life by ten, twenty, fifty years? We have a whole discipline devoted to that, actually. A life-extending pill might sound like science fiction but by…
We need to stop living with expectations and instead learn to live presently
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I’ve already re-written the first few lines of this article more times than I can remember because nothing’s come out the way I imagined it. I thought I’d share a personal example of how living with expectations…
Tinder releases an apologetic health & safety section to their app after STD rise from hook-up culture
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA Casual hook-ups are nothing new and neither are STDs. Despite our over-exposure to sex, many young people are still under-educated about the prevalence of STDs and the importance of taking preventative steps. In fact, there is an…
Repealing the pigswill ban could radically reduce the EU’s eco-footprint
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Thirteen years ago, people all across the European Union could scrape their plates into a bin and know that their leftovers wouldn’t end up in a landfill. That waste would make its way to local farmers,…
Meet the future Olympian who lives out of his van on America’s most desired coastline for free
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Stephan Shay is a runner and Olympic hopeful. Shay has a comparatively invisible ecological footprint than the average American. He is frugal, so he enjoys more financial freedom that many. But to many people, upon seeing Shay…
This company invented a system that converts food waste into energy
BY: KATE SLOAN In this age of climate change, pollution and food crises, there’s a growing desperation to find working solutions. But a Seattle-based company thinks their new invention “changes everything.” Impact Bioenergy is a team of designers, engineers and…
These 7 tips will make you a smarter coffee drinker
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Is the sound of the coffee maker clicking ‘on’ the only thing getting you out of bed in the morning? For many of us, a cup of java is the fuel we need to make it out…
Name a cockroach after your partner (or ex) for Valentine’s Day
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Forget buying expensive chocolate and ugly teddy bears or writing cheesy love poems only a mother could love. This Valentine’s Day, show your sweetie how much you adore them by likening them to a cockroach. For $10,…
The dream-like world that inspired The Darjeeling Limited is even more magical in real life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Even those who have never seen a Wes Anderson film are likely aware of his distinct and unique visual style – he creates dream-like worlds full of colour and life. The Darjeeling Limited tells the story of…
You can get paid $32,000 to cuddle with baby pandas all day
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Beer tasters, roller-coaster testers and the person who gets to come up with the names for ice cream flavours are likely near the top of the list of best—or at least most fun—jobs in the world. What’s…
Entrepreneurs are turning fish guts into fertilizer, fishmeal and fashion accessories.
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO Fish guts. They smell terrible, look gross and have that slimy texture that makes you consider cutting off your hand after having touched them. How then, are several entrepreneurs making money off of this stuff? The answer…
You can collaborate with JGL on this platform that leaves the artistic vision up to its users
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Have you ever come up with what is surely the most brilliant idea ever imagined without the means to pull it off? Maybe it was creating a short film about chinchillas vacationing in Mexico or writing down…
Feel like every day is the same? These photos will give you a catalogue of escape-plans
BY: ALEX BROWN All Images © Andrew Waits Many people, like Scott Mooiy, are turning to a new vision of the American Dream, one that is not wealth-centered, but where experience takes precedence. This new dream is valuable in its…
This ad agency will no longer create ads that objectify women or use them as props
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Recently, a short video surfaced and has been making its way around the Internet. “We Are #WomenNotObjects” features a montage of advertisements that depict women scantily clad or in suggestive poses. The video also shows women holding…
This Bronx teacher has changed the lives of inner-city kids by helping them grow their own food
By: JACK M. Stephen Ritz is a school teacher and administrator in one of America’s toughest and poorest districts – New York’s South Bronx. He teaches science, and his home base is one of the most troubled schools within…