BY: SINEAD MULHERN Rhonda-Marie Avery has only eight percent vision, but just completed an incredible feat of endurance this past summer that most people with the privilege of full vision would never even dream of. This Barrie, Ontario woman ran the…
Body Vs Mind
Beginner’s Guide To Lucid Dreaming- You Spend One Third Of Your Life Asleep
BY: KARMUN KHOO ‘Lucid dreaming’ is used to describe dreams whereby the dreamer is aware that they are in a dream. The term was coined by Dutch psychiatrist, Frederik van Eeden, but the idea of lucid dreams predates the scientific…
This Simple Memory Mind-Hack Might Just Change Your Life In More Ways Than One
BY: PILGRIM Imagine you have a big yellow lemon in your hand. Give it a squeeze. Is it firm, or squishy? Take the lemon in front of you, and using an imaginary knife in your other hand, cut the lemon…
Auras: Maybe We Can All Feel Them And They Are Trying To Tell Us Something
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS This has probably happened at least once in your life: you meet someone for the first time and take an instant dislike to their presence. Or you get a bad feeling from a room you’ve just walked…
These Five Savants Show The Mind Is Limitless With Talents That Are Superhuman
BY: PILGRIM Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which extraordinarily capabilities accompany a massive memory creating an endowment of talent that is seemingly superhuman. The syndrome is often accompanied by disabilities in cognitive functions, motor skills and social dexterity.…
Don’t Get It Backwards: Harvard Professor Proves The Quickest Road To Success Is Happiness.
BY: PILGRIM The belief that success is the predecessor of happiness is the carrot-on-a-stick which dangles at the forefronts of many of our lives. The old thought reverberating in our minds, “If I could only achieve ______, I would be…
My First Time In A Sensory Deprivation Tank
BY: DANIEL KORN I’m on the phone with Jesse Ratner-Decle, the owner of Float Toronto, a sensory-deprivation-tank centre on the west end of the city. Customers pay to go into an enclosed, pitch-black, completely soundproof tank and float on their…
NBOMes: Legal Synthetic Hallucinogens Are 10 Times Stronger Than LSD and 10 Times More Deadly.
BY EMMA MCINTOSH A new class of synthetic drugs similar to LSD has arrived on the market, and they’re called NBOMes. Originally synthesized in 2003, NBOMes were created to aid in the mapping of serotonin receptors in the brain. However,…
Learning To Pull The Strings Of A Stranger’s Subconscious: NLP
BY: TED BARNABY Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP), in short, is the method of performing mild hypnosis through conversation for the purpose of persuasion. By using certain verbal and non-verbal language patterns, an NLP master can trigger specific responses in their subject’s…
NoFap: The Twenty-First Century Abstinence Movement
BY: KARMUN KHOO The Ancient Egyptians believed that the world is a product of masturbation—an act committed by the god Atum. Early Indians wrote in the Kama Sutra that men should “churn [their] instrument with a lion’s pounce.” And if…
Grown Men Dressing As Living Dolls. Creepy Or Courageous?
BY: KATY WILLIS Picture a living doll. Do you see girls piling on makeup, dying their hair blonde, and trying to look like Barbie? The serial killer-possessed Chucky? The Lolita doll fetish that’s widespread among YouTube makeup tutorial instructors? Living…
Taking the Car out of the American Dream: Why Carless Living is Liberating
By: Jessica Burde I walked about two miles yesterday: half a mile to my counsellor’s office, half a mile back; a half-mile to and from the grocery store; and another half-mile between home and work. There are lots of places…
No Place Like Om: A Skeptic’s Guide to Yoga
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Everyone around me looks completely Zen as they lie on their backs and settle into the final pose of the yoga class: Savasana, or resting pose. It’s a Saturday morning in April, and what is supposed to…
Furry Fandom Is More Than Furry Fetish
BY: KATY WILLIS The world of furry fandom is shrouded in mystery. It’s dismissed, ridiculed, and, when it does get attention, portrayed as a community of dysfunctional sex addicts: people dressed as animals having weird sex in odd places. But…
Could This Raw Food Diet Really Fight Cancer?
BY: KATY WILLIS If someone told you that you could drastically cut your chances of getting cancer just by changing what you eat, would you do it? It probably depends what the diet looks like. How’s this: no processed foods,…
Forget cancer and ebola: Antibiotic resistance is the world’s new major health yhreat
BY: The Plaid Zebra Are we returning to a medieval era where people will drop like flies from ordinary infections, where a child may not be able to survive a rusty nail through the foot or harsh bout of strep…
A brain orgasm could cure your insomnia
BY: VANESSA NIGRO Have you ever been watching someone perform a very intricate or high-concentration task, or take part in a stimulating conversation, when suddenly you are overcome with an unwarranted tingling sensation? The feeling starts at the top of…
Could alcohol abuse and sleep deprivation be the keys to creativity?
BY: PILGRIM For some reason, exceptional creativity seems to gravitate towards the minds of the sleepless and the alcohol-abusive. The question has always been that of the chicken and the egg: did the booze inspire the genius, or did the…
Garlic fights more than just vampires. It is also nature’s greatest antibiotic
BY: KATY WILLIS Hippocrates famously stated “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Turns out medical pioneers, Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides had more than just Greece and badass beards in common—they also knew garlic was as a…
Telepathy is real: Why brain-to-brain interface is the future of communication
BY: KATY WILLIS For thousands of years, people have claimed to be able to read others’ minds. And for just as long, skeptics and scientific communities have widely disparaged these claims of “telepathy” as untruths, superstitions, and primitive ideas. It’s…