As Facebook newsfeeds seem to be filling up with more and more young adults getting engaged, announcing pregnancies or having babies, it’s hard to believe that there’s actually an equal amount showing off a different kind of pride and joy: dogs. Dogs provide a sense of companionship without…
Expression & Culture
The Grey School of Wizardry is the real-life Hogwarts of your childhood dreams
BY: JESSICA BEUKER If you were the type of child who checked the mail daily, or waited patiently by the front door, only to subsequently be disappointed by the tragic realization that your Hogwarts letter might never actually arrive –…
The truth behind Hemingway’s advice to “write drunk, edit sober”
Ernest Hemingway’s famous advice was to “write drunk, edit sober”. Although there is a lot of debate as to whether he actually said this, the question remains: does alcohol help with the writing process? Many brilliant writers were also heavy…
This Hotel Is A Training Academy For Youths With Learning Disabilities
For those with learning disabilities, school can be a tough place to flourish. Luckily for them, an academy in Somerset, England has opened a school which caters to those who were born with developmental difficulties. Foxes Academy is not just any school, but a training…
This website will pair you with a local to give you a home-cooked meal anywhere in the world
Travelling to touristy destinations can inadvertently block opportunities that would otherwise enrich the travelling experience. A website called “Bonappetour,” is working to offer a service to avid travellers that would further enhance their experience of local culture. It is said to be the…
How using Tinder while travelling completely revolutionized my epic backpacking adventure
BY: ADAM THRUSH This year, I decided to make Tinder my travel buddy while I backpack solo across Mexico, Central, and South America. Testing the hypothesis that, together, two great things – tinder and traveling – can create something even…
This artist is creating windows into the past by bringing colour to historical photography
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI Her restored images bring such realism to historic events that it seems as though each photograph becomes a window into the past. Working with snapshots of major events and everyday scenes – originally captured in black and…
How LED Grow Lights will help you grow the best weed indoors
BY: TED. S The advancement in grow light technology has made it possible to take the growing of plants indoors. If you are located where marijuana is legal and you want to become an indoor growing expert – read on.…
General Artificial Intelligence is Coming and We Have to Plan for it
20 Years. That’s how long we have until general artificial intelligence arrives. Intellectuals such as Sam Harris, who are informed on the topic, have given us that time frame and the implications of AI’s arrival. He recently appeared on the Joe…
Millennials have all the right conditions to keep exploring the universe
BY: PAOLO JOVENTINO I will always remember my first battle with existential crisis. In grade seven, I developed what I believed to be anxiety, and once I began to ask the real questions, I discovered it was. What I first…
San Francisco’s silicon soul: how it feels to be the villain in a gentrified city
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI There was a time when this toy box of a city couldn’t pry itself from the image of a bohemian paradise – and perhaps it still hasn’t. After all, no one comes to San Francisco to see…
This teachers back-to-school rap will warm your heart and make you want to go back to elementary school (video)
In a move that is truly inspirational, 4th Grade school teacher Dwayne Reed created a rap and accompanying music video to welcome his students back to school. The Chicago based teacher wrote lyrics that would not only make his students excited to…
This unexpected friendship will show you miracles do happen
Life is a mixture of sadness, thrills, happiness, twist of lemon and rare out-of-your-mind-crazy situations that nobody can quite explain. One of those situations is the rare, but lovely friendship of a dog, George, and his new pal, the Duck.…
Stories of people successfully “faking It until you make it”
Confidence is not only useful in your everyday life, but may be the key to living the life of others as well. The following people have managed to sneak their way into private events, while leading others to believe that they are, who they…
Comedian Paul F. Tompkins talks about the impact of political correctness in comedy
By David Silverberg He’s the actor you can’t always place (“Wasn’t he that teacher in Weeds?”), but for years, Paul F. Tompkins has been one of the busiest comedians in the U.S. Not only did he host four seasons of…
China’s Urban Art of Containing an Ever-Growing 1.3 Billion Populace
By: MELISSA BOODOO Overpopulation is the environment’s inability to support the existing population of humans or other living things. In my project entitled ‘Over Populated‘, I examine China’s never-ending economic growth through the exploration of colors and architecture. We are able to…
Breweries are now being used as multi-purpose yoga studios
By: Jocelyn Schwalm A yoga teacher from Ottawa is changing the face of the traditional yoga studio. Ashley Kolklj has put together yoga workshops that consist of practicing yoga in different breweries around Ontario, and finishing the class with an ice cold pint. The founder, Kolklj, states that…
The artists who bought Trump’s bus have started his wall and sent Mexico the bill
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI There were only three people in Philadelphia who could rile up such mixed emotions with so little effort. One was about to become the Democratic Party’s first female nominee, and the other two had just returned from…
Strange services that people are actually paying for
It seems that the right amount of money can really buy you anything-or at the very least provide you with a service. Ranging from strange to unusually helpful, these businesses have managed to find a niche market in just about…
Millennials are forgoing the security net to invest their money in rich experiences
By: Jocelyn Schwalm Millennials are a generation consumed by their passions, actively looking for fulfillment in their lives. Defined as the cohort born between 1982-2004, millennials are the 20-somethings that are targeted as the key demographic for marketing agencies. Being raised into a culture that is set on turning likes…