BY: ROB HOFFMAN Usually at some point in the day (and for some of us, multiple points) many of us find ourselves wishing we could abandon our responsibilities to return back to our beds to live out the rest of…
Body Vs Mind
Why Idealism Isn’t Dead
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS There’s a scene in the documentary Artifact where Thirty Seconds to Mars is deciding whether or not to take a deal their record label had offered. When Jared Leto and his two band mates tried to end…
Why this health-conscious woman switched to a diet of dog food
BY: DEXTER BROWN The paleo diet is all the rage these days, but the pricey meat, eggs and vegetables it requires can easily put a strain on tight budgets. After being on it for a year, writer Anne Kadet was starting…
This woman remembers every day of her life in perfect detail: superpower or burden?
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In 2000, a woman named Jill Price sent the following note to a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine: “I am 34 years old and since I was 11, I have had this unbelievable ability…
The seven incredible health benefits of doing a headstand
BY: TED BARNABY The headstand is a popular pose amongst Yoga enthusiasts, and with good reason. The inverted pose isn’t just done for fun, or because it looks cool. Headstands generate a surprising number of health benefits, both physical and…
How having a family member with AIDS changed my childhood
BY: QUEENSXXI I was about to turn 18 when I first got the news that my uncle tested positive for HIV/AIDS. It was after my grandma got a phone call from one of my uncle’s friends and started getting suspicious…
Science proves it could actually be your city that is making you depressed
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS A paper co-authored by academics at the University of British Columbia and Harvard has discovered the happiest and least happy cities in the United States. Joshua Gottlieb and his co-authors Edward Glaeser and Oren Ziv also discovered…
Anti-alcoholic pill: A new medication literally takes the fun out of drinking
BY: TED BARNABY Imagine your drinking partner is a sober and disapproving elderly nun, and you’ve still only come close to the dissatisfaction of taking the recently released drug in the U.K. prescribed to take all the fun out of…
This guy can speak nine languages better than you can speak one (video)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Matthew Youlden, a language sponge from Manchester England can speak so many languages with a perfect accent that the man has been coined the “language chameleon”. This sociolinguist who studied translation and interpretation speaks nine languages and…
Dating outside binaries: OkCupid adds over 70 new gender and sexuality options
BY: AL DONATO Finding love on the Internet is hard. And for anyone hooking up often means to lying your ass off. All mainstream dating sites are notorious for ignoring LGBTQ individuals’ diverse identities. For gender, choosing between just male…
In Nepal, Datura is a holy psychedelic, but in the wrong hands it can become “The Devil’s Breath”
BY: TJ MOREY Scopolamine, the Devil’s Breath, Devil’s Apple, are some of the well-known and highly conspicuous names attributed to Datura, a deadly plant that has garnered enough attention, respect, and fear amongst the hardest of psychonauts. Found abundantly and…
This photographer tracks the change of her naked body through the journey of motherhood
BY: POLLY PENROSE Over several years, Polly Penrose created a series of photographs entitled A Body of Work showing the physical journey of her body over time. Each portrait is a reaction of her naked body to its environment and…
Science proves that hip-hop cures depression
BY: PILGRIM Hip-hop is a notoriously conceited genre, the musicians constantly boasting about their Lamborghinis, big-butted booty-calls, and magnificent estates. It’s strangely un-relatable content given that the genre’s primary listenership is impoverished youth. Yet from Rick Ross’s gold-chains to R.Kelly’s…
Imagine waking up paralyzed and trapped in a nightmare: Sleep Paralysis
BY: HANNAH WRIGHT Imagine coming out of a dream, attempting to awaken and rise from your bed, only to find that you are completely unable to move. Aside from this, you sometimes experience a plethora of colourful hallucinations. You lie…
Scientists Discover Both Good & Bad News For The Brains of Pot Smokers
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS A new study has good and bad news for regular pot smokers: it appears that marijuana affects the brain, making one region smaller yet also increasing its connectivity. Researchers at the University of Texas recently published a…
MacGyver your own orgasm with these DIY sex toys.
BY: AL DONATO Sex is an industry. Even if you’re not literally buying it, you’re paying for ways to make it happen, make it better, or in the case of sex toys, substitute it. The sleek, brightly-coloured toys sold by…
Three mothers share their stories of raising transgender children in the face of adversity
BY: JESSICA BURDE Fifty percent of them will have attempted suicide at least once by their 20th birthday, according to the Youth Suicide Prevention Program. Politicians, religious leaders, and business owners can endlessly debate the validity of trans* rights, but…
He And She, Ze And Xe: The Case For Gender-Neutral Pronouns
BY: AL DONATO Gender as we know it is a lie. The male-female binary is a social construct, ignoring intersex, trans, genderqueer, and other non-binary individuals whose identities aren’t the same as the sex assigned at birth. Unfortunately, it’s a…
It Was My First Time Snorting Anything: This Was My Experience With Ketamine
BY: LILITH I did my first ever line of ketamine off a cheap wooden patio table at a shitty bar in downtown Toronto. My friend and provider, a seasoned raver, didn’t have any straws on him, so he rolled up…
Mpreg Central Is A Forum Of Men Who Take The Idea of Male Pregnancy Very Seriously
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In a 1994 article in The New York Times, Dick Teresi cites the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Junior where a scientist, Dr. Alex Hesse, becomes pregnant after being implanted with an egg and taking a fertility drug he…