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…
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People are using cannabis oil as an alternative cancer treatment and it’s working
BY: TREVOR HEWITT 120mg Oxcycontin 30mg Morphine 30mg Toreador 4 Tylenol #4 150 mg Amitriptaline 200 mg Celebrex 2000 mg Metphormin 15 mg Lipator 15 mg Clonazapane 15 Avianda 8 mg Coversyle 20 mg Zantac Though this laundry list of narcotics might…
Cultural genocide and addiction ruined this Native community—now skateboarding is saving it
BY: TYLER FYFE Next to a dirt parking lot of beater cars, cradled by a perimeter of sun-bleached trees, members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux glide in circles inside a smooth concrete bowl like a Ghost Dance on skate decks.…
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…
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.…
Mad honey is the deadly hallucinogen this reclusive tribe risks their life to collect
M. TOMOSKI “A two-day walk from the nearest road, the Gurung village which documentary filmmaker Raphael Treza discovered is almost entirely self-sustaining. Growing their own food and raising sheep for wool this reclusive community of Maoist dissidents live a quiet…
See Tibetan Buddhists gather to achieve collective bliss in an isolated, treeless valley (Photos)
BY: MELISSA BOODOO Every year, thousands of Tibetan Buddhists, nuns and lay people gather in the mountainous area of China’s Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in a far-off town called Seda, known as Serta to Tibetans. Every ninth month of the…
The unintentional photojournalism of Google Street View (Photos)
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Panoramic shots of Thailand prostitutes, mountainous Iceland landscapes, suburban kids bearing guns, and secluded waterfalls surrounded by lush wildlife. These are some of the images one can find through Google Maps’ Street View feature. While many use…
Sweden has opened the world’s first rape centre for male victims
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Last month, Sweden’s Sodersjukhuset hospital opened the world’s first rape centre for male sexual violence victims. The hospital already runs a walk-in clinic for women and girls, and now will provide the same around the clock care…
The Dalai Lama on why prayers can’t end a problem that religious dogma created
BY: TYLER FYFE When the Dalai Lama speaks, you should probably listen. For 50 years he has practiced the buddhist tradition of Bodhisattva, spending his entire life pursuing public service instead of self-benefit. In 1989, he was awarded the…
Mortgage-phobia is changing the way young couples co-exist
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Ice covers the winding Snoqualmie Pass in the early winter months, granting only the riskiest of travellers access over the 3,022 foot elevated summit and through to Seattle’s downtown core. The area is part of the Cascade…
Hippie vans, off-grid and tiny homes: the New American Dream is measured by Instagram likes
By: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Rachel Bujalski was sharing a tiny apartment near Venice Beach with four other girls and paying $1,200 a month before she discovered how to live for free in California. She would still live…
This business is granting redemption and reducing crime by employing gang members and felons
BY: TYLER FYFE Father Greg Boyle has buried 183 kids in 26 years living in his neighbourhood. But this tragedy is twofold—each one of these kids was killed by another kid. In the 1980s Boyle, a Jesuit priest, began walking…
13 essential on-the-road philosophies for the broke, but passionate, shoestring traveller
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram A year of cooking my retinas on the white glare of my laptop and a never-ending rotation of office-work had turned my life into a dried and packaged version of itself. It was…
Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct
BY: REGAN MCNEILL Both you and I have grown up in a world of stereotypes. Whether you like it or not these widely accepted assumptions shape us and how we are viewed in the world, especially when it comes to…
This couple has spent 5 years and 80,000 glorious miles circling Europe in a VW camper van
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Lauren Smith and Calum Creasey have spent the past five years circling Europe in sporadic bursts and watching the diverse landscape evolve from behind the windshield of their 1996 VW T4 van. Originally hailing from the United…
Couple ditched the city for a 40-foot fire lookout with spectacular views of the Oregon Forest
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS They rise each day with the sun, rolling out of their bed to a jaw dropping 360-degree view of mountains and rolling meadows. Dabney Tompkins and Alan Colley’s lives changed for the better a few years ago, after…
This prison debate team schooled Harvard’s finest to prove a point about education behind bars
BY: M. TOMOSKI With the construction of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary in 1829 America’s prison system became a model for the world. Its wagon wheel design allowed guards to monitor the entire prison from a tower in the centre while…
A 9th grader developed a $12 machine that produces renewable energy from ocean currents
BY: EDITORS Oceans cover over 70 percent of the earth’s surface. So when 15-year-old Hannah Herbst learned that her pen pal from Ethiopia was deprived of basic energy supply, she started thinking. If the ocean had the power to capsize…
This guy lives in an underground hobbit hole in a majestic meadow for under $5,000 a year
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Far off the main road, out in the sticks of Eastern Oregon, and down a forested trail lays a quiet meadow. The 200-acre space is a vast area of lush greenery, boasting streams and ponds, and a…