BY: JAKE KIVANC If you flip on the TV, the radio, scroll down a social media feed, you’ll see it: riots, protests, campaigns against inequality. What kind of inequality? Racial, sexual, gender-based inequality. Some of us have something to say,…
Body Vs Mind
Amazonian hunter-gatherers isolated from Western medicine have the most diverse microbiome ever recorded
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Yanomami people, who hail from the Amazon, live a semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the jungle. They have been living like this for thousands of years. According to iflscience, the tribe was first contacted in the 1960s,…
This is what it’s like to live without sexual attraction
BY: JESSICA BEUKER We live in a hyper-sexualized society. Where TV shows and movies are consistently showing more and more skin, specifically designed apps can connect you with someone to have sex with in an “instant” and breasts are used…
I learned to tap into my subconscious to become a human lie detector
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC I held my hands out straight and pressed my back up against the wall. My arms were parallel with the floor and my fingers were pointing outwards. I was instructed to close my eyes and focus on…
This incredibly courageous 14-year-old boy with a rare skin condition puts adversity in perspective
This video contains graphic imagery that may be upsetting to some viewers. While the images may be painful to watch, Jonathan’s story is simply too important to withhold. Jonathan is the definition of courage, refusing to see himself as a…
3 important things being single has taught me about myself
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Among the hordes of cute couples holding hands as they stroll the streets of Kensington Market, amidst the tables of flirting twosomes at my local coffee shop, I sit alone, reading my book and drinking my coffee,…
5 easy brain hacks to increase your confidence
BY: ZOE MELNYK It’s been suggested that people wouldn’t recognize themselves in public because the view that we get from the mirror isn’t an accurate representation of our everyday appearance. It might be just as difficult for us to recognize…
The WCRF determines the exact number of drinks a day that causes cancer.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has pinpointed the exact level of drinking that is associated with liver cancer. According to The Guardian, the WCRF said this has been the biggest review so far of the evidence…
I never want kids and everyone should just accept that
BY: SINEAD MULHERN I’m going to go ahead and say that thing you’re not supposed to say. I don’t think I’ll ever be a mother. I hope I never become a mother. I don’t have the desire to raise children.…
This is why being bilingual changes your personality for the better
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC So goes the Czech proverb, “learn a new language and get a new soul.” As Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist, maintained in the 1920s, it could be said that each language holds a worldview that its…
I spent an evening at a Death Cafe to lose my fear of dying
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s a rainy Wednesday evening and in the far west end of Toronto, where things are quiet and slow, the Belljar Cafe is buzzing as people begin to gather in the corner of the shop. The lights…
Biohackers have found a way to inject night vision into human eyeballs
BY: MICHAEL LYONS An independent research organization, Science for the Masses seeks to take the scientific process out of the hands of gatekeeping institutions. Biochem researcher Gabriel Licina volunteered as a guinea pig for a solution that ultimately proved successful…
Tattooed seniors answer the question, “but what will you look like when you’re old and grey?” (Photos)
Tattoos look stylish when you’re young, but they also come with the age-old argument of “what happens when you get old?” Will the tattoos disintegrate into a wrinkled and ugly representation of lost youth—or will they give you the weathered…
Meet the 10-year-old prodigy who is on track to receive a PhD by age 13
BY: ZOE MELNYK Esther Okade, like many 10-year-olds, enjoys playing outside and dressing up as her favourite characters from the movie Frozen, but she also happens to be enrolled in her first year of University. Growing up in Walsall,…
Senolytics are a new class of drug that could let you live longer.
BY: DANIEL KORN I had this friend in high school who was obsessed with anti-aging science. My friend was profoundly uncomfortable with the notion of his own death, and, given the option, would happily choose to live forever. His hero…
7 myth-busted brain “facts” you always thought were true
BY: KHADIJA KHAN The brain is an incredible organ responsible for controlling our central nervous system, keeping us walking, talking, breathing and thinking. It’s also extraordinarily complex and mysterious. While researchers are still uncovering the secrets of how the brain…
10 psychological life hacks that will enhance your social life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER 1. Look into their eyes When you are meeting someone for the first time make eye contact with them and smile. Try to notice their eye colour and the extra seconds of eye contact will likely produce…
Netflix binge watching is re-wiring our brains
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Popular political drama and Netflix original House of Cards recently aired its third season—all at once. Flying in the face of television convention, the model for Netflix-original shows is to set a date to release an entire…
Beautiful photos predict what Americans will look like by 2050
BY: CONNOR BRIAN To categorize humanity into 5 separate races is a flawed notion. In an era of sexual liberation and globalization there is an increasing trend in interracial partnerships. So biologically, hereditarily and anthropologically speaking, it does not simply…
This 47-year-old man will swim 5,500 miles across the shark-infested Pacific Ocean
BY: ZOE MELNYK Ben Lecomte, 47, will attempt to be the first man to swim 5,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean in hopes to raise awareness about water pollution and the importance of living sustainably. This will not be Lecomte’s…