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…
Body Vs Mind
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…
Sleep deprivation could be the root of the student mental health crisis
BY: LILITH We’ve all been there. You procrastinated a bit too long on that paper and now you have one night left to cough up 5,000 words on how the minor characters in Macbeth somehow sparked the First Gulf War.…
Can you have love without monogamy? – More than two
BY: JESSICA BURDE Polyamory is defined as having multiple relationships with “the full knowledge and consent of everyone who is affected.” I recently had a chance to talk with Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert, authors of More Than Two, a…
Meditation is the art of floating- meditating in water
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS The real secret to life is in the art of swimming. We are all drifting in a deep ocean current. The waves roar and split above us. Those that are too conscious of their arms will find that…
Hockey and soccer made love. Bubble soccer was born
BY: LILITH Ever think regular soccer games are filled with too many rules and metrosexual underwear models that fall over writhing in “pain” at the slightest touch? Here’s a solution for you: bubble soccer, a creation that turns “The Beautiful…
The 2045 Initiative – Immortality for a price tag
BY: PILGRIM Immortality is no longer a fable of Greek mythology. Dmitry Itskov and a team of Russia’s top scientists have discovered the secret to immortality. If you’re on the Forbes Billionaires list, this means you’ve recently been given the…
The violence of Gonzo Porn makes 2 Girls 1 Cup look tame
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA The camera leers above dead eyes and smeared makeup, as her fake eyelashes barely cling on. She grimaces and resumes a neutral expression while the self-proclaimed “anal king”—and most hated man in the industry—Max Hardcore violently…
I am the Trivago Guy (and so are you)
BY: LUC RINALDI Earlier this month, I was at my parents’ place watching TV when the Trivago ad came on. The spokesperson started doing his thing—talking about hotels, dodging onscreen text, and interacting with virtual graphics—before my dad chimed in…
An open letter to introverts and extroverts: Can you be both?
BY: KESTREL French writer Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote “Hell is other people”, and he was fucking right. The truth is that human beings can be awful to one another. There are prisons where people have to eat each other to…
My first time at a sex club and I brought my girlfriend
The Victorian mansion towered above us as nervousness bubbled and churned within my stomach. The sounds of schoolgirls’ giggles and splashing water filtered over a tall wooden fence and I began to think that maybe I should have made…
Is “selfie” just a short form for self-conscious?
She hates walking past reflective shop windows. Her nose hangs crooked as if sculpted by an artist with a sense of humor. Her eyes are too close together and her straw hair matches the ashen tint of her hollowed face.…