BY: EDITORS Jewel Shuping would spend hours staring directly into the sun. Her mother had told her that the UV rays would damage her vision, but while most children dreamt of becoming a firefighter or princess, Shuping wanted to be…
Body Vs Mind
It turns out that napping on the job is the most effective way to increase productivity
BY: ROB HOFFMAN At 9am you stumble into your office through a sea of relentless morning “hello’s!” from cheery co-workers who evidently don’t know how to enjoy a late night cocktail. Though you show up at 9:00, work doesn’t start…
Starting work before 10am isn’t just soul crushing, this scientist says it’s equivalent to torture
BY: TYLER FYFE It’s 9 am and under the the cheap hue of white fluorescent light, a daily workforce of cataleptic creatures crane their necks over an excel spreadsheet. According to Dr. Paul Kelley of Oxford University, this is what…
These people are living like caged animals in Hong Kong’s cubicle homes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated areas. In a city where pedestrians are crammed like sardines, utilization of space is crucial. When apartments are cubicles stacked one on top of the other and…
I thought I was possessed, but I just had OCD
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN I would wake up every day with an exhausted stream of worries running through my mind. The same worries I was preoccupying over the night before and a month before that. I was living my life in…
Apparently Hitler made the Nazis get high as fuck on crystal meth before battle
BY: M. TOMOSKI It’s said that when Viking berserkers went into battle they would do so in a fit of rage which caused their enemies to soil themselves. Many historians believe that these crazed warriors were able to dig deep…
This ex-marine is overcoming his PTSD by travelling and exploring the world
BY: ZOE MELNYK While some live by the philosophy that laughter is the best medicine, this ex-marine is trying to prove that there really is no higher remedy than the healing powers of being in nature and exploring every inch…
This traveller has learnt to speak seven different languages by talking to locals of the places he visits
BY: ZOE MELNYK There are a million excuses to avoid learning another language – you’re too old, classes are too expensive, you don’t have time. The list goes on, but not anymore. Irish nomad Benny Lewis has untapped the key…
Devoted son who lost both his arms takes care of his paralyzed mother
BY: JESSICA BEUKER When Chen Xinyin was only seven years old, he suffered an electric shock, causing him to lose both of his arms. Despite this setback, he continued to work on the family farm and help around the house…
William Shakespeare was a secret pothead
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Everybody knows who William Shakespeare is. Most of you have probably studied one of his plays in high school, or even earlier if you had a teacher who was hell-bent on making his or her students confused…
A UN advisor reading what psychiatrists wrote about her will make you question “insanity” (Video)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA At the end of a long and sterile corridor, Mary O’Hagan feels the noose of madness begin to tighten. As a young woman in the 1970s, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and spent several dark…
Why having anxiety is a blessing in disguise
BY: BENEDICT SMITH I’ve often mulled over why I’m so keyed up. Is it a genetic misfiring? Clusterfucked logical processing? Ritualized naval-gazing? Internalized childhood bullying that’s crystallized into a repressed psychological wedgie? Do I need to pull myself together? If…
This incredible woman returned to modeling after she lost her jaw to cancer
PHOTOS BY: Manol Ceron, From the electric lights of Manhattan to ocean front photo shoots on Greek islands, Elizaveta Bulokhova walked down runways across the world with a cultivated grace. In her seven-year career as a fashion model, she saw…
This is Hunter S. Thompson’s daily drug-filled routine that could kill a horse or birth an American hero
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Hunter S. Thompson was a superhero of the outlaw world, with the uncanny ability to ingest an infinite amount of amphetamines, psychedelics, alcohol and strange outer-worldly substances without even a minute shift in composure or personality.…
Social media is the debilitating Crack of a crippled generation of addicts
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Refresh. Re-refresh. It’s the first thing you do when you wake up and the last thing you do before going to sleep. Photo by: yipengge Yup, you’re checking your social media profiles to see if you received…
There is an incredible village that recreates normal life for people with Dementia
BY: LISA CUMMING Having a parent or a grandparent with dementia is like watching a group of workers tear down your childhood house. Demolition starts slowly and bricks are carefully removed. Once the bones of the building begin to show…
A group of researchers in the UK are getting high for science
BY: M. TOMOSKI Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, is the Countess of Wemyss and March, and she wants to change the way we think about drugs. Her own experiences with LSD are what fueled the inspiration to study…
If you like jacking/jilling off, orgasmic yoga is your ticket to becoming a sexual god
BY: LISA CUMMING “I masturbated today…” is how sexologist Martha Tara Lee from Singapore starts off her video segments detailing the 30-day journey she took in orgasmic yoga. While the practice doesn’t say you need to necessarily start off each…
I was halfway through airport security in Detroit when the LSD began to take hold
BY: M. TOMOSKI I was halfway to Detroit Metro when I realized that my plan had been poorly timed. The flight to New York was scheduled for 7:30AM and no amount of caffeine or water was going to stop the…
Photographer analyzes brain waves to construct portraits of people’s ideal selves
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN With the alarm clock blaring, you wake up abruptly, roll out of bed and walk over to the sink half asleep. After washing your face and attempting to wipe away your exhaustion, you look in the mirror…