BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Swedish town, Jukkasjarvi, lays 200 km north of the Arctic Circle and is home to the Ice Hotel – the 26th version opened on Dec. 11, 2015. The very first Ice Hotel was founded in 1989,…
An MIT student dropped out to build a progressive university with no tests or tuition
BY: ALEX BROWN High tuition costs and disappointing career-returns from university degrees have lead many to seek an alternative to mainstream education. The problem with a lot of universities is that the programs are more theoretical than practical, lacking the…
Doctors may have discovered how to save 1 in 3 women from ovarian cancer
BY: SWIKAR OLI A 14-year study of over 200,000 women recently published in The Lancet may have brought us closer than we have ever been to screening for ovarian cancer. Effective ovarian cancer screening methods are badly needed, as current…
Here’s David Lynch’s simple technique for expanding consciousness and creativity
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I started meditating when my creative work made me more anxious and unconfident than happy. I would wake up afraid, knowing there was a new project to start that day or that I’d have to continue the…
Why the new requirement to register your drone is painfully hypocritical
BY: LISA CUMMING The United States Federal Government wants you to finally register your damn assault machines. THEY ARE A DANGER TO THE BIRDS. But, seriously, what’s an assault rifle compared to the 1,280 grams of deadly power that the…
The simple reason why Norway has been named the best country for humans 12-years in a row
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE For the twelfth year in a row, Norway has been named the best country on earth to be a human in. According to the Human Development Report, Norway ranks the highest in life expectancy at an average…
People are ripping apart Hollywood with hilarious plot synopses in 140 characters or less
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Clichés stick to Hollywood the same way that the soles of my shoes stick to the movie theatre floor. Sadly, Hollywood isn’t run by directors or screenwriters; Hollywood is run by balding men around boardroom tables. And…
This eco-waterwheel will make Baltimore’s disgusting harbour swimmable and fishable by 2020
BY: ALEX BROWN By now, Baltimore residents have likely noticed the emergence of a popular new structure perched on the crest of their sprightly waterfront, and cumulating a minor celebrity following on Twitter. The name of the city’s newest addition?…
Life on the road taught this jewelry maker that life’s purest pleasure is found in simplicity
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Photos via One Heart Design One night while hitchhiking through the middle of Mexico, 15-year-old Walter Munoz was asked by his driver to get out and walk past the immigration officers blocking the road ahead. They would…
Why politicians everywhere should take a lesson from Vancouver’s drug treatment program.
BY: JACK M. “During its eight years of operation, Insite has been proven to save lives with no discernible negative impact on the public safety and health objectives of Canada.” Unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, 2011.…
This Portland native lives out of an abandoned airplane in the expansive Pacific woods
BY: ALEX BROWN Photos by: John Brecher An old Portland native named Bruce Campbell has changed many people’s thinking on the possibilities of aircraft recycling, living out in the Oregon woods in a converted 727 jetliner. Although it’s still unclear how…
The Seabin is cleaning waterways so animals don’t have to swim in human garbage
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski from Australia have just created a floating rubbish bin, which not only collects garbage from polluted waterways, but also collects and removes oil, fuel and detergent. Created as a cheap alternative to…
The island that looks like a scene from The Jungle Book has a dark and twisted past
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ross Island, one of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was once full of people who resided among the beautiful architecture juxtaposed against a tropical island setting. Only after World War II did the inhabitants flee, abandoning the…
This artist immortalized his grandfather by using his ashes in an art project
BY: JONATHAN MOSS We are all composed of stardust. This may sound like a lame, sentimental attempt at poetry, yet astrophysicist Karel Schrijver has compiled a book of solid science that explains how the molecules and atoms that comprise your…
Unbelievable new video documents the world’s first drone footage of Arctic beluga whales
BY: ALEX BROWN New footage gives us a never-before seen glimpse at one of nature’s most spectacular displays—the congregation of 2,000 beluga whales in the isolated region of Cunningham Inlet, Nunavut in Canada. The video was captured by 24-year-old Nansen…
This guy said screw his finals and started up a cycling company that changed his life.
Everyone’s lifelong dream is to travel the world. Well so is Peter Eich’s, but he’s doing something different. Entrepreneur and founder of several companies based around tourism and cycling – which are now mostly sold – the entrepreneur is traveling…
It’s time to stop pretending college is the key to a well-paying job
BY: ADRIAN SMITH There’s still a lot of value in attending college or university these days, but not in the same way it used to be. Not in terms of earning good money by landing a well-paying job, the way…
Dropping the F-bomb isn’t so shameful – science says swearing is a sign of a healthy vocabulary
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It was the year 2001; I was in fifth grade and enjoying afternoon recess with my two best friends when they decided to subject me to the ultimate form of childhood torture – tickling. Before I continue,…
This small portable box is powerful enough to be an emergency home power source
BY DANIKA MOIR Until recently, the only forms of solar energy that have been made available are big, bulky, and expensive. However, the company Inergy was able to cut their latest innovation, the Kodiak, to 75 per cent of the…
Why I think the term “plus size” needs to be dropped
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS As the weather gets a little colder, shop windows get a little nicer and big, shiny red signs begin to pop-up in stores and online, marking 50 per cent off that sweater you’ve been eyeing. I was…