BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Over a decade before Woodstock and seven years before the Merry Pranksters, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous took his first liquid hit of acid. It was Aug. 29, 1956 and among the beige walls and flower print…
Body Vs Mind
Scientists just found the gene for human stupidity (and might be able to cure it)
BY: COLIN SAMPSON Why is it that some people have the intellectual capabilities of a bag of milk? Is it the result of magnetism towards reality TV instead of books? Too many classes skipped for bong tokes in a friend’s…
Beautiful photo series lets the elderly take a look back in time
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Tom Hussey Tom Hussey is an American photographer that specializes in lifestyle photography and commercial advertising. His award-winning photo series, “Reflections of The Past,” was used by healthcare company, Novartis in a campaign for their…
Turns out introverts are significantly better leaders than extroverts for 21st century work
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE During the 20th century, introverts were social oddities that would hopefully be cured of their awkwardness by team sports or summer camp, or else inside the alcohol-sticky drywall of college frat parties. The 20th century was the…
Blame your iPhone for your bad mood and back problems, studies say
BY: TREVOR HEWITT It’s a common site on the streetcar – crammed commuters sit hunched over the warm, LED glow of their smartphones, starting their daily pilgrimage. Browsing through BuzzFeed, skimming through Snapchat, they traverse their various digital realities under…
After ten years of research, this “storyteller researcher” found the simple cure to depression
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Brene Brown is a researcher who has often found herself swimming for answers in the darkest waters of human experience. For ten years Brown conducted thousands of interviews to build a life preserver for times when the…
Research proves that getting cancer isn’t just “bad luck”
There’s no more kidding yourself; you can’t hide behind the notion that getting cancer is simply “bad luck”. A study from the Cancer Research Center at Stony Brook University has found evidence proving that extrinsic factors — like smoking, sun…
Why solitude is a blessing not a curse
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS We live in a state of relentless connection. When we’re not connecting physically, we connect compulsively through some medium. The concept of solitude is starving. Being completely alone is a form of vulnerability. You’re presented with infinite…
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 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…
See the devastating effects of war in these soldiers’ eyes (Photos)
BY: ERIK HUSTON War is the ultimate destroyer. Destroyer of countries, of progress and most devastatingly, lives. But what about those who make it out? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a major issue among veterans and has been covered in…
Doctors want to end drug advertisements so people are seen as patients, not consumers
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Why are pharmaceutical drugs even advertised to consumers who can’t actually buy them without spending an hour reading year-old magazines in a sterile waiting room? According to Lynn Payer, a prolific writer on the reciprocal influence of…
Here are 8 natural remedies that will make your period less of a nightmare
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Ladies, that x amount of days every month that you’re bombarded by a tidal wave of menstrual blood is probably hell. Some suffer from 14-day menstruations. Some suffer from alarming mood swings and irritability. Some want to…
Studies show how antibiotics do more harm than good to our stomachs
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Sure, antibiotics kill harmful bacteria – but at what cost? The loss of healthy stomach bacteria for up to a year, apparently. As antibiotic-resistant superbugs like MRSA and certain strains of E. coli become increasingly common, researchers…
People are using cannabis oil as an alternative cancer treatment and it’s working
BY: TREVOR HEWITT 120mg Oxcycontin 30mg Morphine 30mg Toreador 4 Tylenol #4 150 mg Amitriptaline 200 mg Celebrex 2000 mg Metphormin 15 mg Lipator 15 mg Clonazapane 15 Avianda 8 mg Coversyle 20 mg Zantac Though this laundry list of narcotics might…
The lazy student’s guide to taking notes in class that will earn you an A+
If you were to stand at the back of any large college classroom, you would likely be looking out over a sea of Facebook profiles, online games and YouTube videos. Though it’s easiest to type your notes on the computer,…
Mad honey is the deadly hallucinogen this reclusive tribe risks their life to collect
M. TOMOSKI “A two-day walk from the nearest road, the Gurung village which documentary filmmaker Raphael Treza discovered is almost entirely self-sustaining. Growing their own food and raising sheep for wool this reclusive community of Maoist dissidents live a quiet…
I got high-school high at a “ganja yoga” class in Toronto
BY: REGAN MCNEILL Photos © Eric Zdancewicz / The Plaid Zebra Ganja yoga. You may have heard of it before or you may be wondering what the heck I am talking about. It’s pretty simple to understand, it is a…
Psychedelic therapy removes the negative experiences surrounding hallucinogenics
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Psychedelics: a collection of chemicals that are meant to expand consciousness. This expansion of awareness is explored by people for all sorts of purposes, many of which are explored in the book Be Here Now by Ram…
Despite what you may think, video games give us the tools to be heroes in real life
BY: ERIK HUSTON With Fallout 4 now released, gamers everywhere will be hunkering down for a long winter of blasting mutants. Video games like Fallout get people really hyped up, and it all has to do with the immersion. The…