BY: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Imagine Whole Foods at dollar-store prices—a new company called Daily Table is shifting the power back to people of lower income, so they too have the option of eating right. This has long been…
Expression & Culture
Watch what happens when people think these Bible verses are Qur’an passages
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1-3) This simple biblical passage is perhaps at the heart of the unspoken hypocrisy of Islamophobia. Most recently, the terrorist attacks on Paris have refuelled a cultural divide where the actions of…
Silicon Valley professionals are micro-dosing LSD at work to gain “superhuman” creativity
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Silicon Valley professionals have turned to an unlikely drug to boost their creativity, enhance performance and climb the ladder of success: LSD. Their method is simple, and far from getting stoned at work—though its usage is kept…
A group of young girls are fighting for the right to do the same activities as Boy Scouts
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A group of young girls from Santa Rosa, California are fighting to become official members of the Boy Scouts of America. Several of the girls enrolled in the Girl Scouts, but they didn’t enjoy the activities they…
Why genderless fashion is both a blessing and a curse
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Last week I went to a Ryerson University fashion show called Fixate. The grand total of eight minutes that the models circled the runway were filled with cutting-edge designs where dudes rocked dresses and girls paraded in…
Turns out North Korean interior decorating looks like a Wes Anderson film set
BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Oliver Wainwright Since the 1950s North Korea has maintained complete cultural isolation. From the 14th to 20th century Korea followed a policy of isolationism, believing that their culture was superior. When the country split into…
Watch what happens when people are told they are beautiful from a stranger
BY: JESSICA BEUKER How do you react when a stranger calls you beautiful? Do you kindly and humbly thank them for the compliment, or do you laugh, because you think they must be joking. Maybe you blush and shy away…
Children with Down Syndrome transform into iconic art through this incredible photo series
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Often people with disabilities are only seen as their disability. This photo series featuring children with Down Syndrome allows us to see them as so much more. Soela Zani, an Albanian photographer has children with Down Syndrome…
There’s an entire religion inspired by The Dude from The Big Lebowski
BY: TREVOR HEWITT In a material based society, so much emphasis is placed on the accumulation of physical wealth. Well, say what you will about the tenants of Capitalism, at least it’s an ethos. But not for all. Dudeism is…
Cat Cafés are saving lives in the most adorable way possible
BY: REGAN MCNEILL The whole concept of a cat café was literally foreign to me until I passed a store window filled with frisky felines playing with one another. I thought that maybe I was looking at a pet shop,…
Watch Pussy Riot’s controversial new video, full of riots, rebellion and police brutality.
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “Fuck the police. Like we are in Greece.” This is the chorus of Pussy Riot’s controversial new song “Refugees In,” accompanying a video that was shot in the post-apocalyptic gloom of Banksy’s famous art installation, Dismaland, which…
The residents of this unique town literally live under a rock (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For some, the expression, “Have you been living under a rock?” is nothing more than a rhetorical question expressing that a person is out of the loop. But for others, the expression is much more literal. Photo…
It turns out that selflessness is the easiest way to save you from stress and extend your life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “A little bit of stress is productive, but a lot isn’t worth it.” I remember this advice clearly from one of my professors during exam season. Although I had taken an ‘easier said than done’ mentality back…
This Toronto school is giving the middle finger to political correctness – and for good reason
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Recently we’ve seen a rise in media, public institutions, universities, and just about everyone else in the public sphere contributing to the “coddling of the North American mind.” The article for The Atlantic explains that the rising…
It turns out that selflessness is the easiest way to save you from stress and extend your life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN “A little bit of stress is productive, but a lot isn’t worth it.” I remember this advice clearly from one of my professors during exam season. Although I had taken an ‘easier said than done’ mentality back…
The dirty truth behind growing up in rich kid suburbia
BY: REGAN MCNEILL I actually understand that song “Jesus of Suburbia” by Greenday. I am St. Jimmy pissed as fuck at the small world caving in around me and wondering what else (if anything) this life has to offer. I…
If you hate confrontation (or decency) you can pay this store to break up with someone for you
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Breakups are hard. Very rarely does the situation allow for a mature, amicable separation, where both parties walk away unscathed and on the path to friendship. No, more often one person will awkwardly stumble through a 10-minute,…
Watch this man experience the world for the first time after 44 years in prison
BY: JESSICA BEUKER When you’re a baby you experience everything for the very first time. You’re curious and perplexed; each day is a new adventure. Now, imagine having to go through that all over again at the age of 69.…
Income inequality in America has created a vicious cycle of poverty, homelessness and hunger
BY: Jack M. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Franklin Roosevelt. First off, this is…
A new film series called Born Wild asks kids to put down the computers and get the hell outside
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Three moms are trying to break technology’s grip on many of our young people, which is especially frightening for a generation that cannot imagine life as anything else. They’ve proposed Born Wild, a film series with a…