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…
Body Vs Mind
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…
Addicts of the world’s most dangerous drug are rotting while they are still alive
BY: LISA CUMMING Krokodil will literally eat you from the inside out. This poor man’s heroin, an opiate derivative of codeine, is ravaging the lower class in Russia because a) it’s dirt-cheap and b) it can be made completely from…
Fuck freewill – this lifehack will give you ultimate freedom
We all have them, but we seldom escape them. Like the undeniable pull of a black hole, habits direct our life – all of our life. You might know this person; maybe they have drunk Coca-Cola every day since they…
22-year-old nails 4 world-first BMX tricks in a shape-shifting skatepark of optical illusion
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Peering over a 40 foot-high ledge, balanced on his front tire, Scottish BMX rider Kriss Kyle counts the seconds it takes for his beads of sweat to topple to the ground. It may seem contradictory but Kriss Kyle…
These 5 TED Talks will teach you how to learn more effectively and awaken your inner genius
BY: CONNOR BRIAN In the age of the Internet most of us are constantly plugged in, suckling on the voluptuous tit of information, filling ourselves sickly until the lessons we have learned overflow and spill out the rim of our…
8 TED Talks that will give you the tools to become a leader worth following
BY: ROB HOFFMAN There is no one-stop technique for becoming a great leader, rather it is the application of many small practices. In order to change our capacity for leadership, we must first re-structure the way we manage our own…
Here’s why I threw out my razor and stopped shaving, despite what society tells me
BY SYDNEY MCINNIS Recently, I was looking to learn more about Movember – the trendy global charity where men are encouraged to grow their moustaches to raise awareness. I ended up perusing YouTube and came across an informative Movember video…
Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct
BY: REGAN MCNEILL Both you and I have grown up in a world of stereotypes. Whether you like it or not these widely accepted assumptions shape us and how we are viewed in the world, especially when it comes to…
Research says that chocolate is just as addictive and harmful as cocaine
BY: ERIK HUSTON What is your favorite food? Is it pizza or cookies – if it’s anything made in a factory you’re likely in for a treat. Scientific reports have found that processed foods can be as addictive as narcotics.…
How Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Descartes helped me get over writer’s block
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I hadn’t been able to write in a while. I mean, I could write meaningful blurbs in quick stints, but I couldn’t sit there like I sat last fall, writing short stories in three or four long,…
According to WHO you probably have at least one friend who’s schizophrenic
BY: TREVOR HEWITT The rainbow elephant you’ve been watching dance in that meadow might not be real – but it offers real insight into a possible autism-like spectrum existing for schizophrenia. Scientists are beginning to critically analyze the age-old binary…
Boy, psychosis was one hell of a drug
I think it was midnight, but it could have been 6 p.m. for all I know. I was in some space time vector that was completely unfamiliar to me. There were strange owl men hanging from the branches of a…