BY: CAROLINE ROLF It’s never too early to start thinking about our death. If you practice the traditional Tibetan sky burial in which the deceased are carried to a remote location in the mountains where the body is left for…
This sex toy company wants to sell you a tuxedo for your penis
BY: KATE SLOAN Human beings have been having sex since the dawn of time, but it’s still an occasion worth dressing up for. At least, that’s what sex toy company Lelo thinks. This month they launched “TUX™,” a miniature tuxedo…
New labels that show how much exercise is needed to burn off junk food will change how you eat
BY: SWIKAR OLI The Royal Society for Public Health, a leading independent British public health charity, is calling for food to come with packaging labels showing the amount of activity required to burn the calories it contains. The updated packages…
Journalist Paul Salopek is three years into his seven-year “Out of Eden Walk” around our planet
By: JACK M. Paul Salopek is a 53-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist. He has worked with such prestigious publications as the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and he has won not one, but two, Pulitzer Prizes –…
This 20 year old created an app that’s already saved thousands of pounds of food waste.
BY: ADRIAN SMITH As a high school freshman, Maria Rose Belding found it difficult to watch the director of the local soup pantry she volunteered at in Iowa struggle to find a home for the 10,000 boxes of macaroni and…
This guy is turning old coffee grounds into biofuel and eliminating CO2 emissions
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Now you can use coffee to keep both yourself and your home warm and thriving during these cold winter months. A 24-year-old entrepreneur has invented a way to use waste coffee grounds as biofuel. Arthur Kay is…
These murals featuring people of colour represent the changing faces of children
BY: CAROLINE ROLF ALL IMAGES BY SETH GLOBEPAINTER Across numerous countries including Mexico, China, Vietnam and Indonesia, a French artist has transformed boring buildings into beautiful works of art. Julien Seth Malland, better known as Seth Globepainter uses vivid colours…
South Africa is giving women scholarships if they can prove they are virgins
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On Friday, Jan. 22, the South African municipality of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) announced that 113 students would receive scholarships to pursue higher education within the country. Sixteen of those scholarships were designated specifically to female students—so long as…
Doctors are prescribing free health food instead of pills so people can afford to stay healthy
BY: ALEX BROWN The main problem with health food is not a deep-seated mistrust of broccoli carried over from childhood, but rather the exorbitant prices, which make it difficult for most to subscribe to a healthy diet. A new program…
Why it’s important to move at your own pace, instead of pressuring yourself to succeed
BY: ADRIAN SMITH The Passenger had been on my list of movies to watch for some time. “Jack Nicholson’s in it,” people said, so I figured I’d watch it. I love that dude, plus I’m always up late anyways. As…
How a perfectly circular bridge in Uruguay makes a point
BY: CAROLINE ROLF About 1000 cars can now cross the lagoon between the cities of Rocha and Maldonado on the southern coast of Uruguay everyday. But instead of racing from point A to point B, as we so often fall…
Why your fashion habits could be destroying art and the planet
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO I like to view fashion as art—much like Andy Warhol or the late, great David Bowie. It’s how you express yourself without having to carry around an art gallery on your back. I especially have an appreciation…
Indian burn victim is standing up against acid attackers by becoming a fashion model
An Indian woman by the name of Laxmi Saa, who suffered severe acid burns, as a form of punishment, is the new face of a fashion campaign called “Face of Courage”. The campaign not only challenges societal notions of beauty,…
The future of urban living is an extraordinary ecological city
BY: CAROLINE ROLF The growing demand for energy plays a remarkable part in the way we live in communities around the world. Until about 30 years ago, energy sustainability was only considered in terms of availability relative to the rate…
Dirty little secret of one of the world’s largest oil companies has been exposed
By. JACK M. ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest oil companies – perhaps the largest – with annual sales in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The energy behemoth has been accused of misleading its shareholders and the…
A simple guide to the best and worst ways to stimulate creativity
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Creativity is an elusive mother-fucker. When deadlines approach, it’ll leave you staring deadpan at a blank sheet of paper for hours on end, only to strike when you’re already on the bus home without a paper or…
Video games can test your intelligence, but can they make you smarter?
BY: KATE SLOAN Some people say video games rot your brain, while some say they quicken your reflexes and beef up your problem-solving power. But it’s possible the truth is somewhere in between. New data show that while video games…
After this businessman was diagnosed with MS, he built an elf-house in the side of a cliff (Photos)
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE When Angelo Mastropietro was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, he decided to do something most faced with his situation wouldn’t… He excavated 70 tonnes of stone by hand to build the ultimate cave-home inside an 800-year-old sandstone cliff.…
It’s not just Hollywood, racial diversity falls from priority in industries across the board
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA Apple shareholder Antonio Avian Maldonado recently submitted a proposal for a new recruitment policy that would bring more women and racial minorities into Apple’s senior management and board of directors. Currently, 15 out of the 18 people…
I asked a stranger these 36 questions to see if we’d fall in love. And we did.
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS About a year ago, I caught wind of a questionnaire that was meant to increase intimacy between two people, or even foster a kind of love – specifically between two people who aren’t already familiar with each…