BY: ALEX BROWN There is a largely untapped symbiotic relationship that can exist between youth and the elderly—most fail to see across the cultural and social chasm that separates the two worlds by means of a few decades. Yet research…
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Basic income experiments in Europe are giving people free money with no strings attached
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Germany is now experimenting with the economic concept of free money. And while the idea of basic income might immediately cause some minds to jump to aggressive suspicion like a 21st century version of The Red Scare,…
Becoming a tree planter is a good way to poke holes in your eco-hippie idealism
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Peel eyes open. Scream various profanities at whichever comrade is shaking my tent to wake me up at 5 a.m. De-mummify myself from my ferociously-wrapped sleeping bag. Shed a few tears at the freezing air that pierces…
Turns out introverts are significantly better leaders than extroverts for 21st century work
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE During the 20th century, introverts were social oddities that would hopefully be cured of their awkwardness by team sports or summer camp, or else inside the alcohol-sticky drywall of college frat parties. The 20th century was the…
Why Eastern European “Indian hobbyists” are dressing up like Native Americans
BY: JENNIFER OSBORNE From 2011 to 2015 Jennifer Osborne travelled across Eastern Europe documenting “Indian Hobbyists”, a subculture of people who emulate the lifestyle and culture of Native Americans. The community has drawn both controversy and encouragement from North American Indigenous…
Florists turned an abandoned house into a beautiful living flower sanctuary
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photos via FLOWER HOUSE In October of this year, florists from around the U.S. filled an entire abandoned house, wall to wall, ceiling to floor with fresh flowers and living plants. The weekend-long installation in Detroit attracted…
Why solitude is a blessing not a curse
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS We live in a state of relentless connection. When we’re not connecting physically, we connect compulsively through some medium. The concept of solitude is starving. Being completely alone is a form of vulnerability. You’re presented with infinite…
An MIT student dropped out to build a progressive university with no tests or tuition
BY: ALEX BROWN High tuition costs and disappointing career-returns from university degrees have lead many to seek an alternative to mainstream education. The problem with a lot of universities is that the programs are more theoretical than practical, lacking the…
The simple reason why Norway has been named the best country for humans 12-years in a row
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE For the twelfth year in a row, Norway has been named the best country on earth to be a human in. According to the Human Development Report, Norway ranks the highest in life expectancy at an average…
This Portland native lives out of an abandoned airplane in the expansive Pacific woods
BY: ALEX BROWN Photos by: John Brecher An old Portland native named Bruce Campbell has changed many people’s thinking on the possibilities of aircraft recycling, living out in the Oregon woods in a converted 727 jetliner. Although it’s still unclear how…
Why I think the term “plus size” needs to be dropped
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS As the weather gets a little colder, shop windows get a little nicer and big, shiny red signs begin to pop-up in stores and online, marking 50 per cent off that sweater you’ve been eyeing. I was…
100-year-old church is transformed into a psychedelic art-covered skate park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A historic 100-year-old church that sat abandoned and decrepit for years in the Spanish municipality of Llanera, Asturias has undergone a fascinating transformation. It’s one that will draw a different kind devotion – those who subscribe to…
The League of Lady Wrestlers is strong, independent and completely disgusting
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Sitting on top of a blue garbage can, Garbage Face clenches her eyes and purses her mouth in concentration — and a little constipation — as she pretends to take a shit in the middle of the…
Chinese millionaire intentionally goes broke buying a slaughterhouse to save 2,000 dogs
BY: SWIKAR OLI Wang Yan was looking for his missing dog in 2012 when his friend suggested he search a dog slaughterhouse. He arrived at the slaughterhouse to the sight of dogs being horrifically treated. While Yan didn’t find his…
This artist vacuumed Beijing’s air for 100 days and created a brick out of China’s air pollution
BY: TREVOR HEWITT As Beijing is engulfed by its worst ‘airpocalypse’ of the year, one artist is taking to the streets to help us visualize just how bad pollution really is. For the last 100 days, Nut Brother, a Chinese…
I didn’t become a vegetarian for the animals— I did it to save my children
BY: TYLER FYFE Though 9.1 billion land animals are killed yearly in the United States after being segregated from their families and incarcerated in warehouses like mass graves, this is not the reason that I chose to become a vegetarian.…
New grocery store lets you buy health food for the price of fast-food
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…
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…
Iceland is throwing a massive party inside a glacier before it melts forever
BY: TYLER FYFE The Langjökull glacier in Iceland is the second largest glacier in Europe. It’s also melting at an accelerated rate according to a 2015 peer-reviewed scientific journal by the American Geophysical Union. So in June 2016, ravers, a…
This violent sport breeds and raises camels to fight each other for human entertainment
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Visualize yourself as a peaceful, instinctual being. You’re being robed in strange colours and fabrics, which is likely making you feel muddled and dismayed. Something is happening today, you can feel it, but you fail to remember…