There’s something about traveling alone that’s hard to explain. It’s a pretty unique way to see the world. Generally, as people in an interconnected society, we grow up relying on others for assistance and waiting for or compromising with them.…
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Meet the future Olympian who lives out of his van on America’s most desired coastline for free
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Stephan Shay is a runner and Olympic hopeful. Shay has a comparatively invisible ecological footprint than the average American. He is frugal, so he enjoys more financial freedom that many. But to many people, upon seeing Shay…
You can get paid $32,000 to cuddle with baby pandas all day
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Beer tasters, roller-coaster testers and the person who gets to come up with the names for ice cream flavours are likely near the top of the list of best—or at least most fun—jobs in the world. What’s…
New labels that show how much exercise is needed to burn off junk food will change how you eat
BY: SWIKAR OLI The Royal Society for Public Health, a leading independent British public health charity, is calling for food to come with packaging labels showing the amount of activity required to burn the calories it contains. The updated packages…
Journalist Paul Salopek is three years into his seven-year “Out of Eden Walk” around our planet
By: JACK M. Paul Salopek is a 53-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist. He has worked with such prestigious publications as the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and he has won not one, but two, Pulitzer Prizes –…
This guy is turning old coffee grounds into biofuel and eliminating CO2 emissions
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Now you can use coffee to keep both yourself and your home warm and thriving during these cold winter months. A 24-year-old entrepreneur has invented a way to use waste coffee grounds as biofuel. Arthur Kay is…
Indian burn victim is standing up against acid attackers by becoming a fashion model
An Indian woman by the name of Laxmi Saa, who suffered severe acid burns, as a form of punishment, is the new face of a fashion campaign called “Face of Courage”. The campaign not only challenges societal notions of beauty,…
I asked a stranger these 36 questions to see if we’d fall in love. And we did.
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS About a year ago, I caught wind of a questionnaire that was meant to increase intimacy between two people, or even foster a kind of love – specifically between two people who aren’t already familiar with each…
GM just released a surf-van that will revolutionize surf and freedom-culture vehicles forever
BY: ALEX BROWN There are few vehicles that could fill the void of the discontinued Volkswagen hippy bus, or the old-school stylings of the Holden Sandman. Unsurprisingly, a German company, Opel, has stepped up to the plate to try and…
How facing paralysis gave me the strength to face Kilimanjaro
BY: LOGAN LY ALL IMAGES BY: LOGAN LY I hear myself panting. I’m short of breath as I try to shift focus to my feet from the growling wind and the loud, panging pulse that bangs through my eardrums. The…
Photos of the nomadic van-life in California show the diversity of freedom
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE The nomads of today are less drawn to the freedom of the Great Plains and more to the freedom of gold sand and saltwater. They live by a realization: the van-life is not some commitment to work-shy…
Photos reveal an underground society that has returned to the serenity of the uncharted woods
BY: CAROLINE ROLF All images by: Eric Valli Would you be willing to give up technology, labels and social media to minimize your impact on the earth? French photographer, Eric Valli has had great commercial success, but this set of…
Young voters are feeling the Bern and Hillary Clinton is feeling the pressure
M. TOMOSKI Just months ago, with no opposition and big money supporters like Goldman Sachs, Hillary Clinton was bound for a free ride back to the White House. But as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump announced their candidacy, Americans on…
A German photographer cycled 40,000 km to capture portraits of the last African Nomads
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Mario Gerth Mario Gerth is a documentary photographer whose profession has brought him to over 80 countries in five continents. He has travelled for two years across remote African regions into a world completely different…
The Korowai people live in 50-metre tree houses as an officially recognized community of ‘tree-dwellers’
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Deep in the dense forests of Ndeiram Kabur River, among 500 centimeters of annual rainfall, deadly microbes and glistening eyes in the night, remains a slice of the world relatively unsullied by the groping western gaze. Korowai people…
It’s time to admit that Donald Trump can win…and that the alternative is just as terrifying
M. TOMOSKI With only weeks until the starting gun sounds off in Iowa, it’s time to face some hard truths. In particular, the truth we’ve all denied for months as we chanted, “Trump can’t win” into the wind like a…
The FBI just made animal abuse a felony on par with homicide, arson, assault and drug trafficking
BY: SWIKAR OLI Starting Jan. 1, 2016, the FBI began tracking incidents of animal abuse as they’ve done for arson, assault and murder. The FBI also raised animal cruelty to a Group A felony in 2014, the same class as…
A new “library of things” lets you test your hidden genius by borrowing nearly anything
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A new service from the Sacramento Public Library will let you borrow more than books – much more. The California-based library is now offering a variety of other items to lend out, such as musical instruments, sewing…
Decades ago, the Alcoholics Anonymous founder believed LSD could be the 13th step to sobriety
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Over a decade before Woodstock and seven years before the Merry Pranksters, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous took his first liquid hit of acid. It was Aug. 29, 1956 and among the beige walls and flower print…
Here’s an incredible glimpse into the cultural wealth of a bush tribe in the vast savannah
BY: ALEX BROWN Romanian photographer, Vlad Cioplea, visited Tanzania, Africa, in Autumn of last year to document the rich and vibrant cultures that live at the foot of some of the world’s most visually stunning and occult landscapes. This photo-series…