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…
Body Vs Mind
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…
Instagram couple pairs the physically impossible with the ultimate landscapes and travel locations
BY: SHAY ANSARI Do what you must… and your friends will adjust! #YogaBeyond @ACROVINYASA #Doublebow with our homie @laurasykora Lens @dtufino_photo A photo posted by * Honza & Claudine Lafond (@yogabeyond) on Jun 25, 2015 at 12:32pm PDT Feel the…
“Fuck That” is the guided meditation of giving no fucks (Video)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN The guided meditation begins with a soothing background harmony and the view of ocean waves crashing against the shoreline. Then the narrator begins speaking, “Let the horseshit of the external world fade…
Are you easily distracted? Congrats—according to a recent study you’re a creative genius
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Psychologists at Northwestern University recently published a study in Neuropsychologia—an accredited journal that closely documents advancements in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience—indicating that highly creative people are easily distracted by their surroundings. The study was based on nearly…
5 disturbing drugs that you never wanted to know about
BY: JESSICA BEUKER We’ve all been subjected to that terrible ‘This is your brain on drugs’ video where they fry an egg. The only thing that video ever did was make me hungry for breakfast food. In my opinion, if…
Graham crackers were invented by a Christian pastor to stop you from masturbating
BY: DANIEL KORN Ah, graham crackers – perfect for s’mores, cheesecakes, and the systematic repression of everyday sexual desires. At least, that was the intention. The namesake of the graham cracker—Sylvester Graham—was a Presbyterian reverend active in the early 1800s…
You can now do downward dog while chilling with sheltered cats at this yoga studio
In a room full of bright and colourful mats, women stretch out, arching their backs and practicing deep breathing techniques. Among them is Breezy. She stretches and poses with the other women in the room, focusing on relaxation. Only difference—she’s…
Aldous Huxley’s wife wrote this letter about injecting him with LSD right before he died
BY: TYLER FYFE On the same day President Kennedy was assassinated, the world lost a second giant in time. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World and other stunning works of literature died after a 3-year battle with cancer.…