BY: SWIKAR OLI Solving a problem creatively demands the sort of non-linear thinking that frees us from everyday, familiar reasoning. This is the crucial step to creative problem-solving that’s perhaps the most hard for people to overcome when trying to…
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Costa Rica’s Land of the Strays is A Free-Roaming Pup’s Paradise
BY: M. TOMOSKI In Costa Rica’s Heredia province, the Territorio de Zaguatas, or the Land of the Strays, is a dog lover’s dream and home to nearly 1,000 free-roaming mixed breeds. Founded by a local couple, Territorio de Zaguatas is…
This law will consider teenagers to be child porn distributors if they are caught sexting
BY: Mariya Guzova You may be surprised to learn that in Colorado, teens can currently be charged with distributing child pornography if they are caught sexting. The offense could force them to register as sex offenders, and face house arrest,…
Will Canada’s Cannabis Future Be a Stoner’s Paradise or Corporate Nightmare?
M.TOMOSKI In the Nixon administration’s hallmark hammering tone, John Ehrlichman, a former aide to the President, summed up the motivation behind the War on Drugs by saying, “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had…
This Colorado weed club has found the perfect way to get people to clean up their community: free pot
BY: TREVOR HEWITT A Colorado marijuana club is offering anyone who comes out to pick up trash on 4/20 a free joint. The Pothole, a weed club in Colorado Springs, Colo., already hosted its first clean-up event on March 20.…
Those flashes of genius you have can be trained to happen more frequently
BY: SWIKAR OLI Despite the popular assumption, creativity is not a capricious muse, continually teasing then eluding writers and artists, revealing only a brief fragment of itself in flight before disappearing, often before we can assimilate the shades of their essence.…
New restaurant dedicated to stoners offers the ultimate menu for late-night munchies
BY: JESSICA BEUKER D’Munchies is owned by Richard Chand and chef David Pyne, who’s worked in kitchens around Sydney for 11 years. “It’s pretty obvious how the idea came about. It’s a very loud statement, but that’s sort of what…
Ira Glass delivers the honest truth about being a creative
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Creatives—the ones who want to produce meaningful things and give to the world the best parts of themselves and their work face an ongoing problem. In the beginning your ambitions, dreams and ideas about the things you…
Is it time to abolish the concrete, soul-sucking office once and for all?
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Only a decade or so ago, it was normal and necessary to have an office, perhaps a cubicle or an open-office layout. This is where meetings took place, co-workers caught up and ideally completed work. However, with technology…
An interview with the photographer who smuggled photos of the world’s most secretive nation (photos)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN North Korea is infamous for strange tourist stories. Visitors of Pyongyang return convinced that their entire experience—perhaps the entire city—is staged. The buildings, streets, restaurants and homes are mostly vacant, save the actors hired to impress the…
Thanks for being a vegetarian: you’re literally helping end climate change
BY: ALEX BROWN In 2014, filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn released Cowspiracy, a controversial documentary exploring one of the leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions: animal agriculture. The narrative drove home a widespread apprehension to confront the issue. Many…
An intimate look into the Asian village where women hold the power
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Located in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, and known as ‘God’s own garden’, sits one of the most pristine villages in Asia – Mawlynnong Village. The village is home to the Khasi people, who continue to…
How supermarkets trick us into buying more than we really need
By: JACK M. Gone is the day when a grocery store was a place where you’d just go to pick up your weekly groceries. Times have changed, and today’s supermarkets use every trick in the book to get you…
Salvador Dali’s erotic cookbook gives new meaning to food porn
BY: M. TOMOSKI From furnitures to films and exotic pets, Salvador Dali lived in a world that only he could imagine. So it’s no surprise that his food also derives from there. Published in 1973, “Les Diner des GALA” is…
Rage Yoga will help you find inner peace with swearing, rock music and beer
BY: JESSICA BEUKER When suppressed anger bubbles up from inside and teeters you on the brink of your sanity, you may just need yoga. But not just regular yoga—all of the Oms, ahhs and relaxing music in the world could…
This easy-to-use technology claims to be able to change your mood
By: JACK M. The technologies are called Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), and while their original uses were to aid in the recovery from serious conditions such as stroke and depression, and in the…
Why embracing a lack of control will empower and liberate you
BY: ROB HOFFMAN We score high on IQ tests. We demand equity and acceptance. Millennials are a generation of high ambitions and higher expectations. Yet depression is on track to becoming the world’s second most debilitating condition in the next…
These photos confront emoji censorship and nudity on social media
BY: LAUREN ALI Nudity is something that has become heavily “taboo” in our society as many strive to bare it all, arguing that human bodies are beautiful in their purest forms of nakedness, while others continue to fight to stop…
Larry Rivers’ paintings prove there’s inspiration in anything if you decide to see it that way
BY: ADRIAN SMITH Frank O’Hara closes his memoir for Larry Rivers noting, “What his work has always had to say to me, I guess, is to be more keenly interested while I’m still alive. And perhaps that is the most…
Craft brewery wants to pay you $12,000 to travel, drink beer and tweet about it
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A new internship position opened up and is currently accepting applications. But this isn’t your typical internship. Instead of fetching coffee or kissing the boss’s ass, you’ll get paid to travel the world, drink beer, and chronicle…